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Adenocarcinoma
New adenocarcinoma findings from R. Gupta and co-researchers published
August 5th, 2008
According to a study from the United States, "The frozen section diagnosis of lung nodules is difficult because inflammatory atypia and histologic artifacts can simulate a malignancy. From a total of 2,4.05 frozen sections examined, 143 cases were misdiagnosed or deferred, including 65 with reactive atypia (RA) and 35 bronchioloalveolar carcinomas or well-differentiated adenocarcinomas (BAC-AC), resulting in deferral and error rates of 4.36% and 1.58%, respectively." "The presence of 25 pathologic features was evaluated by using an evidence-based pathology (EBP) approach. Of the pathologic features, 11 were significant at a P value of less than .05 but exhibited...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-08-05)
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