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When the new developments in gynecologic cytology became known in German-speaking countries after World War Two, Papanicolaou and Traut (1943) had established the classification in five groups. Older colleagues who witnessed those years may remember negative evidence, group III - unclear, groups IV and V—positive findings. In particular group IV reflected the presence of some isolated abnormal cells, group V that of numerous abnormal cells in the smears.
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Soost, H.J. (1993). The Munich Nomenclature. In: Pfitzer, P., Grundmann, E. (eds) Current Status of Diagnostic Cytology. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 133. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84951-0_10
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