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Background: Global strategies to eliminate cervical cancer will
probably be followed by a drop in prevalence of precursor cervical neoplasias,
leading to the need of improving colposcopic diagnostic performance that may
negatively be affected. The aim of this study was to assess agreement among five
colposcopists regarding the presence of three isolated colposcopic images, and
different degrees of colposcopic findings. Methods: In this
retrospective study, two original colposcopists examined colposcopic images of
patients treated between 2005 and 2018, classified them following the
International Federation for Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy terminology, and
evaluated them for the presence of obstructed dilated grouped glands, aceto-white
villi with invaginated borders fused or not, and atypical vessels in cylindrical
epithelium area. Posteriorly, three independent colposcopists also classified
those colposcopic findings. The degree of agreement between the findings of the
three independent, and the two original colposcopists was assessed using the
Kappa (