Is endoscopic ultrasonography still the modality of choice in preoperative staging of gastric cancer?

Table 1 Summarized results of endoscopic ultrasonography in preoperative T staging¹

Ref.	Year	Number of studies (n)	Stage	Accuracy (pooled, %)	Sensitivity (pooled, %)	Specificity (pooled, %)
Kwee et al[14]	2007	23	overall T	265-92.1	-	-
Puli et al[23]	2008	22	T1	-	88.1	100.0
			T2	-	82.3	95.6
			T3	-	89.7	94.7
			T4	-	99.2	96.7
Mocellin et al[24]	2011	54	T1-2 vs T3-4	-	86.0	91.0
			T1	-	83.0	96.0
			T2	-	65.0	91.0
			T3	-	86.0	85.0
			T4	-	66.0	98.0
Cardoso et al[25]	2012	22	Overall T	75 (256.9-87.7)	-	-
			T1	77 (214-100)	-	-
			T2	65 (224-90)	-	-
			T3	85 (250-100)	-	-
			T4	79 (222-100)	-	-

¹Based on meta-analyses and systematic reviews;

²Range value.