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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: Mod Pathol. 2014 Sep 5;28(2):187–200. doi: 10.1038/modpathol.2014.109

TABLE 4:

Sensitivity and Specificities of Selected Stains and Combination of Stains

Sensitivity % Specificity % Area under Curve* Confidence Interval (95%)
S100 (−) 58 100 0.757 0.639-0.875
SOX10 (−) 75 100 0.878 0.790-0.967
Neurofibromin (−) 68 100 0.838 0.738-0.938
p16 (−) 73 100 0.919 0.846-0.992
EGFR (+) 69 100 0.878 0.790-0.967
p75NTR (+) 80 69 0.765 0.639-0.892
EGFR (+) or Neurofibromin (−) 84 100 0.919 0.846-0.992
EGFR (+) or p16 (−) 89 100 0.946 0.885-1.006
p16 (−) or Neurofibromin (−) 89 100 0.946 0.885-1.006
EGFR (+) or p16 (−) or Neurofibromin (−) 92 100 0.959 0.907-1.012
Ki67>20% 87 96 0.914^ 0.840-0.988

(−): Diffuse loss, expression in less than 5% of tumor cells; (+): positive, expression in 5% or more of the tumor cells;

^:

Continues variables (percentage of positive cells) were used to create receiver operating characteristics curve and 20% was chosen as cut-off.