Dilip Kumar Sa, Piyush Kumar.
Clinicopathological consistency in diagnosis of skin disorders: a retrospective study of 371 histopathology reports.
J Pak Assoc Derma Jan ;26(2):96-8.

Objective: To determine the relative indications and clinicopathological consistency of skin biopsy. Methods: 371 of 28466cases undergoing skin biopsy were reviewed and their histopathological reports evaluated for consistency with clinical diagnosis. Results: 371 (1.3%) cases needed skin biopsy for diagnosis. Of these, 67.4% cases were consistent, 19.1% were corroborative and 13.5% were inconsistent with clinical diagnosis. Conclusion: Providing proper history and clinical findings, provisional and differential diagnoses to pathologist increases the diagnostic yield of skin biopsy.

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