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Table 4 Diagnostic accuracy of motor tests

From: Accuracy of clinical neurological examination in diagnosing lumbo-sacral radiculopathy: a systematic literature review

Author (year)

Reference standard

Sensitivity (95% CI)

Specificity (95% CI)

+LR

-LR

Suri et al. (2010) [15]

MRI

0.39 (0.32-0.52)

0.83 (0.78-0.87)

2.3

1.4

Iversen et al. (2013)

MRI & CT

O.33 (0.06-0.97)

0.68 (0.59-0.76)

1.0

1.0

Suri et al. (2011) [21] L3

MRI

0.50 (0.19-0.81)

0.77 (0.62-0.89)

2.2

1.5

L4

MRI

0.54 (0.25-0.81)

0.80 (0.65-0.91)

2.7

1.7

L5

MRI

0.61 (0.36-0.83)

0.86 (0.71-0.95)

4.4

2.2

S1

MRI

0.29 (0.10-0.56)

0.97 (0.85-1.00)

1.0

1.4

Albeck (1996) [13]

Surgery

0.34 (0.23-0.48)

0.47 (0.24-0.71)

0.6

0.7

Vroomen et al. (2002) [10]

MRI

0.27 (0.20-0.35)

0.93 (0.87-0.97)

3.9

1.3

Bertilson et al. (2010) [14] L4

MRI

0.13 (0.04-0.31)

0.87 (0.28-3.76)

1.0

1.0

L5

MRI

0.27 (0.12-0.46)

0.68 (0.49-0.83)

0.8

0.9

S1

MRI

0.17 (0.06-0.35)

0.81 (0.63-0.93)

0.9

1.0