Paris system in reporting urinary cytology and correlating with follow up histopathological evaluation, in tertiary care hospital

Abstract

Introduction: Away from diagnostic importance, urinary tract endoscopy is a painful, expensive and time consuming procedure. Now a time, The Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology (TPSRUC) has lead to prime changes in the perspective of assessment in urine cytology and pattern of reporting. Our focus in this study was to evaluate the impact of implementing The Paris system in reporting urinary cytology and correlating with follow up histopathological evaluation. Patients & Method: It is a Retrospective study of 6 months duration, from January 2021 to June 2021 using 156 urine samples in Cytology section, Department of pathology at Dhiraj hospital Waghodia. All freshly collected urine specimens were centrifuge, prepared as Thin slides fixed with methanol and stained with Hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) and Papanicolaou stain then evaluated under light microscopy. Results: In total, 156 cytology specimens the sample was composed of 90 (58%) men and 66 (42%) women (the ratio of men to women was 1.4:1).