Current Status of Diagnostic Cytology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Current Status of Diagnostic Cytology

   1. Current Status of Diagnostic Cytology

      • L. G. Koss

      Pages 1-16

3. Current Status of Diagnostic Cytology in Germany

   1. Current Status of Diagnostic Cytology in Germany

      • H.-A. Müller

      Pages 17-21

4. New Methods in Diagnostic Cytology

   1. Tumor Biology in Diagnostic Cytology: DNA Cytometry in Carcinomas of the Bladder and Prostate

      • B. Tribukait

      Pages 23-31

   2. Cytodiagnosis of Viral Infections

      • D. V. Coleman

      Pages 33-44

   3. Cytology of Viral Infections in Gynecologic Smears

      • D. Wagner

      Pages 45-45

   4. Immunocytochemistry in Diagnostic Cytology

      • P. Dalquen, G. Sauter, R. Epper, B. Kleiber, G. Feichter, F. Gudat

      Pages 47-80

   5. Nucleolar Organizer Region-Associated Proteins: A Diagnostic Tool in Cytology?

      • J. Rüschoff, K. H. Plate, R. Müller, M. Maasberg, C. Thomas

      Pages 81-89

   6. Automation in Cytology

      • O. A. N. Husain

      Pages 91-97

5. State of the Art of Old Methods

   1. Sampling and Processing in Gynecological Cytology

      • M. Hilgarth

      Pages 99-104

   2. The Munich Nomenclature

      • H. J. Soost

      Pages 105-111

   3. The Bethesda System: The European Perspective

      • V. Schneider

      Pages 113-115

6. Benign Changes in Cytology

   1. Fluorescence Microscopy for Pneumocystis carinii

      • K. Wehle, T. Küpper, P. Pfitzer

      Pages 117-121

7. Quality Control

   1. Quality Control in Cytology

      • O. A. N. Husain

      Pages 123-132

8. Who is a Cytologist?

   1. Who is a Medical Cytologist?

      • O. A. N. Husain

      Pages 133-136

   2. Cytology Training in the European Community: European Community Training Programme in Cervical Cancer Screening

      • D. V. Coleman

      Pages 137-140

   3. The Austrian Regulation

      • J. H. Holzner

      Pages 141-143

   4. The Swiss Regulation for the Specializations of Cytopathology and Gynecocytology

      • J. Jenny

      Pages 145-149

   5. Diagnostic Cytology in the United States

      • L. G. Koss

      Pages 151-152

   6. Cytotechnologists in Germany

      • J. Lange

      Pages 153-155

Progress in science is often promoted by a new method. Diagnostic cytology, however, developed slowly over a whole century, mainly in differentiating malignant from benign cells from various tissues. The decisive step in this development was the intensive investigation of one local­ ization by Papanicolaou: The application of cytology for screening in the field of gynecologic oncology made it an acknowledged technique. Consequently, materials inves­ tigated before were tested again on a larger scale and new ones were included into the program. The possibility of a wide-range application of this diag­ nostic method, which carries a low risk for the patient and is low in cost, attracted the specialists of many fields. One of the problems which has resulted is the coordination of training and quality assurance for a large group of people from different fields and with different interests and whose experience in morphology varies. In this volume general problems of cytology are dis­ cussed, as is the question "who is a medical cytologist?" Education and training are the topics of the contributions by Coleman, Holzner, Jenny, Koss and Muller, cover­ ing the situation in the European Community, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the USA. A special contribu­ tion by Lange concerns the situation of cytotechnologists, paramedicals important for cytologic screening programs.

• Ausbildungsprobleme
• Cancer Screening
• DNA
• Diagnostic Cytology
• Methods of Diagnostic Cytology
• biology
• cancer
• carcinoma
• cytology
• cytopathology
• microscopy
• pathology
• regulation
• screening
• tumor

• Institute for Cytopathology Center for Pathology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

  Peter Pfitzer

• Gerhard Domagk Institute for Pathology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

  E. Grundmann

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