Journal article
Cytopathology: Why did it take so long to thrive?
Abstract
Lionel S. Beale of London made some of the earliest contributions to Cytopathology in the 1850-1860s. Cytopathology then experienced a 60+ year hiatus during which few advances were made. In 1927, Londoner Leonard S. Dudgeon published his wet film method for rapid intraoperative diagnosis and in 1928 Greek-American George Papanicolaou and Romanian Aurel A. Babeş independently discovered that cervical cancer can be diagnosed using vaginal smears;…
Authors
Wright JR
Journal
Diagnostic Cytopathology, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 257–263
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
March 2015
DOI
10.1002/dc.23246
ISSN
8755-1039