Because morphopathological diagnosis of tumors plays a key role in prognosis and therapeutic decisions, the reproducibility and coherence among pathologists is important. To determine the level of inter-observer variation among veterinary pathologists for the diagnosis of canine mammary gland tumors, 15 canine mammary gland tumor slides were coded and evaluated independently by 10 veterinary pa...

INTRODUCTION Kinematic gait analysis via the multi-segmental Oxford foot model (OFM) may be a valuable addition to the biomechanical examination of the foot and ankle. The aim of this study is to assess the repeatability of the OFM in healthy subjects. METHODS Nine healthy subjects, without a history of lower extremity injury, were recruited. Markers were placed according to the OFM requireme...

AIMS To assess the agreement of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) determinations from unenhanced echocardiography, contrast-enhanced echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and cineventriculography as well as the inter-observer agreement for each method. METHODS AND RESULTS In 120 patients, with evenly distributed EF-groups (> 55, 35-55, < 35%), cineventriculography, unenh...

BACKGROUND There is growing acceptance that polycystic ovaries are an important marker of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) despite significant variability when making the ultrasound diagnosis. To better understand the nature of this variability, we proposed to evaluate the level of inter-observer agreement when identifying and quantifying individual ultrasonographic features of polycystic ovari...

BACKGROUND Periprosthetic bone loss is considered to be a potentially contributing factor in aseptic loosening of acetabular hip components, but no studies have shown this association. The lack of association might be caused by insufficient image quality because of metal artifacts and challenges in measuring bone density (BMD) in complex anatomic structures which might be overcome using dual-en...

BACKGROUND A classification of lumbosacral spondylolisthesis has been proposed recently. This classification describes eight distinct types of spondylolisthesis based on the slip grade, the degree of dysplasia, and the sagittal sacro-pelvic balance. The objectives of this study are to assess the reliability of this classification and to propose a new and refined classification. METHODS Standi...

AIMS Recent studies report increased echogenicity of the substantia nigra (SN) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) using transcranial sonography (TCS). However, the main limitation to TCS is its dependence on the sonographer's experience. Experimental software for quantitative evaluation of the echogenic SN area was thus developed by us. The aim of this study was to test the reliability o...

OBJECTIVE To compare inter-observer agreement for clinical decision-making with cardiotocography (CTG) and combined CTG with ST-segment analysis (STAN). DESIGN Experimental study. SETTING Three hospital obstetrics departments in France. POPULATION Thirty randomly selected nonreassuring CTG recordings during labour of women with singleton term pregnancies in cephalic position. METHODS Se...

BACKGROUND Despite chemotherapy, patients with cured pulmonary tuberculosis may result in lung functional impairment. OBJECTIVE To evaluate a novel scoring system based on the degree of radiographic abnormalities and related spirometric values in patients with cured pulmonary tuberculosis. METHODS One hundred and twenty seven patients with cured pulmonary tuberculosis were prospectively enr...

Retinal tissue hypoperfusion and hypoxia have been implicated in the pathogenesis of vision-threatening disorders such as diabetic retinopathy, [1-4] age-related macular degeneration (AMD), [5,6] glaucoma, [7,8] and vaso-occlusive retinal disease [9-11]. The ability to detect subtle changes in retinal oxygenation and function might be important for early detection, management, and monitoring of...