• 1. Tibetan Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa, 850000, P.R.China;
  • 2. Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, P.R.China;
WANG Yiping, Email: wyplm2012@163.com
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Objective To systematically review clinical value of des-γ-carboxy prothrombin (DCP) in the diagnostic of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (PHC).Methods Databases including PubMed, The Cochrane Library, EMbase, Medline (Ovid), CNKI, VIP, WanFang Data and CBM were electronically searched to collect relevant studies on DCP in the diagnosis of PHC from inception to December 31st, 2018. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data and assessed the risk of bias of included studies. Then, meta-analysis was performed by using Meta-Disc 1.4 software and RevMan 5.3 software.Results A total of 50 studies involving 15 099 cases were included. The results of meta-analysis showed that the pooled sensitivity, pooled specificity, pooled positive likelihood ratio, pooled negative likelihood ratio, pooled diagnostic odds ratio and area under the curve of SROC were 0.69 (95%CI 0.67 to 0.70), 0.89 (95%CI 0.89 to 0.90), 7.35 (95%CI 6.08 to 8.90), 0.31 (95%CI 0.27 to 0.35), 26.63 (95%CI 20.42 to 34.73) and 0.909 9, respectively.Conclusions Serum DCP has higher diagnostic efficacy for PHC, especially with higher specificity of diagnosis. Due to the limited quality and quantity of included studies, the above results should be validated by more studies.

Citation: DE Ji, YANG Li, WANG Yiping. Des-γ-carboxy prothrombin in the diagnosis of primary hepatocellular carcinoma: a systematic review. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2020, 20(7): 798-808. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201909033 Copy

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