Target Audience
This CME activity is primarily designed to educate practicing pathologists.
Educational Objectives
At the completion of this CME teaching activity, you should be able to:
- Discuss the most common patterns seen in soft tissue tumors.
- Recognize the most commonly used immunohistochemical and molecular techniques used in the diagnosis of soft tissue tumors.
- Identify the limitations and potential pitfalls of immunohistochemistry and molecular testing in head and neck pathology.
- Cite the most important changes in the WHO classification of cartilaginous neoplasms.
- Differentiate the most common benign and malignant cartilaginous tumors.
- Utilize information on the uses and limitations of immunohistochemistry in resolving diagnostic problems in breast core needle biopsy specimens.
- Review the updated guidelines for ER, PR, and HER2 testing in breast cancer.
- Recognize the uses and limitations of immunohistochemistry in resolving diagnostic problems in spindle cell lesions of the breast.
- Describe the most common differential diagnoses in genitourinary pathology.
- Provide accurate classification and appropriate use of ancillary studies in endometrial lesions.
- Review the recent updates in the WHO classification of tumors of the gynecologic tract.
- Discuss the most common causes of inflammation and injury to the stomach.
- Identify the diagnostic considerations of eosinophilic tumors of the kidney.
Program
- A Pattern-Based Approach to Soft Tissue Tumors, Part 1
John R. Goldblum, M.D. - Biopsies and Biomarkers in Genitourinary Pathology
Michelle S. Hirsch, M.D., Ph.D. - Cartilaginous Neoplasms: The Essentials
Darcy Arendt Kerr, M.D. - Endometrial Pathology for the Practicing Pathologist
Marisa Rose Nucci, M.D. - Breast Spindle Cell Lesions
Ashley Cimino-Mathews, M.D. - A Pattern-Based Approach to Soft Tissue Tumors, Part 2
John R. Goldblum, M.D. - Breast Papillary Lesions
Ashley Cimino-Mathews, M.D. - Squamous Lesions of the Head and Neck and Their Mimics
Darcy Arendt Kerr, M.D. - The Differential Diagnosis of Eosinophilic Renal Epithelial Neoplasms
Michelle S. Hirsch, M.D., Ph.D. - Gastric Inflammation and Injury: When What You Say Actually Matters
Rhonda K. Yantiss, M.D. - Updates from the WHO 2020 Classification of Tumors of the GYN Tract for the Practicing Pathologist
Marisa Rose Nucci, M.D. - Dealing with Duodenitis: Sprue and Its Mimics
Rhonda K. Yantiss, M.D.
CME Release Date 4/15/2022
CME Expiration Date 4/14/2025
