Table 4.
Colposcopic Gradingc | Colposcopist evluationb | Examiner Groupa | p value | |
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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.