• 1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, 710038, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Air Force Medical Center, Air Force Medical University, Beijing, 100142, P. R. China;
  • 3. Department of Thoracic Surgery, 962 Hospital of Joint Logistics Support Force, Harbin, 150000, P. R. China;
  • 4. Innovation Center for Advanced Medicine, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University, Xi'an, 710038, P. R. China;
XIONG Yanlu, Email: xiong21@fmmu.edu.cn
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Objective  To explore the correlation between lymph node metastasis and clinicopathological features of lung adenocarcinoma with diameter≤3 cm. Methods  The clinicopathologic data of the patients with lung adenocarcinoma≤3 cm in diameter were retrospectively analyzed. The relationship between lymph node metastasis and age, gender, smoking history, pathological subtype, tumor location, tumor diameter, pleural invasion, vascular invasion and other factors was analyzed. The risk factors of lymph node metastasis were analyzed by univariate and multivariate logistic regression. Results  Finally 1 718 patients were collected, including 697 males and 1 021 females with an average age of 58.89±9.85 years. The total lymph node metastasis rate was 12.9%, among whom 452 patients of adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) and minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA) did not have lymph node metastasis, and the lymph node metastasis rate of invasive lung adenocarcinoma was 17.5%. Multivariate analysis showed that tumor diameter, micropapillary subtype, solid subtype, micropapillary component, solid component, vascular invasion and pleural invasion were independent risk factors for lymph node metastasis of invasive lung adenocarcinoma with diameter≤3 cm (P<0.05). While age, lepidic subtype and lepidic component were independent protective factors for lymph node metastasis (P<0.05). Conclusion  Clinicopathological features can help predict lymph node metastasis of lung adenocarcinoma with diameter≤3 cm.