Abstract
To detect the diagnostic efficacy of emission computed tomography (ECT) in detecting mandibular invasion caused by head and neck cancers. Thirteen databases were searched electronically to retrieve studies for inclusion and a manual search also was conducted. Study inclusion, data extraction, and quality assessment were completed by 2 reviewers independently. Meta-DiSc 1.4 and STATA 11.0 were used to conduct the meta-analysis. Seventeen studies involving 668 participants were included. One study had a low risk of bias, 2 had a high risk, and the rest had unclear risk. Meta-analysis showed that for the diagnosis of mandibular invasion single-photon ECT (SPECT) had a mean sensitivity (SEN) of 0.96, a mean specificity (SPE) of 0.66, an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.8989, and a Q* (point on the summary reviewer operator characteristic curve when SEN equaled SPE) of 0.8300. Positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET/CT) had a mean SEN of 0.83, a mean SPE of 0.90, an AUC of 0.9290, and a Q* of 0.8640. The comparison between the diagnostic efficacy of SPECT and PET/CT showed that SPECT was superior for SEN (P= .0014) and PET/CT had a significantly better SPE (P= .001). The summary diagnostic efficacy between these modalities did not differ significantly (P > .05). The present clinical evidence showed that SPECT is an excellent tool to exclude patients with no mandibular invasion, but is not as good as PET/CT to confirm the diagnosis.
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