2024 A Practical Approach to Surgical Pathology: Volume X

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.