Table 2.
Sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV of PET/CT in various studies
| Name | Year | Type of study | Parameter | Sensitivity | Specificity | Accuracy | PPV | NPV | PLR | NLR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bollineni et al. [13] | 2016 | Systematic review and meta-analysis | LNM | 72 | 94 | 88 | – | – | 10.9 | 0.36 |
| Chang et al. [24] | 2012 | Systematic review and meta-analysis | LNM | 63 | 94.7 | – | – | – | 10.46 | 0.39 |
| Kim et al. [25] | 2016 | Monocentric prospective study | LNM | 70 | 95.4 | – | – | 94.3 | – | – |
| Husby et al. [26] | 2015 | Monocentric prospective study | LNM | 74–85% | 91–96% | 89–93% | ||||
| CI | 25–33% | 74–87% | ||||||||
| Signorelli et al. [27] | 2015 | Monocentric prospective study | LNM | 73.3% | 98.7% | 93.6% | 93.3% | 93.6% | – | – |
| Crivellaro et al. [28] | 2013 | Monocentric prospective study | LNM | 78.6% | 98.4% | 94.7% | 91.7% | 95.3% | – | – |
| Antonsen et al. [15] | 2012 | Multicetric prospective comparative study | LNM | 74.2 | 92.8 | 91% | 59%, | 96% | – | – |
| MI | 93% | 49% | 61% | 41% | 95% | |||||
| CI | 43% | 94% | 83% | 69% | 85% | |||||
| Katijima et al. [14] | 2009 | Prospective monocentric study | LNM | 53.3 | 99.6 | 97.8 | – | – | – | – |
| Current study | 2016 | Retrospective analysis | LNM | 40% | 75% | 71.7% | 16.7% | 91.2% | ||
| MI | 72.2% | 75% | 72.5% | 96.3% | 23.1% | |||||
| CI | 44.4% | 94.1% | 83.7% | 66.7% | 86.5% |