. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: Int Urol Nephrol. 2014 May 4;46(9):1699–1705. doi: 10.1007/s11255-014-0719-9

Table 4.

Effect of thermal affect on pathologic diagnosis

	Monopolar	Bipolar
No significant TA	9 (23.7 %)	11 (24.4 %)
Tissue with most TA; considered readable	18 (47.4 %)	27 (60 %)
Tissue with most TA; considered unreadable	11 (28.9 %)	6 (15.6 %)
TA causing moderate difficulty—readable with additional studies (IHC)	2 (5.3 %)	0
Severe difficulty—inability to read	0	1 (2.2 %)

TA thermal affect, IHC immunohistochemistry