Establishing diagnostic criteria for mastocytosis in skin biopsies.
Philippe DrabentLaura PolivkaJulie AgopianJean-Paul Duong Van HuyenPierre-Alain ThiebautPatrice DubreuilOlivier HermineThierry Jo MolinaSylvie FraitagPublished in: Histopathology (2021)
We confirmed that the criteria currently applied in the bone marrow were not appropriate for the skin. Accordingly, we developed an algorithm for the diagnosis of mastocytosis in skin biopsies with a high level of interrater reproducibility (mean kappa 0.8).