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Table 1 Anatomical site of samples received from the BMC, and sex and age of the study sample by subset

From: The surgical pathology laboratory in Mwanza, Tanzania: a survey on the reproducibility of diagnoses after the first years of autonomous activity

Anatomical site

Subset

 

General adult pathological diagnoses

Paediatric/adolescent pathological diagnoses

Lymphoproliferative pathological diagnoses

Fluid/FNA cytological diagnoses

PAP test

Total

Cervix

21

1

-

-

20

42 (21.4%)

Lymphnode

-

-

22

7

-

29 (14.8%)

Breast female

6

4

-

7

-

17 (8.7%)

Skin

11

5

-

-

-

16 (8.2%)

Prostate

12

-

-

-

-

12 (6.1%)

Intrabdominal

6

1

-

5

-

12 (6.1%)

Ovary

6

2

3

-

-

11 (5.6%)

Small/Large bowel

5

2

-

-

-

7 (3.6%)

Thyroid

5

-

-

1

-

6 (3.1%)

Bone

-

6

-

-

-

6 (3.1%)

Kidney

2

3

-

-

-

5 (2.5%)

Submandibular

3

1

-

-

-

4 (2.1%)

Oesophagus

3

-

-

-

-

3 (1.5%)

Testis

2

-

-

-

-

2 (1.0%)

Other

5

9

4

3

-

21 (10.7%)

Total

90

34

29

23

20

196 (100%)

Sex

 F

57

21

16

15

20

129 (65.8%)

 M

33

12

10

8

-

63 (32.2%)

 Unknown

-

1

3

-

-

4 (2.0%)

Total

90

34

29

23

20

196 (100%)

Age (years)

 0–19

0

34

14

7

1

56 (28.6%)

 20–50

54

-

9

7

10

80 (40.8%)

 51–74

24

-

1

7

2

34 (17.4%)

 75+

8

-

2

2

0

10 (5.1%)

 Unknown

4

-

5

0

7

16 (8.2%)

Total

90

34

29

23

20

196 (100%)

  1. FNA fine needle aspiration