Frozen section of N2 nodes is invaluable whenever unexpected suspicious operative findings are encountered
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Intra-operative frozen section diagnosis of the suspicious solitary pulmonary nodule, how can we improve the strike-rate?
Results The positive predictivity of IOFS was 100%. Benign (including carcinoid) result was obtained in 25 patients (37%) comprising Organizing pneumonia-6, Granulomatous inflammation-6, Hamartomata-6, Carcinoid-5, Non-granulomatous inflammation-1, Solitary Fibrous Tumour-1. Malignant diagnoses included Adenocarcinoma-28, Squamous cell carcinomas-11, Large cell-2, Small cell lung cancer-1. Preo...
متن کاملIntra-operative frozen section consultation: concepts, applications and limitations.
Intra-operative frozen section plays an important role in the management of surgical patients and yet it must be used prudently to avoid the indiscriminate usage of this important technique. As it is subjected to many limitations in comparison to the paraffin embedded tissue sections, this review aims to highlight the important concepts and principle of intra-operative frozen section consultati...
متن کاملIntraoperative frozen section assessment of sentinel lymph nodes in the operative management of women with symptomatic breast cancer
BACKGROUND Maximisation of the potential of sentinel lymph node biopsy as a minimally invasive method of axillary staging requires sensitive intraoperative pathological analysis so that rates of re-operation for lymphatic metastases are minimised. The aim of this study was to describe the test parameters of the frozen section evaluation of sentinel node biopsy for breast cancer compared to the ...
متن کاملThe value of touch imprint cytology and frozen section for intra-operative evaluation of axillary sentinel lymph nodes.
BACKGROUND Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is a procedure of choice to determine the axillary involvement in breast cancer. The most important intraoperative evaluation methods are touch imprint cytology (TIC) and frozen section (FS). Each of these techniques has its own drawbacks and it is still unclear which is preferred. MATERIAL AND METHODS 97 consecutive patients with recently diagnosed...
متن کاملIntraoperative Frozen Section in "Suspicious for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma" after Adoption of the Bethesda System.
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy and utility of intraoperative frozen section examination (iFSE) in patients with a preoperative fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology of "suspicious for malignancy" (SFM)-Bethesda V, after the adoption of the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Tertiary medical center. SUBJECTS AND METH...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0022-5223
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2016.08.048