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Table 4 Distribution of total number of intermediate and high-grade suspicious locoregional lymph node uptakes, interpreted as metastatic

From: 11C-acetate PET/CT in pre-therapeutic lymph node staging in high-risk prostate cancer patients and its influence on disease management - a retrospective study

Locoregional LN localisation

High-grade suspicious LN metastases (mean SUVmaxg/ml and mean short axis mm)

Intermediate suspicious LN metastases (mean SUVmaxg/ml)

Number of patients (n=21)

Σ suspicious LN metastases

Pararectal

6 (5.4 g/ml, 20 mm)

0

4

6

Obturator

6 (5.2 g/ml, 9.7 mm)

2 (2.9 g/ml)

6

8

External iliac

28 (6.6 g/ml, 14 mm)

36 (3.9 g/ml)

15

64

Internal iliac

11 (6.5 g/ml, 14 mm)

4 (4.7 g/ml)

9

15

Common iliac

7 (4.8 g/ml, 13 mm)

5 (4.3 g/ml)

6

12

Σ

58

47

21a

105

  1. a21 patients with acetate uptakes in multiple locations.