Classic Lectures in Pathology: What You Need to Know: Endocrine Pathology

Classic Lectures in Pathology: What You Need to Know: Endocrine Pathology is organized by docmedED.com - Educational Symposia (ESI) ON-DEMAND.

Released Date: 04/15/19
CME Expiration Date: 04/14/2022

Target Audience:
This illuminative CME activity has been created especially to educate pathologists.

About This CME Teaching Activity:
This annotative CME Activity combines basic to advanced procedures, pearls and pitfalls in pathologic diagnosis, and case reports to provide a practical understanding of endocrine pathology.

Educational Objectives:
In order to completion of this informative CME activity, subscribers should be better able to:
• Use criteria that are exact and well-defined in order to evaluate and diagnose thyroid follicular lesions.
• Explain the numerous cytomorphologic aspects of metastatic cancers, focusing on differential diagnosis, hazards, and hints to locate the primary site of origin.
• Examine the role of ancillary studies in the diagnosis of metastases using an algorithmic approach, with a focus on immunohistochemistry.
• Recognize the various tissue fragment types found in FNAB specimens, identify a variety of FNAB specimen cytomorphologic patterns, and make a diagnosis using the FNAB specimen's pattern identification.
• Discuss the most recent developments in thyroid neoplasm molecular changes.
• Examine your treatment options for tough salivary gland lesions.
• Formulize a differential diagnosis for thyroid FNAB specimens based on pattern recognition.
• Identify and diagnose common benign and malignant lesions of the salivary glands based on the basic architectural pattern of salivary gland aspirates.
• Formulate a wide differential diagnosis based on pattern recognition and FNAB salivary gland specimens.
• Describe the fundamental fine needle aspiration biopsy method and how to prevent common pitfalls.

This CME activity does not require any special educational preparation.