Abstract:Background: Intraoperative crush smear is an adjuvant in diagnosing central nervous system (CNS) lesions on tissue sent for frozen section. Besides rapid decision-making, it also ensures that minimum injury is caused to the normal brain structures surrounding the intracranial neoplasm. A rapid intraoperative diagnosis helps the surgeon in planning the appropriate surgery.Objective: Our objective is to review all the discordant cases between intraoperative and histopathological diagnosis and also to study the c… Show more
“…Hence a final diagnosis of reactive gliosis was given. Khonglah 18 et al reported same error in their study.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 54%
“…Diagnostic error on cytology was due to sampling from the non-representative area by the surgeon. Khonglah 18 et al also reported case of hemangioblastoma misdiagnosed as low-grade glioma.…”
“…Hence a final diagnosis of reactive gliosis was given. Khonglah 18 et al reported same error in their study.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 54%
“…Diagnostic error on cytology was due to sampling from the non-representative area by the surgeon. Khonglah 18 et al also reported case of hemangioblastoma misdiagnosed as low-grade glioma.…”
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