Research Article
Prevalence and Characteristics of Incidentalomas Discovered by Whole Body FDG PETCT
Table 3
The results of studies on incidentalomas at different institutions.
| | Author | No. PET studies | No. incidentalomas | No. biopsied | Prevalence of malignancy |
| | Cohen et al. [2] | 4525 | 102 (2.3%) | 15 (15%) | 7 (47%) | | Kang et al. [5] | 1330 | 29 (2.2%) | 15(52%) | 4 (27%) | | Chen et al. [7] | 4803 | 60 (1.2%) | 50 (83%) | 7 (14%) | | Ishimori et al. [8] | 1912 | 79 (4.1%) | 32 (41%) | 6 (18%) | | Kim et al. [3] | 4136 | 45 (1.1%) | 32 (71%) | 16 (50%) | | Are et al. [9] | 8800 | 263 (2.9%) | 57 (22%) | 24 (42%) | | Yi et al. [10] | 140 | 6 (4.3%) | 6 (100%) | 4 (66%) | | Choi et al. [11] | 1763 | 70 (4%) | 49 (70%) | 18 (37%) | | Nam et al. [12] | 689 | 19 (2.8%) | 12 (63%) | 5 (42%) | | Bogsrud et al. [13] | 3347 | 79 (1.2%) | 48 (61%) | 17 (35%) | | Wolf et al. [14] | 185 | 13 (7%) | 13 (100%) | 7 (54%) | | Chu et al. [15] | 6241 | 76 (1.2%) | 13 (17%) | 4 (28%) | | Bae et al. [16] | 3379 | 285 (8.4%) | 99 (35%) | 22 (23%) | | UCSF | 8464 | 156 (1.8%) | 40 (26%) | 15 (38%) |
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