Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging is equivalent to positron emission tomography in distinguishing non-small cell lung cancer from benign pulmonary nodules but is not as useful for predicting aggressiveness of non-small cell lung cancer.
While the SC method is inferior to both the quantitative CT and the SPECT/CT methods for predicting the PPF after lobectomy, the latter two methods are almost equally accurate.
Segmentectomy can preserve the pulmonary function more significantly than lobectomy, except for the resection of more than three segments or the left upper division segmentectomy.
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