From: Diagnostic accuracy of oral cancer cytology in a pilot study
Discrimination of result of cytological diagnosis | Histopathological diagnosisa | Sensitivity (%) | Specificity (%) | Positive Predictive value (%) | Negative Predictive value (%) | |
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Positive (n = 153) | Negative (n = 174) | |||||
Worse than NILM | 143 | 86 | 93.5 | 50.6 | 62.4 | 89.8 |
NILM | 10 | 88 | ||||
Worse than LSIL | 119 | 28 | 77.8 | 83.9 | 81.0 | 81.1 |
NILM or LSIL | 34 | 146 |