Table 9 Summary of the most important studies on sensitivity and specificity of SPT
From: The role of spectrophotometry in the diagnosis of melanoma
Reference | N. Patients | Sensitivity | Specificity |
|---|---|---|---|
Tomatis S et al., 1998 [44] | 44 | 89% | 88% |
Farina B et al., 2000 [45] | 237 | 80% | 46% |
Wallace VP et al., 2000 [46] | 47 | 84% | 91% |
Elbaum M et al., 2001 [47] | 246 | 100% | 85% |
Moncrieff M et al., 2002 [38] | 311 | 83% | 80% |
Haniffa MA et al., 2007 [48] | 860 | 87% | 91% |
Govindan K et al., 2007 [49] | 886 | 94% | 80% |
Glud M et al., 2009 [50] | 65 | 100% | 59% |
The present study | 54 | 66% | 76% |