Summary of patient-level diagnostic data: detection of nodal and distant metastatic involvement
| Study | Image | N | Sensitivity | Specificity | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PET | Conventional imaging | PET | Conventional imaging | |||
| Nodal involvement | ||||||
| Federico et al18 | PET-CT | 30 | 0.8 | – | 1 | – |
| Ricard et al26 | PET-CT | 13 | 1 | 0.75 | 0.89 | 1 |
| Tateishi et al19 | PET-CT | 35 | 1 | 0.86 | 0.95 | 0.9 |
| Volker et al20 | PET | 4* | 1 | 0.67 | 1 | 1 |
| Distant metastatic involvement | ||||||
| Federico et al18 | PET-CT | 30 | 1 | 0.17 | 0.92 | 1 |
| Ricard et al26 | PET-CT | 13 | 1 | 0.83 | 1 | 0.86 |
| Tateishi et al19 | PET-CT | 35 | 0.95 | 0.55 | 0.8 | 0.43 |
*Total N=46; 12 RMS; data available on 4 with extremity primary tumour.
PET, positron emission tomography; RMS, rhabdomyosarcoma.