AP106 After Hours Neuropathology: Safely Plotting a Course

2:00–5:30 pm
3.0 CME CREDITS

Diagnoses in neuropathology can be challenging, especially in intraoperative cases, partly because of the many different cell types that call the central nervous system home. When it’s just you and the neurosurgeon after hours, this is daunting. And yet a number of measures—including correlation with radiologic features, procedures to gain the most information possible from the specimen itself, and understanding what facts the neurosurgeon really needs to know—can facilitate your ability to manage intraoperative neuropathology specimens. This course introduces pearls and pitfalls involved in interpreting the patient’s MRI, freezing brain tissue, setting up and interpreting cytology preparations, providing differential diagnosis, and communicating with the clinician.

You will learn to:

Link location and other information on MRI brain scans with a narrow differential diagnosis
Correlate the morphology and cytology of neuropathology specimens
Associate the relevance of pathology diagnosis to interpretive neurosurgical decision making

Faculty
Timothy Smith, MD
Cynthia T. Welsh, MD, FCAP