Jason L. Hornick, M.D., Ph.D. Expert Series – Practical Soft Tissue Pathology: A Comprehensive and Contemporary Update

About This CME Teaching Activity

This CME teaching activity is designed to provide a practical yet comprehensive review of soft tissue tumor pathology, including updates from the 2025 World Health Organization Classification. Integration of epidemiology, clinical information, and histology; a pattern-based approach to diagnosis; pearls and pitfalls; and the optimal application of ancillary diagnostic methods (especially immunohistochemistry) will be discussed.

Target Audience

This CME activity is primarily intended and designed to educate pathologists.

Educational Objectives

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

• Apply a pattern-based approach to the differential diagnosis of soft tissue tumors.
• Discuss the differential diagnosis of cutaneous mesenchymal tumors.
• Describe the key features of pleomorphic soft tissue tumors.
• Recognize histologic and genetic subtypes of gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
• Apply a pattern-based diagnostic approach to vascular and nerve sheath tumors.
• Apply immunohistochemistry for the diagnosis of soft tissue tumors.

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