Detection of Metastases by Different Imaging Modalities in the 7 Patients
| Number of hot spots on 123I-MIBG scintigraphy | Locations of metastases found with the 3 imaging techniques* | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient no. | Bone | Chest | Abdomen | Total | Planar | SPECT | CT |
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | T2 (1) | T2 (1) | T2† |
| Lung (2) | Lung (2) | Lung | |||||
| Liver (1) | Liver (1) | Liver | |||||
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | T9 (1) | T9 (1) | T9 |
| Rib (1) | Rib (1) | ‡ | |||||
| Scapula (1) | Scapula (1) | ‡ | |||||
| ‡ | ‡ | Lung | |||||
| Liver (1) | Liver (1) | Liver | |||||
| Lymph node (4) | Lymph node (4) | Lymph node | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | T6–T8 (1) | T6–T8 (1) | T6–T8 |
| Rib (3) | Rib (3) | ‡ | |||||
| ‡ | ‡ | Lung | |||||
| ‡ | ‡ | Liver | |||||
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Adrenal gland (2) | Adrenal gland (2) | Adrenal gland |
| 5 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 9 | T5, T7, T11 (3) | T5, T7, T11 (3) | T5, T7, T11 |
| Scapula (3) | Scapula (3) | Scapula | |||||
| Sternum (1) | Sternum (1) | Sternum† | |||||
| Femur (1) | § | § | |||||
| Lymph node (1) | § | Lymph node | |||||
| 6 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 23 | Skull (1) | § | § |
| T9, T11, T12 (3) | T9, T11, T12 (3) | T9, T11, T12† | |||||
| L2, L4, L5 (3) | L2, L4, L5 (3) | L2, L4, L5† | |||||
| Upper arm (2) | § | § | |||||
| Sternum (1) | § | Sternum† | |||||
| Pelvic bone (6) | Pelvic bone (6) | Pelvic bone† | |||||
| Femur (2) | § | § | |||||
| Adrenal gland (1) | Adrenal gland (1) | Adrenal gland | |||||
| Lymph node (4) | Lymph node (3) | Lymph node | |||||
| ‡ | ‡ | Liver | |||||
| 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 | T3 (1) | T3 (1) | T3† |
| Lung (4) | Lung (4) | Lung | |||||
| Lymph node (1)* | Lymph node (1) | ‡ | |||||
| ‡ | ‡ | Liver | |||||
| Total | 35 | 10 | 11 | 56 | 56 | 47 | — |