Interobserver and Intraobserver Reproducibility in the Histopathology of Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma

Human Pathology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1092-1100

  Franc, Brigitte ^a   De La Salmonière, Pauline ^b   Lange, Françoise ^b   Hoang, Catherine ^b   Louvel, Albert ^b   De Roquancourt, Anne ^b   Vildé, Françoise ^b   Hejblum, Gilles ^b   Chevret, Sylvie ^b   Chastang, Claude ^b  

^a HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Follicular thyroid carcinoma; Leadership; Observer variation; Pathology; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PATHOLOGIST; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYROID CARCINOMA;

EID: 10744231993     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0046-8177(03)00403-9     Document Type: Article

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