All Workshops are 60 EUR each
Each workshop has limited number of participants. For workshops taking place in Multifunctional Hall – 30 participants, for workshops in Room E – 15 participants and for workshops in Room F – 15 participants. Participation depends on the order in which applications were received. If the limit will be reached, please send your interest by e-mail, you will be placed on the substitute list. A fee must be paid to confirm the reservation of participation in the workshop.
The limit has been fitted to the present Covid situation.
Online participation in workshops is possible – it will be realized by the streaming platform.
Sunday October 3rd – Multifunctional Hall:
Workshop Deep Organs guided FNA cytology
Practical approach and cytology slides from procedures like EUS FNA, EBUS FNA, transvaginal US guided FNA or percutaneous US guided FNA of deep organs will be presented. Interesting examples and some rare lesions and tumours of deep thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic sites will be shown.
Chairs
Danijela Vrdoljak-Mozetič, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Medical Faculty University of Rijeka, Croatia
Tajana Štoos-Veić, Clinical Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Workshop Effusions
Effusions are common in routine cytology. This workshop is dedicated to beginner or experienced cytologists. We will present briefly how to manage samples at the laboratory and the use of common stains. Cytological analysis will be explained using both morphological criteria and immunocytochemistry in different samples (pleural, pericardial or peritoneal effusions). Most of the session will be devoted to slide examination and discussion with participants.
Chairs
Celine Basset, Department of Pathology and Cytology, IUCT-O, Toulouse, France
Pinar Firat, Department of Pathology, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Turkey
Workshop Thyroid 1
Thyroid 1: Bethesda System in Our Microscopes
The participants will become familiar with common thyroid gland cytological findings and their Bethesda classification. The microscopy slide series contain various cases with clinical and histological correlations.
Chairs
Ivana Kholová, Fimlab Laboratories and Tampere University, Finland
Jaroslava Dušková, Inst. Pathol. 1st Fac. of Medicine, Charles Univ. Prague, Czech Rep.
Sunday October 3rd – ROOM E
Workshop Head and Neck
Head and neck Cytopatholgoy: Common, uncommon and challenging
This workshop proposes an algorithmic approach to the head and neck cytopathology with emphasis on key cytomorphologic features and diagnostic pitfalls. It will cover a wide variety of entities including HPV-related head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Practical points for rapid on site evaluation, optimal specimen collection, specimen triage and application of ancillary studies will be discussed. It will be structured in a PowerPoint presentation for an hour followed by a video microscopy tutorial of selected cases.
Chair
Zahra Maleki, MD The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
WORKSHOP 1: Everyday cytology dilemna
Dr Jan Faryna’s presentation in the first part will concern the method of collecting cytological material and core-needle biopsy and combining these methods with the demonstration that they are complementary and not competitive. Methods of securing material for ICC, cytochemical and molecular staining.
Chair
Jan Faryna
WORKSHOP 2: Everyday cytology dilemna
In the second part, I would like to present 5 interesting cases from my own practice in the form of a quiz and then explaining the puzzle. I cannot reveal these topics
Chair
Jan Faryna
Workshop ROSE
Rapid On-site Evaluation (ROSE) of Fine Needle Aspirations: Current Practice, Challenges and Successes
This workshop will be a combination of a 45 minute didactic lecture on the operational process of ROSE in evaluation of FNA’s. The participants will lwill learn key cytomorphologic features to assess for adequacy of these specimens in the commonest sites such as lung and pancreas. Focus will also be placed on ancillary testing while using ROSE during this lecture. This will be followed by a distribution of study sets from lung cytology for the participants to review common and some uncommon lesions which undergo ROSE for adequacy assessment. The faculty will facilitate this portion of the workshop with time available for the participants to ask questions regarding cases that they are reviewing on the microscopes.
Chair
Momin Siddiqui, Weill-Cornell Medicine, New York, United States of America
Sunday October 3rd – ROOM F
Workshop Immunohistochemistry
Immunocytochemistry – quality and troubleshooting
ChairsIrena Srebotnik, Kirbis Institute of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ruben Roque, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Lisbon; Portugal
Workshop Mesothelioma versus Adenocarcinoma
Cytologic diagnosis of mesothelioma in effusion and its molecular updates
Cytologic diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma (MM) in body effusion is challenging because MM spans a wide spectrum from mild atypia to poor differentiation overlapping with benign mesothelial proliferation on one hand and adenocarcinoma on the other. In this workshop, we will present varied morphology on smears, immunohistochemical staining on cell blocks and molecular testing updates to set up an algorithmic approach in diagnosis of MM in body effusion.
Chairs
Lan Chen, Beijing Hospital, China
Speakers
Cytology diagnosis of mesothelioma in effusion (45′)
Lan Chen, Beijing Hospital, China
Utility of FISH and immunohistochemistry with HEG1, BAP1, and MTAP (45′)
Kenzo Hiroshima, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
Monday October 4th – Multifunctional Hall:
Workshop Breast Breast Cytology
Chairs
Fabrizio Zanconati, University of Trieste Pathology Unit Italy
Maurizio Pinamonti, ASUITS UCO of Anatomic Pathology Trieste Italy
Workshop Digestive Digestive pathology
Objectives of the digital workshop on gastro-intestinal cytology:
The workshop will illustrate frequent and less frequent lesions one can encounter on cytological material from the digestive tract, including brushings and EUS-guided FNA.
Fifteen cases will be presented during the workshop, including clinical history, diagnostic criteria, immunohistochemistry and molecular testing, if applicable. The slides will be digitally available before the congress.
Chairs
Birgit Weynand, UZ Leuven, Belgium
Barbara Centeno, Moffit Cancer Center, USA
Workshop Salivary glands 1
ChairsFranco Fulciniti, Istituto Cantonale di Patologia, Locarno, Switzerland
Roberto Dina, Pathology Dept., Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
Jerzy Klijanienko, Dept. Of Pathology, Institute Curie, Paris, France
Zahra Maleki, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Arrigo Capitanio, Ljnkoping University Hospital, Ljnkoping, Sweden
Akihiko Kawahara, Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Kurume University Hospital, Japan
17:30 – 19:00
Workshop Gynecology Pitfalls and Clues in Cervical Cytology: Is It a High Grade Lesion or Not?
ChairsRITU NAYAR, MD, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
DONNA K. RUSSELL, M.Ed., CT(ASCP)HT, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Monday October 4th – ROOM E:
8:30 – 10:30
Workshop Thyroid 2
ChairsDavid Poller, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Portsmouth
Guido Fadda, Catholic University of Rome
11:00 – 13:00
Workshop Lymph Nodes 1 Lymph node cytopathology
Chairs
Pio Zeppa, Department of Pathology, University of Salerno, Italy
Immacolata Cozzolino, Department of Public Health, Pathology Unit, University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Italy
15:30 – 17:30
Workshop Lymphomas
Lymph Node FNAB: diagnosis of reactive processes and lymphomas using pattern recognition and cell type assessment in a multidisciplinary setting
ChairAndrew Field, University of NSW and Notre Dame University Medical Schools, Sydney, Australia
Monday October 4th – ROOM F:
8:30 – 10:30
Workshop Lymph Nodes 2
Chairs
Pio Zeppa, Department of Pathology, University of Salerno, Italy
11:00 – 13:00
WORKSHOP Overview of the International System for seroud fluid cytology and video Microscopy Tutorial
Chairs
Daniel Kurtycz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Zahra Maleki, Johns Hopkins University, USA
There will be a one hour talk describing the International System and a second hour of Video Microscopy Tutorial.