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CYTOPATHOLOGY
Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 280-283Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cyt.12411
Keywords
automated screening system; Pap smear; endocervical cells; Papanicolaou smear; liquid based; transformation zone material
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Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the reliability of using an interactive automated screening system (IAS) to determine the presence of endocervical and/or metaplastic cells (transformation zone material; TZM) in liquid-based cytology (LBC) Papanicolaou (Pap) smear slides. Materials and methods: A series of LBC Pap smears was manually screened to determine the presence or absence of TZM. The results were compared to those obtained through IAS. Results: ThinPrep (R) Imaging System (Imager)-assisted screening indicated that 22.4% of the slides did not contain TZM in cases in which previous manual screening revealed that 100% of the slides did contain TZM. Conclusion: The reliability of determining TZM through IAS is limited. Manual screening of the slides appears to be necessary to report the presence of TZM accurately.
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