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Selected publications on imaging for staging distant metastases in muscle-invasive and metastatic bladder cancer
| Distant metastases | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modality | Author/date [ref] | n | Accuracy % |
Overstaging % |
Understaging % |
Sensitivity % | Specificity % | Comments |
| FDG PET/CT | Goodfellow (2014) [16] | 233 | PET 86 CT 83 | NR | NR | PET/CT 54 CT 41 | PET/CT 97 CT 98 | |
| FDG PET/CT | Apolo (2010) [25] | 57 | NR | NR | NR | 40.7 | 91.5 | FDG PET/CT detected more malignant disease than CT/ MRI in 40% of patients |
