Unexpected N2 Lymph Node Involvement Found During Surgery for Early-Stage NSCLC
ByScott A. Kono, DO,Michael Weyant, MD,Wilbur Franklin, MD,Laurie E. Gaspar, MD, FRCP(C),D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD
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During investigation of an episode of self-limiting abdominal pain, a 63-year-old Caucasian female never-smoker was found to have an asymptomatic right lower lobe pulmonary mass. A positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan revealed the right lower lobe mass to be 25 × 32 mm with a standardized uptake value (SUV) of 10.2, without evidence of hilar or mediastinal lymphadenopathy or of distant metastases.
