Table 2.
Main pattern recognition by EUROPattern.
| EUROPattern performance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main ANA pattern | Collective A (n = 200) | Collective B (n = 151) | Total (n = 351) | |||
| No. of samples | Pattern recognized | No. of samples | Pattern recognized | No. of samples | Pattern recognized | |
| Homogenous | 24 | 20 (83.3%) | 9 | 7 (77.8%) | 33 | 27 (81.8%) |
| Speckled | 94 | 90 (95.7%) | 36 | 33 (91.7%) | 130 | 123 (94.6%) |
| Nucleolar | 18 | 17 (94.4%) | 27 | 26 (96.3%) | 45 | 43 (95.6%) |
| Centromeres | 3 | 3 (100%) | 1 | 1 (100%) | 4 | 4 (100%) |
| Nuclear dots | 1 | 1 (100%) | 1 | 1 (100%) | 2 | 2 (100%) |
| Cytoplasmic | 53 | 49 (92.5%) | 5 | 5 (100%) | 58 | 54 (93.1%) |
| Negative | 7 | 6 (85.7%) | 72 | 71 (98.6%) | 79 | 77 (97.5%) |
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| Total | 200 | 186 (93.0%) | 151 | 144 (95.4%) | 351 | 330 (94.0%) |