Table 5.
Diagnostic performance of cytological diagnoses
| Discrimination of result of cytological diagnosis | Histopathological diagnosisa | Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | Positive Predictive value (%) |
Negative Predictive value (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive (n = 153) | Negative (n = 174) | |||||
| Worse than NILM | 143 | 86 | 93.5 | 50.6 | 62.4 | 89.8 |
| NILM | 10 | 88 | ||||
| Worse than LSIL | 119 | 28 | 77.8 | 83.9 | 81.0 | 81.1 |
| NILM or LSIL | 34 | 146 | ||||
NILM negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy, LSIL low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, HSIL high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, SCC squamous cell carcinoma, OIN oral intraepithelial neoplasia, CIS carcinoma in situ, a: Positive included Positive, OIN/CIS, and Borderline lesion + based on the result of histopathological diagnosis, and Negative included Negative and Borderline lesion –