Clinical Study
Accuracy of Individual Descriptors and Grading of Nodal Involvement by Axillary Ultrasound in Patients of Breast Cancer
Table 2
Accuracy of combinations of predictors to evaluate the metastatic involvement of axillary lymph nodes.
| | Combinations of descriptors | Sensitivity | Specificity | Positive predictive value | Negative predictive value | Diagnostic accuracy |
| | B + C + D | 54% | 100% | 100% | 47% | 67% | | A + B + C | 63.6% | 88.8% | 93.3% | 50% | 70.96% | | A + E + F | 27.27% | 77.7% | 75% | 30.43% | 41.93% | | A + E | 40.9% | 77.7% | 81.8% | 35% | 51.6% | | A + F | 27.27% | 44.4% | 54.54% | 20% | 32.25% |
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