Current role of ultrasound for the management of hepatocellular carcinoma

Table 1 Sensitivity and specificity of US and other imaging modalities for the screening of HCC

Authors	US		Other modalities
	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)
Sherman et al[35]	71.4	93.8	-	-
Chalasani et al[36]	59	93	91 (CT)	96 (CT)
1Yao et al[37]	79.4	-	81.6 (CT)	-
			88.9 (MRI)	-
Gambarin-Gelwan et al[38]	58	94	53 (CT)	94 (CT)
2Teefey et al[39]	89	75	67 (CT)	75 (CT)
			56 (MRI)	81 (MRI)
			0 (PET)	88 (PET)

¹Sensitivity of radiologic procedures in the diagnosis and staging of known HCC before liver transplantation.

²The higher value was presented from two data obtained between two observers.