Research Article

Comparison of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration and Biopsy Device for Lymphadenopathy

Table 7

Histological diagnostic performance comparisons for differentiating between malignant and benign lesions.

Diagnostic accuracy, (%), 95% CIGroup AGroup B value

Sensitivity65/75 (86.7)60/63 (95.2)0.14
77.2-92.687.0-98.7
Specificity8/8 (100)8/8 (100)>0.99
67.6-10067.6-100
Positive predictive value65/65 (100)60/60 (100)>0.99
94.4-10094.0-100
Negative predictive value8/18 (44.4)8/11 (72.7)0.25
24.6-66.343.4-90.3
Accuracy73/83 (88.0)68/71 (95.8)0.14
79.2-93.388.3-98.8

: number of cases; CI: confidence interval.