Joon Mee Kim, Jin Hee Sohn, Mee-Yon Cho, Woo Ho Kim, Hee Kyung Chang, Eun Sun Jung, Myeong-Cherl Kook, So-Young Jin, Yang Seok Chae, Young Soo Park, Mi Seon Kang, Hyunki Kim, Jae Hyuk Lee, Do Youn Park, Kyoung Mee Kim, Hoguen Kim, Young Ju Suh, Sang Yong Seol, Hwoon-Yong Jung, Deuck–Hwa Kim, Na Rae Lee, Seung-Hee Park, Ji Hye You
Cancer Res Treat. 2019;51(4):1568-1577. Published online April 1, 2019
Purpose
The diagnostic criteria of gastric intraepithelial neoplasia (IEN) are controversial across the world. We investigated how many discrepancies occur in the pathologic diagnosis of IEN and early gastric carcinoma in endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) specimens, and evaluated the reasons of the discordance.
Materials and Methods
We retrospectively reviewed 1,202 ESD specimens that were originally diagnosed as gastric IEN and early carcinoma at 12 institutions.
Results
The final consensus diagnosis of carcinoma were 756 cases, which were originally 692 carcinomas (91.5%), 43 high-grade dysplasias (5.7%), 20 low-grade dysplasias (2.6%), and 1 others (0.1%), respectively. High- and low-grade dysplasia were finally made in 63 and 342 cases, respectively. The diagnostic concordance with the consensus diagnosis was the highest for carcinoma (91.5%), followed by low-grade dysplasia (86.3%), others (63.4%) and high-grade dysplasia (50.8%). The general kappa value was 0.83, indicating excellent concordance. The kappa values of individual institutions ranged from 0.74 to 1 and correlated with the proportion of carcinoma cases. The cases revised to a final diagnosis of carcinoma exhibited both architectural abnormalities and cytologic atypia. The main differential points between low- and high-grade dysplasias were the glandular distribution and glandular shape. Additional features such as the glandular axis, surface maturation, nuclear stratification and nuclear polarity were also important.
Conclusion
The overall concordance of the diagnosis of gastric IEN and early carcinoma in ESD specimens was excellent. It correlated with the proportion of carcinoma cases, demonstrating that the diagnostic criteria for carcinoma are more reproducible than those for dysplasia.
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