Table 5.

BMI and clinical stage using BMB or PET/CT as reference standard

CT and BMB stage combined	FDG-PET/CT alone
	Stage I	Stage II	Stage III	Stage IV
Stage I	70	0	0	4*
Stage II	0	24	0	6*
Stage III	0	0	47	14*
Stage IV	4†	2†	26†	64

Number of patients in each stage.

^*Twenty-four patients: BMB alone would have missed BMI.

^†Thirty-two patients: PET alone would have missed BMI.