Table 2.
Clinical Findings From Staging Tests
| Clinical Test Category | Methotrexate |
Dactinomycin |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | |
| Pelvic ultrasound | ||||
| Abnormal | 72 | 67.3 | 86 | 78.9 |
| Normal | 35 | 32.7 | 21 | 19.3 |
| Unknown or negative posthysterectomy | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1.8 |
| Chest x-ray | ||||
| Abnormal | 9 | 8.4 | 12 | 11.0 |
| Normal | 92 | 86.0 | 91 | 83.5 |
| Not done or unknown | 6 | 5.6 | 6 | 5.5 |
| Registration βhCG, mIU/mL | ||||
| < 10.1 | 1 | 0.9 | 1 | 0.9 |
| 10.1-100.0 | 5 | 4.7 | 7 | 6.4 |
| 100.1-1,500.0 | 21 | 19.6 | 17 | 15.6 |
| 1,500.1-5,000.0 | 27 | 25.2 | 27 | 24.8 |
| 5,000.1-10,000.0 | 12 | 11.2 | 14 | 12.8 |
| 10,000.1-100,000.0 | 35 | 32.7 | 39 | 35.8 |
| 100,000.1-1,000,000.0 | 6 | 5.6 | 4 | 3.7 |
Abbreviation: βhCG, beta human chorionic gonadotropin.