Distribution of Sites of Disease and Summary of PET/CT Imaging Results
Site | Data | % |
Sites of disease | ||
Bone only | 36 | 41.4 |
Lymph nodes only | 9 | 10.3 |
Soft tissue only | 2 | 2.3 |
Lymph nodes and soft tissue only | 3 | 3.4 |
Bone and lymph nodes only | 21 | 24.1 |
Bone and soft tissue only | 5 | 5.7 |
Bone, lymph nodes, and soft tissue | 11 | 12.6 |
PET/CT results | ||
No. of measured sites | 9 (1, 4, 14, 25) | |
No. of measured metabolically active sites* | 7 (0, 3, 11, 23) | |
No. of patients with extensive lesions | 11 | 12.6 |
Measures of metabolic activity | ||
Sum of SUVmax | 14 (0, 4.7, 28.7, 217.5) | |
Maximum SUVmax | 3.9 (0, 1.8, 5.6, 22.9) | |
Average SUVmax | 2.1 (0, 1.3, 3.2, 11.4) |
↵* Based on SUVmax of lesions after subtracting patient-specific background-liver average SUV.
Data are either total number of sites or median followed by minimum, 25th percentile, 75th percentile, and maximum, in parentheses. n = 87 patients total.