Book Review: Frozen Section in Surgical Diagnosis
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Frozen section diagnosis: an audit.
A consecutive series of 1000 operative frozen section diagnoses was reviewed. Correct diagnosis was made at the time in 96.5% of the cases. Clinically relevant errors were found in 1.3% of the cases and unimportant errors in 0.9%. Diagnosis was deferred, to await subsequent paraffin sections, in a further 1.3%. All the errors and provisional diagnoses in the deferred cases were conservative fal...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591577206500155