The Frozen Section is a century old procedure presumably achieved on a window ledge in wintery Minnesota in the 1920’s.

For fine needle aspirations or even fine needle biopsies, you may be concerned about specimen adequacy, appropriate triage of specimens (for culture or flow cytometry) or even a real time diagnosis (malignant versus benign).

Additional Studies in the Patient with a GIST Succinate dehydrogenase-deficient GISTs