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Intraoperative assessment of thyroid and parathyroid lesions
Zubair W Baloch1, Virginia A LiVolsi
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. baloch@mail.med.upenn.edu
Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology
|December 10, 2002
Abstract:
The value of intraoperative frozen section analysis of thyroid nodules and of parathyroid lesions continues to change as new and ancillary techniques (both preopearative and intraoperative) become widely used, eg, fine needle aspiration, new radiologic scan techniques, rapid hormone assays. This articles reviews the use of frozen section diagnosis in the evaluation of thyroid and parathyroid lesions, presents the current literature and the author's experiences, and proposes a practical approach to these cases.