Interobserver concordance in the assessment of features used for the diagnosis of cervical atypical squamous cells and squamous intraepithelial lesions (ASC-US, ASC-H, LSIL and HSIL)

Cytopathology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 44-51

  Bigras, G ^a   Wilson, J ^b   Russell, L ^a   Johnson, G ^b   Morel, D ^c   Saddik, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DynaLIFE Dx   (Canada)

^c Becton Dickinson ^*  (France)

^d GREY NUNS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

ASC H; ASC US; Atypical squamous cells; Cervical cytological features; Concordance; HSIL; Kendall's; Liquid based cytology; LSIL; Relative entropy index; Reproducibility; Squamous intraepithelial lesion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HIGH GRADE SQUAMOUS INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LOW GRADE SQUAMOUS INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION; NUCLEAR SHAPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SQUAMOUS CELL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS SHAPE; CELL SHAPE; CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; CHROMATIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; CYTOPLASM; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 84872686077     PISSN: 09565507     EISSN: 13652303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2303.2011.00930.x     Document Type: Article

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