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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Cancer. 2021 Nov 2;159:60–77. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2021.09.031

Fig. 6.

Fig. 6.

Sankey diagram shows management decisions before (left) and after (right) 18F-FDG-PET and PET/CT in patients with cancer of unknown primary. Diagram was based on the 24 studies included in the meta-analysis that provided information on the management plans before and after PET. Boxes on the left indicate pre-PET management plans and those on the right indicate post-PET management plans annotated with each of their respective types of management (e.g., surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and chemoradiation). *Unknown = Pre-PET management plan not reported in the included paper. †Unchanged: Unknown = Details of the post-PET management plan was not reported but was indicated in the paper that there was not change from the pre-PET management decision. ‡Change: Unknown = The management plan was changed between before and after PET, however the paper did not clarify what the specific management plans were.