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Table 1 Performance of 18F-FDOPA in disease detection

From: Usefulness of 18F-FDOPA PET for the management of primary brain tumors: a systematic review of the literature

Authors

Year

Patients (#)

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

PPV (%)

NPV (%)

Accuracy (%)

Optimal cut-off

Pafundi et al.

2013

10

72.7

100

100

14.3

73.9

NA (visual analysis)

Ledezma et al.

2009

21

95.2

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA (visual analysis)

Tripathi et al.

2009

15

100

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA (visual analysis)

Chen et al.

2006

81

98

86

95

95

95

T/S > 0.75

Beuthien-Baumann et al.

2003

19

94

NA

NA

NA

NA

NA (visual analysis)

  1. NA Not available, NPV Negative predictive value, PPV Positive predictive value, T/S Tumoral uptake divided by striatum uptake