Table 1 This table lists the 5 different frozen section encountered in this study and their final pathology results
From: Intraoperative parathyroid hormone level in parathyroidectomy: which patients benefit from it?
FS result | Final pathology result | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adenoma | Hyperplasia | Normal parathyroid | No parathyroid | Total | |
Hypercellular | 111 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 120 |
Adenoma | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 |
Hyperplasia | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
Normal parathyroid tissue | 3 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 24 |
No parathyroid tissue | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
Total | 184 | 19 | 21 | 8 | 232 |