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Sometimes, we do our learning backwards—after years of practice, amazingly simple insights finally reveal themselves. This chapter attempts to help jumpstart one’s understanding and, indeed, appreciation of cytology as a subspecialty—how it is different and yet similar to histopathology and what cytology can and can’t do. In this chapter, the Triple Approach is introduced—clinical information, cytology and ancillary tests, and I will also share some concrete tips to improve one’s diagnostic proficiency.
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Nga, M.E. (2021). Basic Principles in Cytopathology: Things I Wish I Knew at the Start. In: Practical Diagnostic Approaches in Non-Gynaecologic Cytology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2961-0_1
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