Among ADC patients, a high SUVmax was significantly correlated with pleural invasion (P =0.027), vascular invasion (P =0.042), nodal status (P =0.016), Cox-2 expression (P =0.001), Ki-67 expression (P =0.011), and VEGF expression (P =0.003) (Table 3). This evidence concerns the gene MKI67 and AIDS dementia complex.