Why  a grading and scoring system?

• All disease (i.e. pathologic entities) have a quantitative nature (e.g. size of a tumor, severity of inflammation).
• The quantitative attributes often determine the nature of the disease (i.e. diagnosis). For example, when mammary atypical ductal hyperplasia exceeds certain size, it "becomes" intraductal carcinoma.
• Clinical management of a disease almost always influenced by its quantitative attributes.

Why have a web-based approach?

• Managing a large number of grading / scoring schema in conventional book-note format is difficult .
• It is time-consuming and inefficient to thumbing through different books / articles for a needed grading schema.
• You notes of of schemas may likely be misplaced from time to time and / or outdated.
• You may may need to access to the schemas from different places!

How should we quantify the disease with the grading system?

• Adhere to the proposed morphologic criteria.
• Be consistent.
• Pay attention to technics - do right thing CORRECTLY!

How to use this Grading & Scoring system?

• Click on the organ name from the list on the left to view all related grading schema.
• On each Organ page, click on each subtitle to expand or collapse the content.
• To return to this front page, click on the "Grading Schema (main page)" on the top of any page.

Suggest any grading / scoring schema or  give your feedback?   Click Feedback on navigation bar.