TY - JOUR ID - 24669 TI - Intraoperative Frozen Sections for Assessment of Female Cancers JO - Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention JA - APJCP LA - en SN - 1513-7368 Y1 - 2007 PY - 2007 VL - 8 IS - 4 SP - 635 EP - 639 DO - N2 - Frozen sections offer an important and helpful adjunct to intraoperative diagnosis and its use has greatlyimpacted on the care of gynecological oncology patients. Frozen section diagnosis is a reliable method for surgicalmanagement of gynecology oncology patients. Sensitivity of frozen section is acceptable and its specificity isalmost perfect. False negative rate is low and false positive rate is negligible. Diagnostic problems can occur dueto technical limitations especially in mucinous and borderline tumors. A good communication established betweenclinicians and pathologists is necessary to obtain more accurate results and to minimize the number of deferredcases. UR - https://journal.waocp.org/article_24669.html L1 - https://journal.waocp.org/article_24669_4680a26e1a02b648b711201d6168f71c.pdf ER -