Thoracic Surgery Branch of Shanghai Medical Association, Thoracic Surgeons Branch of Shanghai Medical Doctor Association, The Specialist Alliance of Clinical Skills Promotion and Enhancement for General Thoracic Surgery, Email: chenthoracic@163.com
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Surgical resection is the only radical method for the treatment of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer. Intraoperative frozen section (FS) has the advantages of high accuracy, wide applicability, few complications and real-time diagnosis of pulmonary nodules. It is one of the main means to guide surgical strategies for pulmonary nodules. Therefore, we searched PubMed, Web of Science, CNKI, Wanfang and other databases for nearly 30 years of relevant literature and research data, held 3 conferences, and formulated this consensus by using the Delphi method. A total of 6 consensus contents were proposed: (1) Rapid intraoperative FS diagnosis of benign and malignant diseases; (2) Diagnosis of lung cancer types including adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, others, etc; (3) Diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma infiltration degree; (4) Histological subtype diagnosis of invasive adenocarcinoma; (5) The treatment strategy of lung adenocarcinoma with inconsistent diagnosis on degree of invasion between intraoperative FS and postoperative paraffin diagnosis; (6) Intraoperative FS diagnosis of tumor spread through air space, visceral pleural invasion and lymphovascular invasion. Finally, we gave 11 recommendations in the above 6 consensus contents to provide a reference for diagnosis of pulmonary nodules and guiding surgical decision-making for peripheral non-small cell lung cancer using FS, and to further improve the level of individualized and precise diagnosis and treatment of early-stage lung cancer.

Citation: Thoracic Surgery Branch of Shanghai Medical Association, Thoracic Surgeons Branch of Shanghai Medical Doctor Association, The Specialist Alliance of Clinical Skills Promotion and Enhancement for General Thoracic Surgery. Expert consensus of thoracic surgeons on guiding surgical decision-making based on intraoperative frozen sections for peripheral pulmonary nodules with diameter≤2 cm. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2022, 29(6): 667-675. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.202204098 Copy

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