This book is divided into chapters that emphasize the common questions that a pathologist must answer on frozen section examination and the pitfalls associated with those specific diagnoses.
These books will be small and light-weight, copiously color illustrated with images of actual frozen sections, highlighting pitfalls, artifacts and differential diagnosis.
5.1 FIGURE 5.1 Surgical management of cystic lesions of the pancreas in response to the frozen section diagnosis. There are two main intraoperative options for treatment of cystic pancreatic lesions: drainage and resection.
... Biopsy Interpretation: The Frozen Section. Taxy J Husain A, Montag A, editors, pp. 149–171. Lippincott Williams ... Upper Aerodigestive Tract and Ear, Third Series, Vol. 26. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Press, Washington, DC, 2000 ...
This book serves as a very useful resource for physicians in the frozen section room and in intra-operative consultation situations dealing with, and interested in, this very complex field of diagnostic pathology.
Ibrahim Ramzy, M.D., is Professor of Pathology - Laboratory Medicine & Obstetrics-Gynecology, University of California, Irvine, California and Adjunct Professor of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.