Frozen section procedure
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frozen-section-procedure-198-3136180
title:
Frozen section procedure
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The frozen section procedure is a pathological laboratory procedure to perform rapid microscopic analysis of a specimen. It is used most often in oncological surgery. The technical name for this procedure is cryosection. The microtome device that cold cuts thin blocks of frozen tissue is called a cryotome. The quality of the slides produced by frozen section is of lower quality than formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue processing. While diagnosis can be rendered in many cases, fixed tissue pr
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Rapid histological sectioning procedure
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_section_procedure
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2023-10-13T23:55:52Z
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