GGO’s accurate judgment and decisive surgery

  Q: The patient, an elderly female, was found to have GGO in her lungs on physical examination, and was observed in an outside hospital for nearly six months with no change and advised to continue observation.  She came all the way to the Lung Cancer Center and asked what to do. Surgery or not?  A: We reviewed all the CT films in the past six months and suspected lung cancer based on the imaging characteristics.  Based on the comprehensive judgment, surgery was decisively recommended.  The patient was old and frail, so minimally invasive surgery was feasible to remove the cancer with less damage and faster recovery.  The surgery was performed as scheduled.  Minimally invasive lobectomy was performed using “minimally invasive small incision, no muscle, no rib, minimally invasive open-heart surgery”.  The intraoperative pathological diagnosis proved that the surgeon’s judgment was correct!  ”Lung cancer”!  Mediastinal lymphatic fatty tissue was cleared.  Postoperative pathology confirmed “early stage lung cancer!”  After surgical resection, a cure was expected.