Table 8.

Validation in ten patients whose core-needle biopsy results were ABC or negative.

Case	Gender	Agea	Fracturea	WBC	PLT	ALP	LDH	YABCb	YTOSb	Biopsy results	Predictionc
1	Male	0	1	9.45	250	100	204	8.81	9.03	ABC	TOS
2	Female	0	1	7.82	268	239	271	8.72	9.56	Negative	TOS
3	Female	0	1	9.37	312	141	152	11.48	11.74	Negative	TOS
4	Male	0	0	8.33	244	164	210	6.71	6.84	ABC	TOS
5	Male	0	0	7.56	266	124	213	6.49	6.48	ABC	ABC
6	Male	0	0	2.27	323	93	350	2.92	3.01	ABC	TOS
7	Male	1	0	7.51	367	120	298	16.46	17.22	ABC	TOS
8	Male	1	1	7.49	554	65	1251	22.45	29.63	Negative	TOS
9	Male	1	1	6.85	323	106	151	15.53	15.19	ABC	ABC
10	Male	1	0	9.16	461	107	223	21.72	22.64	ABC	TOS

^a“<18” and “without pathologic fracture” were defined as “0”, while the opposites were defined as “1”.

^bY_ABC and Y_TOS were values calculated by two discriminant functions stated in Table 5.

^cIf Y_TOS was higher than Y_ABC, the prediction would be TOS, and vice versa.