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Overview of Diagnostic Terminology and Reporting

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The Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology System for Reporting Respiratory Cytology

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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. A number of new treatment options have impacted the need for accurate diagnosis and classification of primary pulmonary carcinomas. Not only must carcinomas be separated into small cell and non-small cell types, but adenocarcinoma must be separated from squamous cell carcinoma. Cytologic material obtained from pulmonary lesions displays a range of abnormalities varying from the clearly benign to the clearly malignant. The-six category system proposed by the Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology categorizes the cytomorphologic features into clinically useful groups with estimated risks of malignancy.

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  1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Jalal B. Jalaly & Zubair Baloch

  2. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Ioannis Ioannidis

  3. Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

    Lester J. Layfield

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  1. Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA

    Lester J. Layfield

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Jalaly, J.B., Ioannidis, I., Layfield, L.J., Baloch, Z. (2019). Overview of Diagnostic Terminology and Reporting. In: Layfield, L., Baloch, Z. (eds) The Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology System for Reporting Respiratory Cytology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97235-0_1

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