Table 2.

PET for initial staging of SCLC

Trial	N	Stage concordance (%)	LS		ES
			N	Up-staged (LS→ES) (%)	N	Down-staged (ES→LS) (%)
Prospective
Chin[19]	18	83	9	22	9	11
Bradley[21]	24	88	24	8	0	–
Brink[22]	120	88	51	20	69	4
Kut[24]	18	100	6	0	12	0
Fischer[25]	29	83	9	33	20	5
Subtotal	209	89	99	17	110	5
Retrospective
Haubner[16]	7	100	6	0	1	0
Schumacher[17]	26	73	13	54	13	0
Shen[18]	25	92	10	10	15	7
Kamel[20]	24	83	17	18	7	14
Blum[23]	15	67	15	33	0	–
Vinjamuri[26]	51	82	18	6	33	18
Azad[27]	46	74	26	15	20	40
Subtotal	194	80	105	20	89	18
Total	403	84	204	19	199	11