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Table 4 Diagnostic concordance by the four diagnostic categories and by the histological subtypes of these diagnoses

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

SUBSET

Number

Concordance by diagnostic categories (a)

Concordance by histological subtype (b)

General adult pathological diagnoses

90

81 (90.00%)

79 (87.80%)

Paediatric/adolescent pathological diagnoses

34

31 (91.18%)

26 (76.47%)

Lymphoproliferative pathological diagnoses

29

27 (93.10%)

22 (75.86%)

Fluid/FNA cytological diagnoses

23

13 (56.52%)

-

PAP tests

20

15 (75.00%)

-

  1. FNA fine needle aspiration
  2. (a) = on the basis of malignant/benign/inflammatory/suspicious categories
  3. (b) = on the basis of specific histo-types