Table 5 Diagnostic Performance of Restaging MR Imaging and PET/CT after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Prediction of Advanced ALN metastases.

From: Prediction of Advanced Axillary Lymph Node Metastases (ypN2-3) Using Breast MR imaging and PET/CT after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Invasive Ductal Carcinoma Patients

Imaging modalities

AUC

Sensitivity

Specificity

PPV

NPV

MR imaging

0.792

83.3%

75.0%

29.4%

97.3%

PET/CT

0.729

58.3%

87.5%

36.8%

94.4%

Combined MR imaging plus PET/CT

0.849

100.0%

69.8%

29.3%

100.0%

  1. AUC = area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value; MR imaging = magnetic resonance imaging; PET/CT = positron emission tomography/computed tomography.