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Symposium: evaluating the reproducibility of pathological diagnosis using the 1997 Banff classification update
Author(s) -
Joh Kensuke,
Morozumi Kunio,
Kitamura Hiroshi
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
clinical transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.918
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1399-0012
pISSN - 0902-0063
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2006.00551.x
Subject(s) - medicine , reproducibility , pathological , medical physics , pathology , statistics , mathematics
Abstract: The purpose of this symposium was to evaluate the reproducibility of a histological diagnosis in renal allograft nephropathy according to the Banff classification. Seven transplant nephrologists and pathologists independently diagnosed the same glass slide specimens from 10 cases (five cases of acute rejection and five cases of chronic allograft nephropathy). Their diagnoses were collated and analyzed for the reproducibility of histological diagnosis. Consequently, several issues that hinder diagnostic reproducibility were identified.