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Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 4 Patient based diagnostic accuracies of FDG-PET/CT and CECT for detecting BM

From: Brain metastases assessment by FDG-PET/CT: can it eliminate the necessity for dedicated brain imaging?

BM Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV Accuracy
PET/CT 78.13 92.65 83.33 90.0 88%
CECT 81.25 94.12 86.67 91.43 90%
  1. BM brain metastases, PPV positive predictive value, NPV negative predictive value
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