Real-Time Telepathology Is Substantially Equivalent to In-Person Intraoperative Frozen Section Diagnosis.
* Context.--Intraoperative diagnosis by frozen section is a mainstay of surgical pathology practice, providing immediate feedback to the surgical team. Despite good accuracy with modern methods, access to intraoperative surgical pathology with an appropriate turnaround time (TAT) has been a limiting...
| Publicado en: | Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Vol. 148; no. 1; pp. 68 - 74 |
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College of American Pathologists
Jan2024
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