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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Surg Pathol. 2022 Dec 20;47(2):212–217. doi: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000001985

Table 4.

Types of Diagnostic Discrepancy Across Clinical Indications of Initial Diagnosis, Rule Out Recurrence, and Rule Out Transformation and Biopsy Site.

Initial Diagnosis
(n=131)		 Rule Out Recurrence
(n=25)		 Rule Out Transformation
(n=26)		 Same Site
(n=146)		 Different Site
(n=36)		 Total
(n=182)
Benign to Malignant 13 (10%) 2 (8%) 2 (8%) 10 (7%) 7 (19%) 17 (9%)
Non-diagnostic to Diagnostic 11 (8%) 3 (12%) 7 (27%) 14 (10%) 7 (19%) 21 (12%)
Change in Diagnosis 1 (1%) 0 (0%) 3 (12%) 3 (2%) 1 (3%) 4 (2%)
Change in Grade 2 (2%) 1 (4%) 2 (8%) 3 (2%) 2 (6%) 5 (3%)
More Specific Diagnosis 92 (70%) 13 (52%) 6 (23%) 99 (67%) 12 (33%) 111 (61%)
Agreement 12 (9%) 6 (24%) 6 (23%) 17 (12%) 7 (19%) 24 (13%)