Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol 78, Issue 12 995-1004, Copyright © 1985 by Royal Society of Medicine
ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
JG Cowpe, RB Longmore and MW Green
This study describes the development of quantitative cytological techniques and their application to oral smears. Nuclear and cell size has been measured and matched with age, sex and site in an attempt to produce a baseline for comparison with identical measurements carried out on pathological smears. The results displayed a significant variation in nuclear and cytoplasmic area between different sites. Nuclear size varied significantly with advancing age; however, this was not the case for cytoplasmic area. There was no significant variation in either criterion between males and females.