Temporal Artery Biopsy: Sensitivity and Specificity
Introduction:
None written. Excerpt from the entry in Temporal Arteritis:
for one biopsy. Sensitivity increases with longer artery segment biopsied, or multiple sites.
for one biopsy. Sensitivity increases with longer artery segment biopsied, or multiple sites.
specificity assumed to be 100%, as this is the gold standard.
Associated Diagnoses:
87.1% sensitive, 100% specific