Role of Intraoperative Pathology Consultation by Imprint and Scrape Cytology in Soft Tissue Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions

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Malignant small round cell tumor (Ewing’s sarcoma). (a) Imprint smear showing sheets of small round to oval tumor cells showing moderate atypia. Cytoplasm is vacuolated (H&E, X400). (b) Scrape smear showing sheets and singly scattered malignant small round tumor cells (MGG stain, X200). (c) Paraffin-embedded section showing malignant small round tumor cells arranged in sheets with coarse nuclear chromatin and scant cytoplasm. Mitotic figures are also seen (arrow) (H&E, X400).

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