Classification of thymic epithelial neoplasms is still a challenge to thoracic pathologists: A reproducibility study using digital microscopy

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 658-663

  Wang, Hangjun ^a   Sima, Camelia S ^c   Beasley, Mary Beth ^c   Illei, Peter ^d   Saqi, Anjali ^e   Nonaka, Daisuke ^f   Geisinger, Kim R ^g   Huang, James ^b   Moreira, Andre L ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Epidemiology and Biostatistics   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^e New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; THYMIC EPITHELIAL TUMOR; THYMOMA;

COMPUTERS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84900489063     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2013-0028-OA     Document Type: Article

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