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Table 3 In concordance cases of intraoperative frozen sections from the TP platform

From: Telepathology consultation for frozen section diagnosis in China

 

Lesion site

Telepathological diagnosis

Final diagnosis (permanent)

Annotation

False positive:

 Cases 1

Right lung

Malignant tumor

Sclerosing pneumocytoma

N/A

 Cases 2

Right thyroid

Diffuse infiltrating follicular carcinoma

Nodular goiter with adenomatous hyperplasia

N/A

False negative:

 Cases 1

Parotid gland

Consistent with benign tumors and considered as lymphoid adenoma

Low-grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma

N/A

 Cases 2

Right thyroid

Nodular goiter with cystic degeneration and partial follicular epithelial hyperplasia actively

Nodular goiter with papillary carcinoma (3 mm in diameter)

Cancer failed to be sampled

 Cases 3

Left thyroid

Benign nodules

Follicular carcinoma of thyroid with minimal capsular invasiveness, eosinophilic subtype

Failed to sample the invasive lesion

 Cases 4

Left thyroid

Nodular goiter with calcification

Papillary carcinoma

Calcified cancer failed to be sliced

 Cases 5

Right ovary

Benign cystic lesion

Serous borderline ovarian tumor with severe atypical hyperplasia

Failed to borderline lesion

 Cases 6

Right thyroid

Nodular goiter

Nodular goiter with localized papillary carcinoma (1.3 mm in diameter)

Cancer failed to be sampled

 Cases 7

Right thyroid

Nodular goiter

Nodular goiter with localized papillary carcinoma

Cancer failed to be sampled

 Cases 8

Left thyroid

Nodular goiter with fibrosis and ossification

Nodular goiter with fibrosis and papillary carcinoma

Fibrosis and ossification unable to be sliced well

 Cases 9

Left thyroid

Nodular goiter

Papillary thyroid carcinoma

Cancer failed to be sampled