BMC Clinical Pathology

Table 3 Distribution of diagnoses per pathologist

From: Accuracy of cervical cytology: comparison of diagnoses of 100 Pap smears read by four pathologists at three hospitals in Norway

Observer	Normal	ASC-US	LSIL	ASC-H	HSIL	Total
P1 (ref)	20	20	20	20	20	100
P2	15¹	19	16	18	32	100
P3	23	19	20	14	24	100
P4	39	24	11	10	16	100
P5	38	17	9	11	25	100
Mean (P2–P5)	28.8	19.8	14.0	13.3	24.0	100.0

ASC-US atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance, LSIL low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, ASC-H atypical squamous cells cannot exclude HSIL, HSIL high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion
¹Significantly lower than the average for P2–P5 (p<0.05)

Back to article page

ISSN: 1472-6890

Contact us

General enquiries: ORSupport@springernature.com