Review Article
Minimally Invasive Methods for Staging in Lung Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Table 3
Summary of meta-analysis of all included studies and subgroup analysis.
| | Comparison | Sensitivity | Specificity | LR (+) |
| | All included studies | 87.3% (CI 80–89%; %) | 99% (CI 99-100%; %) | 60.66 (CI 25.27–145.60; %) | | EBUS + EUS | 85% (CI 80–89%; %) | 99.6% (CI 98.5–100%; %) | 60.66 (CI 25.27–145.6; %) | | EBUS + EUS-B-FNA | 88% (CI 83.1–91.4%; %) | 100% (CI 99-100%; %) | 87.67 (CI 28.35–271.07; %) |
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LR (+): positive likelihood ratio.
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