Table 5 Comparison of epithelial, stromal and background cellularity among our study and other researchers
From: Fibroadenoma versus phyllodes tumor: a vexing problem revisited!
PT%/FA% | PT%/FA% | PT%/FA% | PT%/FA% | PT%/FA% | PT%/FA% | PT%/FA% | PT%/FA% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Epithelial component | Krishnamurthy et al 2000 [8] | Veneti et al 2001 [20] | Scolyer et al 2001 [29] | Shimizu et al 2002 [15] | El Hag et al 2010 [17] | Bandyopadhy et al 2010 [2] | Maritz et al 2017 [23] | Present study |
Overall cellularity (Mod-marked) | 33/30 | 83/83 | 87/100 | 78/100 | 87/100 | 83/78 | – | 83/93 |
No. of fragments (> 5) | 83/94 | 55/33 | 87/100 | 78/100 | 80/100 | 80/92 | 23/95 | 38/98 |
Staghorn; branched; open monolayer | -- 70/67 | 42/78 65/30 | -/93 85/75 | 39/56 78/10 | -- -- | 22/75 60/25 | -- -- | 58/78 67/15 |
Atypia | – | 17/05 | 00/00 | – | 00/00 | 00/00 | – | 29/17 |
Mitosis | – | – | – | – | 00/00 | 00/00 | – | 33/00 |
Stromal component | Krishnamurthy et al 2000 [8] | Scolyer et al 2001 [29] | Veneti et al 2001 [20] | Badhe et al 2002 [11] | El Hag 2010 [17] | Bandyopadhy et al 2010 [2] | Maritz et al 2017 [23] | Present study 2018 |
Stromal fragments (> 5) | 33/27 | – | 39/28 | 78/20 | 67/25 | 70/44 | 70/45 | 75/54 |
Stromal size (Inter-large) | 20/41 | 75/69 | 39/28 | 70/32 | 67/ 25 | 60/32 | 80/30 | 58/38 |
Stromal cellularity Mod-marked | 93/60 | 62/15 | 28/40 | 100/33 | – | 90/20 | 82/40 | 58/28 |
Traversing blood vessel | – | 25/23 | – | 55/22 | – | 30/20 | 25/23 | 45/32 |
Type of nucleus (spindle) | 75/15 | 62/00 | 85/27 | – | 93/00 | 80/10 | 41/14 | 92/52 |
Frayed margin | 64/39 | – | – | 72/40 | 93/66 | 40/72 | 60/40 | 83/52 |
Fibro myxoid fragments | – | – | – | – | 100/67 | 70/− | – | 88/89 |
SER | Bhattarai et al 2000 [9] | Jayaram et al 2001 [19] | Badhe et al 2002 [11] | Bandyopadhy et al 2010 [2] | Maritz et al 2017 [23] | Present study | ||
Stromal-epithelial ratio | 7.6:1 | 6:1 | > 1:0.5 | > 1:1 | 5.2:1 | 4.5:1 | ||
Background cells | Krishnamurthy et al 2000 [8] | Badhe et al 2002 [11] | El Hag et al 2010 [17] | Bandyopadhy et al 2010 [2] | Maritz et al 2017 [23] | Present study | ||
Cellularity | 58/84 | 77/88 | 73/92 | 70/68 | – | 83/76 | ||
Spindle (> 10%) | 75/21 | 100/33 | 100/10 | 90/16 | 47/20 | 96/15 | ||
Atypia | 16/00 | – | 47/00 | – | 12/00 | 50/11 | ||
Mitosis | 08/00 | – | 07/00 | – | – | 08/00 | ||
Cyst macrophages | – | 11/48 | 90/50 | – | – | 60/50 | ||
Giant cells | – | 00/42 | 73/25 | 10/00 | – | 42/32 | ||
Apocrine metaplasia | 17/12 | 11/50 | 07/25 | 10/08 | – | 33/32 |