Frozen Section Library: Pleura

• Main Authors: Cagle, Philip T. (Author), Allen, Timothy Craig (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Series: Frozen Section Library, 3
• Subjects: Medicine.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Frozen sections are performed while a patient is undergoing surgery as a basis for making an immediate diagnosis that will impact treatment decisions. Frozen section diagnosis is often a highly demanding situation for the pathologist who must render a diagnosis quickly for the patient and surgeon. T...

Table of Contents:

• Diffuse Malignant Mesothelioma
• Metastatic Cancers
• Other Primary Neoplasms of the Pleura
• Pleuritis and Pleural Plaque
• Uncommon Nonneoplastic Lesions of the Pleura
• Benign Reactive Proliferations vs. Malignancy.