Evaluation of Accuracy of Diagnosis of Benign Skin Lesions in Hospital Practice: An Hospital Based Study
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: Skin biopsy is an established diagnostic procedure which connects clinical diagnostic methodology with the invisible to the unaided eye microscopic field of skin pathology. Hence; we planned the present study to evaluate and compare clinical and histopathological diagnosis. Materials & Methods: The present retrospective study included comparative evaluation of efficacy of clinical diagnosis and histopathological diagnosis. We evaluated the files and records along with biopsy reports of 80 patients with diagnosis of benign skin lesions. Data records of only those patients were included in the present study that was diagnosed with following lesions: Melanocytic Naevi (MN), Seborrhoeic keratosis (SK), viral warts (VW) and Skin tags. Examination of the histopathological reports was done to determine the accuracy of clinical diagnosis. Data regarding the demographic and clinical details of all the patients was obtained. All the results were recorded on Microsoft excel sheet and were analyzed by SPSS software. Results: Diagnostic accuracy of clinical diagnosis in diagnsoing MN was 88.75 percent, whereas diagnostic accuracy of SK was 90 percent. Diagnostic accuracy of clinical diagnosis for diagnosing VW and sking tags was 92.5 percent and 91.25 percent respectivley. Conclusion: It might be unnecessary to confirm the benign skin lesions with histopathologic confirmation.
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Madan Singh Batar
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- DOI 10.21276/ijmrp.2018.4.1.107
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