Accurate decision-making during surgical resection of various human cancers is reliant on good communication between surgeon and pathologist. The frozen section is essentially unchanged since described by pathologist Dr Louis B. Wilson in 1905 at the request of surgeon Dr William Mayo, one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic.
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