2024 A Practical Approach to Surgical Pathology: Volume X - A Video CME Teaching Activity

This CME teaching activity has been designed to provide an extensive overview of some of the most common areas encountered by practicing surgical pathologists, including hepatobiliary, genitourinary, gynecologic, breast, and soft tissue pathology. This course provides an overview of some of the most important diagnostic features which allow pathologists to make accurate diagnoses in each of these areas, as well as how to assess essential clues and avoid misdiagnosis. There is also a thorough discussion on the use of ancillary diagnostic techniques, including both immunohistochemistry and molecular diagnostics.

This CME teaching activity is primarily designed to educate practicing pathologists.

Educational Symposia

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

All activity participants are required to complete the credit application in order to be awarded credit. 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 August 14, 2027.

This program is planned and organized by Educational Symposia, a leader in accredited continuing education since 1975.

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

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

• Describe the most common spindle cell tumors of soft tissue and determine which immunohistochemical and molecular diagnostic techniques are most useful in separating these entities.
• Understand the most common difficulties in well-differentiated lipomatous neoplasms.
• Recognize the most common patterns of gastrointestinal stromal tumors of the stomach and small bowel, as well as become familiar with the most important differential diagnostic entities.
• Highlight the most common forms of endometrial cancer.
• Describe an approach to solid uterine neoplasms.
• Recognize the most useful features in recognizing dysplasia of the vulva.
• Understand the most common patterns seen in medical liver biopsies.
• Describe the diagnostic light microscopic and immunohistochemical features of hepatocellular carcinoma and its variants.
• Discuss an approach to resolving carcinoma of unknown primary.
• Recognize the most common papillary lesions of the breast.
• Cite the features of triple-negative breast carcinomas.
• Understand lobular carcinoma and its variants.
• Cite the management and reporting of post neoadjuvant therapy breast cancer specimens.
• Recognize the recent WHO classification of thyroid tumors.
• Understand the most common diagnostic pitfalls in prostate cancer diagnosis.

No special educational preparation is required for this CME activity.