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. 2024 Jul 13;13(4):e240089. doi: 10.1530/ETJ-24-0089

Table 1.

Diagnostic efficiency of [18F]F-DOPA PET.

TP TN Sensitivity Specificity Accuracy PPV NPV
Patient-related diagnostic efficiency
 Total 81 28 95% (77/81) 93% (26/28) 94% (103/109) 97% (77/79) 87% (26/30)
 F 41 9 98% (40/41) 89% (8/9) 96% (48/50) 98% (40/41) 89% (8/9)
 M 40 19 93% (37/40) 95% (18/19) 93% (55/59) 97% (37/38) 86% (18/21)
P ( F vs M) 0.590 0.548 0.832 1.000 1.000
 PMTC 50 0 92% (46/50) 92% (46/50) 100% (46/46)
 RMTC 31 28 100% (31/31) 93% (26/28) 97% (57/59) 94% (31/33) 100% (26/26)
P (PMTC vs RMTC) 0.277 0.529 0.171
 HMTC 7 5 100% (7/7) 100% (5/5) 100% (12/12) 100% (7/7) 100% (5/5)
 SMTC 74 23 95% (70/74) 91% (21/23) 94% (91/97) 97% (70/72) 84% (21/25)
P (HMTC vs SMTC) 1.000 1 000 1 000 1.000 1.000
Lesion-related diagnostic efficiency
 Total 775 205 65 % (501/775) 99% (203/205) 72% (704/980) 99% (501/503) 43% (203/477)
 F 300 93 60% (181/300) 99% (92/93) 69% (273/393) 99% (181/182) 44% (92/211)
 M 475 112 68% (321/475) 99% (111/112) 73% (431/587) 99% (320/321) 42% (111/266)
P ( F vs M) 0.040 1.000 0.177 1.000 0.681
 PMTC 563 0 51% (289/563) 51% (289/563) 100% (289/289)
 RMTC 212 205 100% (212/212) 99% (203/205) 99% (415/417) 99% (212/214) 100% (203/203)
P (PMTC vs RMTC) 0.000 0.000 0.181
 HMTC 51 26 25% (13/51) 100% (26/26) 51% (39/77) 100% (13/13) 41% (26/64)
SMTC 724 179 67% (488/724) 99% (177/179) 74% (665/903) 99% (488/490) 43% (177/413)
P (HMTC vs SMTC) 0.000 1.000 0.000 1.000 0.737
 LN 510 58 54% (276/510) 98% (57/58) 59% (333/568) 99% (276/277) 20% (57/291)
 DM 185 91 88% (162/185) 100% (91/91) 92% (253/276) 100% (162/162) 80% (91/114)

DM, distant metastases; F, female; HMTC, hereditary MTC; LK, lymph node lesions; M, male; NPV, negative predictive value; PMTC, primary MTC; PPV, positive predictive value; RMTC, recurrent MTC; SMTC, sporadic MTC; TN, true negative; TP, true positive.