Comprehensive Review of Surgical Pathology: Enhancing Diagnostic Accuracy

This continuing medical education (CME) activity provides a thorough review of common topics in surgical pathology, focusing on gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, genitourinary, gynecologic, breast, and soft tissue pathology. The comprehensive update covers essential diagnostic features, pitfalls to avoid, and the effective integration of ancillary diagnostic techniques, including immunohistochemistry and molecular diagnostics.

Educational Objectives

Upon completing this CME teaching activity, participants should be able to:

• Discuss common diagnostic pitfalls in well-differentiated lipomatous tumors and effective strategies for accurate diagnosis.
• Identify key differential diagnostic entities in myxoid, spindle cell, pleomorphic, and round cell tumors.
• Integrate clinical history, laboratory data, and imaging findings to arrive at a uniform diagnosis in liver biopsies with unexpected histologic features.
• Recognize liver tumors that closely resemble hepatocellular carcinoma and select the appropriate immunostain panel for diagnosis.
• Distinguish between histologic features of Wilson disease, hereditary hemochromatosis, and alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
• Summarize morphologic and molecular features of special histologic subtypes of triple negative breast cancer and their implications for management.
• Discuss recent updates on biomarker testing in breast cancer and their role in personalized medicine.
• Address diagnostic challenges in breast core needle biopsies and strategies for resolution.
• Classify various histologic patterns of colitis and their differential diagnoses.
• Identify key factors predicting prognosis and guiding therapeutic decision-making in colorectal cancer.
• Accurately classify appendiceal tumors according to updated criteria, guiding subsequent therapy and predicting prognosis.
• Highlight common controversial topics in prostate pathology, with a focus on grading and reporting parameters.
• Review diagnostic challenges encountered in common bladder specimens and strategies for resolution.
• Emphasize a practical approach to common diagnostic challenges in kidney tumors.
• Discuss the most useful histologic and immunohistochemical findings in diagnosing serious neoplasms of the uterus and ovary, including HER2 testing.
• Address common entities in cervical pathology seen in post-menopausal patients.

Program Highlights

The comprehensive program features expert presentations on:

• Well-Differentiated Fatty Tumors: Common Diagnostic Issues (John R. Goldblum, M.D.)
• Uterine Serous Carcinoma and HER-2 Testing (Natalie Banet, M.D.)
• The Unexpected Liver Biopsy Finding: What To Do When Things Don’t Add Up (John Hart, M.D.)
• Differential Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Rish K. Pai, M.D., Ph.D.)
• Breast Core Needle Biopsies: Pitfalls and Pearls (Hannah Yong Wen, M.D., Ph.D.)
• Controversies in Prostate (Jane Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D.)
• Cervical Pathology in Post-Menopausal Patients (Natalie Banet, M.D.)
• Mimics of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: How to Get the Right Diagnosis (John Hart, M.D.)
• Update on Colorectal Cancer Reporting (Rish K. Pai, M.D., Ph.D.)
• Pattern-Based Approach to Soft Tissue Tumors (John R. Goldblum, M.D.)
• The Spectrum of Triple Negative Breast Cancer (Hannah Yong Wen, M.D., Ph.D.)
• Diagnostic Challenges in Bladder (Jane Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D.)
• Ovarian Serous Neoplasms: Diagnostic Updates and New Therapeutics (Natalie Banet, M.D.)
• Practical Considerations in Kidney Tumors (Jane Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D.)
• Practical Approach to Appendiceal Tumors (Rish K. Pai, M.D., Ph.D.)
• Prognostic and Predictive Markers in Breast Cancer (Hannah Yong Wen, M.D., Ph.D.)
• Why Am I Routinely Doing Those Special Stains on Liver Biopsies? The Ins and Outs of Hereditary Metabolic Liver Diseases (John Hart, M.D.)

Release Date: 08/15/2023