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Table 3 Literature review of MRI diagnostic performance on axillary lymph node

From: The impact of body mass index (BMI) on MRI diagnostic performance and surgical management for axillary lymph node in breast cancer

Author

Journal/year

Patient numbers

Reference standard

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

NPV (%)

PPV (%)

Accuracy (%)

Yoshimura et al. [26]

Breast Cancer/1999

202

ALND

79.0

93.0

87.0

89.0

88.0

Kvistad et al. [27]

Eur Radiol/2000

65

ALND

83.0

90.0

90.0

83.0

88.0

He et al. [28]

Eur J Radiol/2012

136

ALND

33.3–86.5

95.2–98.2

1.9–16.7

66.7–82.6

18.5–96.2

Scaranelo et al. [29]

Radiology/2012

61

ALND/SLNB

88.4

82.4

94.7

69.4

85.0

Hwang et al. [30]

J Breast Cancer/2013

349

ALND/SLNB

47.8

88.7

82.6

60.2

77.9

Hieken et al. [31]

Surgery/2013

505

ALND/SLNB

54.2

78.2

75.7

57.7

69.7

Abe et al. [32]

Acad Radiol/2013

50

ALND/SLNB

60.0

79.0

81.0

59.0

74.0

An et al. [33]

Nuklearmedizin/2014

132

ALND

67.5

78.0

79.2

65.9

74

Hyun et al. [34]

Eur J Radiol/2016

425

ALND/SLNB

51.3

92.2

83.3

71.4

80.9

Barco et al. [35]

Clin Transl Oncol/2016

1351

ALND/SLNB

29.8

96.6

68.4

84.9

Not reported

Chen et al.

present study

2084

ALND/SLNB

63.7

68.6

77.5

52.6

66.8

  1. MRI magnetic resonance imaging, PPV positive predictive value, NPV negative predictive value, ALND axillary lymph node dissection, SLNB sentinel lymph node biopsy