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Table 3.

Case and patient characteristics.

Variables		Values
Sex, n (%)
	Male	9519 (41.09)
	Female	13,648 (58.91)
Age, mean (range)		52.86 (1 day to 98 years)
Diagnosis types, n (%)
	Confirmed	17,495 (75.52)
	Needed further examination^a	4779 (20.63)
	Failed to be diagnosed^b	893 (3.85)
Histopathology types, n (%)
	Benign	12,088 (52.18)
	Borderline	190 (0.82)
	Malignant	5217 (22.52)
	Unclear	5672 (24.48)

^aFurther examinations included immunohistochemistry assay (4007/4779, 83.85%), clinical examinations (675/4779, 14.12%), gene detection (88/4779, 1.84%), and special staining (9/4779, 0.19%).

^bThe reasons included poor slice quality (531/893, 59.46%), incomplete sampling (336/893, 37.63%) and intractable cases (26/893, 2.91%).