Surgical Pathology Update: Diagnostic Pearls for the Practicing Pathologist, Vol. IV

• Discuss the most common benign and malignant well-differentiated lipomatous tumor.
• Describe the most useful immunohistochemical and molecular genetic tests in distinguishing soft tissue tumors with the most common patterns.
• Identify the recent WHO classification of renal cell carcinoma, including the distinction of cortical and medullary-based tumors.
• Recognize morphologic features that distinguish conventional and variant morphology of urothelial carcinoma.
• Understand how to diagnose endometrial hyperplasia and metaplasia.
• Distinguish between different subtypes of endometrial carcinoma, including the role of molecular testing.
• Differentiate gastroesophageal reflux disease from other types of esophageal injury.
• Recognize key features of celiac disease and other disorders that cause villous blunting.
• Discuss the utility of clinical and morphologic features and immunohistochemical stains in the differential diagnosis of hepatocellular mass lesions.
• Identify key clinical and laboratory features that allow specific diagnoses for medical liver biopsies exhibiting the acute and chronic hepatitis patterns of injury.
• List the key pathologic features of usual interstitial pneumonitis.
• Recognize key changes in diagnosis and therapy pertaining to lung pathology.

PROGRAMS

SESSION 1

The Trouble with Fat: Diagnostic Issues with Well-Differentiated Lipomatous Tumors
John R. Goldblum, M.D.

A Diagnostic Approach to The Many Subtypes of Renal Cell Carcinoma
Michelle S. Hirsch, M.D., Ph.D.

SESSION 2

Patterns of Esophagitis
Rhonda Yantiss, M.D.

All You Ever Wanted to Know About UIP
Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, M.D.

SESSION 3

Practical Approach to the Endometrial Biopsy I: Endometrial Hyperplasia and Metaplasia
Marisa Rose Nucci, M.D.

Hepatocellular Mass Lesions – New Aspects of Old Problems
John Hart, M.D.

SESSION 4

Urothelial Carcinoma, Conventional Versus Variant Morphology
Michelle S. Hirsch, M.D., Ph.D.

IBD and its Mimics
Rhonda Yantiss, M.D.

SESSION 5

Not Your Grandpa’s Thoracic Pathology: Changes in Concepts, Diagnoses, Terminology, and Therapy in the last 10 years
Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, M.D.

Practical Approach to the Endometrial Biopsy II: Endometrial Carcinoma
Marisa Rose Nucci, M.D.

Controversies in Lung Pathology
Sanjay Mukhopadhyay, M.D.

SESSION 6

Acute and Chronic Hepatitis
John Hart, M.D.

A Contemporary Approach to Prostate Adenocarcinoma, Including Poor Prognostic Factors
Michelle S. Hirsch, M.D., Ph.D.

SESSION 7

Common Morphologic Patterns of Soft Tissue Tumors
John R. Goldblum, M.D.

SESSION 8

NASH and the Differential Diagnosis of Steatohepatitis
John Hart, M.D.

The Differential Diagnosis of Celiac Disease
Rhonda Yantiss, M.D.

Update on Endocervical Glandular Neoplasia
Marisa Rose Nucci, M.D.