Table 2 Details of documented critical/unexpected cases
From: Critical value in surgical pathology: evaluating the current status in a multicenter study
Critical results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Diagnosis | Total | Special cases | Numbers |
Mucormycosis infection | 126 | Sinonasal cavity | 107 |
Skin | 5 | ||
Orbit | 6 | ||
Small bowel | 2 | ||
Colon | 1 | ||
Stomach | 1 | ||
External ear | 1 | ||
Lung | 1 | ||
Bone | 1 | ||
Omentum | 1 | ||
CMV infection | 13 | Colon | 7 |
Liver | 2 | ||
Esophagus | 1 | ||
Duodenum | 1 | ||
Stomach | 1 | ||
Lymph node | 1 | ||
Other fungal infections | 9 | Brain | 3 |
Orbit | 2 | ||
Colon | 2 | ||
transplanted liver | 1 | ||
transplanted kidney | 1 | ||
Severe rejection of transplanted organs | 8 | Liver | 5 |
Heart | 2 | ||
Kidney | 1 | ||
Polyoma BKV infection Necrosis in transplanted organs | 4 | Transplanted kidney | 4 |
Fat in endometrial biopsies | 1 | Liver | 1 |
Fat in endometrial biopsies | 1 | Endometrium | 1 |
SVC syndrome caused by malignancy | 1 | Mediastinal lymphoma | 1 |
Unexpected results | |||
Diagnosis | Total | Special cases | Numbers |
The clinically significant change in a frozen section diagnosis after reviewing permanent sections | 7 | Benign to malignant diagnosis | 2 |
Involvement of SLN in breast cancer in permanent sections | 5 | ||
Pathologic findings that are significantly discordant with the preoperative diagnosis | 7 | A benign diagnosis with a preoperative diagnosis of malignancy | 1 |
Malignant diagnosis with the preoperative diagnosis of a benign lesion | 6 | ||