title: Guidelines for the Cytopathologic Diagnosis of Epithelioid and Mixed-Type Malignant Mesothelioma: a secondary publication.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide practical guidelines for the cytopathologic diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Cytopathologists with an interest in the field involved in the International Mesothelioma Interest Group (IMIG) and the International Academy of Cytology (IAC) contributed to this update. Reference material includes peer-reviewed publications and textbooks.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  This article is the result of discussions during and after the IMIG 2012 conference in Boston, followed by thorough discussions during the 2013 IAC meeting in Paris. Additional contributions have been obtained from cytopathologists and scientists who could not attend these meetings, with final discussions and input during the IMIG 2014 conference in Cape Town.
authors.affiliation: Division of Clinical Pathology/Cytology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Huddinge, Sweden.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hjerpe
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiological, Oncological and Pathological Sciences, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ascoli
authors.affiliation: Rush University Medical College, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: C W M
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Bedrossian
authors.affiliation: Leiden Cytology and Pathology Laboratory, Lieveren, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Boon
authors.affiliation: National Centre for Asbestos Related Disease, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, QEII Medical Centre, Perth, WA, Australia.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Creaney
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Davidson
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine in Malmö, Lund University, Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dejmek
authors.affiliation: Division of Clinical Pathology/Cytology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Huddinge, Sweden.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dobra
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fassina
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomical Pathology, St Vincents Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Field
authors.affiliation: Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Firat
authors.affiliation: Division of Pathology, Yamaguchi Grand Medical Center, Hofu, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kamei
authors.affiliation: Cancer Education and Research Center, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Michael
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Önder
authors.affiliation: Department of Tissue Pathology, PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA, QE2 Medical Centre, Perth, WA, Australia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Segal
authors.affiliation: Department of Biopathology, Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Center, Villejuif, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vielh
mesh_terms: D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008654:Mesothelioma / Q000175:diagnosis*
keywords: Guidelines; International Mesothelioma Interest Group; ancillary testing; cytology; malignant mesothelioma