OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of intra-operative frozen section in the diagnosis of various pelvic neoplasms, including ovarian tumours. METHODS The retrospective study was conducted at Shifa International Hospital and comprised records of all patients with lesions of female genital tract who underwent frozen section between January 2010 and December 2012. Comparison was made with the fi...

Predicates such as ‘to be tall’, ‘to be related to Chomsky’ or ‘to know Latin’, which intuitively denote permanent properties, are called individual-level predicates (henceforth: i-predicates); predicates such as ‘to be available’, ‘to talk to Chomsky’ or ‘to study Latin’, which denote properties not necessarily permanent, are called stage-level predicates (henceforth: s-predicates). An impress...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy of parathyroid gland identification and the need for routine frozen section examination before parathyroid autotransplantation during thyroidectomy. DESIGN A prospective case series. SETTING An endocrine surgical unit. PATIENTS From January 1, 1995, to December 31, 1997, parathyroid autotransplantation was attempted for devascularized or inadvertently re...

This paper discusses the influence of minimum reinforcement on the cracking behaviour of prestressed concrete structures. It deals with the observation and modelling of the reclosing of cracks induced by a permanent compressive stress due to prestressing. A computerised proposed model allows to determine steel-to-concrete slip, bond stress, concrete stress and steel stress along the transmissio...

BACKGROUND Correlation of intraoperative frozen section diagnosis with final diagnosis can be an important component of an institution's quality assurance process. METHODS We performed a quality assurance review of 1207 frozen section diagnoses from 812 surgical cases performed in the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Programme during a 6-month period in 2007. We reviewed the frozen secti...

Introduction. Caesarean section is the commonest operation carried out in females of the reproductive age group. Spinal anaesthesia is commonly used for caesarean section with its risk. Permanent paralysis of the lower limbs following subarachnoid block is a rare complication but can occur even in the best of hands. Case Summary. This is a 29-year-old final-year university student now 34 years ...

BACKGROUND Fine needle aspiration (FNA) has led to a decrease in unnecessary surgeries for thyroid nodules. This study was designed to compare diagnostic value of FNA and frozen section methods in the follicular lesions. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study based on the medical records of 42 patients who were referred to surgery clinic of Rasool-e-Akram hospital in Tehran with complaint of...

Tumour imprints were made from 311 breast tumours at the time of frozen section. Rapid and permanent staining methods were employed and the accuracy of diagnosis was compared with that obtained from frozen and paraffin sections. Two false positives (0.65%) and 16 false negatives (5.15%) were found in the imprint group compared with no false positives and five false negatives (1.6%) in the froze...

This paper reviews a cyclic scheduling model of repetitive manufacturing environments consisting of exible machines and multi-stage jobs. We explicitly model two system performance measures, throughput and ow time, while incorporating variability arising from uncertainty in operation processing times. We present an iterative approximation scheme to estimate the two moment behavior of our perfor...

Abstract Introduction/Objective Langerhans’ cell histiocytosis (LCH) involving the lungs usually presents as multiple interstitial, bilateral, peribronchiolar pulmonary nodules. As are a common site of metastatic involvement LHC can masquerade lesion. The distinction be challenging, especially on frozen section. Methods/Case Report We present case 35-year-old male with history melanoma who pres...