Industry Reviews The system was developed at a National Cancer Institute-sponsored workshop in December 1988 to provide uniform diagnostic terminology that would facilitate communication between the laboratory and the clinician. This monograph presents precise criteria for both the diagnostic terms and for the descriptors of specimen adequacy. The criteria and descriptions provided here are intended to supplement the classification and are not meant to be a comprehensive treatise on gynecologic cytopathology. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. SciTech Book News