This Expert Series is a unique evaluation of current topics in gastrointestinal pathology featuring Dr. Elizabeth Montgomery. Throughout this series Dr. Montgomery discusses basic to advanced topics, pitfalls and pearls to gastrointestinal pathology diagnosis. She shares personal advice and experience on topics such as iatrogenic pathology, polyps, neoplastic and non-neoplastic lesions throughout the gastrointestinal tract and mesentery.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this CME activity, subscribers should be able to:

– Discuss iatrogenic forms of gastrointestinal tract injury.

– Be aware of pitfalls in interpreting endoscopic resection samples, especially from the esophagus.

– Recognize, assess and diagnose gastric polyps, dysplasia and their clinical correlations.

– Address various types of neoplastic and non-neoplastic small intestinal pathology.

– Recognize various unusual forms of gastric carcinoma.

– Be aware of unusual types of colitis as well as classic forms.

– Recognize various types of syndromic and sporadic polyps of the colorectum.

Recognize several pitfalls in immunolabeling of various types of gastrointestinal tract lesions.

– Develop an approach to gastrointestinal mesenchymal lesions.

– Understand the importance of location within the layers of the gastrointestinal tissues to better classify various tumor types.

Topics : 

Biopsy Artifacts and Iatrogeic Injury to the Gastrointestinal Tract

Non-Neoplastic Esophageal Pathology

Adventures in Barrett Esophagus

Case Presentations: Gastric Lesions and the Company They Keep – Gastritis

Gastric Polyps, Hyperplasias and Cancer

Small Intestinal Non-Neoplastic

A Potpourri of Small Intestinal Neoplasms

Non-Neoplastic Colorectal Pathology

Polyps and Neoplasms of the Colorectum – Rapid Fire Cases and “Cancer in a Polyp”

Gastrointestinal Polyposis Syndromes

Anal Pathology – Non-Neoplastic and Some Key Neoplasms

Mesenchymal Tumors of the GI Tract – Part 1

Mesenchymal Tumors of the GI Tract – Part 2

Colorectal Polyps – Everything Old is New Again

CME Release Date 6/15/2021

CME Expiration Date 6/14/2024