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Let’s start with the proverbial good news/bad news dilemma: The bad news is that modern neuroimaging and neurosurgical techniques have resulted in an increasing number of intraoperative consultations on ever smaller samples of tissue. The good news is that with modern neuroimaging and neurosurgical techniques, the surgeon is usually fairly certain about the histologic diagnosis and operative treatment of the lesion before the tissue parts ways with the patient.
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Prayson, R.A., Cohen, M.L. (2000). Intraoperative Consultation. In: Practical Differential Diagnosis in Surgical Neuropathology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-037-7_1
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