European Congress of Cytology 2012

The 37th European Congress of Cytology to be held in Dubrovnik-Cavtat, Croatia. The Congress will include plenary lectures, symposia, seminars, workshops, lectures and poster sections.
We invite you herewith to this country with a rich tradition in cytology, where its development can be divided into four phases: curiosity, enthusiasm, professionalism, and adjustment to common European trends. The phase of curiosity started between the two World Wars, owing to clinical hematologists who were the pioneers of hematologic cytology. Yet, the true beginnings of the Croatian cytology date back to the 1950s to 1960s, i.e. the phase of enthusiasm, also closely related to the clinicians who were the carriers of development of both aspiration cytology and gynecologic cytology.