OBJECTIVE To describe and evaluate the efficacy of frozen-section analysis of cortical bone margins in surgery of the craniofacial skeleton. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis of a consecutive series of patients undergoing oncologic resection of various head and neck neoplasms with osseous involvement by the senior author (Y.D.) from 1998 to 2003. RESULTS Frozen-section analysis of cortica...

Intraoperative consultation; Smear cytology; Central nervous system neoplasm Smear cytology has been accepted as a suitable alternative to frozen section in intraoperative consultation of central nervous system tumours. Intraoperative smears from neurosurgical specimens permit rapid and accurate diagnosis. Grading of primary tumours may not be always possible on intraoperative smears, but their...

UNLABELLED The role of intraoperative frozen sections (FS) during thyroidectomy is controversial. AIM to evaluate the role of FS for thyroid nodules management. PATIENTS AND METHODS All patients who had thyroid surgery for nodular disease and previous USG-guided FNAB in 2006 were prospectively analyzed. They underwent intraoperative FS evaluation, and the biopsy material was classified as b...

Sertoli-Leydig cells tumors are rare ovarian neoplasms that can be managed with conservative resection given their generally excellent prognosis. Here we report a case of Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor mistakenly diagnosed as an invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma at time of intraoperative consultation because of its blue-mucinous appearance in the frozen section material. The patient subsequently unde...

OBJECTIVE Frozen section is an accurate diagnostic tool with some unavoidable pitfalls in gynecologic tumors. We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of frozen section, and to detect the factors causing erroneous diagnosis in ovarian tumors. MATERIAL AND METHOD Frozen section and paraffin section reports of 282 patients with ovarian neoplasms diagnosed between July 2006 and January 2013 in ...

UNLABELLED Frozen section examination is aimed at making a preoperative diagnosis, determining the benign or malignant nature of a breast lesion, but also the most suitable surgical procedure. The sensitivity and specificity of this method and the causes of discrepancies were analyzed in a retrospective study of 2 177 breast lesions. METHOD 1,150 frozen sections from 2,177 breast lesions were...

The pathological examination of parathyroid glands is an essential component of the evaluation of hyperparathyroidism. Traditionally, this has involved intraoperative frozen sections during bilateral surgical exploration of the neck, to confirm removal of parathyroid tissue. With recent developments in imaging, some diseased glands can be localised preoperatively, enabling removal by minimally ...

The liver is a common visceral site for metastatic tumours. Radiological features of the liver, fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) and histopathological evaluation (HPE) of liver nodules have a significant role in pre-operative diagnosis of liver lesions. In an intraoperative setting, frozen section biopsy plays a major diagnostic modality but the role of imprint cytology of liver nodules i...