Diagnostic Performance of Fluorine-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography in the Postchemotherapy Management of Patients with Seminoma: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 3

Diagnostic accuracy data of  ¹⁸F-FDG PET and PET/CT on a per examination-based analysis.

Author	Posttherapy evaluation, surveillance, or restaging				Subgroup analyses about recurrent/residual masses at CT
					Lesions < 3 cm				Lesions > 3 cm
	TP	FP	FN	TN	TP	FP	FN	TN	TP	FP	FN	TN
Ambrosini et al. [6]	9	6	1	29	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
Bachner et al. [7]	14	19	7	87	3	8	4	39	11	11	3	48
Siekiera et al. [8]	6	2	0	29	0	1	0	19	6	1	0	8
Hinz et al. [9]	3	9	0	8	2	3	0	3	1	6	0	5
Lewis et al. [10]	8	4	0	12	1	2	0	10	7	2	0	2
De Santis et al. [11]	8	0	2	46	1	0	2	34	7	0	0	12
Spermon et al. [12]	1	1	0	8	0	0	0	8	1	1	0	0
Hain et al. [13]	11	1	3	12	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
Ganjoo et al. [14]	0	1	4	24	0	1	2	5	0	0	1	17

NR: not reported; TP: true positive; FP: false positive; FN: false negative; TN: true negative.