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We usually don't report inflammatory cells in pap smears, conventional or liquid based alike, and some cytopathologists even don't report reactive cellular changes because this is very common and pap smears are not designed to diagnose that. But we must know the morphologic reactive changes so we don't overcall ASCUS. Inflammatory cells usually don't interfere with my interpretation of epithelial cells. If it does, we put partial or complete abscuring inflammation in specimen adequacy. When 75% of squamous cells are obscured by inflammatory cells, the specimen is unsatisfactory for evaluation.
I do report heavy inflammation and marked reactive/reparative changes.