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Table 6 The comparision of metastatic and non-metastatic lymph nodes

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*

  1. *Statistically significant.