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2003 FEB 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The criteria for laboratory tests that use liquid specimens to detect cervicitis may need to be redefined.
"A review of negative split-sample cervical cytology cases revealed five cases reported as chronic follicular cervicitis. These cases showed characteristic morphological features in conventional smears with lymphoid cells, plasma cells and tingible body macrophages smeared across the slides," reported researchers in Australia.
"This contrasts with the presentation of ThinPrep(R) samples (Cytic Corporation, Boxburgh, MA, USA), where cells were observed aggregated in clumps," said J.A. Halford, Queensland Medical Laboratory, Cytology Department.
"The different presentation noted in liquid-based samples may require careful microscopic evaluation at high-power ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Diagnostic evaluation of liquid-based cervical specimens may need...