[Preparation of histotopographic goiter sections and endometrium scrapes for relevant instant diagnosis]

Histotopographic examinations of goiters and scrapes taken as a whole are valuable to the emergency pathomorphological diagnosis of thyroid and endometrial diseases essential particularly for the differentiation of adenomas and well differentiated carcinomas. The examination can be carried out only by treating fresh, non-fixed materials with a deeply cooling knife of the routine cold microtome (Model X). Harris' or Ballard's hematoxylins are best used as elective dyes. The whole instant diagnosis fully described in the paper lasts 8 to 12 minutes.