A prospective randomized study on limits of colposcopy and histology: the skill of colposcopist and colposcopy-guided biopsy in diagnosis of cervical intraepithelial lesions

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 Grading^c	Colposcopist evluation^b	Examiner Group^a		p value
Colposcopic Grading^c	Colposcopist evluation^b	senior group	junior group	p value
TAG1	A < B	9 (36.0)	21 (70.0)	.01
TAG1	A > B	16 (64.0)	9 (30.0)
TAG2	A < B	5 (20.0)	0 (0.0)	.09
TAG2	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.

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