Role of Intraoperative Pathology Consultation in Skeletal Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions
Figure 2
(a–c) Chondrosarcoma: (a) hypercellular smear showing singly scattered tumor cells having moderate pleomorphism and unipolar or bipolar cytoplasmic tags; an atypical mitotic figure is also present (MGG stain, ×400); (b) fascicles of tumor cells having moderate anaplasia which are noted in frozen section (H&E, ×200); (c) paraffin-embedded section displaying a tumor arranged in short fascicles with anaplastic spindle shaped cells. Right lower corner shows malignant chondroid differentiation (H&E, ×100).