2018 Pathology Review: Breast, Soft Tissue, Orthopedic and GI Pathology for the General Pathologist (Videos)

2018 Pathology Review: Breast, Soft Tissue, Orthopedic and GI Pathology for the General Pathologist

This seminar is designed to provide a practical review of soft tissue, orthopedic pathology, breast pathology and gastrointestinal pathology. Faculty share basic to advanced techniques, pitfalls and pearls to pathologic diagnosis. Interactive case reviews emphasize the didactic material presented.

Target Audience 

This CME activity is primarily intended and designed to educate pathologists

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 14.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

All CME course participants are required to pass a written or online test with a minimum score of 70% in order to be awarded credit. (Exam materials, if ordered, will be sent with your CME order.) All CME course participants will also have the opportunity to critically evaluate the program as it relates to practice relevance and educational objectives.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM for these programs may be claimed until May 14, 2021.

This CME activity was planned and produced by Educational Symposia, the leader in diagnostic imaging education since 1975.

This CME activity was planned and produced in accordance with the ACCME Essential Areas and Elements.

Educational Objectives 

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

• Differentiate benign breast disease and atypical proliferative lesions.
• Discuss liver biopsies in the post-HCV era.
• Achieve a better understanding of HER in GI malignancies and comparisons to breast.
• Prepare for colon cancer and universal screening for Lynch syndrome.
• Identify conditions to consider before surgical pathology subspecialty sign-out.
• Discuss breast cancer predictive factor testing (ER, PR & HER2).
• Analyze myxoid soft tissue tumors and peripheral nerve sheath tumors.
• Identify key features of genomic testing in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment planning.
• Describe sclerosing lesions of the breast.
• Discuss the utility of cytogenetic and FISH studies in workup of adipocytic lesions.
• Review differential diagnoses and pitfalls in fatty tumors.
• Review the appropriate use (and potential pitfalls) of MDM2 FISH studies in the work-up of a spindle cell malignancy in the retroperitoneum.
• Discuss bone-forming and cartilage-forming soft tissue tumors, as well as sarcomas that may occasionally produce matrix.
• Discuss the differential diagnosis of a spindle cell sarcoma with herringbone/fascicular growth.
• Discuss peripheral nerve sheath tumors, fibrohistiocytic neoplasms and vascular lesions.
• Review new entities such as soft tissue angiofibroma and biphenotypic sinonasal sarcoma.
• Review entities such as fibroepithelial stromal polyp, cellular angiofibroma, mammary-type myofibroblastoma, angiomyofibroblastoma and aggressive angiomyxoma, as well as their mimics.

No special educational preparation is required for this CME activity

Topics/Speaker:

01. Benign Breast Disease Atypical Proliferative Lesion Diagnosis and Breast Cancer Risk – David G. Hicks, M.D.

02. Sclerosing Lesions of the Breast – David G. Hicks, M.D.

03. Breast Cancer Predictive Factor Testing (ER, PR & HER2) Bridging the Gap Between Diagnosis and Management – David G. Hicks, M.D.

04. Ancillary Breast Cancer Studies Rogue Cases, Challenges, Pitfalls and Trouble Shooting – David G. Hicks, M.D.

05. Challenging Breast Pathology Case Studies – David G. Hicks, M.D.

06. HER2 in GI Malignancies Comparison to Breast and Review Guidelines – Christa L. Whitney-Miller, M.D..mp4

07. Liver Biopsies in the Post-HCV Era – Christa L. Whitney-Miller, M.D.

08. Colon Cancer and Universal Screening for Lynch Syndrome Are you Ready – Christa L. Whitney-Miller, M.D..mp4

09. Surgical Pathology Subspecialty Sign-Out Things to Consider Before Taking the Plunge – Christa L. Whitney-Miller, M.D.

10. Cutaneous Soft Tissue Tumors and Their Mimics – Karen Fritchie, M.D.

11. Lipomatous Tumors – Karen Fritchie, M.D.

12. Intra-abdominal and Retroperitoneal Spindle Cell Tumors – Karen Fritchie, M.D.

13. Matrix Forming Mesenchymal Lesions – Karen Fritchie, M.D.

14. New Entities in Soft Tissue Pathology – Karen Fritchie, M.D.

15. Genital Stromal Tumors and Soft Tissue Summary – Karen Fritchie, M.D.

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