Cerebral Microinfarcts Are Common in Undiagnosed Lung Cancer Patients: A Population-Based Study

Table 2

Comparison between noncancer, lung cancer, and other cancer groups for positive CMI in DWI scans and total CMI in MRI scans.

	Lung cancer vs. NCCG	Lung cancer vs. NLCCG	NCCG vs. NLCCG	value between 3 groups
Total CMI in each group ()	24 vs. 4	24 vs. 8	4 vs. 8
value	0.043	0.077	0.077	0.068
CMI incidences	vs.	vs.	vs.
value	0.056	0.09	0.77	0.07

CMI: cerebral microinfarcts; DWI: diffusion weighted imaging in MRI; noncancer control group; nonlung cancer control group.