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Table 1 Characteristics of the 21 patients and result of PET/CT

From: Evaluation of 18F-FDG uptake for detecting lymph node metastasis of gastric cancer: a prospective pilot study for one-to-one comparison of radiation dose and pathological findings

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Total

Intestinal type

Diffuse type

Characteristics

nā€‰=ā€‰21

nā€‰=ā€‰15

nā€‰=ā€‰6

Sex: male/female

16/5

10/5

6/0

Median age, years (range)

70 (41ā€“81)

69 (41ā€“81)

76 (62ā€“81)

Operations: TG/DG/PG

11/8/2

8/6/1

4/1/1

Dissection: D0/D1/D1+/D2

1/2/5/13

1/1/2/11

0/1/3/2

Locus: upper/middle/lower

9/9/3

4/9/2

5/0/1

T status: pT1b/pT2/pT3/pT4a

3/4/6/8

2/4/6/3

1/0/0/5

N status: pN0/pN1/pN2/pN3

5/7/3/6

5/5/2/3

0/2/1/3

pStage: I/II/III/IV

2/9/5/5

1/9/2/3

1/0/3/2

SUV max of primary lesion on PET/CT

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ā€ƒMedian (range)

7.1 (2.4-24.1)

8.0 (2.4-24.1)

6.4 (3.2-11.6)

SUV max of LNs on PET/CT

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ā€ƒMedian (range)

4.7 (1.6-5.5)

3.15 (1.6-4.9)

5.5 (5.5)

  1. TG total gastrectomy, DG distal gastrectomy, PG proximal gastrectomy, SUV standard uptake value, LN lymph node, PET/CT positron emission tomography/computed tomography