Table 6 Comparison of diagnostic efficiency of each examination method.

From: The diagnostic value of cytology in the mammary intraductal lesions of patients with pathological nipple discharge

Diagnostic method

Accuracy (%)

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

Youden index

Smear cytology

45.38

40.63

65.22

0.056

Liquid-based cytology

61.34

61.46

69.57

0.279

FDS

79.00

90.63

73.91

0.602

P value

0.001

0.001

0.814

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