Editing Pap test (section)

==History==
The test was invented by and named after the Greek doctor [[Georgios Papanikolaou]], who started his research in 1923.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last1=Zheng |first1=Wenxin |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRegDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA572 |title=Gynecologic and Obstetric Pathology, Volume 2 |last2=Fadare |first2=Oluwole |last3=Quick |first3=Charles Matthew |last4=Shen |first4=Danhua |last5=Guo |first5=Donghui |date=2019-07-01 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-981-13-3019-3 |language=en |chapter=History of Pap Test}}</ref> [[Aurel Babeș]] independently made similar discoveries in 1927.<ref>M.J. O'Dowd, E.E. Philipp, ''The History of Obstetrics & Gynaecology'', London, Parthenon Publishing Group, 1994, p. 547.</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pambuccian| first= Stefan E.| date =  2023 | title = Was the Cytologic Method for Cervical Cancer Diagnosis discovered by Serendipity or by Design (hypothesis-based Research)  | journal = Sudhoffs Archiv | volume = 107 | issue = 1 | pages = 55–83 | doi = 10.25162/sar-2023-0004 | issn=2366-2352}}</ref> However, Babeș' method was radically different from Papanikolaou's.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Diamantis A, Magiorkinis E, Androutsos G | date = Jul 2010 | title = What's in a name? Evidence that Papanicolaou, not Babeș, deserves credit for the Pap test | journal = Diagnostic Cytopathology | volume = 38 | issue = 7| pages = 473–6 | doi = 10.1002/dc.21226 | pmid = 19813255 | s2cid = 37757448 }}</ref>

The Pap test was finally recognized only after a leading article in the ''[[American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology]]'' in 1941 by Papanikolaou and Herbert F. Traut, an American gynecologist.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Papanicolaou |first1=George N. |last2=Traut |first2=Herbert F. |date=1941 |title=The Diagnostic Value of Vaginal Smears in Carcinoma of the Uterus**This study has been aided by the Commonwealth Fund. Presented before the New York Obstetrical Society, March 11, 1941. |url=https://doi.org/10.1016/S0002-9378(16)40621-6 |journal=American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=193–206 |doi=10.1016/s0002-9378(16)40621-6 |issn=0002-9378}}</ref> A monograph titled ''Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer by the Vaginal Smear'' that they published contained drawings of the various cells seen in patients with no disease, inflammatory conditions, and preclinical and clinical carcinoma.<ref name=":3" /> The monograph was illustrated by [[Hashime Murayama]], who later became a staff illustrator with the [[National Geographic Society]].<ref name=":3" /> Both Papanikolaou and his wife, [[Andromachi Papanikolaou]], dedicated the rest of their lives to teaching the technique to other physicians and laboratory personnel.<ref name=":3" />