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Re: GYN: Liquid Paps From: Joanne Bulley, MD (islesannie@yahoo.com) Tue Aug 17 22:58:00 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: GYN: Liquid Paps" Previous message: Larry Glazerman: "Re: Liquid Paps" In reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "GYN: Liquid Paps" Next in thread: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: GYN: Liquid Paps" The pathologists at the hospital here in Keene looked everything over and bought the equipment to do the SurePath one in house - which we have been using for the past 4 or 5 years. We completely converted to taht and have not done slides since that time for cervical cytology. Just like the Quest ThinPrep, you use the "Paintbrush" as you call it - and drop the whole brush in the liquid. And for the ones you need more endocervical cells, you have a thin brush thing - and sometimes I end up using the old cytobrush and cutting it off into the liquid - if that is the only way I can get into the os. Joanne At Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Garry E. Siegel, M.D. wrote: > >Does anyone have any knowledge about which brand of liquid paps are OK? >(Sorry that I'm not slick enough to put the "registered" or "trademark" >thingies like the Mac users can). > >We've used ThinPrep, with a platic spatula and endocervial brush, >supplied by our national lab (Quest). > >We're now using LabCorp (another lab) and they supply SurePath liquid >based Pap system from TriPath (http://www.surepath.com). > >It is FDA approved, uses a "paint brush" which is left in the cytology >fluid so they'll get more specimen. > >My gut says that this is fine--FDA approved, big national lab, etc. > >Any thoughts? > >Garry > >-- >Garry E. Siegel, M.D. >Private Practice >Roswell, GA > -- Joanne Bulley, MD Keene, NH, USA "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 1953 Next message: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: GYN: Liquid Paps" Previous message: Larry Glazerman: "Re: Liquid Paps" In reply to: Garry E. Siegel, M.D.: "GYN: Liquid Paps" Next in thread: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C.: "Re: GYN: Liquid Paps"

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