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. 2010 Oct 21;469(4):1089–1094. doi: 10.1007/s11999-010-1637-5

Table 1.

Studies included in the meta-analysis and reported sensitivity and specificity

Study Reference standard Cross-sectional area cutoff (mm2) Number of wrists Sensitivity (%) (95% CI) Specificity (%) (95% CI)
Pinilla et al. [24] Clinical 6.5 70 90.0 (75.4–96.8) 93.3 (76.5–98.8)
Pastare et al. [23] Clinical 9 84 62.1 (49.3–73.5) 100 (78.1–00)
Altinok et al. [1] Clinical 9 80 65.0 (48.3–78.9) 92.5 (78.5–8.0)
Padua et al. [22] Clinical 10 54 70.4 (56.2–81.6)
Visser et al. [27] Clinical 10 305 78.0 (70.8–83.8) 91.0 (84.9–95.2)
El Miedany et al. [5] Clinical 10 254 97.9 (92.0–99.6) 100 (97.0–100)
Kwon et al. [14] Clinical 10.7 82 65.9 (49.3–79.4) 63.4 (46.9–77.4)
Kele et al. [12] Clinical 11 110 74.0 (64.2–81.4) 98.0
Wong et al. [30] EDX 9 96 94.3 (85.3–98.2) 65.4 (44.4–82.1)
Ziswiler et al. [32] EDX 9 101 85.9 (77.4–97.1) 69.6 (47.0–85.9)
Wong et al. [30] EDX 9 124 80.0 (66.1–88.9) 51.0 (39.3–63.4)
Duncan et al. [4] EDX 9 170 82.0 (73.3–88.9) 97.0 (88.8–99.5)
Ashraf et al. [2] EDX 9 150 80.0 (68.4–88.3) 77.5 (66.5–85.8)
Yesildag et al. [31] EDX 10.5 224 89.0 (82.8–93.5) 95.0 (86.4–98.3)
Sarria et al. [25] EDX 11 105 74.6 (61.8–84.4) 57.1 (41.1–71.9)
Wiesler et al. [28] EDX 11 130 90.9 (77.4–97.1) 83.7 (73.9–90.5)
Moran et al. [17] EDX 12.3 70 62.0 (47.2–75.0) 95.0 (73.1–99.7)
Nakamichi and Tachibana [20] EDX 13 822 57.0 (52.1–61.8) 97.0 (94.8–98.4)
Lee et al. [15] EDX 15 100 88.0 (79.6–93.4) 96.0

CI = confidence interval; EDX = electrodiagnostic testing.