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

Table 3 Summarized results of multi-detector row computed tomography in preoperative TNM staging¹

Ref.	Year	Number of studies (n)	Stage	Accuracy (pooled, %)	Sensitivity (pooled, %)	Specificity (pooled, %)
Kwee et al[14,15]	2007	6	Overall T	277.1-88.9	-	-
	2009	10	N	-	262.5-91.9	250.0-87.9
Seevaratnam et al[19]	2012	32	Overall T	80.4	-	-
			T1	75.2	-	-
			T2	80.0	-	-
			T3	84.5	-	-
			T4	78.8	-	-
			N	67.1	75.8	78.8
			M	82.2	-	-

¹Based on meta-analyses and systematic reviews;

²Range value.