Back صبغة بابابيكولاو Arabic Tinción de Papanicolaou Spanish Coloration de Papanicolaou French パパニコロウ染色 Japanese Coloração de Papanicolau Portuguese Barvanje po Papanicolaouu Slovenian Papanikolau test Serbian
Papanicolaou stain (also Papanicolaou's stain and Pap stain) is a multichromatic (multicolored) cytological staining technique developed by George Papanicolaou in 1942.[1][2][3] The Papanicolaou stain is one of the most widely used stains in cytology,[1] where it is used to aid pathologists in making a diagnosis. Although most notable for its use in the detection of cervical cancer in the Pap test or Pap smear, it is also used to stain non-gynecological specimen preparations from a variety of bodily secretions and from small needle biopsies of organs and tissues.[4][5] Papanicolaou published three formulations of this stain in 1942, 1954, and 1960.[2]
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