2024 - 48th ASM

The 49th Annual Scientific Meeting Educational Material (May 31st – June 2nd, 2024)

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The 48th Annual Scientific Meeting Abstracts published in the Online Histopathology Journal

2024 Abstracts published in the Histopathology Journal

2024 Abstracts accepted and presented (0.09 MB)

Conference Lectures by Keynote Speakers

Lectures - Bruce Wenig

Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Historical Arc from Discovery to Molecular Diagnostics (9.92 MB)

Viral-Associated Carcinomas of the Head and Neck (15.44 MB)

Lectures - Iris Nagtegaal

Population screening for bowel cancer (14.14 MB)

The tumor deposit story (6.50 MB)

Keynote Speakers - Slide Seminars

Slide Seminar - Bruce Wenig (17.16 MB)

Slide Seminar - Iris Nagtegaal

Slide Seminar - Iris Nagtegaal (18.47 MB)

Plenary Lecture- Fausto Rodriguez

Frozen section interpretation in surgical neuropathology: current approaches and evolving techniques (34.34 MB)

Master Class – Fausto Rodriguez

Diagnostic Pathology of Peripheral Nerve Tumors (41.60 MB)

Master Class – Siaw Ming Chai

Oh, the places you’ll go with cytology… (45.08 MB)

Vincent McGovern Memorial Lecturer - Amanda Charlton

Pattern recognition, diagnostic reasoning and cognitive bias (0.13 MB)

Companion Sessions - Educational Materials

Bone & Soft Tissue Pathology PowerPoint PDFs

Alexandra Jolley - Epithelial Games (12.37 MB)

Alireza Khani - Calcified and Chondroid Lump or Split (4.27 MB)

Alison Potter - The expanding galaxy of EWSR rearranged tumours (10.12 MB)

Daniel Wong - An aggressive giant cell tumour with a twist (7.12 MB)

Pennie Symmans - RRELA World NGS (7.62 MB)

Victoria van Winden - GLEE Club: a series of three cases (4.12 MB)

Breast Pathology PowerPoint PDFs

Anna Sokolova - E-cadherin, ROS1 and synthetic lethality in invasive lobular carcinoma (4.94 MB)

Sandra O'Toole - Imaging and histological appearance of hydroMARK breast lesion localization clips (13.95 MB)

Sandra O'Toole - New technologies transforming our understanding of breast cancer and rare breast tumours (8.53 MB)

Dermatopathology PowerPoint PDFs

Andrew Dettrick - Improving the Grading of cSCC (4.63 MB)

Danielle Vignati - IHC staining patterns in WNT-activated deep penetrating/plexiform melanocytomas (9.63 MB)

Mapp McMeniman Lambie and Lee - Cutaneous T Cell Lymphoma MDT (41.85 MB)

Omar Habeeb - Challenging Cutaneous Spindle Cell Lesions (3.47 MB)

Digital and Quantitative Pathology - PowerPoint PDFs

Blake O’Brien - Artificial intelligence for Basal Cell Carcinoma Better than a human? (4.14 MB)

Chee Leong Cheng - Digital Pathology and Artificial Intelligence: Aspiration or Reality? (3.11 MB)

Melissa Holmes - Implementation of Digital Pathology in a Private Australian Laboratory (2.73 MB)

Nigel Maher - RCPA Draft Guidance Document for Artificial Intelligence in Pathology (1.10 MB)

Education in Pathology - PowerPoint PDFs

Angela Wong - Health Management Matters to Anatomical Pathology (3.46 MB)

Diane Kenwright - Quick Qualifications to sharpen your teaching techniques (1.48 MB)

Marsali Newman - Cytology Education Post Fellowship (1.83 MB)

Nicola Graf - Paediatric and Perinatal/Placental Pathology (0.72 MB)

Peter McQuillan - The Path to Dermatopathology Expertise (2.53 MB)

Gastrointestinal Pathology - PowerPoint PDFs

Duncan McLeod - A case of inflammatory polyposis (11.55 MB)

Iris Nagtegaal - NEOADJUVANT THERAPY IN RECTAL CANCER (3.30 MB)

J Huang - Clear cell sarcoma of the GIT – as clear as mud (6.12 MB)

Tim Fielder - Crystals in the colon –a cause of colitis (1.96 MB)

Endocrine Pathology - PowerPoint PDFs

Bruce Wenig - Follicular Thyroid Neoplasms: Criteria for Diagnosing Carcinoma (12.90 MB)

