USCAP COMPANION MEETINGS

American Society of Dermatopathology

  Sunday, March 8, 2009 — 1:30 PM, Convention Center BRC   

An Update of Cutaneous Carcinomas
   Moderator:  Hideko Kamino, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 

1:30   New Insights in Merkel Cell Carcinoma - Bruce Smoller, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK
2:00   Basomelanocytic Tumors - Another Nail in the Neural Crest Coffin? - Juan Rosai, Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Milan, Italy
2:30   Sarcomatoid Carcinoma - Earl Glusac, Yale University, New Haven, CT
3:00   Break
3:30   Immunohistochemistry in Cutaneous Adnexal Carcinomas vs Metastatic Adenocarcinomas - Victor Prieto, M.D. Anderson Medical Center, Houston, TX
4:00   Sebaceous Neoplasms, Muir Torre Syndrome and MSH - Alexander Lazar, Anderson Medical Center, Houston, TX
4:30   Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of Extramammary Paget's Disease - Hideko Kamino, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY

The symposium will address the challenges in diagnosis of cutaneous carcinomas. This topic was chosen because of the many new immunohistochemical markers for diagnosis as well as the new contributions in molecular diagnosis and genetics. The objective of the program is to present unusual variants of cutaneous carcinomas, pitfalls in their diagnosis and new findings in understanding molecular pathogenesis. Participants will learn morphologic features and molecular characteristics to help differentiate unusual variants of cutaneous carcinomas from their mimickers.