RT Journal
A1 Inoue K, Yoshioka K, Kawahito Y
T1 IS the discordance rate of malignancy still high?
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1999
FD May 10
VO 159
IS 9
SP 1013
OP 1013
DO 
UL http://dx.doi.org/
AB 
Every month, we look forward to reading the "Autopsy and Medicine" series in the ARCHIVES because we believe in the benefits of autopsy, as defined in a recent editorial by Dalen.1 Another timely article described discrepancies between clinical and autopsy diagnoses, especially in cases of malignant neoplasm.2 The authors claimed that there was a high discordance rate (44%) between clinical diagnoses and autopsy findings in cases of malignancy, despite the technological advances in medicine. However, they could not perform sufficient workups because of patient mortality, thus, their data were not demonstrated on the basis of the diagnostic technology in medicine.