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Table 2 Accuracy of individual studies MRI in characterization of acute appendicitis during pregnancy

From: Pregnancy and appendicitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis on the clinical use of MRI in diagnosis of appendicitis in pregnant women

Study

Year

Participants

TP

FP

FN

TN

Sensitivity(95% CI)

Specificity(95% CI)

Accuracy

95%

Low

Up

95%

Low

Up

Theilen

2014

171

12

6

1

152

0.923

0.640

0.998

0.962

0.919

0.986

92%

Ramalingam

2015

102

8

6

0

88

1.000

0.631

1.000

0.936

0.866

0.976

100%

Bichard

2005

29

3

0

0

26

1.000

0.292

1.000

1.000

0.868

1.000

100%

Fonseca

2014

31

11

0

0

20

1.000

0.715

1.000

1.000

0.832

1.000

100%

Isra

2008

33

4

0

1

28

0.800

0.284

0.995

1.000

0.877

1.000

80%

Rap

2013

212

17

6

2

187

0.895

0.669

0.987

0.969

0.934

0.989

89%

Jang

2011

18

5

0

0

13

1.000

0.478

1.000

1.000

0.753

1.000

100%

Masselli

2011

40

5

0

0

35

1.000

0.478

1.000

1.000

0.753

1.000

100%

Vu

2009

19

1

0

1

17

0.500

0.013

0.987

1.000

0.805

1.000

50%

Pedrosu

2009

148

14

2

0

132

1.000

0.768

1.000

0.985

0.947

0.998

100%

Ato

2009

118

9

2

1

106

0.900

0.555

0.997

0.981

0.935

1.000

50%

Cobben

2004

12

3

0

0

9

1.000

0.292

1.000

1.000

0.664

1.000

100%

Aguilera

2016

52

2

0

9

41

0.182

0.023

0.518

1.000

0.914

1.000

18%

Konrad

2015

140

16

2

0

96

1.000

0.794

1.000

0.980

0.928

0.998

100%

Sungah

2016

125

24

5

0

96

1.000

0.858

1.000

0.950

0.888

0.984

100%

Borkokereshi

2017

176

14

1

0

161

1.000

0.768

1.000

0.994

0.982

1.000

100%

Lauren M

2015

709

61

5

2

641

0.968

0.890

0.996

0.992

0.982

0.997

96%

Richard

2017

223

13

6

1

198

0.929

0.661

0.998

0.971

0.937

0.989

92%

Darshan

2017

42

3

3

2

34

0.600

0.147

0.947

0.919

0.781

0.983

60%

Pooled sensitivity and specificity

–

2400

135

44

110

2080

0.918

0.877

0.949

0.979

0.972

1.000

–

  1. TP, true positive; FP, false positive; FN, false negative; TN, true negative; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval