Fluorescence Microscopy in Exfoliative Cytology

Fluorescence Microscopy in Colonic Exfoliative Cytology.

Since the introduction of the exfoliative cytological technique in clinical practice, particularly in the diagnosis of malignant disease of the female genital tract, many authors (Friedman, 1950; Mellors and Silver, 1951; von Bertalanffy, Masin, and Masin, 1956; Liu, 1961) have endeavoured to reduce the time required for scanning the smears by the use of fluorescent microscopy. In this new tech...

Atlas of Exfoliative Cytology

The Atlas of Exfoliative Cytology is a valuable distillate of the vast experience of the master cytologist, Dr. George N. Papanicolaou. The doubtless heavy subsidy from the Commonwealth Fund has been well employed. The book has been prepared in all modesty in loose-leaf form "to keep abreast of new advances," and an appeal is made for new material. As befits an atlas, the illustrations are many...

Exfoliative Cytology in Gynæcological Practice

Exfoliative cytology in general practice.

Cervical cytology is the examination of exfoliated cells from the surface of ectocervix and lower cervical canal. In early invasive carcinoma of the cervix malignant cells may be shed before the condition is clinically recognizable. In carcinomain-situ, which precedes some or all cases of invasive carcinoma, malignant cells may be exfoliated as many as ten or fifteen years before the condition ...

Problems of gastric exfoliative cytology.