Standardizing the unstandardized: The international system reaches the cerebrospinal fluid
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Two new studies now make the most substantial case yet that the framework of the International System for Reporting Serous Fluid Cytopathology can be carried across the biologic boundary to include cerebrospinal fluid, and current work on the second edition of the system will address cerebrospinal fluid for the first time as a special category of body fluid-an expansion the international community has explicitly endorsed. The contributions of these authors will stand among the empirical foundations on which a coherent, cerebrospinal fluid-specific-and, ultimately, fluid-agnostic-reporting standard can be built.
Source: Cancer Cytopathology
DOI: 10.1002/cncy.70133
Author: Ashish Chandra
Institution: National Health Service
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7170881344