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 level | Sensitivity (95% CI) | Specificity (95% CI) | PPV (95% CI) | NPV (95% CI) | PLR (95% CI) | NLR (95% CI) |
| >20 | 1.0 (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 | >30 | 97.6 (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) | >40 | 92.8 (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) | >50 | 89.2 (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) | >60 | 82.1 (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) |
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