TABLE 2

Distribution of Sites of Disease and Summary of PET/CT Imaging Results

SiteData%
Sites of disease
 Bone only3641.4
 Lymph nodes only910.3
 Soft tissue only22.3
 Lymph nodes and soft tissue only33.4
 Bone and lymph nodes only2124.1
 Bone and soft tissue only55.7
 Bone, lymph nodes, and soft tissue1112.6
PET/CT results
 No. of measured sites9 (1, 4, 14, 25)
 No. of measured metabolically active sites*7 (0, 3, 11, 23)
 No. of patients with extensive lesions1112.6
Measures of metabolic activity
 Sum of SUVmax14 (0, 4.7, 28.7, 217.5)
 Maximum SUVmax3.9 (0, 1.8, 5.6, 22.9)
 Average SUVmax2.1 (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.