The pathological lepidic growth pattern was believed to relate to the ground-glass component, whereas invasive adenocarcinoma patterns relate to the solid component. However, the solid components might be fibrosis rather tumor; and previous studies demonstrated the ground-glass components might be invasive lesions. Therefore, it is of considerable significance to establish the correlations between radiologic features and pathologic subtypes of ground glass opacity featured lung adenocarcinoma.
This study aims to evaluate the correlations between radiologic features and pathologic subtypes of ground glass opacity featured lung adenocarcinoma via whole-mount section.