Inter-Observer and Intra-Observer Variations in the Assessment of Epithelial Dysplasia in Oral Lichenoid Diseases

Zohdy, Marwa; Cazzaniga, Simone; Nievergelt, Helga; Blum, Roland; Suter, Valérie G. A.; Feldmeyer, Laurence; Beltraminelli, Helmut

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Inter-Observer and Intra-Observer Variations in the Assessment of Epithelial Dysplasia in Oral Lichenoid Diseases

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Helmut Beltraminelli

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Department of Dermatology, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland

Department of Dermatology, Andrology and STDs, Mansoura University Hospitals, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt

Centro Studi GISED, 24121 Bergamo, Italy

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Department of Oral Surgery and Stomatology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Bern, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

Academic Editor: Gürkan Kaya

Dermatopathology 2021, 8(2), 84-88; https://doi.org/10.3390/dermatopathology8020013

Received: 25 February 2021 / Revised: 18 March 2021 / Accepted: 26 March 2021 / Published: 1 April 2021

(This article belongs to the Section Clinico-Pathological Correlation in Dermatopathology)

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Oral lichen planus (OLP) and oral lichenoid lesions (OLL) can both present with histological dysplasia. Despite the presence of WHO-defined criteria for the evaluation of epithelial dysplasia, its assessment is frequently subjective (inter-observer variability). The lack of reproducibility in the evaluation of dysplasia is even more complex in the presence of a lichenoid inflammation. We evaluated dysplasia in 112 oral biopsies with lichenoid inflammation in order to study the inter-observer and the intra-observer variability. View Full-Text

Keywords: oral lichen planus; oral lichenoid lesion; oral lichenoid disease; dysplasia; inter-observer; intra-observer

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Zohdy, M.; Cazzaniga, S.; Nievergelt, H.; Blum, R.; Suter, V.G.A.; Feldmeyer, L.; Beltraminelli, H. Inter-Observer and Intra-Observer Variations in the Assessment of Epithelial Dysplasia in Oral Lichenoid Diseases. Dermatopathology 2021, 8, 84-88. https://doi.org/10.3390/dermatopathology8020013

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Zohdy M, Cazzaniga S, Nievergelt H, Blum R, Suter VGA, Feldmeyer L, Beltraminelli H. Inter-Observer and Intra-Observer Variations in the Assessment of Epithelial Dysplasia in Oral Lichenoid Diseases. Dermatopathology. 2021; 8(2):84-88. https://doi.org/10.3390/dermatopathology8020013

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Zohdy, Marwa, Simone Cazzaniga, Helga Nievergelt, Roland Blum, Valérie G.A. Suter, Laurence Feldmeyer, and Helmut Beltraminelli. 2021. "Inter-Observer and Intra-Observer Variations in the Assessment of Epithelial Dysplasia in Oral Lichenoid Diseases" Dermatopathology 8, no. 2: 84-88. https://doi.org/10.3390/dermatopathology8020013

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