The Bethesda System for Reporting Cervical Cytology Definitions, Cri
This book offers clear, up-to-date guidance on how to report cytologic findings in cervical, vaginal and anal samples in accordance with the 2014 Bethesda System Update. The new edition has been expanded and revised to take into account the advances and e
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The Bethesda System for Reporting Cervical Cytology
Ritu Nayar • David C. Wilbur Editors
The Bethesda System for Reporting Cervical Cytology Definitions, Criteria, and Explanatory Notes Third Edition
Editors Ritu Nayar Deparment of Pathology Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL USA
David C. Wilbur Department of Pathology Harvard Medical School Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA USA
ISBN 978-3-319-11073-8 ISBN 978-3-319-11074-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-11074-5
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Foreword
It is a privilege, a pleasure, and something of a surprise for me to write this Foreword to the third edition of the Cervical Cytology Bethesda System Atlas. I never imagined that a small meeting on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, one snowy weekend in December 1988 would begin a process that has changed the practice of cervical cytology – in both the laboratory and the clinician’s office – around the world. This third edition of the atlas continues that evolution, presenting the lat
