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BMC Cancer BioMed Central Research article Open Access Atypical glandular cells in conventional cervical smears: Incidence and follow-up 1,2,3 1 1 2 René Scheiden* , Catherine Wagener , Ulrich Knolle , Walter Dippel and Catherine Capesius3 Address: 1Division of clinical cytology, National Health Laboratory, L – 1950 Luxembourg, 2Division of pathology, National Health Laboratory, L – 1950 Luxembourg and 3Morphologic Tumour Registry, L – 1950 Luxembourg Email: René Scheiden* - rmt@lns.etat.lu; Catherine Wagener - rmt@lns.etat.lu; Ulrich Knolle - rmt@lns.etat.lu; Walter Dippel - rmt@lns.etat.lu; Catherine Capesius - rmt@lns.etat.lu * Corresponding author Published: 19 July 2004 Received: 18 March 2004 Accepted: 19 July 2004 BMC Cancer 2004, 4:37 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-4-37 This article is available from: /1471-2407/4/37 © 2004 Scheiden et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the articles original URL. AGC-NOScervical smearsincidencetime trendsoutcome Abstract Background: Atypical glandular cells on cervical smears are often associated with clinically significant uterine lesions. The frequency and accuracy of AGC-NOS (i.e. atypical glandular cells, not otherwise specified) diagnoses, regardless of