Table 2.

Comparisons between SUVmax and SUVmean of nasopharyngeal carcinomas versus nasopharyngeal malignant lymphomas

	Nasopharyngeal carcinoma	Nasopharyngeal ML
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	p
SUVmax	15.20 ± 3.13	17.70 ± 13.17	0.346
SUVmean	8.62 ± 1.98	11.10 ± 8.07	0.267

ML: malignant lymphoma

SD: standard deviation

SUV: standardized uptake value.