Evaluation of cryostat frozen section in the diagnosis of surgical biopsies
Arora, H.L.; Solanki, R.L.; Gupta, R.
Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology 34(2): 136-139
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0377-4929 PMID: 1752640 Document Number: 368276
Cryostat frozen section technique was used on 1300 surgical biopsies. On final paraffin sections diagnosis there were 270 benign neoplasms, 200 malignant neoplasms and 830 inflammatory and non-neoplastic lesions. The overall accuracy using frozen section was 98.48 per cent with one false positive result (0.07 per cent), 17 false negative results (1.3 per cent) and 2 deferred diagnosis (0.15 per cent).