Abstract
The liquid-based cytology sample preparations (liquid-based preparation [LBP]) include ThinPrep (TP) (Cytyc Corp, Marlborough, MA) and SurePath (SP) (TriPath Imaging Inc., Burlington, NC). In both of these systems, instead of smearing cells on a slide, cells are rinsed into a liquid collection media containing fixatives. This ensures the capture of an entire sample from the collection devices. For conventional smears, most of the sample (≈80%) is discarded with the sampling device. Despite the difference in preparatory techniques, the two LBP, TP and SP, are similar in appearance (Table 1).KeywordsCell PreservationCollection DeviceAtypical Squamous CellPreparatory TechniqueConventional SmearThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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