Article Type
Original Study
Abstract
OBJECTIVE : The aim of this study is to evaluate the utilization of frozen section service and its cost effectiveness, and to assess accuracy and discrepancy of frozen section service at King AbdulAziz University hospital. Material and methods: This study group consisted of 480 frozen sections specimens, which were examined in the department of Histopa-thology at King AbdulAziz University Hospital, Jeddah; over five and a half years from January 1997 to May 2002. The Histopathology records of all these frozen sections were retrieved and analysed by matching the frozen section diagnosis with the permanent diagnosis to evaluate the actual need of frozen section based on international standard. The permanent diagnosis is compared with the frozen section diagnosis to find out the discripant cases which were studied in detail. Results: The accuracy of major organs examined is 97-100%, with a mean of 99.1%. There are eight cases with discrepancy between frozen section diagnosis and permanent diagnosis. No false positive case is detected. CONCLUSION: Our frozen section experience showed high utilization of this service with high accuracy rate and proved that it is a very useful diagnostic tool for rapid decision making. Key words : Frozen section, accuracy. Frozen section utilization, discrepancy.
Recommended Citation
f. J, Altaf and Frcpc, Miac
(2002)
"FROZEN SECTION UTILIZATION AND ACCURACY, KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL EXPERIENCE,"
Mansoura Medical Journal: Vol. 31
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Iss.
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, Article 2.
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.21608/mjmu.2002.127080
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