Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81873889)
Article History
Received: 27 April 2022
Revised: 23 July 2022
Accepted: 8 September 2022
First Online: 28 September 2022
Declarations
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Liming Xia.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Some study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported in a prior study, where 182 patients with early-stage lung adenocarcinoma were previously reported on the relationship between CT morphological features and Ki-67 (PMID: 34164176). The present study has a much larger sample size and focuses on predicting lymph node metastasis in lung adenocarcinoma.
: • retrospective• diagnostic study• performed at one institution