This CME Activity offers a practical review of gastrointestinal pathology combining basic to advanced techniques, pearls and pitfalls to pathologic diagnosis and case reviews.
Learning Objectives :
At the completion of this CME teaching activity, you should be able to:
– Prepare for colon cancer and universal screening for Lynch syndrome.
– Identify conditions to consider before surgical pathology subspecialty sign-out.
– Discuss the spectrum of gluten-related disorders and current optimum testing for celiac disease.
– Describe the updated epidemiology of cancer risk and Barrett esophagus and the current data on the efficacy of endoscopic surveillance.
– Recognize the major diagnostic pitfalls in the diagnosis of Barrett’s esophagus and Barrett’s-related dysplasia.
– Discuss the more recently recognized variants of ulcerative colitis as well as some of the issues related to diagnosing dysplasia in the setting of IBD.
– Identify some of the major diagnostic issues in the most common colorectal polyps including serrated polyps
– Discuss the effects of contemporary therapy on the pathology and management of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
– Describe the role of the pathologist in helping to manage patients with IBD-related dysplasia and neoplasia.
– Apply risk stratification criteria for the prognostication of gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
– Discuss and recognize the succinate dehydrogenase-deficient gastrointestinal stromal tumor and understand the clinical significance of this category of GIST.
– Identify the biliary pattern of injury on liver biopsy.
– Recognize distinguishing features of steatosis from steatohepatitis.
– List the appropriate immunohistochemical work-up of primary liver tumors.
– Develop an understanding of the characteristic histologic features that allow clear separation of the acute and chronic hepatitis patterns.
– Develop an understanding of the normal histology of the intrahepatic biliary system and how it is affected by a variety of cholestatic liver diseases.
– Develop an understanding of the utility of clinical history and laboratory findings in averting misinterpretation of histologic findings in medical liver biopsies.
CME Release Date 3/14/2021
CME Expiration Date 3/14/2024
