Preoperative pectoralis muscle index predicts distant metastasis-free survival in non-small cell lung cancer patients: a retrospective study
Low PMI is significantly associated with worse distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) and recurrence-free survival (RFS) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, supporting its utility in refining preoperative risk stratification. When CT imaging lacks L3-level coverage, PMI offers a viable alternative for assessing muscle quality.
Authors
- Zhenhui Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7221-2588)
- Dengke Jiang
- Rui Liao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0057-2792)
- Ruiling Yang
- Dafu Zhang
- Ruimin You
- Xingxiang Dong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6637-445X)
- Lin Yuanbo Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6119-058X)
- Xiaobo Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8755-6199)
- Yanli Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5722-7375)
- Xuewen Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3619-2222)
- Zhihui Shi
- Lizhu Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1007-3062)
Institutions
- Kunming Medical University (CN)
- Dali Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital (CN)
- Second Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CN)
- Dali University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Medical Imaging
- Published
- 2025-08-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12880-025-01873-0
- Primary Topic
- Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China