19th Annual Current Topics in Gastrointestinal and Liver Pathology

Objectives

• Be able to recognize unusual variants of GIST
• Develop a diagnostic approach to unusual/variant colorectal polyps
• Identify histopathologic manifestations of infectious diseases in the gastrointestinal tract
• Describe both common and rare lymphoproliferative disorders that involve the gastrointestinal tract
• Describe the use of tumor genomic information in colon cancer targeted therapy
• Identify and discuss the gastrointestinal manifestations of systemic disorders
• List the differential diagnosis of biliary proliferations in the liver in the intraoperative setting
• Describe the biomarkers used by oncologist to inform them on patient management
• Review common mimics of IBD
• Discuss the updated classification of benign and malignant hepatic neoplasm
• Recognize patterns of inflammation associated with STI of the aerodigestive tract
• Describe the basis of grading acute cellular rejection.
• Name the four most common types of neoplastic cysts of the pancreas.