What does the Data of 354,725 Patients from Turkey Tell Us About Cervical Smear Epithelial Cell Abnormalities? - The Epithelial Cell Abnormality Rate is Increasing - Quality Control Studies and Corrective Activity are Musts

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Turkmen I. C., USUBÜTÜN A., Cakir A., AYDIN Ö., BOLAT F., AKBULUT M., ...More

TURKISH JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY, vol.33, no.2, pp.134-143, 2017 (ESCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 33 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2017
  • Doi Number: 10.5146/tjpath.2016.01380
  • Journal Name: TURKISH JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.134-143
  • Keywords: Cervical Smear, Epithelial cell abnormality, Turkey, SCREENING SENSITIVITY, TURKISH POPULATION, ASC/SIL RATIO, CYTOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, HISTOLOGY, PROGRAM, LESIONS
  • Akdeniz University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Objective: There is no other screening program close to the success rate of PAP test. Cervical cytology constitutes a large workload so that quality control in cervical cytology is important for the quality assurance of pathology laboratories.