Research Journal of Medical Sciences
ISSN: Online 1993-6095ISSN: Print 1815-9346
Abstract
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the western world. For diagnosis of breast cancer, many a times FNAC leads to a diagnosis that is “suspicious, but not confirmatory”. The need for intra‐operative confirmation of the nature of the tumor as benign or malignant led to frozen section and imprint cytology. Unlike Frozen section, Imprint cytology does not require any specialized equipment, less time consuming, the disadvantages of freezing the tissue and serial sectioning are absent in it. 30 cases who were all women, for this study were sourced from cases admitted. A proforma was used to collect relevant information from all the selected patients. Patients were treated accordingly, imprint cytology was taken and regular follow up was done. In the present study, the overall diagnostic accuracy was 70%. The sensitivity was 70.4%. The specificity was 66.7%. Positive predictive value was 95% with a negative predictive value of 20%. The false negative rate was 29.6%. The false positive rate was 33.3%.
How to cite this article:
Ahemadi Firdous Firdous, Palla Ahishek Reddy, D. Arun Prasad and Ankushe Rohini Dattatraya. A Study of Accuracy of Intra Operative Imprint Cytology in Malignant Breast Tumors.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/10.36478/makrjms.2024.11.183.186
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