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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 12.
Published in final edited form as: Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2017 Jun 13;157(3):439–447. doi: 10.1177/0194599817703927

Table 5.

Percent agreement between nodal staging called by imaging modality compared to pathology gold standard

4 3 2 1 TRUE 1 2 3 4
PET/CT 6% 4% 4% 23% 52% 5% 3% 3% 0%
CECT 4% 3% 3% 10% 55% 12% 4% 7% 3%
OVERSTAGED TRUE UNDERSTAGED
PET/CT 37% 52% 11%
CECT 19% 55% 26%

Column headers are measurements of the deviation between stage (N0, N1, N2a, N2b, N2c, N3) on imaging versus pathology