Correlation between glucose metabolism parameters derived from FDG and tumor TNM stages and metastasis-associated proteins in colorectal carcinoma patients

Table 3 Multivariate analysis of the relationship between T, N and M status and ¹⁸F-FDG parameters of 38 patients with CRC

Variable	SUVmax		SUVmean		TLG		MTV
Variable	Mean ± SD	P value	Mean ± SD	P value	Mean ± SD	P value	Mean ± SD	P value
T status		0.002		0.067		0.002		0.001
1/2	11.72 ± 2.78		7.28 ± 1.54		120.50 ± 126.64		13.90 ± 14.71
3	16.94 ± 5.58		10.04 ± 3.49		162.51 ± 105.07		17.75 ± 10.42
4	23.23 ± 3.95		14.88 ± 3.33		381.33 ± 102.50		42.45 ± 8.66
N status		0.212		0.140		0.419		0.647
N0	14.38 ± 5.54		8.49 ± 3.30		139.83 ± 106.78		19.23 ± 12.66
N1	16.39 ± 5.46		10.27 ± 4.37		160.68 ± 98.61		19.23 ± 12.95
N2	19.78 ± 5.51		11.69 ± 2.82		240.99 ± 158.89		24.82 ± 13.95
M status		0.244		0.000		0.573		0.836
M0	15.03 ± 5.37		8.51 ± 2.72		163.30 ± 122.55		17.54 ± 11.93
M1	19.45 ± 5.56		12.56 ± 3.79		202.84 ± 135.50		23.11 ± 15.12
Differentiation		0.112		0.120		0.108		0.612
Well	10.35 ± 0.07		7.10 ± 1.13		55.30 ± 40.30		4.35 ± 0.07
Moderate	16.13 ± 5.27		9.77 ± 3.72		162.19 ± 107.04		19.39 ± 12.53
Poorly	21.29 ± 6.22		12.39 ± 3.29		283.49 ± 165.35		25.59 ± 15.81

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