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Table 6 Relationship between PTNB and the pleural recurrence rate of the patients without sub-pleural lesions

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

Inoue, M. 2011 [2]

0

79

3

182

21.75

0.332 (0.017,6.356)

Kashiwabara, K. 2016 [12]

3

23

4

40

44.65

1.269 (0.308,5.231)

Moon, S.M. 2017 [7]

12

134

1

108

33.6

8.959 (1.183,67.864)

总计

15

236

8

330

100

1.829 (0.339,9.872)