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

Table 7 Results of intraoperative fine needle aspiration cytology of malignant tumors (other than primary lung cancer). Number of all histological diagnoses compared with corresponding and different cytological findings

Cytological findings	Final histological diagnosis
Cytological findings	SAR	SQC	ADCa	LCA	Lym	Thym	Mel	Other	Benign	Total
SAR	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
SQC	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
ADCa	0	0	27	1	1	0	0	0	0	29
LCa	0	2	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	11
Thym	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
Mel	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	4
Other	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	4
Lym	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Benign tumor	5	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	5	14
Susp.	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Total	7	5	36	6	4	2	4	1	5	70

Abbreviations: SAR-Sarcoma, SQC - Squamous cell carcinoma, ADC - Adenocarcinoma, LCA - Large Cell Carcinoma, Lym – Hodgkin-/Non Hodgkin-Lymphoma, Thym-Thymoma, Mel- Melanoma, Other - Other malignant tumor

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