International internet-based assessment of observer variability for diagnostically challenging endometrial biopsies

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 464-470

  Marotti, Jonathan D ^a   Glatz, Katharina ^b   Parkash, Vinita ^c   Hecht, Jonathan L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLASSIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PRECANCER; REPRODUCIBILITY; TELEPATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEPATHOLOGY;

EID: 79955078340     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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