PET/CT Imaging as a Diagnostic Tool in Distinguishing Well-Differentiated versus Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma

Table 1

Patient characteristics of 20 WDLPS or DDLPS patients meeting inclusion criteria.

Patient characteristics (n = 20)	No. (%)
Median age	64 years (range 29–81 years)
Sex
Female	8 (40%)
Male	12 (60%)
Ethnicity
Caucasian	16 (80%)
Hispanic	2 (10%)
Asian	1 (5%)
African American	1 (5%)
Diagnosis
DDLPS	11 (55%)
WDLPS	9 (45%)
Number of PET/CTs performed for separate individual recurrences
One	17 (85%)
Two	2 (10%)
Five	1 (5%)
Characteristics for 26 PET/CTs meeting inclusion criteria (n = 26)
Median time from PET to tissue collection in days	32.5 days
Method of pathologic confirmation
Surgical resection	21 (81%)
Biopsy	5 (19%)