Skin Biopsy in the Context of Dermatological Diagnosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Table 1

Frequencies and percentages of a classification describing the relationship between clinical and histological diagnoses.

Case	Frequency	Percentage
Case 1: one specific histological diagnosis inconsistent with the unspecified clinical diagnoses	207	3.1
Case 2: one specific histological diagnosis consistent with one specific clinical diagnosis	2642	39.3
Case 3: one specific histological diagnosis consistent with at least one clinical diagnosis regarding the disease category	1668	24.8
Case 4: one specific histological diagnosis inconsistent with the specific clinical diagnoses	1080	16.1
Case 5: no specific histological diagnosis without usable features inconsistent with the specific clinical diagnoses	162	2.4
Case 6: no specific histological diagnosis inconsistent with the unspecified clinical diagnoses	25	0.4
Case 7: no specific histological diagnosis but with usable features, inconsistent with the specific clinical diagnoses	567	8.4
Case 8: two or more specific histological diagnoses constituting subset of the proposed clinical diagnoses	50	0.7
Case 9: two or more specific histological diagnoses different from the proposed clinical diagnoses	108	1.6
Case 10: two or more specific histological diagnoses exhibiting partial overlap with the proposed clinical diagnoses	211	3.1
Total	6720	100.0