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Interaoperative Frozen Section Consultation: An Analysis Of Accuracy In A Teaching Hospital., Farrukh Aijaz, Suhail Muzaffar, Akbar Shah Hussainy, Shahid Pervez, Sheema H. Hasan, Hizbullah Sheikh
Interaoperative Frozen Section Consultation: An Analysis Of Accuracy In A Teaching Hospital., Farrukh Aijaz, Suhail Muzaffar, Akbar Shah Hussainy, Shahid Pervez, Sheema H. Hasan, Hizbullah Sheikh
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
This Is a retrospective quality assurance study of all frozen sections done at The Aga Khan University Hospital during a six year period (1986 to 1991). There were 1,031 frozen sections out of a cumulative total of 42,985 surgical specimens (2.39%). Nine hundred and seventy-six (94.66%) were concordant. In 92(8.9%) fresh specimens were brought from other hospitals of Karachi, in 37 cases (3.58%) the diagnosis was deferred till the evaluation of permanent paraffin sections and 18 (1,74%) were discordant with 7 (0.67%) false positive and 11(1,06%) false negative. Among the discordant cases, 9 were attributed to misinterpretation, 7 due to …
Aggressive Angiomyxoma Of Vulva, Farrukh Aijaz, Shahid Pervez, Shehnaz Wasti, Sheema H. Hassan
Aggressive Angiomyxoma Of Vulva, Farrukh Aijaz, Shahid Pervez, Shehnaz Wasti, Sheema H. Hassan
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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