Journal of thoracic imaging
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The purpose of our study was to describe our preliminary experience of evaluating mediastinal lymph node metastases with diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in patients with non-small cell lung cancer. ⋯ Our preliminary results show that diffusion-weighted MR imaging has a high negative predictive value for excluding mediastinal lymph node metastases from non-small cell lung cancer and has the potential to be a reliable alternative non-invasive imaging method for the preoperative staging of mediastinal lymph node in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.