Events Biopticka laboratory s.r.o. Meeting

Dermatopathology and Soft Tissue Tumor Seminar

Frymburk, Czech Republic

October 13 - 16, 2011

Topics

  • various aspects of dermatopathology and soft tissue pathology, including melanoma, lymphomas, vascular tumors, cutaneous inflammatory and infectious disorders, adnexal neoplasms, pathology of the anogenital area and other topics

Basic information

Seminar directors

Dmitry V. Kazakov, MD and Michal Michal, MD Šikl´s Department of Pathology, Charles University Hospital and Medical Faculty Plzeň, Czech Republic, and Bioptická laboratoř s.r.o., Plzeň, Czech Republic

Course description

The scientific program starts on October 13th, at 14.00 and ends on October 15th in the evening. The program includes a section "Clinicopathological potpourri" and in-depth lectures covering various aspects of dermatopathology and soft tissue pathology, including melanoma, lymphomas, vascular tumors, cutaneous inflammatory and infectious disorders, adnexal neoplasms, pathology of the anogenital area and other topics. In parallel, a microscopic slide library for the self assessment course will be available for review of dermatopathological cases. Additionally, there will be a classical slide seminar on soft tissue tumors. A set of the slides will be sent to all registered participants prior to the seminar.

Faculty

Eduardo Calonje, MD – St Johns’ Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas Hospital, London, UK
J. Andrew Carlson, MD - Divisions of Dermatopathology and Dermatology, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA
Andrew Folpe, MD - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA.
Wayne Grayson, MD - Division of Anatomical Pathology, School of Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Dmitry V. Kazakov, MD - Sikl’s Department of Pathology, Charles University Medical Faculty Hospital, and Bioptical Laboratory, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Helmut Kerl, MD - Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Graz, Austria
Phillip H. McKee, MD – Sedona, Arizona, USA
Michal Michal, MD - Sikl’s Department of Pathology, Charles University Medical Faculty Hospital, and Bioptical Laboratory, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Petur G. Nielsen, MD – Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Victor G. Prieto, MD - Department of Pathology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Luis Requena, MD - Department of Dermatology, Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Univesidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain
Bernhard Zelger, MD - Clinical Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Program

October 13

Clinicopathological potpourri

14.00-14.30Cases’ presentation. Eduardo Calonje
14.30-15.00Cases’ presentation. Victor Prieto
15.30-16.00Cases’ presentation. Dmitry Kazakov
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-17.00Cases’ presentation. Luis Requena
17.00-17.30Cases’ presentation. Wayne Grayson
17.30-18.00Cases’ presentation. Andrew Carlson
18.00-18.30Cases’ presentation. Bernhard Zelger

Lectures

18.30-19.30Phillip McKee
Atypical nevus variants- part 1
October 14

Lectures

9.30-10.15Phillip McKee
Atypical nevus variants- part 2
10.15-11.00Luis Requena
Clinicopathologic review of the adverse reactions to injected cosmetic fillers
11.00-11.30Dmitry Kazakov
Anogenital mammary-like glands and lesions thereof
11.30-12.00Andrew Carlson
The role of dermatopathology in genital dermatology
12.10-12.15Michal Michal
Problems in vulvar dysplasias
12.15-14.00Lunch
14.00-14.45Phillip McKee
Melanoma variants
14.45-15.05Victor Prieto
The role of immunohistochemistry in sentinel lymph nodes in melanoma
15.05 -15.25Wayne Grayson
An approach to the HIV+ skin biopsy
15.25 -15.55Helmut Kerl
Cutaneous lymphomas
15.55 -16.30Coffee break
16.30-17.15Phillip McKee
The importance of clinicopathological correlation in dermatopathology
17.15-17.40Wayne Grayson
Histological variants of Kaposi's sarcoma
17.40-18.10Berhard Zelger
Cutaneous vasculitides, the Innsbruck model for approach to a systemic disease
18.10 -18.35Victor Prieto
The role of immunohistochemistry in distinguishing between primary and metastatic carcinomas of the skin
18.35-19.15Eduardo Calonje
Vascular neoplasms of the skin
October 15

Soft tissue slide seminar

9.00-12.30Andrew Folpe, Petur Nielsen, Michal Michal
12.30-14.15Lunch

Lectures

14.15 -15.10Andrew Folpe
Pseudobenign and pseudomalignant soft tissue tumors
15.10 -16.00Petur Nielsen
Spectrum of myxoid tumors of soft tissue
16.00-16.30Coffee break
16.30-17.00Denisa Kacerovska, Dmitry Kazakov
Dermatopathology self-assessment course: diagnoses and the announcement of the winner.

Lectures

17.00-17.55Andrew Folpe
Small blue round cell tumors: an integrated approach
17.55 -18.10Michal Michal
Cutaneous and soft tissue myoepitheliomas
18.10 -18.50Petur Nielsen
Tumors of the synovium: diagnostic problems
18.50-19.45Andrew Folpe
Update on adipocytic tumors: clinicopathological features with integrated molecular biology