Research Article

Role of Intraoperative Pathology Consultation by Imprint and Scrape Cytology in Soft Tissue Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions

Table 1

Comparison of imprint and scrape cytology and final histopathology.

Imprint cytologyScrape cytologyHistopathology

Malignant neoplasms, n=5 (10.0%)n = 10 (20.8%)n = 11 (22.0%)
 MSRCT (n = 3)MSRCT (n = 3)Ewing’s sarcoma (n = 3)
 Sarcoma, NOS (n = 1)Sarcoma closest to myxoid liposarcoma (n = 1)Liposarcoma, well differentiated (n = 1)
Atypical lipomatous tumor likely liposarcoma (n = 1)Liposarcoma, myxoid type- low grade (n = 1)
Liposarcoma, spindle cell variant (n = 1)

 Pleomorphic sarcoma (n = 1)Synovial sarcoma (n = 1)Synovial sarcoma (n = 2)
MPNST (n = 1)
Sarcoma NOS (n = 1)Sarcoma, myxoid type (n = 1)
Pleomorphic sarcoma (n = 1)Undifferentiated high grade sarcoma (n = 1)
MPNST (n = 1)MPNST (n = 1)

Benign neoplasms, n = 6 (12.0%)n = 38 (79.1%)n = 38 (79.1%)
 Schwannoma (n = 2)Consistent with lipoma (n = 22)Lipoma (n = 22)
Consistent with lipoma (n = 1)Angiolipoma (n = 1)
Consistent with lipoma (n = 2)Fibroepithelial polyp (lipofibroma) (n = 2)
Benign spindle cell tumor of neural origin (n = 1)Angiomyxolipoma (n = 1)

 Benign spindle cell tumor of fibrous origin (n = 1)Schwannoma (n = 6)Schwannoma(n = 7)
Benign spindle cell tumor possibly of fibrous origin (n = 1)

 Benign spindle cell tumor of neural origin (n = 1)Benign spindle cell tumor of fibrous origin (n = 1)Deep fibromatosis (desmoid) (n = 1)
 Benign spindle cell lesion (n = 1)Dermatofibroma (n = 1)
 Ganglion (n = 1)Pigmented villonodular synovitis (n = 1)
Consistent with ganglion cyst (n = 1)
Organizing hematoma (n = 1)

Inconclusive, n=1 (2.0%)n = 2 (4.0%)
 Descriptive (n = 1)Descriptive (n = 2)

Nonneoplastic lesionn = 1 (2.0%)
Organizing hematoma (n = 1)

Bold values represent the number of cases which were malignant, benign, nonneoplastic, and inconclusive out of total 50 cases of soft tissue tumors which were processed for imprint and scrape cytology and later compared with final histopathology.