A plea for international consensus on categorisation of lesions on the boundary between LSIL and HSIL

摘要

Dear Editor, I read with interest the Editorial by Herbert et al, the paper by Hunter et al.and the letter by Solomon and Nayar in preceding issues of this journal. It is pleasing to see the widespread adoption of the Bethesda System (TBS) and variants thereof, such as the revised British Society for Clinical Cytology (BSCC) terminology and European terminology6 which retain the essentially same diagnostic categories but utilise local terminology for the reporting of exfoliative gynaecologic cytology. TBS is important for communication between professionals for patient management, for international comparability of routinely collected data and to facilitate comparisons between studies performed in different countries. The international alignment of cervical cytology reporting along the precepts laid down by the TBS is timely and important for these reasons.