PET-CT (n=186) CECT (n=196) p-value
Demographic Variables
Age (Mean (SD)) 9.96 (4.3) 8.79 (3.7) 0.005
Gender (M:F) 5.4: 1 5.3: 1 0.532
Proportion from private Hospitals 36% 5% <0.001
Disease related-Variables
B-Symptoms 41.5% 58.5% 0.004
Bulky Disease 38.7% 54.6% 0.001
Advance Stage Disease 64.5% 68.4% 0.246
Laboratory Variables
Hemoglobin (Mean (SD)) 10.4 (2.2) 9.47 (2.5) <0.001
ESR (Mean (SD)) 46.49 (37.36) 43.80 (30.21) 0.472
LDH (Mean (SD)) 496.7 (560.6) 470.9 (253.3) 0.293
Albumin (Mean (SD)) 3.75 (0.76) 3.83 (0.95) 0.378