Cytology at the end of pregnancy: significance of determinations of the eosinophilic and karyopyknotic indices.
The clinical usefulness of the cytologic findings "pre-term," "at term" and "post-term" are discussed briefly. For this investigation, the eosinophilic and pyknotic indices were obtained by counting one hundred cells in each of four microscopic fields. A separation function was calculated using the eosinophilic and pyknotic indices. The results of our study permitted a highly significant separation of the collectives "pre-term" and "at term."
D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004804:Eosinophils; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D011247:Pregnancy; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D014621:Vagina / Q000166:cytology*