Table 4.

Main studies evaluating the performance of FDG-PET/CT at the para-aortic level.

Studies	Number of Patients	Number of PAL	Number of Positive PAL	Se (%)	Sp (%)	PPV (%)	NPV (%)
Chao et al., 2006 [12]	49	NR	13	85	95	84.6	95.2
Suzuki et al., 2007 [13]	30	19	1	0	100	0	94.7
Kitajima et al., 2008 [14]	40	34	NR	51.7	99.4	83.3	97.3
Park et al., 2008 [15]	53	31	7	57.1	87.5	57.1	87.5
Suga et al., 2011 [16]	30	15	4	100	100	100	100
Crivellaro et al., 2013 [17]	76	15	6	85.7	96	87.5	96.3
Gholkar et al., 2014 [18]	20	13	1	100	66.7	20	100
Mayoral et al., 2016 [19]	13	12	3	33	88.9	50	80
Atri et al., 2017 [20]	215	160	23	65	88.0	48.4	93.8
Park et al., 2017 [21]	362	118	11	18.2	98.1	92.1	50
Legros et al., 2019 [9]	81	35	14	50	100	100	75
Our study	200	200	55	61.8	89.7	69.4	86.1