Intraoperative Frozen Section in Uropathology: When and How?

Abstract

Frozen section, which is also known as intraoperative pathology consultation, is one of the most challenging expertise of surgical pathology practice due to many reasons, such as inadequate sampling, freezing artefacts on the tissue section and necessity of quick decision due to the limitation of time, and is being used in many surgical operations in order to choose the right procedure for the patients (1,2).