Frozen section diagnosis in donor liver biopsies: Observer variation of semiquantitative and quantitative steatosis assessment

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 461, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-183

  Biesterfeld, Stefan ^a   Knapp, Jasmin ^b   Bittinger, Fernando ^b   Götte, Heiko ^c   Schramm, Martin ^a   Otto, Gerd ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Histopathology; Image analysis; Liver; Reliability; Steatosis; Transplantation pathology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FATTY LIVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MICROVESICULAR STEATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

BIOPSY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FATTY LIVER; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84867398112     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: 14322307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-012-1271-6     Document Type: Article

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