The clinical significance of incidental intra-abdominal findings on positron emission tomography performed to investigate pulmonary nodules

Table 1 Demographics and FDG-PET Scan Findings

			PET Scan
Pt	Age (yrs)	Sex	Lung FDG+	ABDO FDG+	ABDO FDG+ PET site	Pulmonary Diagnosis	ABDO Findings Invest	Abdominal Diagnosis
1	71	M	+	+	Colon	N/A	Yes	Lipoma
2	64	M	+	+	Colon	NSCLC	Yes	Normal
3	79	M	+	+	Colon	Metastatic NSCLC	No	-
4	63	F	+	+	Colon	Metastatic NSCLC	No	-
5	84	F	+	+	Right Colon	Adenocarcinoma	No	-
6	81	F	+	+	Right Colon	Metastatic NSCLC	No	-
7	64	F	+	+	Right Colon	Bronchoalveolar cancer	Yes	Normal
8	67	F	+	+	Right colon	SCC	Yes	Normal
9	74	F	+	+	Transverse Colon	Metastasis from Colon Cancer	Yes	Colon Adenocarcinoma
10	82	M	+	+	Left colon	Bronchogenic cancer	Yes	Colon Adenocarcinoma
11*	84	M	+	+	Left Colon	NSCLC	Yes	Colon Adenocarcinoma
12	80	M	-	+	Sigmoid Colon	Benign	No	-
13	75	M	+	+	Sigmoid Colon	Benign	Yes	Adenoma
14	89	F	+	+	Sigmoid Colon	Bronchogenic cancer	No	-
15	88	F	-	+	Sigmoid Colon	Benign	No	-
16	77	M	+	+	Sigmoid Colon	SCC	No	-
17	77	M	-	+	Rectosigmoid	Benign	Yes	Adenoma
18	30	M	+	+	Rectum	Reactive Lymphoid Hyperplasia	No	-
19	54	M	+	+	Anorectal junction	Spindle cell Cancer	No	-
20	78	F	+	+	Anorectal junction	NSCLC	No	-
21*	64	F	+	+	Anorectal junction	NSCLC	No	-
22	65	F	+	+	Diaphragm	Adenocarcinoma	No	-
23	74	F	+	+	Bladder	NSCLC	No	-
24	54	M	+	+	Pancreas	Benign	Yes	Islet Cell Tumor
25	49	F	+	+	ABDO wall	N/A	Yes	Normal
Mean	71	52% F

M = male; F = female; + = positive; - = negative; N/A = not available; ABDO = abdominal; FDG = flourodeoxyglucose; SCC = squamouse cell carcinoma; NSCLC = non-small cell lung cancer; * PET-CT Imaging performed

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