PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF A SCHEME FOR GRADING THE GROSS MORPHOLOGY OF THE HUMAN INTERVERTEBRAL-DISK

被引：694

作者：

THOMPSON, JP ^{[1
]}

PEARCE, RH ^{[1
]}

SCHECHTER, MT ^{[1
]}

ADAMS, ME ^{[1
]}

TSANG, IKY ^{[1
]}

BISHOP, PB ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV BRITISH COLUMBIA,FAC MED,DEPT PATHOL,2211 WESTBROOK MALL,VANCOUVER V6T 1W5,BC,CANADA

来源：

SPINE | 1990年 / 15卷 / 05期

关键词：

Grading scheme; Gross morphology; Intervertebral disc;

D O I：

10.1097/00007632-199005000-00012

中图分类号：

R74 [神经病学与精神病学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

A five-category grading scheme for assessing the gross morphology of midsagittai sections of the human lumbar intervertebral disc was developed. The ability of three observers to categorize a series of 68 discs with a wide spectrum of morphologies established the comprehensiveness of the classification. Three independent observers tested the reproducibility of the procedure by assignment of grades blindly to duplicate images of 68 discs taken from 15 spines. The intraobserver agreement ranged from 87 to 91%. The interobserver agreement was 61, 64, and 88% for the three pairs, the two low values being attributable to the bias of one observer. The agreement between the assigned and average grades was 85, 92,68,90, and 76% for Grades I through V, respectively. Except for Grade III, the disagreements were attributable mainly to the bias of one observer. Both the increase in the grade with age and the finding that all the discs within 14 of 15 spines had a narrow range of grades demonstrated the biologic credibility of the scheme. © Lippincott-Raven Publishers.

引用

页码：411 / 415

页数：5

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