Table 1 Characteristics of the 46 lesions in 44 patients
From: Evaluation of image quality at the detector’s edge of dedicated breast positron emission tomography
Group | Peripheral | Non-peripheral | |
|---|---|---|---|
Number of lesions (women) | 23 (22) | 23 (23) | |
Age (years) [median, (range)] | 52 (37–87) | 62 (43–79) | |
Clinical size (mm) [median, (range)] | 17 (7–51) | 17 (7–52) | |
Distance from chest wall to lesion (mm) [median, (range)]a | 0.83 (0.44–1.55) | 32.7 (20.2–64.7) | |
Histopathology | Invasive ductal carcinoma | 19 | 20 |
Invasive lobular carcinoma | 1 | 0 | |
Invasive ductal and lobular carcinoma | 1 | 0 | |
Other invasive carcinomas | 1 | 0 | |
Ductal carcinoma in situ | 1 | 3 | |
Subtype | Luminal A/B | 9/7 | 10/5 |
HER2 positive | 1 | 2 | |
Triple negative | 2 | 3 | |
Unknown | 4 | 3 | |