Dermatopathology: Contemporary Diagnostic Criteria and Strategies

June 8-12, 2011

The Encore Wynn Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

Nowhere else will you have such an opportunity to benefit from the knowledge of a faculty with a combined experience of one million skin biopsy interpretations. You'll increase your confidence in approaching pigmented lesions, nonmelanoma skin cancer, and inflammatory dermatoses. And you'll be better able to provide clinicians with the critical information needed to address patient problems. Bring your challenging slides for discussion with the faculty and evaluate your knowledge with self-assessment options.

You'll start with an overview of problematic melanocytic and nonmelanocytic neoplasms and benefit from tips for avoiding errors in interpretation and reporting. You'll gain new understanding of mechanisms and patterns of inflammatory lesions of the skin and inflammatory dermatoses. And you'll stay on the cutting edge with new information about medicolegal implications of diagnosis and misdiagnosis, anti-melanoma vaccination, direct immunoflurescence microscopy, and much, much more!

 Following this course, you will be able to:

• Differentiate and apply powerful criteria for diagnosing inflammatory and neoplastic conditions in the skin.

• Discriminate between malignant neoplasms and their mimics.
• Distinguish benign from neoplastic lymphoid infiltrates and formulate algorithmic approaches to lymphoid infiltration.
• Interpret subtle and complex findings in neoplastic and dysplastic melanocytic neoplasms of the skin.
• Apply appropriate criteria to make specific treatment and diagnostic recommendations in the fields of connective tissue disease and neoplasia in the skin.
• Coordinate clinical laboratory findings with anatomic pathology findings at the microscopic level.
• Communicate results effectively and clearly to clinicians.

Who should attend?

Pathologists, Pathology Residents, Dermatopathologists, Dermatologists, Dermatology Residents, and Pathologists' Assistants.

For more information visit :

http://www.pulmonarypath.org/pps_webpage_documents/pps_endorsed_courses/...

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