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Table 8 Diagnostic performance of Pleural Adherence Score and absent lung sliding for predicting successful pleurodesis

From: Transthoracic sonographic scores in evaluating the success of different scelerosing modalities in patients with malignant pleural effusion

Cut off

Sensitivity

Specificity

+PV

-PV

Accuracy

AUC

≥12 Pleural Adherence Score

92.75%

89.47%

97.0%

77.3%

92.1%

0.911

Absent lung sliding

100%

86.2%

95%

100%

96%

0.93

  1. PV predicted value, AUC area under the curve