Abstract
Aim: The study-cohort aims to assess PET-CT's correlation with adenocarcinomas' subtypes and propose a scoring system for mediastinal lymph nodes staging.
 Material and Method: The patient cohort is a multicenter, retrospective analysis of 268 patient that underwent surgery for NSCLC adenocarcinoma. Preoperative PET-CT results for mediastinal lymph node staging was pathologically confirmed on tissue specimens obtained at anatomical resection. Statistical evaluation of PET CT, radiological and pathological outcomes were performed on all subgroups.
 Results: The low FDG affinity in the lepidic pattern was statistically significant in the study (p
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