Observer agreement comparing the use of virtual slides with glass slides in the pathology review component of the POSH breast cancer cohort study

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 403-408

  Shaw, Emily Clare ^a   Hanby, Andrew M ^b   Wheeler, Kevin ^c   Shaaban, Abeer M ^b   Poller, David ^d   Barton, Sheila ^e   Treanor, Darren ^b   Fulford, Laura ^f   Walker, Rosemary A ^g   Ryan, Deirdre ^h   Lakhani, Sunil R ^i,j   Wells, Clive A ^h   Roche, Heather ^a   Theaker, Jeffrey M ^a   Ellis, Ian O ^k   Jones, J Louise ^l   Eccles, Diana M ^c  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^f EAST SURREY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^h ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^j University of Nottingham ^*  (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^l QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CONVENTIONAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRTUAL MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNET; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TELEPATHOLOGY;

EID: 84863410054     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2011-200369     Document Type: Article

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