Determining the inter- and intraobserver reproducibility of the diagnosis of endometrial hyperplasia subgroups and well-differentiated endometrioid carcinoma in endometrial curettage specimens

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 377-382

  Izadi Mood, Narges ^a   Khaniki, Mahmood ^b   Irvanloo, Guity ^b   Ahmadi, Seyed Ali ^c   Hayeri, Hayedeh ^b   Meysamie, Alipasha ^d  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Endometrial hyperplasia; Endometrioid carcinoma; Pathologic diagnostic agreement; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPPA STATISTICS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGIST; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; ARTICLE; CURETTAGE; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; PATHOLOGY;

CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; DILATATION AND CURETTAGE; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 70349932758     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Zaino RJ. Endometrial hyperplasia and carcinoma. In: Haines M, Taylor CW, Fox H, Wells M, eds. Haines & Taylor Obstetrical and Gynaecological Pathology. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 5th ed; 2003: 445-446.
2. Kurman RJ, Kaminski PF, Norris HJ. The behavior of endometrial hyperplasia, a long-term study of "untreated" hyperplasia in 170 patients. Cancer. 1985; 56: 403-412.
3. Skov BG, Broholm H, Engel U. Comparison of the reproducibility of the 1975 and 1994 WHO classification of endometrial hyperplasia. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 1997; 16: 33-37.
4. Kendall BS, Ronnett BM, Isacson C. Reproducibility of the diagnosis of endometrial hyperplasia, atypical hyperplasia, and well-differentiated carcinoma. Am J Surg Pathol. 1998; 22: 1012-1019.
5. Bergeron C, Nogales FF, Masseroli M, Abeler V, Duvillard P, Müller-Holzner E, et al. A multicentric European study testing the reproducibility of the WHO classification of endometrial hyperplasia with a proposal of a simplified working classification for biopsy and curettage specimens. Am J Surg Pathol. 1999; 23: 1102-1108.
6. Landis JR, Koch GG. The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data. Biometrics. 1977; 33: 159-174.
7. Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS. To err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1999.
8. Farmer ER, Gonin R, Hanna MP. Discordance in the histopathologic diagnosis of melanoma and melanocytic nevi between expert pathologists. Hum Pathol. 1996; 27: 528-531.
9. Fitzgibbons PL. Atypical lobular hyperplasia of the breast: a study of pathologists' responses in the College of American Pathologists Performance Improvement Program in Surgical Pathology. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2000; 124: 463-464.
10. Grenko RT, Abendroth CS, Frauenhoffer EE. Variance in the interpretation of cervical biopsy specimens obtained for atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance. Am J Clin Pathol. 2000; 114: 735-740.
11. Page DL, Dupont WD, Jensen RA. When and to what end do pathologists agree? J Natl Cancer Inst. 1998; 90: 88-89.
12. Schnitt SJ, Connolly JL, Tavassoli FA, Fechner RE, Kempson RL, Gelman R, et al. Interobserver reproducibility in the diagnosis of ductal proliferative breast lesions using standardized criteria. Am J Surg Pathol. 1992; 16: 1133-1143.
13. Rosai J. Borderline epithelial lesions of the breast. Am J Surg Pathol. 1991; 15: 209-221.
14. Wells WA, Carney PA, Eliassen MS. Statewide study of diagnostic agreement in breast pathology. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1998; 90: 142-145.
15. Winkler B, Alvarez S, Richart RM, Crum CP. Pitfalls in the diagnosis of endometrial neoplasia. Obstet Gynecol. 1984; 64: 185-194.
16. Zaino RJ, Kauderer J, Trimble CL, Silverberg SG, Curtin JP, Lim PC, et al. Reproducibility of the diagnosis of atypical endometrial hyperplasia: a Gynecologic Oncology Group study. Cancer. 2006; 106: 729-731.
17. Allison KH, Reed SD, Voigt LF, Jordan CD, Newton KM, Garcia RL. Diagnosing endometrial hyperplasia: why is it so difficult to agree? Am J Surg Pathol. 2008; 32: 691-698.
18. Sherman ME, Ronnett BM, Ioffe OB, Richesson DA, Rush BB, Glass AG, et al. Reproducibility of biopsy diagnoses of endometrial hyperplasia: evidence supporting a simplified classification. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2008; 27: 318-325.
19. Baak JPA, Mutter GL. EIN and WHO94. J Clin Pathol. 2005; 58: 1-6.
20. Sivridis E, Giatromanolaki A. The endometrial hyperplasias revisited. Virchows Arch. 2008; 453: 223-231.
21. Mutter GL, Baak JPA, Crum CP, Richart RM, Ferenczy A, Faquin WC. Endometrial precancer diagnosis by histopathology, clonal analysis, and computerized morphometry. J Pathol. 2000; 190: 462-469.
22. Scully RE, Young RH. Endometrioid neoplasia retrogressive terminology. Am J Surg Pathol. 2000; 24: 753-755.