Research Article
The Role of Pulmonary Veins in Cancer Progression from a Computed Tomography Viewpoint
Table 2
Chest CT scan findings relating to the pulmonary veins from 260 cancer patients with PVOS.
| | Characteristics | Number of patients (%) |
| | By location | | | Central location only | 29/260 (12) | | Peripheral location only | 34/260 (14) | | Mixed location | 197/260 (75) | | By organ | | | Within pulmonary vein only | 99/260 (38) | | Both lung and pulmonary vein | 161/260 (62) | | Central location | 226/260 (87) | | Central pulmonary vein only | 88/226 (39) | | Both central lung and pulmonary vein | 138/226 (61) | | By pulmonary lesions | | | Bilateral lung | 110/226 (49) | | Unilateral lung | 116/226 (51) | | By pulmonary vein | | | Superior pulmonary vein only | 195/226 (86) | | Inferior pulmonary vein only | 16/226 (7) | | Superior + inferior pulmonary vein | 15/226 (7) | | Peripheral location | 231/260 (89) | | Peripheral pulmonary vein only | 87/231 (38) | | Both peripheral lung and pulmonary vein | 144/231 (62) | | By pulmonary lesions | | | Bilateral lung | 150/231 (65) | | Unilateral lung | 81/231 (35) | | By pulmonary vein | | | Superior pulmonary vein only | 70/231 (30) | | Inferior pulmonary vein only | 117/231 (51) | | Superior + inferior pulmonary vein | 44/231 (19) | | Obvious left atrium extent | 59/260 (23) | | Nodules within pulmonary vein | 260/260 (100) |
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