Slides from resection specimens were reviewed by four senior gastrointestinal pathology histopathologists (HG, TA, YM and YK).
6 Napoleone Ferrara Distinguished professor of pathology and senior deputy director for basic sciences at Moores Cancer Centre at the University of California, San Diego.
MJ is an associate professor at Lund University and senior consultant in clinical pathology at the Department of Laboratory Medicine, Skåne University Hospital.
All of the samples were histologically examined by a senior pathologist at Department of Pathology of the Hospital to identify the clinicopathological characteristics of the tumors, which were presented in Table 1.
In only three institutions the chair of the department of pathology was the senior institutional officer making the decision.
These cases had been exclusively diagnosed and "double-read" in the central department of pathology by nine senior pathologists.
The diagnosis of each case was confirmed by a medical chart review and a review of the available pathology slides by senior study pathologists.
These thyroid cancer cases had been exclusively diagnosed and "double-read" in the central division of pathology by nine senior pathologists.
Histological slides were digitized with the NDPI Nanozoomer (Hamamatsu Photonics, Hamamatsu City, Japan), and submitted to quantitative analysis of fibrosis, granulation tissue, and inflammatory cell infiltrate by a senior pathologist expert in digestive pathology.
