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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Utility of 18F-fluoro-deoxyglucose emission tomography/computed tomography fusion imaging (18F-FDG PET/CT) in combination with ultrasonography for axillary staging in primary breast cancer

Variables

 

Number 183

% 100

Age

mean [range]

57 [32–81]

 
 

<45

33

18

 

45 ≦

150

82

pT-stage

pTis

10

5

 

pT1

91

50

 

pT2

68

37

 

pT3

14

8

Histology

DCIS

9

5

 

IDC

158

86

 

ILC

9

5

 

Apocrine

2

1

 

Mucinous

2

1

 

Squamoid

1

1

 

Paget

2

1

Nuclear grade

1

59

32

 

2

51

28

 

3

69

38

 

Not graded

4

2

Nodal metastasis

negative

124

68

 

positive

59

32

Estrogen receptor (ER)

10%>

44

24

 

10% ≦

139

76

Progesterone receptor(PgR)

10%>

63

34

 

10% ≦

120

66

c-erbB-2 (HER2)

0 to 2+

152

83

 

3+/FISH Amp

28

15

 

unknown

3

2

Primary axillary approach

Ax dissection

58

32

 

SNB

125

68

SUV of the primary tumor

mean [range]

4.3 [0.9–17.8]

 

SUV of axillary uptake*

mean [range]

3.0 [0.4–11.3]

 
  1. DCIS, ductal carcinoma in situ; IDC, invasive ductal carcinoma; ILC, invasive lobular carcinoma; Mucinous, mucinous carcinoma; Apocrine, apocrine. carcinoma; Squamoind, Squamoid carcinoma; Paget, Paget's disease; FISH Amp, FISH Amplication; Ax, axillary; SNB, sentinel node biopsy; SUV, Standardized Uptake Value; *Visible uptake of 18F-FDG
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