Clinical Efficacy of Various Diagnostic Tests for Small Bowel Tumors and Clinical Features of Tumors Missed by Capsule Endoscopy

Table 4

Clinical factors affecting diagnostic yields of each modality.

Clinical factors		CT	SBFT	CE
Anemia	Presence	52.5%	48%	75%
	Absence	16.2%	30%	85.7%
	value	0.019	0.333	0.638
Size of tumor	<10 mm	30%	14.2%	77.7%
	>10 mm	37.5%	46.1%	60%
	value	0.900	0.043	0.624
Main symptoms	Bleeding	57.6%	50%	66.6%
	Nonbleeding	42.4%	50%	68.9%
	value	0.021	0.458	0.615
Location	value	0.054	0.546	0.485

CE: capsule endoscopy; SBFT: small bowel follow-through; CT: computed tomography.