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Suspicious for High-Grade Urothelial Carcinoma (Suspicious)

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The Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology

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The diagnosis of “suspicious for high-grade urothelial carcinoma (SHGUC)” is meant to reflect the presence of urothelial cells with severe atypia that falls short for a diagnosis of high-grade urothelial carcinoma (HGUC) but beyond atypia that is associated with the “atypical urothelial cells” (AUC). This chapter lists the quantitative and qualitative cytomorphologic criteria needed for a diagnosis of SHGUC.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Fadi Brimo

  2. Department of Pathology, McGill University, Health Center, Decarie, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Manon Auger

  3. Department of Pathology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Tarik M. Elsheikh

  4. Department of Pathology, Harper University Hospital— Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University Medical School, Detroit, MI, USA

    Hui Guan

  5. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Steel Memorial Yawata Hospital, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

    Mitsuru Kinjo

  6. Hospices Civils de Lyon, Centre de Pathologie Est, Hôpital Femme-Mère-Enfant, Bron, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France

    Eric Piaton

  7. Department of Pathology, McGill University Health Center, Decarie, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Dorothy L. Rosenthal

  8. Division of Anatomic Pathology, Steel Memorial Yawata Hospital, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan

    Tatsuro Shimokama

  9. Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Rosemary H. Tambouret

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  1. The Johns Hopkins Hospital, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Dorothy L. Rosenthal

  2. Department of Pathology, Loyola University Medical Center Department of Pathology, MAYWOOD, Illinois, USA

    Eva M. Wojcik

  3. Department of Pathology and Laboratory M, University of Wisconsin School of Medine Department of Pathology and Laboratory M, MADISON, Wisconsin, USA

    Daniel F.I. Kurtycz

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Brimo, F. et al. (2016). Suspicious for High-Grade Urothelial Carcinoma (Suspicious). In: Rosenthal, D., Wojcik, E., Kurtycz, D. (eds) The Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22864-8_5

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