Smears From the Female Urethra and Their Relationship to Smears of the Urinary Sediment

Comparative Study of Vaginal Smears and Urinary Sediments in Puerperium and Postpartum Period

“…This suggests that the The maturation value of the urinary hormone-dependent epithelium of the ure- thra and trigone of bladder follows the same line of these periods of recovery as does the vaginal epithelium. 3 In postpartum women, Peters 13 has shown a more advanced type of maturation of the vaginal than the cervical epithelium. The more rapid recovery of the vaginal epithelium as contrasted with that of the endometrium in the postpartum period was reported by De Rezende and Kamnitzer 2 and Van Meensel.'…”

Observations on Urinary Sediment Cell Counts in Women

“…In our first studies c; 1953 a) we proposed to determine by means of a strict statistical analysis the exact mathematical co-relation of the »close parallelism« which Del Castillo, Argonz 8c Galli Mainini (1946) referred to in their original work. From these studies the following facts can be deduced: a) There was a parallelism between the variations of the superficial acido- From the Clinic for Endocrine and Nutritional Diseases, Rosario (S. Fé), Argentina phil cells1 of vaginal and urinary sediment smears simultaneously prepared and examined at the same time.…”