Research Article
The Role of Pulmonary Veins in Cancer Progression from a Computed Tomography Viewpoint
Table 1
Data obtained from 260 cancer patients with pulmonary vein obstruction syndrome (PVOS).
| Characteristics | Number of patients (%) |
| Age (years) | | Median (range) | 70 (27–93) | Sex | | Male/female | 164/96 | Primary sites, number/total hospitalized number (%) | | All patients | 260/1256 (20) | Urinary tract | 98/416 (20) | Lung | 37/130 (27) | Gastrointestine | 33/159 (21) | Breast | 19/61 (31) | Others | 74/490 (15) | Performance status, number/total number (%) | | 0-1 | 75/260 (29) | ≥2 | 185/260 (71) | Associated with other thromboembolic complications, number/total number (%) | | Yes | 171/260 (66) | No | 89/260 (34) | Associated with other paraneoplastic syndrome, number/total number (%) | | Yes | 131/260 (50) | No | 129/260 (50) |
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