Table 5.

Comparison of epithelial, stromal and background cellularity among our study and other researchers

	PT%/FA%	PT%/FA%	PT%/FA%	PT%/FA%	PT%/FA%	PT%/FA%	PT%/FA%	PT%/FA%
Epithelial component	Krishnamurthy et al 2000 [8]	Veneti et al 2001 [20]	Scolyer et al 2001 [29]	Shimizu et al 2002 [15]	El Hag et al 2010 [17]	Bandyopadhy et al 2010 [2]	Maritz et al 2017 [23]	Present study
Overall cellularity (Mod-marked)	33/30	83/83	87/100	78/100	87/100	83/78	–	83/93
No. of fragments (> 5)	83/94	55/33	87/100	78/100	80/100	80/92	23/95	38/98
Staghorn; branched; open monolayer	-- 70/67	42/78 65/30	-/93 85/75	39/56 78/10	-- --	22/75 60/25	-- --	58/78 67/15
Atypia	–	17/05	00/00	–	00/00	00/00	–	29/17
Mitosis	–	–	–	–	00/00	00/00	–	33/00
Stromal component	Krishnamurthy et al 2000 [8]	Scolyer et al 2001 [29]	Veneti et al 2001 [20]	Badhe et al 2002 [11]	El Hag 2010 [17]	Bandyopadhy et al 2010 [2]	Maritz et al 2017 [23]	Present study 2018
Stromal fragments (> 5)	33/27	–	39/28	78/20	67/25	70/44	70/45	75/54
Stromal size (Inter-large)	20/41	75/69	39/28	70/32	67/ 25	60/32	80/30	58/38
Stromal cellularity Mod-marked	93/60	62/15	28/40	100/33	–	90/20	82/40	58/28
Traversing blood vessel	–	25/23	–	55/22	–	30/20	25/23	45/32
Type of nucleus (spindle)	75/15	62/00	85/27	–	93/00	80/10	41/14	92/52
Frayed margin	64/39	–	–	72/40	93/66	40/72	60/40	83/52
Fibro myxoid fragments	–	–	–	–	100/67	70/−	–	88/89
SER	Bhattarai et al 2000 [9]	Jayaram et al 2001 [19]	Badhe et al 2002 [11]	Bandyopadhy et al 2010 [2]	Maritz et al 2017 [23]	Present study
Stromal-epithelial ratio	7.6:1	6:1	> 1:0.5	> 1:1	5.2:1	4.5:1
Background cells	Krishnamurthy et al 2000 [8]	Badhe et al 2002 [11]	El Hag et al 2010 [17]	Bandyopadhy et al 2010 [2]	Maritz et al 2017 [23]	Present study
Cellularity	58/84	77/88	73/92	70/68	–	83/76
Spindle (> 10%)	75/21	100/33	100/10	90/16	47/20	96/15
Atypia	16/00	–	47/00	–	12/00	50/11
Mitosis	08/00	–	07/00	–	–	08/00
Cyst macrophages	–	11/48	90/50	–	–	60/50
Giant cells	–	00/42	73/25	10/00	–	42/32
Apocrine metaplasia	17/12	11/50	07/25	10/08	–	33/32