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Table VI.

Sensitivity of diagnostic testing for finding primary tumors in studies of patients presenting with metastatic NETs

	Year	n	CT	SRS	Endoscopy	Operation
Wang et al¹⁴	2010	79	0.35	0.26	0.33^*	0.87
Massimino et al¹⁵	2012	63	0.07	0.02	0.12^†	0.79
Bartlett et al¹⁶	2013	61	0.38	0.22	0.56^‡	0.89
Present study	2016	197	0.76	0.57	0.38^§	0.97

1/21 upper endoscopy and 20/42 colonoscopy.

^†

0/24 upper endoscopy and 6/26 colonoscopy.

^‡

3/5 EUS and 2/4 capsule endoscopy.

^§

13/19 upper endoscopy and 15/54 colonoscopy.