Introduction -- Where to Start -- Nonneoplastic Flags -- Cerebral Parenchymal Lesions – I. Metastatic Neoplasms -- Cerebral Parenchymal Lesions – II. Primary Tumors -- Dural Based Tumors -- Intraventricular Lesions -- Cerebellar Lesions -- Pituitary Gland and Sellar Lesion -- Pineal Gland Lesions -- Cord Lesions -- References -- Index.

The Frozen Section Library series provides concise, user-friendly, site specific handbooks that are well illustrated and highlight the pitfalls, artifacts and differential diagnosis issues that arise in the hurried frozen section scenario. Frozen Section Library: Central Nervous System is a convenient, user friendly handbook to assist in the evaluation of central nervous system related frozen sections. Providing a useful reference, organized around differential diagnoses, primarily by location in the central nervous system, it will prove a valuable tool for the practicing surgical pathologist both in community and in academic centers as well as pathology residents and fellows in training when confronted with Neuropathology frozen section. Richard A. Prayson, MD is at the Department of Anatomic Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH Karl M. Napekoski, MD is at the Department of Anatomic Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH