The histologic estimation of coronary artery stenoses: Accuracy and the effect of lumen shape

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 91-96

  Ford, Jason C ^a   O'Rourke, Keith ^a,b   Veinot, John P ^a   Walley, Virginia M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c Peterborough Regional Health Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery; Histology; Image analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTERY LUMEN; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXPERIENCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORPHOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STAINING; TRAINING;

ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034973357     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-8807(01)00060-6     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. The histologic estimation of coronary artery stenoses: reproducibility, and the effect of training
2. Pathology of coronary atherosclerosis
3. Compensatory enlargement of human atherosclerotic coronary arteries
4. Coronary artery remodelling and the assessment of stenosis by pathologists
5. Morphometric analysis of coronary artery stenosis: an accuracy and reliability study
6. Comparison of degrees of coronary arterial luminal narrowing determined by visual inspection of histologic sections under magnification among three independent observers and comparison to that obtained by video planimetry: an analysis of 559 five-millimeter segments of 61 coronary arteries from eleven patients
7. Observer reproducibility during computer-assisted planimetric measurement of nuclear features
8. Reproducibility of morphometric image analysis
9. Limitations of postmortem assessment of human coronary artery size and luminal narrowing: differential effects of tissue fixation and processing on vessels with different degrees of atherosclerosis
10. Reliability and predictive value of the national institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases liver transplantation database nomenclature and grading system for cellular rejection of liver allografts