Chemotherapy effect

Cervix - Cytology
Atypia / premalignant / preinvasive lesions
Chemotherapy effect

Topic Completed: 1 June 2011

Revised: 27 December 2018, last major update June 2011

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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 June 17th, 2019.

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