Recommendations of the European Advisory Committee of Cytotechnology and European Federation of Cytology Societies for Training and Education of Cytotechnologists in Europe.

Background: Faced with changes in cytodiagnostics, cervical cancer screening programs, the introduction and application of new methods, the cytotechnological educational program requires the necessary changes and additions. Insufficient, uneven as well as inaccessible education of cytotechnologists in European countries was the basis for making these recommendations.

Summary: The results of previous research and publications related to the currently available education of cytotechnologists in Europe, the needs and suggestions were given by the European Advisory Committee of Cytotechnology (EACC) and European Federation of Cytology Societies (EFCS) for optimal education of future generations of cytotechnologists were used in the preparation of these recommendations.

[Erythrocyte morphology in urine determined by light microscopy in patients with bladder cancer].

A finding of 80% or more of dysmorphic erythrocytes is assumed to point to kidney glomeruli, and of 80% or more of isomorphic erythrocytes to lower urinary tract as the origin of bleeding. In urine samples without significant origin of bleeding, there were 20%-80% of mixed results with both dysmorphic and isomorphic erythrocytes. The aim of the study was to show the origin of erythrocytes in malignant urine samples.

[Education of cytotechnologists--are we satisfied with what we had, what we have, and what we want?].

Our aim is to present training of cytotechnologists in Croatia as it looked in the past, as it appears at present, and our desires, needs, and upcoming changes necessary in future education of cytotechnologists. Education in cytotechnology begins at the School of Health Technicians, where the first organized training of cytotechnologists was held in 1968/1969, thanks to the efforts invested by Professor Inga Crepinko. After a period of training in a six-month course, during the 1981-1992 period training took place in the form of a one-year program evaluated as education level V.

[Fine needle aspirate of lymph node as the analytical sample for immunophenotyping].

In modern clinical laboratory routine, cell analysis by flow cytometry means help in setting up the diagnosis by determination of B-lymphocyte clonality and thus separation of benign and malignant lymphoproliferative diseases. The aim of this study was to assess the value of cytologic diagnosis and adequacy of the material obtained by fine needle aspiration (FNA) of lymph nodes for flow cytometry analysis in cases of benign lesions and primary malignant lesions of lymph nodes. In addition, the aim was to determine B-lymphocyte clonality in different groups of benign and malignant lymph node lesions.