Clinical Study
Staging of Primary Abdominal Lymphomas: Comparison of Whole-Body MRI with Diffusion-Weighted Imaging and 18F-FDG-PET/CT
Table 1
Clinicopathological features and sites of origin of tumours investigated.
| Characteristics | Gastric | Intestinal |
| Mean age (yrs) | 60.2 | 64.5 | Gender | | | Male | 3 | 9 | Female | 2 | 3 | Histology | | | Low-grade B-cell | 5 | 4 | High-grade B-cell | 0 | 8 | Stage | | | IE | 2 | 0 | IIE | 3 | 4 | IIIE | 0 | 6 | IVE | 0 | 2 | Treatment | | | Surgery alone | 0 | 0 | Nonsurgical | 6 | 10 | Both | 0 | 1 | Response to treatment | | | Complete remission | 5 | 4 | Partial remission | 0 | 6 | No response | 0 | 2 |
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