Open AccessEosinophil counts in colonic tissue eosinophilia: Investigating specificity and sensitivity of cutoff points and comparing two counting methods
Author(s) -
Heyam Awad,
Yousef E Abu Osba,
Mohammad Arif Shaheen,
Ammar R Sfeira
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the saudi journal of gastroenterology/saudi journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-4049
pISSN - 1319-3767
DOI - 10.4103/sjg.sjg_381_19
Subject(s) - cutoff , medicine , receiver operating characteristic , eosinophilia , eosinophil , gastroenterology , asymptomatic , pathology , nuclear medicine , physics , quantum mechanics , asthma
The aim of this study was to investigate the specificity and sensitivity of eosinophil cutoff points defining the colonic tissue eosinophilia (TE) and compare the yield of reporting the highest count versus the mean of five high-power fields (HPFs).