Significados de low specificity en inglés

However, PSA has low specificity and has led to numerous unnecessary biopsies.

The low specificity of the HPV assay requires triage testing of HPV-positive women.

The study shows that the CAD program had high sensitivity but low specificity and PPV.

Conclusions: The low specificity of the NETest precludes its use as a screening test for GEP-NETs.

Hydroxyproline is the most commonly used marker of bone resorption but its low specificity and sensitivity are known.

We used a low specificity enzyme a-chymotrypsin to digest membrane proteins preparations that had been separated by SDS-PAGE.

Clinical examination and inflammatory markers have low specificity in distinguishing between pyomyositis, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis or other infections.

Conclusions: The M20 MAC-ELISA assay performed with a high sensitivity and low specificity in the acute phase of illness.

MRT showed at this time a comparatively high sensitivity but only low specificity that could not be improved upon after Gd-DTPA.

Because the RICT showed high sensitivity but low specificity with human brain samples, it is unsuitable for confirming rabies in humans.

Introduction: Monitoring of physiologic parameters in critically ill patients is currently performed by threshold alarm systems with high sensitivity but low specificity.

The main causes were low specificity of typing reagents, cross reaction, weak serological reaction, high background of dead cells and extra reaction.

The results highlight that PCR assays for Francisella tularensis are often complicated by low specificity, resulting in a high probability of false positives.

Although PKC is a sensitive diagnostic marker for GIST, its usefulness is limited because of low sensitivity and low specificity in KIT-negative GISTs.

Conclusion: Our data, although limited by sample size, confirmed that DCBE has a good sensitivity and a low specificity in the diagnosis of intestinal DIE.

Background: It has been previously postulated that Thallium-201 (Tl201) scintigraphy is characterized by relatively low specificity in hypertensive patients.