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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Nucl Med. 2014 Jul 28;55(9):1473–1480. doi: 10.2967/jnumed.114.139626

TABLE 1.

Pediatric Brain Tumor Types with Baseline 18F-FDG PET

Diagnosis ND
RR
No. of patients Death Progression No. of patients Death Progression
BSG 53 46 50 18 8 15

GBM 9 7 9 15 6 14

Anaplastic astrocytoma 2 1 2 28 10 24

Astrocytoma/astrocytic glioma 23 3 15

Ependymoma 15 2 12

Medulloblastoma 10 0 7

Primitive neuroectodermal tumor/pineoblastoma 5 3 5

Others* 2 2 2 23 5 14
*

Others: anaplastic ganglioglioma, ganglioglioma, glioblastoma (NOS), malignant glioma, malignant glioma (NOS except nasal glioma, not neoplastic), gliomatosis cerebri, gliosarcoma, mixed oligoastrocytoma, myxopapillary ependymoma, pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma, rhabdoid sarcoma.