title: Use of cytological preparations in the frozen section diagnosis of central nervous system neoplasia.
abstract: Because cytologic preparations capture the fine cellular detail that frozen sections often obscure, touch and smear preparations are valuable adjuncts to intraoperative histologic diagnoses.
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D004824:Epidural Space; D005629:Frozen Sections; D005909:Glioblastoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D009837:Oligodendroglioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D010870:Pineal Gland; D010911:Pituitary Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary