Do angioscopy and intravascular ultrasound accurately reflect histological classification?
Angioscopy and intravascular ultrasound demonstrate high agreement with histological classification, validating their use for assessing vessel pathology.
Contingency analyses showed that each imaging method alone or combined had significant agreement with the results obtained from histology (p less than 0.001). When assessing all cases in which angioscopy and ultrasound were concordant, there was a 92% agreement with the histological classification.
Siegel et al. (Mon,) studied this question.