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. 2015 Nov 19;10:47. doi: 10.1186/s13027-015-0042-9

Table 4.

Gradation of colposcopist judgment attributed to biopsy sites corresponding to specimen A and B stratified for colposcopic grading of the lesion in senior and junior group

Colposcopic Gradingc Colposcopist evluationb Examiner Groupa p value
senior group junior group
TAG1 A < B 9 (36.0) 21 (70.0) .01
A > B 16 (64.0) 9 (30.0)
TAG2 A < B 5 (20.0) 0 (0.0) .09
A > B 20 (80.0) 12 (100.0)

Statistical analysis was performed considering only patients with definitive diagnosis of CIN. A colposcopist evaluation reporting A = B was considered not informative and excluded from the statistical analysis.

aIn senior group colposcopic examination and biopsies were performed by experienced colposcopists; in junior group post-graduate doctors with one-year experience in Unit of Cervicovaginal Pathology performed the diagnostic procedures.

bAccording to the judgment of the colposcopist biopsy A was considered the most suspicious and representative of the whole cervical lesion and biopsy B was considered additional but not required to obtain histological diagnosis.

cTAG1: Atypical Transformation of Grade 1, TAG2: Atypical Transformation Grade 2.