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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 9.
Published before final editing as: Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2016 Sep 9:10.5858/arpa.2016-0156-RA. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2016-0156-RA

Table 1.

Patient and Specimen Characteristics

No. of Cases
Sex
 Male 38
 Female 37
Indication
 Initial 41
 Progression 34
Biopsy location
 Lung 38
 Liver 12
 Lymph node 11
 Pleura 3
 Soft tissue 2
 Bone 5
 Body fluid 3
 Brain 1
Primary tumor
 NSCLC 70
 Melanoma 3
 GIST 1
 Colorectal 1

Abbreviations: GIST, gastrointestinal stromal tumor; NSCLC, non–small cell lung cancer.