Accuracy of cone-beam computed tomography for the evaluation of mandible invasion by oral squamous cell carcinoma

BMC Oral Health

Table 1 Patient characteristics and diagnostic accuracy by cone-beam computed tomography

	Gender			Age (years)			TP	TN	FP	FN	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	Accuracy (%)
	N	M	F	21–40	41–60	61–80	TP	TN	FP	FN	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	Accuracy (%)
Bone invasion^a	30	19 (63.3%)	11 (36.7%)	1	18	11	13	27	0	0	100	100	100
Nerve invasion^b	13	8 (61.5%)	5 (38.5%)	0	6	7	4	5	2	2	66.7	71.4	69.2

N, the total number of patients; M, males; F, females; TP, true positive; TN, true negative; FP, false positive; FN, false negative
^aDiagnostic accuracy of cone-beam computed tomography for the detection of bone invasion by oral squamous cell carcinoma
^bDiagnostic accuracy of cone-beam computed tomography for the detection of inferior alveolar nerve invasion by oral squamous cell carcinoma. The samples were from bone invasion samples

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