[Histonet] Re: Brain frozen sections

[Robert Richmond]

You guys tell your pathologists to listen to Dr. Hessler - he taught
me how to do these preparations, and the basics of interpreting them,
when I did a locum tenens for him at the Medical College of Georgia
(in Augusta) 6 years ago. I did a lot of them when I got a full time
job at a place that did a lot of neurosurgical pathology, a year
later.

Bob Richmond
Samurai Pathologist
Knoxville TN
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There is nothing you can do to make brain frozen sections acceptable.
Your Pathologists need to learn how to read smears, or just accept
being wrong 50% of the time. An educated guess based on the imaging is
more accurate than frozen sections on intra-axial primary brain
tumors.

Richard B Hessler, MD
Chief of Pathology
Erlanger Medical Center
Chattanooga, TN