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| rdf:type | |
| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
2
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1990-5-31
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| pubmed:abstractText |
We undertook a retrospective study of 594 consecutive diagnosis by frozen section. Clinically important discrepancies were found between the frozen section and final diagnoses in 18 (3%), and unimportant discrepancies in 35 (6%). The reasons for the discrepancies were misinterpretation in 22 (41%), the presence of focal lesions in 29 (55%), and technical errors in 2 (4%). There were 4 false positive and 18 false negative diagnoses, giving a sensitivity of 93% and a specificity of 99%. Diagnoses from frozen sections were deferred in 40 cases (7%). These results are in accordance with those of similar studies, and confirm that frozen section is a highly accurate, but not infallible, method of rapid histological diagnosis.
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| pubmed:language |
eng
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Feb
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| pubmed:issn |
0001-5482
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
156
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
127-30
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2004-11-17
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| pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:2330791-Abdominal Neoplasms,
pubmed-meshheading:2330791-Biopsy,
pubmed-meshheading:2330791-Breast Neoplasms,
pubmed-meshheading:2330791-Diagnosis, Differential,
pubmed-meshheading:2330791-Frozen Sections,
pubmed-meshheading:2330791-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:2330791-Microtomy,
pubmed-meshheading:2330791-Neoplasms,
pubmed-meshheading:2330791-Retrospective Studies,
pubmed-meshheading:2330791-Urogenital Neoplasms
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| pubmed:year |
1990
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
The reliability of frozen section diagnosis.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Department of Pathology, Ullevaal Hospital, University of Oslo, Norway.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article
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