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Table 1 Total counts of patients grouped according to the intraoperative CD consistency and CT density

From: Preoperative planning of calcium deposit removal in calcifying tendinitis of the rotator cuff - possible contribution of computed tomography, ultrasound and conventional X-Ray

CT

 

Soft/Liquid (n)

Solid(n)

n

 

TP

HU <300 (n)

26

2

28

PPV Soft/Liquid/NPVSolid 92.9

TN

HU >300 (n)

15

108

123

PPV Solid/NPVSoft/Liquid 87.8

  

41

110

151

 
 

Specifity

98.2

63.4

  
 

Sensitivity

63.4

98.2

  
  1. Specifity and sensitivity to diagnose a soft or solid deposit and positive (PPV and negative (NPV) predictive value of the CTs have been calculated.