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Table 5 Results of intraoperative fine needle aspiration cytology of malignant lung tumors (cytological criteria for lung cancer typing fulfilled) and benign lung lesions. Number of all histological diagnoses compared with corresponding and different cytological findings

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

Cytological findings

Final histological diagnosis

SQC

SCLC

ADC

ADC/SQC

LC/LNC

Carcinoid

Other

Benign

Total

SQC

47

0

9

1

6

0

0

0

63

SCLC

0

3

1

0

3

0

0

0

7

ADC

1

0

107

1

3

0

0

0

112

LC/LNC

0

0

1

0

1

0

0

0

2

Carcinoid

0

0

3

0

1

13

0

0

17

Other

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

1

Susp.

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

Benign

6

0

14

1

5

2

0

84

112

Total

54

3

136

3

20

15

0

84

315

  1. 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