Surgical pathologists know that simple descriptive statements of histologic features in the assessment of a liver biopsy are simply not enough. You must provide a management strategy for a specific disease entity or provide a differential diagnosis to guide a focused patient workup. This course will provide valuable guidance for your own work in analyzing liver diseases, with an emphasis on histologic features that impact patient management and prognosis.

You'll be guided, step by step, through some of the most common and difficult diagnoses and you'll hear about PBC and autoimmune hepatitis and other emerging concepts. New information about unique histologic features of steatohepatitis in pediatric patients, new immunostains in the evaluation of liver tumors, and current guidelines for liver biopsy in managing patients with chronic HCV hepatitis will help you stay on the cutting edge of this important topic. An experienced hepatologist will be in attendance throughout the course to provide the clinician's perspective and to answer your questions.

Following this course, you will be able to:

• Apply a systematic approach to evaluating liver biopsies that integrates clinical information into the diagnostic process.
• Interpret current data regarding prognostic histologic features in chronic hepatitis and integrate approaches to systematic reporting.
• Apply new developments in your diagnosis of steatohepatitis, genetic hemochromatosis, overlap syndromes, and other evolving areas.
• Apply new diagnostic techniques to differentiate the spectrum of hepatic mass lesions.

Core Competencies: PC, MK, PBL
Intended Audience: Pathologists, Pathology Residents, Hepatologists, Gastroenterology Fellows, and Pathologists' Assistants

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