From: The correlation of SUVmax with pathological characteristics of primary tumor and the value of Tumor/ Lymph node SUVmax ratio for predicting metastasis to lymph nodes in resected NSCLC patients
Metastatic (n = 14)
Non-metastatic (n = 86)
p
Tumor SUVmax
15.26 ± 6.02
16.5 ± 6.83
0.49
Lymph node SUVmax
5.35 ± 5.72
3.28 ± 1.19
0.06
T/LN SUVmax
3.73 ± 1.49
5.66 ± 3.32
0.01*