Approach to the intraoperative consultation for neurosurgical specimens

Advances in Anatomic Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 446-449

  Somerset, Hilary Lynch ^a   Kleinschmidt DeMasters, Bette Kay ^a,b  

^a University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

consultation; frozen section; intraoperative; neuropathologist; neurosurgeon; neurosurgical specimens; smear squash preparation; touch preparation

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONSULTATION; CYTOGENETICS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA EXTRACTION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FROZEN SECTION; GLIOBLASTOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MEDICAL ERROR; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOLOGIST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOMA; SMEAR; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE PREPARATION; TOUCH TISSUE PREPARATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 80054680470     PISSN: 10724109     EISSN: 15334031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAP.0b013e3182169934     Document Type: Review

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