The Frozen Section by Jerome B. Taxy, Aliya Husain, Anthony Montag

By Jerome B. Taxy, Aliya Husain, Anthony Montag

The moment variation of Biopsy Interpretation: The Frozen Section, a quantity in the Biopsy Interpretation Series, addresses the frozen part, that's one of many intraoperative consultative thoughts. It illustrates the sensible use of the frozen part within the administration of medical difficulties, particularly tumors. The calls for of sufferer care require wisdom of the resources and barriers of the frozen part, together with the sensible recommendations of its execution, interpretation, and the verbal exchange of its effects. even supposing the frozen part is the focal point, the imperative concept at the back of this e-book is intraoperative session and sufferer management.

This version good points updates to the organ method dependent chapters in addition to a revised bankruptcy on pediatric pathology. new chapters on hematopathology and a evaluation of released literature have additionally been added.

The objective of this e-book is not to in simple terms offer up to date info at the perform of frozen part, but additionally to assist clarify the position the final surgical pathologist can play within the therapy of patients.

 Features: 

  • Histologic illustrations are real frozen sections, with artifacts
  • Updated and elevated text
  • Emphasis is put on the morphologic services of the surgical pathologist in common hematoxylin and eosin sections and imprints
  • Over four hundred 4-color photographs within the ebook and an extra one hundred fifty e-figures integrated at the accompanying on-line website (with over 50 quiz questions)

 Also integrated with the web significant other site:

  • Fully searchable text
  • Over a hundred and fifty images
  • Test financial institution that's inspiration for board examination preparation 

 

 

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23. College of American Pathologists. Laboratory Accreditation Checklist: Anatomic Pathology. Northfield, IL: Author; 2012. 24. Rickert RR. Quality assurance goals in surgical pathology. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1990;114:1157–1162. 25. Novis DA, Zarbo RJ. Interinstitutional comparison of frozen section turnaround time. A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study of 32868 frozen sections in 700 hospitals. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1997;121(6):559–567. 26. Raab SS, Tworek JA, Souers R, et al. The value of monitoring frozen section-permanent section correlation data over time.

TAXY 11. Thyroid and Parathyroid TATJANA ANTIC, ADRIANA ACURIO, AND JEROME B. TAXY 12. Gastrointestinal Tract REBECCA WILCOX AND AMY NOFFSINGER 13. Liver, Extrahepatic Biliary Tree, Gallbladder, and Pancreas RISH K. PAI, REBECCA WILCOX, AMY NOFFSINGER, AND JOHN HART 14. The Skin CHRISTOPHER KINONEN AND VIJAYA B. REDDY 15. Central Nervous System JACK RAISANEN AND CHARLES L. WHITE III Index 1 THE FROZEN SECTION: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND, TECHNIQUE, AND QUALITY ASSURANCE ANTHONY G. MONTAG HISTORY OF THE FROZEN SECTION The history of the frozen section as intraoperative consultation is intertwined with the development of pathology as a clinical specialty.

In most cases this is done once a day, but if the cryostat is used frequently, it is advisable to clean out shavings more frequently to avoid cross-contamination between specimens. Cryostats in daily use should be thawed weekly and decontaminated with a tuberculocidal disinfectant. Less frequently used machines can be decontaminated on a longer cycle. A written procedure and schedule should be followed and documentation of maintenance kept for each cryostat. If a frozen section is performed on tissue from a patient known or suspected to be positive for tuberculosis, hepatitis B or C, human immunodeficiency virus-related disease, or prion disease such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob, the cryostat must be decontaminated before further use.

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