Research Article

Differentiating Malignant from Tubercular Pleural Effusion by Cancer Ratio Plus (Cancer Ratio: Pleural Lymphocyte Count)

Table 4

Cut-off for cancer ratio plus (cancer ratio: pleural fluid lymphocyte count).

Cut-off levelSensitivity (95% CI)Specificity (95% CI)PPV (95% CI)NPV (95% CI)PLR (95% CI)NLR (95% CI)

>201.0 (0.94–1.0)64.7 (0.46–0.79)0.87 (0.78–0.93)1.0 (0.81–1.0)7.0 (4.1–11.9)0
>3097.6 (0.90–0.99)94.1 (0.78–0.98)0.97 (0.90–0.99)0.94 (0.78–0.98)41 (10.4–161.3)0.06 (0.01–0.2)
>4092.8 (0.84–0.97)94.1 (0.78–0.98)0.97 (0.90–0.99)0.84 (0.68–0.93)39 (9.9–153.3)0.18 (0.08–0.39)
>5089.2 (0.80–0.94)94.1 (0.78–0.98)0.97 (0.90–0.99)0.78 (0.61–0.88)37.5 (9.5–147.3)0.28 (0.15–0.50)
>6082.1 (0.71–0.89)97.0 (0.82–0.99)0.98 (0.91–0.99)0.68 (0.53–0.80)69 (9.8–483)0.45 (0.29–0.70)