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High-Grade Urothelial Carcinoma (HGUC)

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The Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology

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Urine cytology has played a critical and integral role in the diagnosis and surveillance screening of high-grade urothelial carcinoma (HGUC). The endeavor of this chapter is to highlight the historical and current perspective of reporting urine cytology, emphasizing HGUC. Diagnostic criteria that are essential and needed for a cytomorphologic diagnosis of HGUC are also identified and listed.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Momin T. Siddiqui

  2. Division of Anatomic Pathology and Histology, Agostino Gemelli School of Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy

    Guido Fadda

  3. Department of Pathology, Inha University Hospital, Incheon, South Korea

    Jee-Young Han

  4. Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA, USA

    Christopher L. Owens

  5. Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Z. Laura Tabatabai

  6. Department of Pathology, Japanese Red Cross Nagoya Daini Hospital, Nagoya, Japan

    Toyonori Tsuzuki

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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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Siddiqui, M.T., Fadda, G., Han, JY., Owens, C.L., Tabatabai, Z.L., Tsuzuki, T. (2016). High-Grade Urothelial Carcinoma (HGUC). 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_6

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