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

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

Dates:
Released: 10/01/18
CME Expiration Date: 9/30/2021

Accreditation:
Physicians: Educational Symposia is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Educational Symposia designates this enduring material for a maximum of 8.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This CME Teaching Activity:
This CME Activity offers a practical review of liver pathology combining basic to advanced techniques, pearls, and pitfalls to pathologic diagnosis and case reviews.

Educational Objectives:
At the completion of this CME activity, subscribers should be able to:

• Explain the criteria for the primary histologic features utilized to grade steatohepatitis.
• Recognize the key histologic features useful in the diagnosis of focal nodular hyperplasia, hepatocellular adenoma, and well-differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma.
• Discuss the clinical, laboratory, genetic and histologic features necessary to properly evaluate metabolic liver diseases, including Wilson’s disease, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, and hemochromatosis.
• Discuss the differential diagnosis of granulomas in the liver.
• Develop an understanding of the characteristic histologic features that allow clear separation of the acute and chronic hepatitis patterns.
• Develop an understanding of the normal histology of the intrahepatic biliary system and how it is affected by a variety of cholestatic liver diseases.
• Develop an understanding of the utility of clinical history and laboratory findings in averting misinterpretation of histologic findings in medical liver biopsies.