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It has been pointed out that many estimators have unsatisfactory sampling properties, especially with small sample sizes [19].
Fourteen of the 15 patients had technical success (in one patient the biopsy had to be performed twice due to unsatisfactory sampling, and repeat biopsy yielded B5b).
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Since unsatisfactory samples played important roles on therapeutic decisions, we also assessed the sensitivity and specificity for the studies which reported unsatisfactory samples (unsatisfactory samples considered to be positive in our classification) and underestimation rate of unsatisfactory samples.
The sensitivity and specificity for the studies data (included unsatisfactory samples) and underestimation rate of unsatisfactory samples were also calculated.
Since unsatisfactory samples (C1) played important roles in influencing diagnostic accuracy of FNAB, we also assessed the pooled sensitivity and specificity for FNAB in the other classification (unsatisfactory samples were regarded as positive) and the underestimation rate of unsatisfactory samples.
Disputes about unsatisfactory samples were among these studies on account of following therapeutic decisions.
In our first classification, unsatisfactory samples (C1) was exluded as most studies did.
In addition, we assessed the influence of unsatisfactory samples on FNAB diagnosis accuracy.
We accounted for this by excluding the unsatisfactory samples from our calculations.
It should be emphasized that we used the approach of Burapa Kanchanabat [ 11] and Etta D. Pisano [ 12] for evaluating the diagnostic performance of FNAB (1. unsatisfactory samples was temporarily excluded; 2. unsatisfactory samples was classified as positive).
In most of the studies, unsatisfactory samples were excluded from analysis while considered to be positive in a study [ 12].
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