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Chemotherapy effect


Marilin Rosa, M.D.

Topic Completed: 1 June 2011

Revised: 27 December 2018, last major update June 2011

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Marilin Rosa, M.D.
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Definition / general | Cytology description
Cite this page: Rosa M. Chemotherapy effect. PathologyOutlines.com website. http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/cervixcytologychemotherapyeffect.html. Accessed January 27th, 2020.
Definition / general
  • Chemotherapy is usually associated with a normal cellular pattern
  • Also reactive cellular changes, atrophic pattern (Acta Cytol 1999;43:1027)
Cytology description
  • Smudged chromatin, only a few atypical cells present
  • Nuclear to cytoplasmic ration (N/C ratio) remains low
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