Intraoperative fine needle aspirations - diagnosis and typing of lung cancer in small biopsies: challenges and limitations

Table 1 Results of intraoperative fine needle aspiration cytology of malignant lung tumors and benign lung lesions. Number of all histological diagnoses compared with corresponding and different cytological findings

Cytological findings	Final histological diagnosis
Cytological findings	SQC	SCLC	ADC	ADC/SQC	LC/LNC	Carcinoid	Other	Benign	Total
SQC	98	0	19	4	11	0	0	0	132
SCLC	1	7	1	0	3	1	0	0	13
ADC	7	0	210	3	18	1	0	0	239
LC/LNC	13	1	48	0	39	1	1	0	103
Carcinoid	0	0	3	0	1	13	0	0	17
Other	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	4
Susp.	2	0	7	0	2	0	0	1	12
Benign	6	0	14	1	5	2	0	84	112
Total	127	8	303	8	81	18	1	86	632

Abbreviations: SQC Squamous cell carcinoma, SCLC Small Cell Lung Carcinoma, ADC Adenocarcinoma, ADC/SQC Adeno-squamous carcinoma, LC/LNC Large Cell Carcinoma/Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma, Other Other malignant tumor, Susp. tumor suspicious findings

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