Predictive Value of Primary Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Standard Uptake Value for a Better Choice of Systematic Nodal Dissection or Sampling in Clinical Stage IA Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Analysis of our data suggested that fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose SUVmax of the primary tumor might be a predictor of lymph node involvement in stage IA NSCLC. The rate of mediastinal lymph node metastasis of patients with a lower fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography SUVmax might be relatively low, which provides more evidence for clinical procedures of clinical stage IA NSCLC.