Utility of Surgeon-Performed Ultrasound Assessment of the Lateral Neck for Metastatic Papillary Thyroid Cancer

Table 2

Results of surgeon-performed ultrasound of the lateral neck in papillary thyroid cancer.

Sensitivity	88%
Specificity	68%*
Positive predictive value	33%*
Negative predictive value	97%

*All false-positive results were proven negative by FNA. No patient underwent nontherapeutic lymph node dissection.