Findings with 18F-FDG PET/CT in 3 Different Groups
| Results expressed on per-patient basis | Noninflammatory LABC | Inflammatory breast cancer | Whole population |
| Patients | 82 (70) | 35 (30) | 117 (100) |
| Overall stage modifications* | 39 (48) | 22 (63) | 61 (52) |
| Lymph nodes† outside level I and level II axillary levels | 27 (33) | 22 (63) | 49 (42) |
| Internal mammary node involvement | 12 (15) | 10 (28) | 22 (19) |
| Infraclavicular | 19 (23) | 15 (43) | 34 (29) |
| Supraclavicular | 13 (16) | 13 (37) | 26 (22) |
| Distant metastases‡ | 27 (33) | 16 (46) | 43 (37) |
| Bone | 20 (24) | 10 (29) | 30 (26) |
| Lung | 3 (4) | 3 (9) | 6 (5) |
| Pleura | 2 (2) | 0 | 2 (2) |
| Distant lymph nodes§ | 11 (13) | 8 (23) | 19 (16) |
| Liver | 6 (7) | 4 (11) | 10 (8) |
| Second cancer | 0 | 2 (6) | 2 (2) |
↵* Some women had extraaxillary lymph nodes as well as distant metastases.
↵† Some women had lymph node metastases in different areas.
↵‡ Some women had distant metastases in different viscera.
↵§ Distant lymph nodes were cervical, mediastinal, hilar, contralateral axillary, or abdominopelvic.
Data are n, with percentages in parentheses.