1 Assistant Professor, (Skin & Venereal Diseases), Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh
2Professor, (Pathology), Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh
3Professor, (Community Medicine), Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh
4Statistician/Associate Professor, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Hapur, Uttar Pradesh
*Corrosponding author Dr Akhil Kumar Singh, MD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Skin & Venereal Diseases, Saraswathi Institute of Medical Sciences, NH-24, Hapur UP-245304 (INDIA) E mail-akhillksinggh@outlook.com
Online published on 16 January, 2016.
Dermatologists sometimes face diagnostic dilemmas during their consultations. For them skin biopsy is a method of choice.
Skin biopsy is an established method for helping the dermatologist in overcoming the diagnostic dilemmas which occurduring consultations. However all skin biopsies produce neither conclusive diagnosis nor the dermatologists routinely perform this procedure on every patient they consult.
(a) to estimate the factors effecting diagnostic accuracy and (b) to explore the correlation with clinical diagnosis accuracy of dermatologist with the histopathology reports.
A retrospective analysis was performed on 103 patients in tertiary care hospital. Percentage, chi square and correlation coefficient were used for statistical analysis.
The mean age of dermatology patients who underwent skin biopsy was 32 years, distribution of skin disease was higher among male(58.3%) than female(41.7%) and this is statistically significant(p<0.05). The most common site of biopsy was lower limb (41.7%), the most common clinical diagnosis was infectious diseases(55.3%) and most frequent pathological diagnosis was infectious diseases(52.4%). The correlation coefficient between dermatologist and pathologist was 0.993 which was highly significant (p<0.001).
skin biopsy remain a diagnostic tool for dermatology clinical practice.
Skin diseases, Biopsies, Clinico-histopathological correlation
