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63% of cases were the … cytology are preferred over frozen section where tissue is available …

… using smear preparations from stereotactic brain biopsies: intraoperative versus final …
findings in four cases, The reasons that surgical specimen did not give diagnostic yield were that …

… A target and, often, an entry point are selected to optimize diagnostic yield and minimize risk
… imaging unnecessary, and may obviate the need for intraoperative frozen section or smear. …

… could enable targeted therapies (43). Because liquid … achieves a diagnostic yield of more
than 91% (13, 44). Overall, … Additional periprocedural techniques like frozen section (46) and …

… Stereotactic biopsies may yield nondiagnostic tissue in 33% of the first … to ensure the highest
diagnostic yield (≥89%).2, 3 … In this section of the review, the frozen section characteristics …

… to systematically review a series of meningioma cases to assess concordance/discordance
between the diagnosis made based on the frozen section slide alone and the final diagnosis …

… excellent results in 134 biopsies with a diagnostic yield of 99% … or frozen section might well
have been of more diagnostic … eration of a differential diagnosis and the targeting of lesions …

… Frozen section evaluation of stereotactic brain biopsies: diagnostic yield at the
stereotactic target position in 188 cases. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1997;121:481–4. 7. …

… , intraoperative consultation is essential for evaluating CNS … poor-quality frozen sections
giving rise to freezing artifact and … biopsies also increases the diagnostic yield of stereotactic …