| 2.5.1 Tests on biopsy material
(1) For items in Group P5 (Tissue pathology):
biopsy material means all tissue received by an approved pathology practitioner:
(a) from a medical procedure, or group of medical procedures, performed on a patient at the same time; or
(b) after being expelled spontaneously from a patient.
cytology means microscopic examination of 1 or more stained preparations of cells separated naturally or artificially from their normal environment by methods recognised as adequate to demonstrate their structure to a degree sufficient to enable an opinion to be formed about whether they are likely to be normal, abnormal but benign, or abnormal and malignant but, in accordance with customary laboratory practice, does not include examination of a blood film and a bone marrow aspirate.
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