Research Article

TC-99m HMPAO Brain Blood Flow Imaging in the Dementias with Histopathologic Correlation in 73 Patients

Table 2

For the diagnosis of AD with or without Lewy bodies.

Proportion95% Confidence interval
Lower limitUpper limit

Sensitivity: 44/47 = 93.62%81.44%98.34%
Specificity: 22/26 = 84.62%64.27%94.95%
Positive predictive value: 44/48 = 91.67%79.13%97.30%
Negative predictive value: 22/25 = 88.00%67.66%96.85%
Accuracy: 66/73 = 90.41%80.67%95.73%