Role of fused PET/CT compared to the standard contrast-enhanced CT in the follow-up assessment of the treated gastric malignancy

Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 6 Patterns of tumor recurrence/residual, lymph nodes, and distant metastasis in the study by PET/CT in comparison to CECT with their number (No.), percentage (%), and the estimated P value for each pattern by both modalities

Patterns	By PET/CT		By CECT
Patterns	No.	%	No.	%	P value
(I) Gastric residual/recurrence	30 patients	44%	46 patients	67.5%	0.006
(II) Lymph nodes metastasis	18 patients	26.5%	26 patients	38%	0.143
(III) Distant metastasis	18 patients	26.5%	24 patients	35%	0.265