Fig. 2From: New biomarkers for the diagnosis of pleural effusionThe accuracy of serum level of CEA in diagnosis of malignant pleural effusion. At cutoff point > 5 ng/ml in serum; CEA had 77% sensitivity and 100% specificity in diagnosis of malignant pleural effusion with overall accuracy was 91.1% and area under curve was 0.88Back to article page