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Table 1 Concordance between diagnoses at frozen section examination and final paraffin diagnosis of 223 women with borderline ovarian tumor diagnoses

From: Borderline ovarian tumor frozen section diagnoses with features suspicious of invasive cancer: a retrospective study

 

Paraffin section diagnosis

 

Borderline

Carcinoma

P-value*

Frozen section diagnosis

Borderline (n = 182)

168 (92.3%)

14 (7.7%)

< 0.001

At least borderline (n = 41)

28 (68.3%)

13 (31.7%)

Frozen section diagnoses by histologic subtype

Serous (n = 110)

Borderline (n = 96)

93 (96.9%)

3 (3.1%)

0.001

At least borderline (n = 14)

9 (64.3%)

5 (35.7%)

Mucinous (n = 103)

Borderline (n = 80)

72 (90.0%)

8 (10.0%)

0.129

At least borderline (n = 23)

18 (78.3%)

5 (21.7%)

Other (n = 10)

Borderline (n = 6)

3 (50.0%)

3 (50.0%)

0.452

At least borderline (n = 4)

1 (25.0%)

3 (75.0%)

  1. *Fisher’s Exact tests were performed