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Table 2 Efficacy of CT lymph node MAD and/or serum SCC-Ag in judging retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis in patients with locally advanced cervical squamous cell carcinom

From: Assessment of retroperitoneal lymph node status in locally advanced cervical cancer

Group

Case

Pathological results

Accuracy (%)

Sensitivity(%)

Specificity (%)

Youden index

Positive

Negative

CT lymph node MAD ≥1.0 cm + SCC-Ag ≥ 5.2 ng/mL

24

24

0

75.71*

58.54

100.0*

0.59*

CT lymph node MAD ≥1.0 cm

40

33

7

72.09

66.0

80.56

0.47

SCC-Ag ≥ 5.2 ng/mL

39

30

9

71.43

73.17

68.97

0.42

  1. CT computed tomography, MAD minimum axial diameter, SCC-Ag Squamous cell carcinoma antigen. *P  < 0.05 vs. the CT lymph node MAD ≥1.0 cm group and SCC-Ag ≥ 5.2 ng/mL group