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Sensitivity
0
0.2
0.4
0.6 0.8
1
Ceulemans
0.75 (0.43 - 0.95)
Chaiken
1.00 (0.48 - 1.00)
Conessa
1.00 (0.54 - 1.00)
Fakhry
0.87 (0.60 - 0.98)
Goerres
0.91 (0.59 - 1.00)
Gupta
0.50 (0.16 - 0.84)
Kim
0.83 (0.52 - 0.98)
Kishino
1.00 (0.40 - 1.00)
Kitagawa
1.00 (0.40 - 1.00)
Li
0.91 (0.71 - 0.99)
McCollum
1.00 (0.29 - 1.00)
Moeller
0.70 (0.35 - 0.93)
Mori
1.00 (0.59 - 1.00)
Ng
0.75 (0.48 - 0.93)
Rege
0.88 (0.47 - 1.00)
Sjovall
1.00 (0.03 - 1.00)
Wang
1.00 (0.72 - 1.00)
Yen
1.00 (0.40 - 1.00)
Sensitivity (95% CI)
Pooled Sensitivity = 0.86 (0.80 to 0.91)
Chi-square = 24.30; df = 17 (p = 0.1114)
Inconsistency (I-square) = 30.1 %
Specificity
0
0.2
0.4
0.6 0.8
1
Ceulemans
0.79 (0.59 - 0.92)
Chaiken
0.78 (0.40 - 0.97)
Conessa
0.81 (0.64 - 0.92)
Fakhry
0.83 (0.69 - 0.92)
Goerres
0.93 (0.68 - 1.00)
Gupta
0.92 (0.80 - 0.98)
Kim
0.92 (0.84 - 0.97)
Kishino
0.32 (0.14 - 0.55)
Kitagawa
0.89 (0.67 - 0.99)
Li
0.86 (0.64 - 0.97)
McCollum
0.65 (0.43 - 0.84)
Moeller
0.94 (0.86 - 0.98)
Mori
0.40 (0.27 - 0.53)
Ng
0.98 (0.91 - 1.00)
Rege
0.86 (0.42 - 1.00)
Sjovall
0.78 (0.66 - 0.87)
Wang
0.91 (0.76 - 0.98)
Yen
1.00 (0.90 - 1.00)
Specificity (95% CI)
Pooled Specificity = 0.82 (0.79 to 0.85)
Chi-square = 138.99; df = 17 (p = 0.0000)
Inconsistency (I-square) = 87.8 %
Figure 2.
Forest plots of sensitivity and specificity for positron
emission tomography and positron emission tomography/computed
tomography in the diagnosis of residual and/or recurrent disease at
the primary site.
Figure 4.
Forest plots of sensitivity and specificity for positron
emission tomography and positron emission tomography/computed
tomography in the diagnosis of residual and/or recurrent disease at
the neck nodes.
Sensitivity
SROC Curve
1-specificity
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
Symmetric SROC
AUC = 0.8644
SE(AUC) = 0.0445
Q* = 0.7950
SE(Q*)= 0.0433
Figure 5.
Summary receiver-operating characteristic curves for
positron emission tomography and positron emission tomography/
computed tomography in the diagnosis of residual and/or recurrent
disease at the neck nodes.
Sensitivity
SROC Curve
1-specificity
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
1
Symmetric SROC
AUC = 0.9149
SE(AUC) = 0.0162
Q* = 0.8475
SE(Q*)= 0.0183
Figure 3.
Summary receiver-operating characteristic curves for
positron emission tomography and positron emission tomography/
computed tomography in the diagnosis of residual and/or recurrent
disease at the primary site.
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