Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Science, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Research
Diagnostic Discrepancies between Intraoperative Cytological Frozen Section and Permeant Histopathological Diagnosis of Brain Tumors
Author(s): Maher Kurdi*, Saleh Baeesa, Yazid Maghrabi, Anas Bardeesi, Rothaina Saeedi, Taghreed Al-Sinani, Alaa Samkari and Ahmed Lary
Background: Intraoperative frozen section (IOFS) diagnosis of brain tumours plays an important role in assessing the adequacy of the sample and determining the treatment plan.
Objective: To investigate the diagnostic accuracy between IOFS and permanent paraffin-embedded sections in the endpoint of surgery.
Method: The authors reviewed the histopathological results of 383 brain tumours, including IOFS and permanent histological diagnosis. The cases were classified into three diagnostic compatibilities (i) Perfect fit; the diagnosis of IOFS was identical to the permanent diagnosis, (ii) Partial compatibility; IOFS diagnosis was not incorrect but was too broad to be considered full compatibility, (iii) Conflict; IOFS diagnosis is completely different from the permanent diagnosis. The permanent diagnosis used as a primary .. Read More»
DOI:
10.37421/2157-7099.2021.12.585
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