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Each observer used their subjective judgement in grading without receiving any discriminatory criteria. RESULTS: Most classified the series of 70 clusters of endometrial cells into 33 negative, 20 suspicious, and 17 positive grades. However, observer variation was considerable, kappa statistics showing unfavourable overall agreement (kappa = 0.36). Although there was good agreement on negative and positive (kappa = 0.46 and 0.47, respectively), poor reproducibility occurred in grading suspicious ((kappa = 0.15). CONCLUSIONS: Currently, Japanese cytopathologists are not reliable in grading the atypicality of endometrial cells. 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