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Table 5.

Accuracy rates based on the histological diagnosis

Diagnosis
Primitive benign	Diagnostic	55 (89%)
Primitive benign	Non diagnostic	7 (11%)
Pseudotumoral	Diagnostic	24 (83%)
Pseudotumoral	Non diagnostic	5 (17%)
Primitive malignant	Diagnostic	211 (99.5%)
Primitive malignant	Non diagnostic	1 (0.5%)
Systemic malignant	Diagnostic	34 (77%)
Systemic malignant	Non diagnostic	10 (23%)
Flogosis	Diagnostic	17 (77%)
Flogosis	Non diagnostic	5 (23%)
Secondary malignant	Diagnostic	44 (98%)
Secondary malignant	Non diagnostic	1 (2%)
Other^a	Diagnostic	16 (100%)
Other^a	Non diagnostic	0 (0%)

^aNonspecific non-pathologic diagnoses as stress fractures, osteoporotic fragments with bone reabsorbement, edema in irradiated bone, bone sclerosis or necrosis, and subcondral cystic lesion in osteoarthritis