Abstract:

I am. Intraoperative consultation has an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of ovarian masses. During surgery, the correct classification as benign, borderline or malignant (primary/metastatic) provides to appropriate surgical staging. This retrospective study was undertaken to determine the accuracy of intraoperative consultation results in ovarian lesions and to review the diagnostic problems that may be causing the error. The Method. Between January 2007December 2011, the diagnoses of 246 intraoperative consultations applied to the ovarian lesions were examined retrospectively. Twenty-five out of 246 of these sections belonged to the same patient. Frozen section diagnoses were compared with paraffin section diagnoses. The results. The average age of the patients was 46.7±16 (17-87). There was an agreement in diagnosis between the frozen and paraffin section in 96.3%. The sensitivity of malignant cases, 96.9%, specificity was 100%. The positive predictive value of malignant cases was 100%, the negative predictive value of benign cases was 100%. In series had no false positive, false negative rate was 6%. Diagnosis had been deferred in 2.4% of the cases. The incompatible diagnoses caused by limited sampling during intraoperative consultation. There were metastatic tumors in 3.7%, mixed type tumors in 2%. and Conclusion. The consensus between the gynecologist and the pathologist is very important in the intraoperative consultation process. In our series, the sensitivity and specificity of the frozen application in ovarian lesions were high, and our results are reliable. It was concluded that increasing the number of samples for especially in large tumors will decrease the false-negative rate.

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