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Published in final edited form as: Clin Imaging. 2020 Sep 19;69:269–279. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2020.09.003

Table 2:

Evaluation of CEM in the Diagnostic Setting

Clinical Indication Study and Year No. of Women Modalities Compared Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) PPV (%) NPV (%)

Problem Solving Lobbes et al, 2014 (33) 113 CEM vs FFDM 100 88 76 100
97 42 40 97
Lalji et al, 2016 (18) 199 CEM vs LE 97 70 58 98
93 36 39 93

Symptomatic patient Tennant et al, 2016 (34) 100 CEM vs LE 95 81 - -
84 63
Luczynska et al, 2016 (32) 116 CEM vs FFDM vs US 100 27 76 100
90 22 73 47
92 20 73 50
Sorin et al, 2020 (38) 138 CEM vs LE vs US 100 73 57 100
95 84 67 98
100 68 52 100

Disease extent Dromain et al, 2011 (24) 120 CEM vs FFDM vs FFDM + US 93 56 73 85
80 50 67 66
94 39 67 82
Jochelson et al, 2013 (3) 52 CEM vs FFDM vs MRI 96 97
81 - - -
96 85
Fallenberg et al, 2014 (4) 80 CEM vs FFDM vs MRI 100
83 - - -
97
Lee-Felker et al, 2017 (5) 52 CEM vs MRI 94 17 93 20
99 4 60 67

Neoadjuvant therapy response ElSaid et al, 2017 (50) 21 CEM 100 83 - -
Iotti et al, 2017 (47) 46 CEM vs MRI 100 84 57 100
87 60 32 96
Barra et al, 2018 (48) 33 CEM vs FFDM vs MRI 76 88 95 54
76 63 86 45
92 75 92 75
Patel et al, 2018 (49) 65 CEM vs MRI 95 67 56 97
95 69 58 97

Posttreatment breast Helal et al, 2019 (51) 76 CEM vs FFDM 91 75 78 90
50 22 38 32

Note.–CEM = contrast-enhanced mammography, FFDM = full-field digital mammography, LE = low-energy imaging, MRI = magnetic resonance imaging, NPV = negative predictive value, PPV = positive predictive value.