Table 2.

The demographics of patients and characteristics of pancreatic adenocarcinoma from each study included in the meta-analysis

Study	No. of cancer patients (%)	Age (yr)	Sex of cancer patients, male (%)	Mean size of cancer (mm)	Mean hue histogram value for cancer	Location of cancer, head:body:tail (n:n:n)
Saftoiu et al. (2010) [27]	33 (61.1)	61.6±1.36	22 (66.7)	40.2±0.22	190.30±2.07	26:4:3
Hocke et al. (2012) [24]	19 (32.8)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Iordache et al. (2016) [25]	19 (61.3)	60.31±8.43	12 (63.2)	n/a	187.35±13.18	n/a
Iglesias-Garcia et al. (2017) [26]	13 (26.5)	69.1±13.5	33 (67.3)	n/a	n/a	37:12:0
Chantarojanasiri et al. (2017) [22]	95 (62.5)	65.1±10.2	57 (60.0)	25	25	62:26:7
Costache et al. (2020) [23]	70 (72.2)	68.6±10.0	48 (68.6)	33.6±11.12	Strain: 22.7±11.2	40:21:8

n/a, not available.