title: Invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix. IV. Analysis of a histopathologic malignancy grading system and construction of a partial index.
abstract: A new histopathologic malignancy index has previously proved capable of permitting discrimination of patients with carcinoma of the uterine cervix (stage II) with respect to prognosis. Eight histopathologic items graded from 1 to 3 add up to constitute the malignancy index. By regression analysis the number of items could be reduced to 4. Seemingly without loss in the prediction value a partial index was elaborated by the following 4 items: mitosis, mode of invasion, cellular response, and vascular invasion, the latter attributed double the weight. The predictive value of the partial index seemed to be as good as that of the previous malignancy index on an independent materials as well.
mesh_terms: D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D012044:Regression Analysis; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*