title: How technology is reshaping the practice of nongynecologic cytology: frontiers of cytology symposium.
abstract: To pay tribute to the Founders of Acta Cytologica, this Golden Anniversary symposium on nongynecologic cytology revives the written symposium style of the 1950s. Participants from countries throughout the world were asked how new technologies are currently applied in their laboratories and whether future advances and challenges can be predicted. The specific questions and the participants' answers follow.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. marluce.bibbo@mail.tju.edu
authors.forename: Marluce
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bibbo
mesh_terms: D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D003585:Cell Biology / Q000639:trends*; D003581:Cytodiagnosis / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D019044:Image Cytometry / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D007150:Immunohistochemistry / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D010336:Pathology / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D016707:Tissue Fixation / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends