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. 2016 Oct 28;8(10):829–845. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v8.i10.829

Table 2.

Diagnostic accuracies in some selected studies on single photon emission tomography

Ref. Year of pub Tracer Sensitivity Specificity
Lachter et al[8] 2003 99mTc-HMPAO 58% 100%
Kerry et al[10] 2005
99mTc-HMPAO (2 h) 99mTc-HMPAO 87% 86%
99mTc-Leukoscan (1 h) 99mTc-Leukoscan 20% 86%
99mTc-Leukoscan (2 h) 40% 100%
99mTc-Leukoscan (4 h) 73% 57%
99mTc-Leukoscan (4 h-SPECT) 87% 57%
Paredes et al[9] 2010 99mTc-HMPAO
Endoscopic recurrence 88% 42.9%
Scintigraphic recurrence 73.3% 88.2%
Aarntzen et al[19] 2015 99mTc-CXCL8 95% 44%

SPECT: Single photon emission tomography.