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Table 3 The diagnostic performance of US-FNAC for PLANs in cervical cancer

From: Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology of Para-aortic lymph node metastasis in uterine cervical cancer: diagnostic accuracy and impact on clinical decision making

Diagnostic index

Inclusion of Undetermined

Exclusion of Undetermined

P value

Sensitivity, %(n)

90.1%(73/81)

96.1%(73/76)

0.146

Specificity, %(n)

100%(7/7)

100%(7/7)

1.000

PPV, %(n)

100%(73/73)

100%(73/73)

1.000

NPV, %(n)

46.7%(7/15)

70.0%(7/10)

0.250

Accuracy, %(n)

90.9%(80/88)

96.4%(80/83)

0.145

  1. PPV Positive predictive value, NPV Negative predictive value