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Table 4 Relationship between PTNB and pleural recurrence rate

From: Correlation between percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy and recurrence in stage I lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Research object

PTNB

NPTNB

weight%

RR(95%CI)

events

non-events

events

non-events

Matsuguma, H. 2005 [3]

6

60

2

222

12.14

10.182 (2.104,49.264)

Inoue, M. 2011 [2]

8

123

5

315

16.65

3.908 (1.303,11.726)

Asakura, K. 2012 [11]

1

123

7

190

8.71

0.227 (0.028,1.823)

Flechsig.P. 2015 [10]

1

25

2

7

7.71

0.173 (0.018,1.688)

Kashiwabara, K. 2016 [12]

7

56

5

81

16.63

1.911 (0.636,5.745)

Moon, S.M. 2017 [7]

23

223

3

146

15.74

4.644 (1.419,15.200)

Ahn, S. Y. 2019 [8]

54

486

14

256

22.41

1.929 (1.091,3.408)

Total

100

1096

38

1217

100

2.098 (0.985,4.469)