4th Annual Surgical Pathology Update: Diagnostic Pearls for the Practicing Pathologist is organized by Educational Symposia (ESI) and will be held from Oct 24 - 26, 2019 at Wynn Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America.
Target Audience:
This Cme Activity is Primarily Designed to Educate Practicing Pathologists. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 17.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Description:
This seminar has been designed to provide a practical and comprehensive review of a number of practical topics in surgical pathology including gastrointestinal, pulmonary, gynecologic, hepatobiliary, genitourinary, and soft tissue pathology. ftis course will include an overview of diagnostic pearls which allow for accurate diagnosis as well as clues as to how to avoid the most common diagnostic pitfalls. A portion of the discussion will be related to appropriate diagnostic immunohistochemical and molecular genetics tests which allow the pathologist to refine their diagnosis. ftere will also be significant opportunity for interactive discussion between faculty members and participants.
Educational Objectives:
Attendees should, at the completion of this course, be able to:
• Discuss the most common benign and malignant well-differentiated lipomatous tumor.
• Describe the most useful immunohistochemical and molecular genetic tests in distinguishing soft tissue tumors with the most common patterns.
• Identify the recent WHO classification of renal cell carcinoma, including the distinction of cortical and medullary-based tumors.
• Recognize morphologic features that distinguish conventional and variant morphology of urothelial carcinoma.
• Understand how to diagnose endometrial hyperplasia and metaplasia.
• Distinguish between different subtypes of endometrial carcinoma, including the role of molecular testing.
• Differentiate gastroesophageal reflux disease from other types of esophageal injury.
• Recognize key features of celiac disease and other disorders that cause villous blunting.
• Discuss the utility of clinical and morphologic features and immunohistochemical stains in the differential diagnosis of hepatocellular mass lesions.
• Identify key clinical and laboratory features that allow specific diagnoses for medical liver biopsies exhibiting the acute and chronic hepatitis patterns of injury.
• List the key pathologic features of usual interstitial pneumonia.
• Recognize key changes in diagnosis and therapy pertaining to lung pathology.
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