Table 2 Presence of comet tail sign versus pathological status
From: Diagnostic accuracy of metastatic axillary lymph nodes in breast MRI
Pathology | pa | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Metastatic | Reactive | Total | |||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
Comet tail sign | |||||||
Present | 11 | 31.4 | 1 | 2.9 | 12 | 34.3 | 0.375 |
Not present | 4 | 11.4 | 19 | 54.3 | 23 | 65.7 | |
Total | 15 | 42.9 | 20 | 57.1 | 35 | 100 | |
Sensitivity (%) | 73.33 | ||||||
Specificity (%) | 95.00 | ||||||
Positive predictive value (%) | 91.67 | ||||||
Negative predictive value (%) | 82.61 | ||||||
Accuracy (%) | 85.71 | ||||||