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Non-neoplastic Disorders

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The cytologic method is a very useful procedure during intraoperative consultation of non-neoplastic disorders, because the features of inflammatory cells and macrophages, obscured in frozen sections, are nicely preserved in smears. The presence of large number of inflammatory cells or abundant macrophages virtually rules out the diagnosis of neoplasia and leads the diagnosis in the direction of reactive/inflammatory processes, organizing infarct, or demyelinating disease.

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  1. University General Hospital Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

    César R. Lacruz MD, PhD, FIAC

  2. University Hospital Extremadura Medical School, Badajoz, Spain

    Javier Sáenz de Santamaría MD, PhD, FIAC

  3. Outpatient Pathology Associates, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Ricardo H. Bardales MD, MIAC

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Lacruz, C.R., Sáenz de Santamaría, J., Bardales, R.H. (2014). Non-neoplastic Disorders. In: Central Nervous System Intraoperative Cytopathology. Essentials in Cytopathology, vol 13. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8429-5_19

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