Introducing a new scoring system for pap smear in the detection of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions in pregnancy (The Luebeck Score).

Purpose: To construct a scoring system for pap smears to objectify cytological appraisal and to enhance the accuracy and comparability of pap smear interpretation in pregnancy.

Materials And Methods: For development of a scoring system for cell appraisal of pap smears the style of the Modified Masood's Scoring Index for appraisal of cells from fine needle aspirations of breast lesions was used. Cohort analysis of n = 54 dysplastic pap smears for polymorphology of cells, anisonucleosis, structure of the nucleus, signs of tissue destruction, nucleus/plasma relation and signs of tumordiathesis.

Method comparison between Munich II and III nomenclature for Pap smear samples.

Objective: Munich Nomenclature III for cervical smear evaluation also known as Papanicolaou (Pap) smear was launched in Germany in July 2014, and it is the only used system in Germany. The study aims at a method comparison between the previously used nomenclature Munich II and the currently used Munich III.

Material And Methods: A method comparison was performed by analyzing 117 Pap smear samples (pss) in the cytological laboratory of the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Luebeck University between January and March 2014.