ArticleMolecular and clinical oncology2018
Diagnostic accuracy of optical coherence tomography in bladder cancer patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Advancements in Endoscopic Optical Coherence Tomography for Urothelial Carcinoma: Research Progress and Clinical ApplicationsCurrent medical imaging · 2026Review
- Optical imaging guidance in oncologic surgery and interventional oncology.Pharmacological research · 2025Review
- Multiparameter interferometric polarization-enhanced imaging differentiates carcinomaJournal of biomedical optics · 2023Article
- Prognostic Significance of PD-L2 Expression in Association with Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio in Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2023Article
- [Transurethral resection of the urinary bladder : Status quo and outlook on new developments].Der Urologe. Ausg. A · 2021Review
- Statistical evaluation of reader variability in assessing the diagnostic performance of optical coherence tomography.Journal of biomedical optics · 2020Article
- Application of artificial neural networks for automated analysis of cystoscopic images: a review of the current status and future prospects.World journal of urology · 2020Review
- Transurethral resection of bladder tumours: established and new methods of tumour visualisation.Translational andrology and urology · 2019Review
- Enhanced Endoscopy in Bladder Cancer.Current urology reports · 2018Review
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Abstract
A meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the accuracy of optical coherence tomography (OCT) for diagnostic accuracy studies in bladder cancer patients. English language studies reporting the diagnostic accuracy of OCT for bladder cancer were retrieved from the PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Library databases in December 2014. Histopathology was a reference standard. Sensitivities, specificities, positive likelihood ratios and negative likelihood ratios were calculated, and summary receiver operating characteristic curves were drawn to determine the diagnostic accuracy of OCT. Finally, 9 eligible studies (468 patients) were included in our meta-analysis. The pooled sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio and negative likelihood ratio of OCT were 0.96 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.94-0.98], 0.82 (95% CI: 0.80-0.85), 6.83 (95% CI: 3.24-14.1) and 0.05 (95% CI: 0.02-0.16), respectively. The summary diagnostic odds ratio was 138.88 (95% CI: 29.63-650.89) and the overall area under the curve was 0.9735. These results suggest that OCT has excellent diagnostic performance in patients with bladder cancer and recurrent lesions.
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