2019 Classic Lectures in Pathology What You Need to Know Breast Pathology

2019 Classic Lectures in Pathology What You Need to Know Breast Pathology

Format: 9 Video Files + 1 PDF File

About This CME Teaching Activity

This CME Activity offers a practical review of breast pathology combining basic to advanced techniques, pearls and pitfalls to pathologic diagnosis and case reviews.

Educational Objectives

At the completion of this CME teaching activity, you should be able to:

• Employ an approach to lobular lesions of the breast.
• Recognize problematic issues in core needle biopsies of the breast.
• Illustrate how to assess and fully evaluate margins in lumpectomy specimens.
• Discuss difficult diagnostic issues in endometrial biopsy specimens.
• Discuss the diagnostic features and differential diagnosis of columnar cell lesions of the breast.
• Discuss the diagnostic features and differential diagnosis of papillary lesions of the breast.
• Describe the diagnostic features and clinical significance of a variety of breast lesions with particular reference to the implications of these diagnoses in core needle biopsy specimens.

Topics And Speakers:

Session 1

Uses and Limitations of Immunohistochemistry in Breast Pathology

Stuart J. Schnitt, M.D.

Columnar Cell Lesions of the Breast

Laura C. Collins, M.D.

Session 2

Molecular Classification of Breast Cancer: Where are we and Where are we going?

Stuart J. Schnitt, M.D.

Lumpectomy Margin Evaluation in the Contemporary Practice of Breast Pathology

Stuart J. Schnitt, M.D.

Session 3

Papillary Lesions of the Breast

Laura C. Collins, M.D.

Core Needle Biopsy of the Breast: Striving for Fewer Excisions

Laura C. Collins, M.D.

What’s New in Lumpectomy Margin Evaluation?

Stuart J. Schnitt, M.D.

Session 4

Lobular Carcinoma In Situ and Problematic In Situ Lesions of the Breast

Stuart J. Schnitt, M.D.

Problematic Issues in Breast Core Needle Biopsies

Stuart J. Schnitt, M.D.