Results of Characterization of Mediastinal Lymph Nodes by Visual Interpretation of 18F-FDG PET and Correlation with Pathologic Diagnosis
| 18F-FDG PET (visual interpretation) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All lymph nodes | Lung cancer patients | |||||
| Status | Negative | Positive | Total | Negative | Positive | Total |
| Benign | 243 TN | 58 FP | 301 | 205 TN | 36 FP | 241 |
| Metastasis | 6 FN | 64 TP | 70 | 6 FN | 64 TP | 70 |
| Total | 249 | 122 | 371 | 211 | 100 | 311 |
FN = false-negative; TN =true-negative; FP = false-positive; TP = true-positive.