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In contrast, ground-glass opacity on chest computed tomography usually suggests low-grade malignant lesions such as adenocarcinoma in situ or atypical adenomatous hyperplasia of the lung.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Case presentation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A 75-year-old woman with a history of gastric cancer surgery approximately 5\u00a0years prior was referred to the Department of Thoracic Surgery at our hospital because of two newly appearing pulmonary ground-glass opacity-dominant nodules on chest computed tomography. She had two ground-glass opacities in the right lower lobe, one in the S6 segment was 12\u00a0mm and the other in the S10 segment was 8\u00a0mm. On chest computed tomography 15\u00a0months prior to referral, the lesion in the S6 segment was 8\u00a0mm, and the lesion in the S10 segment was 2\u00a0mm. She was suspected to have primary lung cancer and underwent wide-wedge resection of the nodule in the S6 segment. In the resected specimen, polygonal tumor cells infiltrated the alveolar septa, with some tumor cells exhibiting signet ring cell morphology. 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