BACKGROUND HPV DNA testing has been recently introduced as an adjunct test to cytology in the follow-up of patients after treatment for cervical lesions using the loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP). The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of HPV testing in the detection of persistent or recurrent disease after LEEP in patients with cervical epithelial lesions in northern Thai...

Objective. To determine the possibilities of cytological method urine cellular sediment examination for diagnosis and differential renal urinary tract pathology in liver cirrhosis. Materials methods. A standard observational study 50 inpatients with cirrhosis was performed. Cytological preparations were prepared by liquid cytology cytocentrifugation methods after fixation Results. hospitalized ...

Cytology in China developed from nothing and underwent a long journey from gynecologic cytology to that of all organs, laying a solid foundation for new developments in the 21st century. Thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA) was primarily developed in an endocrinology department and then in the clinical laboratory department or pathology department in the 1970-80s. Wrights staining is popular in...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the role of high risk HPV DNA testing in identifying Chinese younger women with abnormal cytology at risk of harboring cervical intraepithelial neoplasia at grade 2 (CIN2) or worse so as to popularize an effective triage strategy for younger women. METHODS A total of 246 younger women aged 25 - 36 years old with abnormal cytology were recruited in our st...