Benign Solitary Pulmonary Necrotic Nodules: How Effectively Does Pathological Examination Explain the Cause?

Table 2

Features of granulomatous necrotic nodules.

	Chi-squared value	Correlation coefficient	Correlation value
Bacillus positivity	0.001	0.34	0.0001
NN number	0.001	0.31	0.001
NN size	1	−0.01	0.94
NN border	0.41	0.14	0.15
NN shape	0.65	0.06	0.53
Necrotic quality	0.24	−0.13	0.18
Presence of granuloma around the NN	0.0001	0.37	0.0001
Vasculitis	0.40	0.10	0.27

NN: necrotic nodule.