Interactive Course on Gross and Microscopic Evaluation of Perinatal Specimens

This interactive course aims to introduce pathologists-in-training and in practice to grossly and microscopically evaluate perinatal specimens received intact and fragmented from all gestational ages. The course emphasizes the most commonly encountered embryofetal specimen types, anomalies, and diagnostic interpretation of pathologic findings.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this educational activity, learners will be able to enhance their confidence in diagnosing and reporting clinically significant placental pathologies and gestational trophoblastic neoplasia, and understand the critical diagnoses that necessitate immediate reporting.

Program Items

The course includes lectures and case-based interactive microscopy sessions. Some of the topics covered include:

• Introduction to the Placenta: Grossing and Macroscopic Correlation
• Maternal Vascular Malperfusion and Fetal Vascular Malperfusion
• Inflammatory and Infectious Pathologies
• Pathologies that Recur
• Litigious Aspects of Placental Pathology
• Gestational Trophoblastic Diseases
• Pathology of Spontaneous or Missed Abortions in the First and Early Second Trimester
• An Approach to Anomalies, Syndromes, and Sequences
• Fetal Cardiac Pathology
• First Trimester and Early Second Trimester Pathology
• Microscopic Correlate of Significant Gross Findings
• Hydrops Fetalis
• Cardiac Pathology
• Renal and Pulmonary Pathology
• Late Stillbirths
• Hypoxic and Infectious Pathology
• Skeletal, Hematopoietic, and Miscellaneous Pathology
• Panel Discussion with Faculty

Original release date: May 3, 2023