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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Thorac Surg. 2014 Feb 25;97(4):1142–1148. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.12.043

Table 2.

Pathology of all participants with an FDG-PET scan

Malignancy N (%)
Adenocarcinoma 283 (50.0)
Squamous Cell 157 (27.7)
Other NSCLC 34 (6.0)
Carcinoid/Neuroendocrine 29 (5.1)
Carcinoma in situ 23 (4.1)
Large Cell 16 (2.8)
Other Cancer* 10 (1.7)
Small Cell 7 (1.2)
Unknown 7 (1.2)

Benign N (%)

Granuloma** 75 (64.7)
Benign Tumor 17 (12.1)
Active Infectious disease*** 14 (12.1)
Fibrosis 5 (4.3)
Other 5 (4.3)
*

Includes lymphoma, melanoma, adenoid cystic neoplasm, mucoepidermoid, sarcoma, and other neoplasm.

**

Granuloma includes histoplasmosis, atypical mycobacteria, blastomycosis, cryptococcus, coccidiodomycosis, aspergillosis and nonspecific granulomas.

***

Infectious disease includes active Mycobacterium tuberculosis and active pneumonia