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Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive Predictive Value (PPV), Negative Predictive Value (NPV), and Accuracy for Clinical Staging of T2N0 Esophageal Cancer*
| Pathologic Stage | Clinical stage | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cT2N0 | NOT cT2N0 | Accuracy | Sensitivity | Specificity | PPV | NPV | |
| pT2N0 | 132 | 98 | 79.6% | 57.4% | 82.2% | 27.4% | 94.3% |
| NOT pT2N0 | 350 | 1614 | |||||
Analysis includes all patients undergoing primary esophagectomy without induction therapy for esophageal cancer in the STS Thoracic Database
