Comprehensive Surgical Pathology: Diagnostic Challenges & Practical Approaches

Comprehensive Surgical Pathology: Diagnostic Challenges & Practical Approaches is an advanced educational program developed for practicing pathologists seeking to strengthen diagnostic accuracy across multiple surgical pathology subspecialties. Through 17 high-quality video lectures (8.3 GB), this course delivers an in-depth, case-based review of some of the most challenging and commonly encountered diagnostic scenarios in modern pathology practice.

Covering breast, gastrointestinal, orthopedic, soft tissue, liver, thyroid, and cytopathology, each lecture combines practical diagnostic strategies with current evidence-based recommendations. Participants will gain valuable insights into morphologic interpretation, differential diagnosis, immunohistochemistry, molecular pathology, and essential reporting guidelines while learning how to recognize critical diagnostic clues and avoid common pitfalls encountered in daily practice.

Designed by experienced pathology educators, this program emphasizes real-world applications, helping pathologists improve confidence and consistency when evaluating complex surgical pathology specimens.

Course Details

• Format: 17 Video Lectures
• Total Size: 8.3 GB
• Language: English
• Access: On-Demand Digital Course
• Target Audience: Practicing Pathologists

What You’ll Learn

• Master practical diagnostic approaches to challenging surgical pathology cases.
• Improve recognition of spindle cell, lipomatous, and tenosynovial soft tissue tumors.
• Differentiate common morphologic patterns in soft tissue pathology.
• Understand the appropriate use of immunohistochemistry and molecular diagnostics.
• Learn evidence-based approaches to thyroid cytology using the latest Bethesda Classification updates.
• Interpret breast pathology with confidence, including ER, PR, HER2, Ki-67, and PD-L1 reporting.
• Recognize autoimmune hepatitis, cholestatic liver disease, and steatotic liver disease (MASLD/MASH).
• Diagnose appendiceal mucinous neoplasms while avoiding common diagnostic pitfalls.
• Review gastrointestinal infections and their important mimics using case-based examples.
• Strengthen adequacy assessment techniques in endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) sampling.
• Learn molecular testing strategies for gastrointestinal neoplasms.
• Improve diagnostic confidence in non-neoplastic orthopedic pathology.

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Recognize the most common spindle cell tumors of soft tissue.
• Select appropriate immunohistochemical and molecular diagnostic tests.
• Identify characteristic morphologic patterns in soft tissue neoplasms.
• Apply practical adequacy assessment methods for endobronchial ultrasound sampling.
• Diagnose common non-neoplastic orthopedic lesions.
• Correctly classify appendiceal mucinous neoplasms.
• Identify small glandular proliferations of the breast and distinguish them from carcinoma mimics.
• Apply the latest Bethesda Classification updates in thyroid cytology.
• Recognize key histologic features of autoimmune hepatitis.
• Differentiate common lipomatous tumors encountered in surgical pathology.

Course Topics

• An Approach to Spindle Cell Tumors of Soft Tissue
• Approach to Adequacy Assessment in Endobronchial Ultrasound Sampling: Case Illustrations with Cyto-Histo Correlations
• Approach to EUS-FNA Cytology for Pancreatic Lesions: Potential Pitfalls and Challenges
• Approach to Indeterminate Thyroid Cytology with Updates on the Most Recent Bethesda Classification System
• Autoimmune Hepatitis: There Is a Lot to Talk About
• Breast Ancillary Study Reporting: ER, PR, HER2, Ki-67 & PD-L1 Immunohistochemistry
• Cholestatic Liver Disease: A Jaundiced View
• Common Morphologic Patterns in Soft Tissue Tumors
• Daily Difficulties in Breast Pathology and How to Overcome Them
• Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Their Mimics: A Case-Based Review
• Navigating Mucinous Neoplasms of the Appendix
• Non-Neoplastic Orthopedic Pathology
• Small Glandular Proliferations of the Breast and Mimics of Carcinoma
• Steatotic Liver Disease: Beyond NASH, MASH & MASLD
• Tenosynovial Tumors
• The Basics of Molecular Testing in Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
• What’s New in Fat

Who Should Enroll?

This course is ideal for:

• Practicing Surgical Pathologists
• General Pathologists
• Cytopathologists
• Gastrointestinal Pathologists
• Breast Pathologists
• Soft Tissue & Bone Pathologists
• Pathology Fellows
• Senior Pathology Residents preparing for board examinations
• Physicians seeking updated knowledge in diagnostic pathology

Whether you are looking to refine your diagnostic skills, stay current with evolving classification systems, or improve the integration of immunohistochemistry and molecular pathology into routine practice, this comprehensive course provides practical knowledge that can be immediately applied in everyday surgical pathology.