Frozen Section Library: Pancreas

• Main Authors: Frankel, Wendy L. (Author), Proca, Daniela M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2011.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Frozen Section Library, 8
• 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:

• Introduction
• Clinical Indications and Surgeons’ Expectations
• The Distinction between Chronic Pancreatitis and Adenocarcinoma
• Variants of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma and Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia
• Cystic Lesions in the Pancreas
• Other Pancreatic Tumors
• Secondary Tumors and Miscellaneous Lesions Involving the Pancreas
• Metastases, Resectability and Margins
• Suggested Reading.