Table 5.
Eligibility criteria for review on morphological imaging modality.
| Study characteristic | Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
| Patient population | Patients with liver metastases from neuroendocrine tumors | Children or adolescents (under the age of 18 years) |
| Patients who underwent liver transplantation or palliative liver resection or nonsurgical treatment (peptide receptor radionuclide treatment, chemotherapy, biotherapy) |
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| Study design | Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) | Case reports |
| Prospective and retrospective comparative cohort studies | Editorials | |
| Noncomparative cohort studies | Reviews | |
| Case-control studies | ||
| Case series | ||
| Reporting |
|
Studies that do not report the diagnostic accuracy (first scientific question) |
| Studies that do not report the assessment of resectability (second scientific question) | ||
| Test of interest | Computed tomography (CT) |
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| Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) | ||
| Ultrasound scanning |