Histological Correlation of Glandular Abnormalities in Cervical Liquid-Based Cytology

Histological Correlation of Glandular Abnormalities in Cervical Liquid-Based Cytology

Conventional Papanicolaou smear method is still commonly used for cervical cancer screening in Japan, despite the liquid-based cytology (LBC) that has become a global tendency in the world recently. One of the obstacles in the way of popularization of this method seems to be the confusion as to diagnosis upon cervical glandular lesions. We performed comparison study between LBC and conventional...

An audit of liquid-based cervical cytology screening samples (ThinPrep and SurePath) reported as glandular neoplasia.

OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to assess the number of cases diagnosed as glandular neoplasia (national report code 6) of cervical (6A) and non-cervical (6B) types on ThinPrep (TP) and SurePath (SP) liquid-based cytology (LBC) samples and to calculate the positive predictive value (PPV) of these diagnoses for significant glandular and/or squamous pathology for local audit and as a contr...

Histopathological correlation of squamous cell abnormalities detected on cervical cytology.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the correlation between cytology and cervical biopsy in patients with squamous cell abnormality on cervical cytology. MATERIAL AND METHOD The cervical smears diagnosed in our clinic between 2005-2008 were reviewed retrospectively. Cases which exhibited squamous cell abnormality (n: 374) were evaluated. RESULTS The mean age was 45.15±10.78. In the cytopathological re...

Cytology of cervical intraepithelial glandular lesions.

Cytological criteria for the identification of glandular intraepithelial lesions (GIL) have not yet been fully described, especially for the precursors of adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS), thus these lesions may frequently remain unrecognized. As most patients diagnosed with AIS or mild to moderate GIL (grades I, II) are free from clinical symptoms, cytology has a very responsible role in the detec...

Liquid-based cytology in cervical screening