Skip to main content

Table 1 Characteristics of all patients

From: Diagnostic accuracy of 13N-ammonia PET, 11C-methionine PET and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET: a comparative study in patients with suspected cerebral glioma

 

All

LGG

HGG

Non-glioma tumors

NNL

N

90

27

30

10

23

Age range (mean ± SD, y)

3–78 (40.0 ± 14.0)

3–67 (34.0 ± 13.9)

14–61 (43.5 ± 12.6)

21–69 (42.0 ± 15.3)

22–78 (41.6 ± 14.0)

Sex (M: F)

3:2

19:8

16:14

3:7

16:7

Final diagnose

 

WHO

Grade I

WHO

Grade III

 

PA

4

AA

4

WHO

Grade II

AO

3

DA

1

AE

1

GA

1

Astrocytoma 11

OD

4

WHO

Grade IV

OA

1

GBM

11

Astrocytoma 16

  
  1. LGG low-grade glioma, HGG high-grade glioma, NNL non-neoplastic lesions, PA pilocytic astrocytoma, DA diffuse astrocytoma, GA gemistocytic astrocytoma, OD oligodendroglioma, OA oligoastrocytoma, AA anaplastic astrocytoma, AO anaplastic oligodendroglioma, AE anaplastic ependymoma, GBM glioblastoma