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Table 2 Distribution of the cases according to Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology for Pancreatobiliary System (PSC-PS)

From: Impact of rapid on-site evaluation on diagnostic accuracy of EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration of solid pancreatic lesions: experience from a single center

PSC-PS category

n:162

Biopsy or surgery procedure (n:26)

Concordance with definite histopathological or clinical diagnosis

I (non-diagnostic)

34(20%)

9

21 malignant, 13 benign

II (benign)

30(18.5%)

3

93.3% (3 of them false negative)

III (atypical)

18(11%)

4

94.4% (1 of them false positive)

IVa (neoplastic: benign)

3(0.18%)

0

%100

IVb (neoplastic: other)

10(0.61)

4

80% (3 of them had true positive but not concordant) *

V (suspicious for malignancy)

11(0.67%)

2

%100

VI (malignant)

56(34.5%)

4

%100

  1. *One had high grade PANIN, one had ductal adenocarcinoma in their Whipple procedures. The other patient had accepted as pancreatic adenocarcinoma due to clinical follow ups