Review Article

Modern Breast Cancer Detection: A Technological Review

Table 2

Results of PEM studies. NPV: negative predictive value; PEM: positron emission mammography; PPV: positive predictive value.

StudySensitivity (%)Specificity (%)PPV (%)NPV (%)Accuracy (%)Number of lesions

Berg et al. [78]919395889292
Rosen et al. [77]*8633902520
Levine et al. [58]86918918

Low values due to small number of true negative cases.