# Processor, Cervical Cytology Slide, Automated
> **Product code: MKQ** · Class III — High Risk (PMA approval required, life-sustaining) · Unknown · —
## Classification
- **FDA Product Code:** MKQ
- **Device class:** Class III — High Risk (PMA approval required, life-sustaining)
- **Regulation:** —
- **Review panel:** PA
- **Medical specialty:** Unknown
- **Submission type:** 2
- **GMP exempt:** N
- **Life sustaining:** N
- **Implant:** N
- **Third-party review:** N
## Definition

It is a system that is used to collect and prepare cervical cytology specimens for Pap stain-based screening for cervical cancer.  The specimens are collected and rinsed into a liquid preservative fluid from which they are then automatically filtered and deposited in a thin-layer on a glass microscope slide.  They are stained and screened by a cytotechnologist and cytopathologist.

## Market data
- **Cleared 510(k) submissions:** 0
- **Registered establishments:** 7
## Source
- [FDA Device Classification](https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpcd/classification.cfm?ID=MKQ)
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