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, pathologists must render a diagnosis quickly, despite the pitfalls and artifacts associated with frozen section preparation, which are not present in permanent sections of fully processed tissues that can be examined in a more leisurely fashion. Most standard pathology textbooks largely ignore the topic of frozen section. Few textbooks have ever focused exclusively on frozen section...
Frozen sections are performed for the purpose of rapid diagnosis while a patient is undergoing surgery, usually under general anesthesia, as a basi...