|
Variable
|
Patients with followup
|
Patients without followup
|
p
|
|---|
| |
Median (range)
|
N
|
%
|
Median (range)
|
n
|
%
| |
|---|
|
Age (yr)
|
67.7 (31.6–92.4)
|
112
| |
70.4 (34.3–89.6)
|
40
| |
0.44
|
|
Sex
| | | | | | | |
|
Male
| |
82
|
73.2
| |
28
|
70.0
|
0.70
|
|
Female
| |
30
|
26.8
| |
12
|
30.0
| |
|
Referral pattern
| | | | | | | |
|
GP
| |
18
|
16.1
| |
12
|
30.0
|
0.06
|
|
Specialist
| |
94
|
83.9
| |
28
|
70.0
| |
|
Smoking habits
| | | | | | | |
|
Never smoked
| |
33
|
29.5
| |
23
|
57.5
|
<0.01
|
|
Current or past smoker
| |
79
|
70.5
| |
17
|
42.5
| |
|
Nodule characteristics
| | | | | | | |
|
Calcification within the nodule
| |
12
|
10.7
| |
1
|
2.5
|
0.11
|
|
Spiculated nodule
| |
32
|
28.6
| |
16
|
40.0
|
0.18
|
|
Mediastinal involvement
| |
31
|
27.7
| |
13
|
32.5
|
0.56
|
- GP = General Practitioner*
