Statistic

Present study

Study by V. Begar et al. for fungal onychomycosis [7]

Study by S. Manickdas et al. for onychomycosis [8]

Study by Jacob Oren et al. for tenia pedis [9]

Sensitivity

67.31%

81.82%

83.02%

73.3%

Specificity

87.79%

92.86%

70.1%

42.5%

Positive predictive value

76.92%

69.23%

60.27%

46.6%

Negative predictive value

81.62%

83.33%

88.31%

69.9%