Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this educational activity, learners will be able to:
- Evaluate specimens from patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
- Discuss criteria to recognize and grade dysplasia throughout the GI tract
- Recognize and generate a wider differential diagnosis for biopsies of inflammatory disorders of the GI tract, be able to resolve these differentials, and distinguish from drug induced injury
- Classify the neuroendocrine proliferations and neoplasms in the GI tract
- Diagnose neoplastic lesions of the appendix and distinguish these from their mimics
- Recognize mesenchymal tumors of the GI tract, and how to distinguish them from gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) and its variants
- Describe the spectrum of GI polyps, including mixed polyps, syndromic polyps, serrated polyps, and malignant polyps
TOPICS
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Dysplasia Throughout the GI Tract – Alexandros D. Polydorides, MD, PhD
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Alexandros D. Polydorides, MD, PhD
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Neuroendocrine Proliferations/Neoplasms – Melissa Taggart, MD
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Appendiceal Pathology – Melissa Taggart, MD
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Inflammatory Disorders of the Upper GI Tract and Mimics – Dipti Karamchandani, MD
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Drug Induced GI Tract Injury – Dipti Karamchandani, MD
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GIST, Variants and Mimics – Paul Swanson, MD
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Polyps of the GI Tract – Paul Swanson, MD
