Information provided in small bowel biopsy reports across different types of pathology practices
| In-house report | Other practice report | ||||
| Total | UH | CH | CL | ||
| No of pieces | 102 (100%) | 24 (24%) | 8 (44%) | 9 (20%) | 7 (18%) |
| Adequacy of orientation | 100 (98%) | 1 (0.98%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (2%) | 0 (0%) |
| Villous to crypt ratio | 102 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Marsh original, Marsh after re-coding | 101 (99%) | 34 (33%), 84 (82%) | 5 (25%), 14 (78%) | 15 (33%), 34 (74%) | 14 (37%), 36 (95%) |
| IEL | 101 (99%) | 14 (14%) | 1 (6%) | 7 (15%) | 6 (16%) |
| LP | 99 (97%) | 5 (5%) | 2 (11%) | 2 (4%) | 1 (3%) |
| ↑Subepithelial collagen deposition | 100 (98%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) |
| Brunner's glands | 97 (95%) | 2 (2%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (2%) | 1 (3%) |
CH, community hospital; CL, commercial laboratory; IEL, intraepithelial lymphocytes; LP, lamina propria lymphocytes; UH, university hospital.