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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dis Colon Rectum. 2021 Jul 1;64(7):805–811. doi: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000002009

Appendix Table 1.

Natural Language Processing terminology utilized to examine all anal cytology and histopathology results.

Disease Grade NLP Search Term
Negative NEGATIVE FOR INTRAEPITHELIAL
NEGATIVE FOR SQUAMOUS INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION
NEGATIVE FOR MALIGNANCY OR INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION
NEGATIVE FOR CONDYLOMA OR MALIGNANCY
NEGATIVE FOR DYSPLASIA
NO EVIDENCE OF INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION
NO EVIDENCE OF DYSPLASIA
NO DEFINITIVE EVIDENCE OF INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION OR MALIGNANCY
NO DEFINITIVE EVIDENCE OF DYSPLASIA
NEGATIVE FOR CHRONIC CHANGES, DYSPLASIA
NO INTRA-EPITHELIAL OR INVASIVE NEOPLASM
NAGATIVE FOR INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION OR MALIGNANCY
Atypical Squamous Cells of Undetermined Significance (ASCUS) ASCUS
ASC-US
ATYPICAL SQUAMOUS CELLS OF UNDETERMINED SIGNIFICANCE
ATYPICAL SQUAMOUS CELLS OF UNDETERINED SIGNIFICANCE
ATYPICAL SQUAMOUS CELLS OF UNDETEREMINED SIGNIFICANCE
Atypical Squamous Cells – Cannot Exclude High-Grade (ASC-H) ASC-H
Low-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia (LGAIN) LSIL
LGSIL
LOW GRADE
LOW-GRADE
ACIN-I)
ACIN-I
ACIN I)
ACIN I
AIN-I)
AIN-I
AIN I)
AIN I
MILD DYSPLASIA
AIN-1
High-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia (HGAIN) CARCINOMA IN SITU
CARCINOMA IN-SITU
IN-SITU SQUAMOUS CARCINOMA
MODERATE DYSPLASIA
SEVERE DYSPLASIA
MODERATE SQUAMOUS DYSPLASIA
SEVERE SQUAMOUS DYSPLASIA
AIN-2
AIN 2
AIN2
AIN 1–2
ACIN-II
ACIN II
CIN II
CIN-II
AIN II
AIN-II
AIN II
AIN-3
AIN 3
AIN3
(AIN) II
ANAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA-3
ANAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA-II
ANAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA II
ANAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA 3
ANAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA 2
HIGH GRADE SQUAMOUS INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION
HIGH-GRADE SQUAMOUS INTRAEPITHELIAL LESION
HSIL
Exclude:
CANNOT EXCLUDE HSIL
CANNOT RULE OUT HSIL
H.S.I.L
HGSIL
Exclude:
CANNOT EXCLUDE HGSIL
CANNOT RULE OUT HGSIL
HIGH GRADE
Exclude:
NO EVIDENCE OF HIGH GRADE
NEGATIVE FOR HIGH GRADE
NOT EXCLUDE HIGH GRADE
NOT EXCLUDE A HIGH GRADE
HIGH GRADE CAN NOT
HIGH GRADE CANNOT
HIGH-GRADE
Exclude:
NO EVIDENCE OF HIGH-GRADE
NEGATIVE FOR HIGH-GRADE
NOT EXCLUDE HIGH-GRADE
NOT EXCLUDE A HIGH-GRADE
HIGH-GRADE CAN NOT
HIGH-GRADE CANNOT
Anal Cancer INVASIVE SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
METASTATIC SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
INVASIVE MODERATELY DIFFERENCIATED SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
INVASIVE MODERATELY DIFFERENTIATED SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
POORLY DIFFERENTIATED SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
DIFFERENTIATED SQUAMOUS CELL
Also contains:
CARCINOMA
MODERATELY DIFFERENTIATED SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
POORLY DIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA
SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA INVASIVE
Also contains:
DIFFERENTIATED
Unsatisfactory UNSATISFACTORY FOR EVALUATION
UNSATISFACTORY FOR INTERPRETATION