the Bethesda System


the Bethesda System

Cytology A system for reporting results from pap smears, which provides a uniform format for cervical and vaginal cytologic specimens, classifying noninvasive lesions and standardizes the lexicon for cervical/vaginal cytology reports, providing clinically relevant information. See Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, High-grade squamous epithelial lesion, HPV, Low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion. Cf Papanicolaou system.