Patients with Positive 18F-FDG PET/CT Data
| Confirmatory recurrence | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient no. | Original tumor site | Initial stage | PET/CT finding | Pathology | Correlative imaging |
| 1 | Hypopharynx | IV | Local | Negative | — |
| Distant (lung) | — | Positive | |||
| 2 | Larynx | IV | Distant (lung, bone, liver) | — | Positive |
| 3 | Oral cavity | IV | Local | Positive | — |
| Regional (lymph nodes) | Positive | — | |||
| 4 | Oropharynx | III | Distant (lung) | — | Positive |
| 5 | Oropharynx | III | Local | Positive | — |
| 6 | Oropharynx | IV | Regional (lymph nodes) | Positive | — |
| 7 | Oropharynx | IV | Local | Positive | — |
| 8 | Larynx | II | Regional (lymph nodes) | — | Negative |
| 9 | Larynx | IV | Regional (lymph nodes) | Positive | — |
| 10 | Larynx | IV | Local | Positive | — |
| 11 | Oral cavity | II | Local | Positive | — |
| 12 | Larynx | III | Local | Positive | — |
| Distant (lung) | — | Positive | |||
| 13 | Oropharynx | IV | Local | Positive | — |
| 14 | Hypopharynx | IV | Local | Negative | — |
| 15 | Oropharynx | IV | Distant (lung) | — | Negative |
| 16 | Oropharynx | IV | Distant (lung) | Positive | — |
| 17 | Oral cavity | IV | Distant (bone) | — | Positive |
| 18 | Oropharynx | III | Local | Positive | — |
| 19 | Hypopharynx | II | Local | Positive | — |
| 20 | Larynx | IV | Local | Negative | Positive |
| Distant (lung) | |||||
| 21 | Hypopharynx | IV | Distant (liver) | Negative | — |
| 22 | Oral cavity | II | Distant (lung) | Positive | |
| 23 | Hypopharynx | IV | Local | Positive | — |
| Regional (lymph nodes) | Positive | — | |||
| 24 | Oral cavity | II | Distant (lung, bone, liver) | — | Positive |
| 25 | Oropharynx | IV | Local | Positive | — |
| 26 | Oral cavity | II | Local | Positive | — |
| 27 | Larynx | IV | Local | Negative | — |
| 28 | Larynx | III | Local | Negative | — |
| 29 | Oral cavity | IV | Local | Positive | — |
| 30 | Oropharynx | II | Local | Positive | — |
| 31 | Oral cavity | III | Local | Positive | — |
| Distant (lung) | — | Positive | |||
| 32 | Oropharynx | IV | Local | Negative | — |
| 33 | Oral cavity | I | Regional (lymph nodes) | — | Negative |
| 34 | Oral cavity | IV | Local | Positive | — |
| 35 | Larynx | IV | Local | Positive | — |
| Distant (lung) | — | Positive | |||
| 36 | Oral cavity | III | Distant (lymph nodes) | Negative | — |
| 37 | Oral cavity | III | Local | Positive | — |
| 38 | Oral cavity | IV | Distant (lung) | Positive | — |
| 39 | Oral cavity | III | Local | Positive | — |
Patients 1 and 20: true-positive for one localization and false-positive for the other.
Patient 37: true-positive for one localization and false-negative for the other (regional lymph nodes).