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01-03-2022 | Thyroidectomy | Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses

Near-infrared autofluorescence-based parathyroid glands identification in the thyroidectomy or parathyroidectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Authors: Do Hyun Kim, Sunwoo Lee, Jaehoon Jung, Sohyun Kim, Sung Won Kim, Se Hwan Hwang

Published in: Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery | Issue 2/2022

Abstract

Purpose

To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of near-infrared autofluorescence-based identification in the identification of parathyroid glands during thyroidectomy or parathyroidectomy.

Methods

The clinical studies were retrieved from PubMed, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Embase, Web of Science, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar. The study protocol was registered on Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/um8rj/). The search period ranged from the date of each database’s inception to May 2021. Cohort studies dealing with patients of whom parathyroid glands were detected by near-infrared autofluorescence and confirmed clinically or pathologically during thyroidectomy or parathyroidectomy were included. Editorials, letters, “how-I-do-it” descriptions, other site head and neck tumors, and articles with lack of diagnostic identification data were excluded. True positive, true negative, false positive, and false negative were extracted. The QUDAS ver. 2 was used to evaluate the methodological quality.

Results

Seventeen studies with 1198 participants were evaluated in this analysis. Near-infrared autofluorescence-based identification of parathyroid glands showed a diagnostic odds ratio of 228.8759 (95% confidence interval, 134.1099; 390.6063). The area under the summary receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.967. The sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value, and positive predictive value were 0.9693 (0.9491; 0.9816), 0.9248 (0.8885; 0.9499), 0.9517 (0.8981; 0.9778), and 0.9488 (0.9167; 0.9689), respectively. Subgroup analyses were performed to compare two autofluorescence detection methods, because there was high heterogeneity in the outcomes. The diagnostic accuracy was higher in probe-based detection than in image-based detection.

Conclusions

Near-infrared autofluorescence-based identification is valuable for identifying the parathyroid glands of patients during thyroidectomy or parathyroidectomy.

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Title: Near-infrared autofluorescence-based parathyroid glands identification in the thyroidectomy or parathyroidectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Do Hyun Kim
Sunwoo Lee
Jaehoon Jung
Sohyun Kim
Sung Won Kim
Se Hwan Hwang
Publication date: 01-03-2022
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Thyroidectomy
Parathyroidectomy
Parathyroidectomy
Thyroidectomy
Published in: Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery / Issue 2/2022
Print ISSN: 1435-2443
Electronic ISSN: 1435-2451
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00423-021-02269-8

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Near-infrared autofluorescence-based parathyroid glands identification in the thyroidectomy or parathyroidectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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