Table 2:
Evaluation of CEM in the Diagnostic Setting
| Clinical Indication | Study and Year | No. of Women | Modalities Compared | Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | PPV (%) | NPV (%) |
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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.