Review Article

Can Serum Glypican-3 Be a Biomarker for Effective Diagnosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma? A Meta-Analysis of the Literature

Table 2

Patients enrolled in the selected studies used for meta-analysis.

Author (ref.)CaseControlTPFPFNTN

Yu et al. [10]192101104188100
Lee et al. [11]1204065145526
Badr et al. [12]3030302028
Li et al. [13]60525330527520
Chen et al. [14]155440622793413
Abdelgawad et al. [15]4020381219
Gomaa et al. [16]3130281329
Wang et al. [17]789728445053
Qiao et al. [18]101885264982
Abd El Moety et al. [19]10401024016
Zhang et al. [20]3693330356
Youssef et al. [21] 4040332738
Liu et al. [22]75323524030
Tangkijvanich et al. [23]1001005314799
Beale et al. [24]504134221619
Hippo et al. [25]69383543434
Nakatsura et al. [26]40501602450
Capurro et al. [27]34911811690
Wang et al. [28]84173NANANANA
Nault et al. [29]125170NANANANA
Özkan et al. [30]7555NANANANA
Yasuda et al. [31]200200NANANANA

TP: true positive; FP: false positive; TN: true negative; FN: false negative; NA: data are not available.