Main description:

As a handbook for practicing pathologists, this book will be an indispensable aid to diagnosis and avoiding dangers in one of the most challenging situations that pathologists encounter. Rapid consideration of differential diagnoses and how to avoid traps caused by frozen section artifacts will be readily accessible to the users of this handbook. Currently, there is no other up-to-date single-source reference specifically focused on frozen sections of the lower gastrointestinal tract.

Contents:

Intraoperative Evaluation of Colorectal Specimens Containing Cancer.- Intraoperative Evaluation for Extracolonic Disease in Colon Cancer Patients.- Metastases and Mimics of Colorectal Carcinoma.- Non-epithelial Tumors of the Colorectum.- Frozen Section Assessment of the Colorectum in the Pediatric Population.- Frozen Section Evaluation of the Appendix.- Frozen Section Evaluation of Anal Disease.