Frozen Section Library, Vol. 1: Lung

About this book

• Well illustrated
• Concise handbook
• Site specific

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.

The Frozen Section Library series will provide concise, user-friendly, site specific handbooks that are well illustrated and highlight the pitfalls, artifacts and differential diagnosis issues that arise in the hurried frozen section scenario.

Timothy Craig Allen, MD, JD, is the Chairman of the Department of Pathology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler, Tyler, Texas.

Philip T. Cagle, MD, is Professor of Pathology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York and Director of Pulmonary Pathology, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas.

Written for: Pathologists, pathology residents

Keywords:

• Biopsy
• Lesions
• Lymph Nodes
• Metastases

Table of contents

Benign Proliferations versus Cancer.- Primary Cancers of the Lung.- Metastases to the Lung.- Surgical Margins.- Benign Focal Lesions.- Wedge Biopsy for Diffuse Lung Diseases.- Lymph Nodes.- Suggested Reading.- Index.