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- Fig 1.
Flow diagram of the study selection process.
- Fig 2.
Quality Assessment of the Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2 criteria for the included studies.
- Fig 3.
Coupled forest plots of the sensitivity and specificity of CT for diagnosing cervical lymph node metastasis in patients with papillary thyroid cancer. Horizontal lines indicate 95% CIs of the individual studies.
- Fig 4.
Hierarchic summary receiver operating characteristic curve of the performance of CT for diagnosing cervical lymph node metastasis in patients with papillary thyroid cancer.
- Fig 5.
The Deeks funnel plot to evaluate publication bias.
Tables
Results of meta-analytic summary estimates of CT and US for diagnosing cervical lymph node metastasis in patients with papillary thyroid cancer by level-by-level analysis
Meta-Analysis Summary Estimate Sensitivity (95% CI) P Value Specificity (95% CI) P Value All cervical lymph nodes US 51% (42–60) 91% (85–95) CT 62% (52–70) .127a 87% (80–92) .351a Combined CT/US 69% (61–77) .011b 81% (74–87) .074b Lateral cervical lymph nodes US 71% (57–82) 85% (64–95) CT 70% (59–80) .858a 89% (81–94) .792a Combined CT/US 90% (80–95) .029b 70% (43–88) .329b Central cervical lymph nodes US 38% (27–52) 91% (81–96) CT 57% (43–69) .088a 85% (72–92) .368a Combined CT/US 57% (45–68) .079b 83% (75–89) .281b
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