Endoscopic ultrasound elastography for differentiating between pancreatic adenocarcinoma and inflammatory masses: A meta-analysis

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the studies in the analysis

Ref.	Type of publication	Design of study	Diagnostic standard	Cut-off	No.
Săftoiu et al[7]	Full text	Single center	Hue histogram	> 175	54
Iglesias-Garcia et al[8]	Full text	Single center	Color pattern	Blue-predominant	76
Janssen et al[9]	Full text	Single center	Color pattern	Blue-predominant	25
Deprez et al[10]	Abstract	Single center	Color pattern	Blue-predominant	13
Săftoiu et al[11]	Full text	Single center	Hue histogram	> 175	43
Iglesias-Garcia et al[12]	Full text	Single center	Color pattern	Blue-predominant	119
Giovannini et al[13]	Full text	Multicenter	Color pattern	Blue-predominant	96
Giovannini et al[14]	Full text	Single center	Color pattern	Blue-predominant	18
Itokawa et al[24]	Full text	Single center	Color pattern	Blue-predominant	79
Săftoiu et al[34]	Full text	Multicenter	Color pattern	> 175	258