Number of levels needed for diagnosis of cervical biopsies

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1205-1208

  Luo, Yehung Vivian ^a   Prihoda, Thomas J ^a   Sharkey, Francis E ^a,b  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPLASIA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TECHNIQUE; TISSUE SECTION; UTERINE CERVICITIS; UTERINE CERVIX BIOPSY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; WART VIRUS;

BIOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; UTERINE CERVICAL DISEASES;

EID: 0036826339     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Troxel DB, Sabella JD. Problem areas in pathology practice. Am J Surg Pathol. 1994;18:821-831.
2. Richart RM. Natural history of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. Clin Obstet Gynecol. 1967;10:748-784.
3. Anderson MC, Brown CL, Buckley CH, et al. Current views on cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. J Clin Pathol. 1991;44:969-978.
4. Gehan EA. The determination of the number of patients required in a preliminary and follow-up trial of a new chemotherapeutic agent. J Chron Dis. 1961; 13:346-353.
5. Lane RB Jr, Lane CG, Mangold KA, Johnson MH, Allsbrook WC Jr. Needle biopsies of the prostate. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1998;122:833-835.
6. Renshaw AA. Adequate tissue sampling of prostate core needle biopsies. Am J Clin Pathol. 1997;107:26-29.
7. Humphrey PA, Walther PJ. Adenocarcinoma of the prostate. Am J Clin Pathol. 1993;99:746-759.
8. Stoler MH, Schiffman M. Interobserver reproducibility of cervical cytologic and histologic interpretations: realistic estimates from the ASCUS-LSIL Triage Study. JAMA. 2001;285:1500-1505.
9. McCluggage WG, Bharucha H, Caughley LM, et al. Interobserver variation in the reporting of cervical colposcopic biopsy specimens: comparison of grading systems. J Clin Pathol. 1996;49:833-835.
10. Creagh T, Bridger JE, Kupek E, Fish DE, Martin-Bates E, Wilkins MJ. Pathologist variation in reporting cervical borderline epithelial abnormalities and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. J Clin Pathol. 1995;48:59-60.