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. 2010 Aug 2;28(25):3973–3978. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2010.28.7052

Table 2.

Organ-Specific Lesion-Based Analysis of Suspicious FDG-PET/CT Uptake

Site of Disease Sites
Sensitivity
Specificity
No. % % 95% CI (%) % 95% CI (%)
Lymph node 51 38 92 74 to 99 81 61 to 93
Lung 31 23 88 62 to 98 87 60 to 98
Bone 22 17 93 66 to 100 100 63 to 100
Liver 10 7 50 12 to 88 100 40 to 100
Soft tissue 11 8 100 40 to 100 86 42 to 100
Adrenal 6 4 100 25 to 100 100 48 to 100
Kidney 4 3 100 3 to 100 100 29 to 100
Total sites 135 100 87 76 to 94 88 78 to 95

Abbreviations: FDG, fluorine-18 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose; PET, positron emission tomography; CT, computed tomography.