Journal article
Intraoperative pathology consultation: error, cause and impact
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Correlation of intraoperative frozen section diagnosis with final diagnosis can be an important component of an institution's quality assurance process.
METHODS: We performed a quality assurance review of 1207 frozen section diagnoses from 812 surgical cases performed in the Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Programme during a 6-month period in 2007. We reviewed the frozen section and permanent slides from all potentially …
Authors
Mahe E; Ara S; Bishara M; Kurian A; Tauqir S; Ursani N; Vasudev P; Aziz T; Ross C; Lytwyn A
Journal
Canadian Journal of Surgery, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. e13–e18
Publisher
Joule
Publication Date
June 1, 2013
DOI
10.1503/cjs.011112
ISSN
0008-428X