Diagnostic power of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for the presence of lymph node metastasis: A meta-analysis

Summary Present work was designed to quantitatively evaluate the performance of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) in the diagnosis of the presence of metastasis in lymph nodes (LNs). Eligible studies were identified from systematical PubMed and EMBASE searches. Data were extracted....

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Medical sciences 2017-08, Vol.37 (4), p.469-474
Hauptverfasser: Kong, Xiang-chuang, Xiong, Ling-yun, Gazyakan, Emre, Engel, Holger, Kneser, Ulrich, Nüssler, Andreas K., Hirche, Christoph, Kong, Xiang-quan
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Zusammenfassung:Summary Present work was designed to quantitatively evaluate the performance of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) in the diagnosis of the presence of metastasis in lymph nodes (LNs). Eligible studies were identified from systematical PubMed and EMBASE searches. Data were extracted. Meta-analyses were performed to generate pooled sensitivity and specificity on the basis of per-node, per-lesion and per-patient, respectively. Fourteen publications (2458 LNs, 404 lesions and 334 patients) were eligible. Per-node basis demonstrated the pooled sensitivity and specificity was 0.82 ( P
ISSN:1672-0733
1993-1352
DOI:10.1007/s11596-017-1759-z