Chandra Ashish, Crothers Barbara, Kurtycz Daniel, Schmitt Fernando
Department of Cellular Pathology, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom,
Gynecologic, Breast, and Cytopathology Services, Joint Pathology Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
Acta Cytol. 2019;63(5):349-351. doi: 10.1159/000501536. Epub 2019 Jun 24.
Serous fluids are a common but important specimen type in a cytopathology laboratory. There is as yet no agreed standardized terminology to allow uniformity in reporting on these specimens. Given that serous fluids are a rich source of cytopathological as well as molecular information on a range of benign and often advanced malignant conditions, a unified approach to handling and reporting these specimens covering the pre-analytical, analytical and postanalytical stages seems timely. Representatives of the international cytology community have come together once again to develop an algorithmic diagnostic and management approach to the reporting of these samples.
浆液性体液是细胞病理学实验室中常见但重要的标本类型。目前尚无公认的标准化术语来使这些标本的报告保持统一。鉴于浆液性体液是一系列良性和通常为晚期恶性疾病的细胞病理学以及分子信息的丰富来源，一种涵盖分析前、分析中和分析后阶段处理和报告这些标本的统一方法似乎很及时。国际细胞学领域的代表再次齐聚一堂，以制定一种针对这些样本报告的算法诊断和管理方法。
