Concordance between flow cytometry CLL scores
Marc Sorigue1, Minerva Raya1, Sara Vergara1
1Hematology Laboratory, ICO-Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol. Functional Cytomics- IJC, LUMN, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Spain.
Introduction:
Multiple flow cytometry scores/diagnostic systems for the classification of leukemic lymphoproliferative disorders (LPD) have been published but few have been compared between them.
Patients And Methods:
We classified a cohort of leukemic LPD based on eleven published flow cytometry scores/diagnostic systems and compared their classification as chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or non-CLL LPD.
Results:
329 patients were included. Patients classified as CLL ranged from 46% to 73%, depending on the score/diagnostic system used. All eleven scores/diagnostic systems agreed in 184/324 (57%) of patients while in 58/324 (18%) at least two scores/diagnostic systems classified the patient differently (from the majority). Fleiss kappa was 0.74, but pairwise agreement was variable (Cohen's kappa: 0.48 to 0.87).
Conclusion:
This study found a suboptimal agreement between published flow cytometry scores/diagnostic systems for the classification of LPD.
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