Commentary: Liquid automation refreshes Dr Papanicolaou  

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Watts, Geoff

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: British Medical Journal (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 335 no. 7609 (Jul. 2007), page 35.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: B16.K.2007.03 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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That the Papanicolaou test has been modified so little during the greater part of its existence is surely a tribute to the insight and inventiveness of the physician scientist from whom it takes its name. When change began to be mooted in the 1980s it was because new levels of computing power were making it realistic to think of automating the microscopic examination of cells from the cervix. But to do so reliably depended on first improving the quality of the smears. This prompted the development of liquid based cytology—and with it a need for realistic comparative assessments: of the performance of the new technique as against conventional methods,1 and of automated as against manual microscopy for examining cervical cell preparations....

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