Table 3 Agreements between the review and local pathologist.

From: Central pathology review and its prognostic value in upper tract urothelial carcinoma patients: a nationwide multi-institutional study

Variables

Overall agreement (%)

Simple kappa (95% CI)

Grade

82.5

0.461 (0.356, 0.567)

Tumor architecture

73.2

0.524 (0.453, 0.453)

Invasiveness

74.0

0.404 (0.319, 0.489)

pT stage

55.4

0.428 (0.370, 0.486)

Lymphvascular invasion

75.1

0.431 (0.336, 0.526)

Perineural invasion

80.6

0.323 (0.221, 0.426)

Surgical margin status

91.8

0.472 (0.318, 0.626)

Variant histology

77.2

0.305 (0.209, 0.401)

  1. 0.0 ~ 0.20 very low consistency, 0.21 ~ 0.40 moderate consistency, 0.41 ~ 0.60 fair consistency, 0.61 ~ 0.80 high consistency, 0.81 ~ 1 almost complete consistency.
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