Gastrointestinal Pathology: Reaching the Diagnosis in Difficult Cases 2025
Course Description
- This case-based interactive microscopy course will help participants remain on the cutting edge of gastrointestinal (GI) pathology and also offer practical solutions to everyday challenges. Participants will learn how to distinguish reactive atypia from neoplasia, identify subtle findings in small tissue samples, determine etiologies of GI tract ischemia, and sign out cases through the lens of the latest literature findings.
- Sessions focus on separating inflammatory bowel disease from other enterocolitides, evaluating GI findings in immunosuppressed patients, linking upper GI tract findings to lower GI tract disease, and subtyping common and rare forms of colorectal carcinoma.
Gastrointestinal Pathology: Reaching the Diagnosis in Difficult Cases 2025
Items Included in the Purchase of this Course
Subtypes of Colorectal Carcinoma: How to Identify Them and Why It Matters – Raul S. Gonzalez, MD
Gastrointestinal Tract Ischemia and Vascular Injury: Elucidating Etiologies – Raul S. Gonzalez, MD
Exaggerated Epithelial Atypia vs. True Malignancy – Laura H. Tang, MD, PhD
Expected and Unexpected Findings in Small Tissue Biopsies – Laura H. Tang, MD, PhD
Enterocolitis – Sometimes it’s IBD, Sometimes it’s Not – Purva Gopal, MD, MS
HIV, Bugs, and Immunosuppressive Drugs: Challenging Cases Affecting the GI Tract – Purva Gopal, MD, MS
A Practical Approach to Common Non-Neoplastic Gastric Pathology Problems – Namrata Setia, MD
Challenges in Biomarker Interpretation in Gastrointestinal Tract Diseases – Namrata Setia, MD
Released by USCAP in January 2025, this case-based GI pathology course addresses difficult diagnostic scenarios across colorectal carcinoma, ischemic injury, epithelial atypia, small biopsies, enterocolitis and biomarker interpretation.



