Frozen sections are performed for the purpose of rapid diagnosis while a patient is undergoing surgery, usually under general anesthesia, as a basis for making immediate treatment decisions. Therefore, frozen section diagnosis is often a highly demanding situation for the pathologist who must render a diagnosis quickly and a crucial determination for the patient and surgeon. In additionto the need for rapid recall of differential diagnoses, there are many pitfalls and artifacts that add to the risk of frozen section diagnosis that are notpresent with permanent sections of fully processed tissues that can be examined in a more leisurely fashion. Most standard pathology textbooks, both general and subspecialty, largely ignore the topic of frozen section. Few textbooks have ever focused exclusively on frozen section diagnosis and those textbooks that have done so are now out-of-date and have limited numbers of black and white figures Well Illustrated Concise Handbook Site Specific INDICE: Benign Proliferations versus Cancer.- Primary Cancers of the Lung.- Metastases to the Lung.- Surgical Margins.- Benign Focal Lesions.- Wedge Biopsy for Diffuse Lung Diseases.- Lymph Nodes.- Suggested Reading.- Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-09572-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 200
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés