Inter‐ and intra‐observer variation in the histopathological reporting of cervical squamous in traepithelial lesion susing a modified Bethesda grading system

Objective 1. To assess inter‐ and intra‐observer variation in the histopathological reporting of cervicalcolposcopic biopsies using a histologic modification of the cytological Bethesda grading system; 2. to determine the histologic profile of those cases which resulted in diagnostic disagreement.

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