Testing automated liquid-based cytology samples with a manual liquid-based cytology method using residual cell suspensions from 500 ThinPrep cases

Diagnostic Cytopathology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 391-396

  Maksem, John A ^a,b   Dhanwada, Vijaya ^b   Trueblood, Joy E ^b   Weidmann, James ^c   Kane, Bruce ^c   Bolick, David R ^d   Bedrossian, Carlos W M ^e   Kurtycz, Daniel F I ^f   Stewart III, Jim ^f  

^a Bostwick Laboratories   (United States)

^b MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery   (United States)

^d AmeriPath Utah   (United States)

^e Biomedical Communications   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated liquid based cytology; Gynecologic cytology; Manual liquid based cytology; Thin layer alternatives; Thin Prep

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED LIQUID BASED CYTOLOGY; CELL SUSPENSION; CENTRIFUGATION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DIGITAL IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MANUAL LIQUID BASED CYTOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; TECHNIQUE;

CERVICAL INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 33646817695     PISSN: 87551039     EISSN: 10970339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dc.20466     Document Type: Article

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