Validation of whole slide imaging in the primary diagnosis of gynaecological pathology in a University Hospital

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 33-39

  Ordi, Jaume ^a,b,c   Castillo, Paola ^a,c   Saco, Adela ^a   Del Pino, Marta ^d   Ordi, Oriol ^b   Rodríguez Carunchio, Leonardo ^a   Ramírez, Jose ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; COLPOSCOPY; CONSENSUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM POLYP; EXCISION; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; LIPOGRANULOMA; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROMETASTASIS; MICROSCOPY; OVARY CARCINOMA; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VALIDATION STUDY; WHOLE SLIDE IMAGING; AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTODIAGNOSIS; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL;

EID: 84919361866     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jclinpath-2014-202524     Document Type: Article

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