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Some questions inquired about their daily practice routine whilst others proposed different cytological examples with the intention of knowing how they would report those particular cases.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p>Twenty‐eight participants (18 cytopathologists, two general pathologists and seven residents) from 17 different Spanish hospitals completed the survey. 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