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. 2020 Feb 25;10:198. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.00198

Table 2.

The diagnostic performance of conventional quantitative 18F-FDG PET/MR parameters for predicting synchronous distant metastasis in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients.

Parameter Comparison of mean value Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis
M0 group M1 group p AUC 95% CI p Optimal cutoff value Se (%) Sp (%)
Age (years) 56.2 ± 11.8 58.1 ± 9.5 0.719
Height (cm) 167.7 ± 9.1 164.4 ± 5.8 0.373
Body weight (Kg) 64.2 ± 8.4 55.1 ± 9.5 0.07
Tumor size (cm) 3.4 ± 1.0 4.5 ± 1.0 0.039 0.803 0.543–0.952 0.006 >3.3 81.8 66.7
SUVmean 2.6 ± 1.1 3.6 ± 1.3 0.149
SUVmax 4.5 ± 2.0 6.3 ± 2.3 0.216
SUVpeak 3.0 ± 1.1 4.8 ± 1.5 0.037 0.818 0.560–0.960 0.004 >4.06 72.7 100.0
SUVsd 0.6 ± 0.3 0.8 ± 0.3 0.149
MTV 8.4 ± 6.1 20.7 ± 13.1 0.037 0.818 0.560–0.960 0.003 >15.04 63.6 100.0
TLG 21.3 ± 16.7 67.7 ± 42.1 0.020 0.848 0.595–0.973 <0.001 >41.3 72.7 100.0
ADCmean (s/mm2) 1192 ± 625 1311 ± 219 0.884
ADCmin (s/mm2) 1093 ± 274 974 ± 334 0.733
ADCsd (s/mm2) 128 ± 25 134 ± 20 0.525

Independent-samples t-test, bold value indicates p-value is significant <0.05;

Independent-samples Mann-Whitney U-test, bold value indicates p-value is significant <0.05.

ADC, apparent diffusion coefficient; ADCmean, mean apparent diffusion coefficient; ADCmin, minimum apparent diffusion coefficient; ADCsd: standard deviation of apparent diffusion coefficient; AUC, area under receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve; M0, no synchronous distant metastasis; M1, with synchronous distant metastasis; MTV, metabolic tumor volume; Se, sensitivity; Sp, specificity; SUV, standardized uptake values; SUVmax, maximum standardized uptake value; SUVmean, mean standardized uptake value; SUVpeak, the peak of SUV in 1 ml; SUVsd, standard deviation of standardized uptake value; TLG, total lesion glycolysis; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval.