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Table 10 Correlation between MVD and perfusion parameters of three groups of peripheral pulmonary nodules with VEGF positive and negative expression

From: Peripheral pulmonary nodules: Relationship between multi-slice spiral CT perfusion imaging and tumor angiogenesis and VEGF expression

Pulmonary nodule

Parameter

VEGF positive expression

VEGF negative expression

  

r

p

r

p

Peripheral lung cancer

BV

0.429

0.020

0.106

0.771

 

BF

0.432

0.019

0.013

0.971

 

MTT

-0.218

0.256

-0.174

0.630

 

PS

0.512

0.004

0.114

0.754

 

PH

0.444

0.016

0.533

0.112

 

PHpm/PHa

0.415

0.025

0.452

0.190

Inflammatory nodule

BV

/

/

0.135

0.661

 

BF

/

/

0.104

0.734

 

MTT

/

/

-0.252

0.407

 

PS

/

/

0.299

0.321

 

PH

/

/

0.067

0.829

 

PHpm/PHa

/

/

0.344

0.250

Benign nodule

BV

0.957

0.188

0.407

0.277

 

BF

0.996

0.055

0.360

0.341

 

MTT

-0.992

0.083

-0.544

0.130

 

PS

0.999

0.026

0.535

0.138

 

PH

0.991

0.086

0.441

0.235

 

PHpm/PHa

0.983

0.116

0.468

0.203