gould {bamdit}

Accuracy of Positron Emission Tomography for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Nodules and Mass Lesions

Description

Data from a Meta-Analysis of Studies Quality of FDG-PET for Diagnosis of SPNs and Mass Lesions

Format

A matrix with 31 rows and 6 columns. Each row represents study results, the columns are:

tp

number of true positives.

n1

number of patients with disease.

fp

number of false positives.

n2

number of patients without disease.

author

first author of the study.

year

publication date.

Source

The data were obtainded from

Gould MK, Maclean CC, Kuschner WG, Rydzak CE, Owens Dk. (2001) Accuracy of positron emission tomography for diagnosis of pulmonary nodules and mass lesions: a meta-analysis. The Journal of the American Medical Association;285:914-24.