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Table 1 Patient’s clinico-pathologic characteristics

From: Diagnostic efficiency of PET/CT in patients with cancer of unknown primary with brain metastasis as initial manifestation and its impact on overall survival

Parameter

Patients (n = 39)

N

%

Sex

Male

25

64

Female

14

36

Age of patient/years (mean ± SD)

54.45 ± 12.16

Site of the metastatic brain tumor

Frontal

4

21

Parietal

2

10.5

Occipital

1

5.3

Temporal

1

5.3

Multiple

11

57.9

The localizations of metastatic sites other than brain region

Lymph nodes

3

15.7

Liver

2

10.5

Spleen

3

15.7

Lung

1

5.3

Peritoneal

1

5.3

Bone

2

10.5

The site of the primary tumor in the study group

Lung

6

31.6

Lymphoma

5

26.3

Gastric

4

21

Pancreas

2

10.5

Cecum

1

5.3

Nasopharynx

1

5.3