Target Audience
This program is appropriate for:
- Practicing pathologists (general surgical pathologists and hematopathologists in community and academic settings)
- Pathologists in training
- Other medical professionals interested in hematopathology
Course Description & Objectives
Course Description
Challenging hematopathologic diagnoses in surgical pathology and lymph node tissue specimens will be presented and discussed by hematopathologists from the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine. The discussed topics include variety of lymphoid, plasmacytic, and histiocytic/dendritic cell disorders encountered in extranodal and lymph node tissue samples. The case-based discussion will focus on diagnostic algorithm and pitfalls, differential diagnoses, recommended work-up, latest diagnostic updates, and clinicopathologic correlation. In addition, course participants will have online access to review selected whole-slide images of cases to be discussed.
Learning Objectives
- Recognizing hematopathologic diagnostic challenges in nodal and extranodal tissue and applying appropriate diagnostic work up.
- Avoiding diagnostic pitfalls and being alert to hematolymphoid aberrations obscured by reactive pathologic processes.
Course Schedule
| 10:28 - 10:30 AM | George Deeb | Welcoming remarks |
| 10:30 - 10:50 AM | Deniz Peker | “What makes it a lymphoma?” |
| 10:50 - 11:10 AM | Shiyong Li | Breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma |
| 11:30 - 11:50 AM | George Deeb | Diagnostic challenges of Hodgkin lymphoma “the non-classic-Hodgkin lymphoma” in lymph node core needle biopsy |
| 11:10 - 11:30 AM | Kyle Bradley | Evaluating lymph nodes for IgG4-related disease: to stain or not to stain, that is the question |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM | Saja Asakrah | Langerhans cell histiocytosis: pathological findings, ancillary tests, and differential diagnosis |
| 12:10 - 12:30 PM | Linsheng Zhang | Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma in a lymph node with features of Castleman disease |
| 12:30 - 1:00 PM | George Deeb | Closing remarks and Hematopathology Roundtable Discussion |
