Large-Vessel Vasculitis: Interobserver Agreement and Diagnostic Accuracy of ¹⁸F-FDG-PET/CT

Table 1

Overview of articles reporting imaging findings in GCA/large-vessel vasculitis and assessment of observer agreement of visual assessment. (n.r.: not reported, ¹⁸F-FDG-PET: ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, MRI: magnetic resonance imaging, CT: computed tomography, and US: ultrasound).

Article (year of publication)	Imaging modality	Number of observers	Observer agreement
Blockmans et al., 2000 [21]	^18F-FDG-PET	4 (2 teams)	n.r.
Blockmans et al., 2006 [22]		2	n.r.
Walter et al., 2005 [12]		2	93% (28/30)
Henes et al., 2008 [9]	^18F-FDG-PET/CT	At least 2	n.r.
Lehmann et al., 2011 [10]		2	85% (Cohen’s kappa 0.7)
Papathanasiou et al., 2012 [23]		2	n.r.
Fuchs et al., 2012 [3]		3	n.r.
Brodmann et al., 2004 [24]	^18F-FDG-PET and US	1	n.r.
Meller et al., 2003 [11]	^18F-FDG-PET and MRI	2	n.r.
Scheel et al., 2004 [25]		2	n.r.
Both et al., 2008 [26]		2	n.r.
Agard et al., 2008 [27]	CT	1	n.r.
Marie et al., 2009 [28]		1	n.r.
Prieto-González et al., 2012 [6]		2	98%
Schmidt et al., 2002 [29]	US	2	89%
Schmidt et al., 2008 [30]		?	n.r.
DE et al., 2009 [31]		29	0.847 (kappa)
Narvaez et al., 2005 [32]; Koenigkam-Santos et al., 2011 [33]	MRI	n.r. 2	n.r. 0.73 (kappa)