Authors (ref) N. of pts Primary tumour Lymph node metastasis* Distant metastasis
Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Accuracy (%) Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Accuracy (%) Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Accuracy (%)
Monzawa et al. [24] 50       20 (axillar nodes) 97 - - - -
Cooper et al. [25]         56% 96% - - - -
Koolen et al. [29] 154 - - - - - - 100 96 97
Fuster et al. [31] 60 - - - 70 (axillar nodes) 100 - 100 98 -
Heusner et al. [39] 61 - - - 58 (axillar nodes) 92 79      
Segaert et al.  [40] 70 97 - - 62.5 100   96 - -
Heusner et al. [41] 40 95 - - 80 (axillar nodes) -   100    
Niikura et al. [42] 225 - - - - - - 97.4 91.2 -
*axilla and loco-regional lymph nodes
Table 1: Diagnostic accuracies of FDG PET/CT in detection of primary and metastatic foci of breast cancer.