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  • The study evaluates the effectiveness of autofluorescence laryngoscope (AFL) in diagnosing early laryngeal carcinoma and precancerous lesions compared to the traditional white light laryngoscope (WL).
  • A comprehensive search through various databases led to the inclusion of 23 studies, which showed that AFL had higher sensitivity (0.91) and specificity (0.80) than WL (sensitivity of 0.74 and specificity of 0.89).
  • The findings suggest that AFL has better diagnostic accuracy and should be considered for early detection of laryngeal conditions, outperforming WL in diagnostic value.

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Objective: We aim to evaluate the diagnostic value of autofluorescence laryngoscope (AFL) in early laryngeal carcinoma and precancerous lesions. aWe also assess the value of AFL in diagnosis of early laryngeal carcinoma and precancerous lesions in comparison with that of white light laryngoscope (WL).

Methods: The databases consisting of PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of science and CNKI were systematically searched to find pertinent literatures of AFL in diagnosing early laryngeal carcinoma and precancerous lesions. We made a quality evaluation of every study we included using the modified Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-2 (QUADAS-2). The pooled sensitivities, specificities were calculated using Meta-Disc 1.4. And we estimated the summary receiver operating characteristic curves (SROC) and area under the curves (AUC).

Results: We finally included 23 studies. The results of AFL in diagnosing early laryngeal carcinoma and precancerous lesions showed higher sensitivity of 0.91 (95%CI: 0.89-0.93; χ²=43.78, p = 0.0025) and specificity of 0.80 (95%CI: 0.77-0.82; χ²=130.64, p = 0.000), and the weighted AUC of AFL was 0.948 ± 0.013 (95%CI: 0.921-0.974) and the diagnostic accuracy (Q*) was 0.887 ± 0.018. The sensitivity and specificity of WL were 0.74 (95%CI: 0.70-0.77; χ²=52.40, p = 0.000) and 0.89 (95%CI: 0.87-0.90; χ²=299.22, p = 0.000), and the weighted AUC of WL was 0.835 ± 0.029 (95%CI: 0.777-0.892) and the diagnostic accuracy (Q*) was 0.767 ± 0.027.

Conclusion: The meta-analysis and systematic review suggested that AFL had high diagnostic value in early laryngeal carcinoma and precancerous lesions, and its diagnostic value was higher than that of WL. These results indicated that AFL can provide good guidance for the early detection of laryngeal carcinoma and precancerous lesions.

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