Case Reports Surgical Pathology 2024 Exercise 2: Ovarian Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma: Frozen Section Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis

Authors

Laura Spruill, MD PhD

Walter Beversdorf, MD

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Medical University of South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina

Primary Audience: Pathologists and Clinical Scientists
Secondary Audience: Residents, Laboratory Technologist/Scientist (Includes all sub-specialty areas), Students, Pathologist Assistants, Laboratory Directors and Educators

Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

·       identify of the reasons for discrepancy between frozen section diagnosis and final permanent section diagnosis;

·       discuss the most common ovarian diagnoses with a focus on differential diagnosis at the time of frozen section;

·       construct the differential diagnosis of ovarian frozen section with a focus on epidemiology, imaging/gross assessment, and microscopic findings; and

·       differentiate sex cord stromal tumor from endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the ovary with a focus on frozen section assessment.