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Table 3 PET parameters of 139 patients

From: Prediction of occult lymph node metastasis using volume-based PET parameters in small-sized peripheral non-small cell lung cancer

Variables

All patients (n = 139)

Pathologic N0 (n = 115)

Pathologic N1 and N2 (n = 24)

P valuea

SUVmax

4.61 ± 3.99

4.12 ± 3.85

6.95 ± 3.91

0.001

MTV 2.0

4.18 ± 6.39

3.09 ± 5.04

9.38 ± 9.22

0.003

TLG 2.0

16.13 ± 28.86

11.96 ± 23.72

36.10 ± 41.32

0.010

  1. MTV metabolic tumor volume, TLG total lesion glycolysis
  2. acomparison between pathologic N0 and pathologic N1, 2
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