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. 2019 Jun 14;475(5):649–658. doi: 10.1007/s00428-019-02602-z

Table 2.

Diagnostic coincidence within the 55 cases with concordant diagnosis between the MIA and the CDA

Disease group Coincidence in diagnosis (MIA vs. CDA)
Perfect/almost perfect
Moderate or low
None
n %(95% CI) N %(95%CI) n %(95% CI)
Overall (n = 55) 48 87 (66-88) 6 11 (4 -20) 1* 4 (0-8)
Infectious diseases (n =41) 37 90 (47-72) 4 10 (2-16) 0 0 (0-6)**
Malignant tumours (n = 8) 7 87 (5-22) 1 12 (0-9) 0 0 (0-6)**
Other diseases (n = 6) 4 67(2-16) 1 17 (0-9) 1 17 (0-9)

MIA minimally invasive autopsy, CDA complete diagnostic autopsy, CI confidence interval

*

The case in which the coincidence was considered “none” is a sickle cell anaemia crisis that the MIA diagnosed as a pulmonary infarct.

**

One-sided, 97.5% Confidence interval

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