CAMLPR Histology Practice Test

Urgency and impact on immediate patient care drive the ordering. Frozen sections are required to give the surgical team a rapid, on-the-spot diagnosis that can change the course of the operation, so they have the highest priority.

After that, a large colon biopsy suspected of malignancy is prioritized next. It’s a complex, sizeable specimen that needs careful processing and thorough evaluation, and its malignancy concern means it’s clinically important and time-sensitive, even though it doesn’t require an intraoperative decision as urgently as a frozen section.

A breast cancer follow-up specimen is the least urgent of the three. It’s typically a routine, non-emergency case that can be scheduled after the more time-critical tasks are handled.

So the best order is: frozen section first, then the large case, and finally the breast follow-up specimen.