Digital Slide Pathology Review: A Case Based Approach to Common Problems in Surgical Pathology 2025

About This CME Teaching Activity

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

• Cartilaginous Neoplasms: The Essentials

• Endometrial Pathology for the Practicing Pathologist
  Marisa Rose Nucci, M.D.

• Breast Spindle Cell Lesions

• Breast Papillary Lesions

• Squamous Lesions of the Head and Neck and Their Mimics
  Darcy Arendt Kerr, M.D.

• The Differential Diagnosis of Eosinophilic Renal Epithelial Neoplasms

• Updates from the WHO 2020 Classification of Tumors of the GYN Tract for the Practicing Pathologist