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The cytology reporting of cervicovaginal specimens has changed over the past 6 decades. The previous systems and the current WHO are linear with only definitive diagnostic categories. While The Bethesda System is non-linear and introduced atypical squamous cells, which can include changes from benign to the neoplastic spectrum.