Lori A Erickson - Updates in Parathyroid Pathology (31.11 MB)

Truong Phan Xuan Nguyen - Proteomics Profile in Encapsulated Follicular Patterned Thyroid Neoplasms (2.87 MB)

Gynaecology - PowerPoint PDFs

Amy Richardson - Pilomatrix-like high grade endometrioid carcinoma (5.11 MB)

Eloise House - Endometrial cancer in women with BRCA mutations (3.37 MB)

Eva Baxter - Complete pathological response following levonorgestrel intrauterine device in early-stage endometrial cancer –Results of the feMMetrial (0.98 MB)

Jonathan Clark - A practical approach to molecular analysis of endometrial carcinoma (4.15 MB)

K Talia - Endometrial gastrointestinal-type glandular lesions (44.29 MB)

Lyndal Anderson - Uterine transplantation and its complications (4.36 MB)

Patricia Guzman - Mesonephric like Carcinoma of Endometrium (5.74 MB)

Head and Neck Pathology - PowerPoint PDFs

Andrew Dettrick - The Head & Neck Club (10.82 MB)

Bruce Wenig - Keratinizing (Differentiated) Dysplasia of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract (UADT) (5.31 MB)

Duncan Lambie - Adipocytic tumours of the upper aerodigestive tract (16.94 MB)

Fouzia Ziad - Case Report (5.69 MB)

Ruta Gupta - Head and Neck Consensus Language for Ease and Reproducibility (HN CLEAR) (3.06 MB)

Liver and Pancreas - PowerPoint PDFs

Angela Chou - Sarcomas of the pancreas and potential pitfalls (24.07 MB)

Noni Chan - An unusual tumour in the liver: A brain racking case! Noni Chan (6.19 MB)

Samuel Foong - An uncommon finding in a pancreatic NET (6.82 MB)

Stephen Stoddart (8.84 MB)

Lung Pathology PowerPoint PDFs

Anastassia Silaeva - A Neoplastic Rarity in Pulmonary Pathology (3.16 MB)

Hans Kawatu - Spindle Cell Lesion of Thoracic Pathology - A Journey From Biopsy To Resection Specimen (0.65 MB)

Vivek Rathi - Changing landscape of NSCLC molecular testing in Australia (2.57 MB)

Sam Druskovich - The sticky situation of a rare ominous finding masked in mesothelial clothing (39.64 MB)

Sarita Prabhakaran (4.92 MB)

Yee Lin - AN UNUSUAL CAUSE FOR BILATERAL PLEURAL EFFUSIONS (17.97 MB)

Molecurar Pathology - PowerPoint PDFs

Chelsee Hewitt - Illumina vs Genexus NGS Platforms : Selecting the Optimal Solution for Somatic Mutation Testing Chelsee Hewitt (1.62 MB)

Leslie Connull - KRAS as a target in non small cell lung cancer (5.19 MB)

Owen Prall - Whole Genome Sequencing as a Diagnostic Aid for Difficult Cases (2.66 MB)

Pranav Dorwal - Role of NGS based RNA fusion testing in Anatomical Pathology (2.21 MB)

Ruta Gupta - Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the Age of Next Generation Sequencing (5.21 MB)

Neuropathology - PowerPoint PDFs

Amber Louw - Paediatric primary non-Langerhans cell histiocytoses of the CNS withassociated molecular alterations: A review of three cases (4.83 MB)

Clinton Turner - An update on the immune microenvironment in meningioma (5.40 MB)

Fausto Rodriguez - Neuropathology of Genetic TumorSyndromes of the CNS and PNS (16.10 MB)

Mohammed Aishemeili - Prospective Molecular screening of relapsing inoperable skull base and frontal anterior meningiomas (1.08 MB)

Lymphoma - PowerPoint PDFs

Brad Webster - Mantle cell lymphoma: One small change (7.21 MB)

Christine Khoo - Cutaneous lymphoma/lymphoproliferative disorders with gamma delta phenotype (20.93 MB)

King Tan - EBV-positive polymorphic B-cell lymphoproliferative disorder (16.93 MB)

Vishnu Subramanian - Follicular lymphoma - subtypes and variants (1.77 MB)

Ophthalmic Pathology - PowerPoint PDFs

Edwin Tan - Two cases of rare mesenchymal tumours of the eyelid (14.02 MB)

Fausto Rodriguez - Neurogenic Orbital Tumors (15.18 MB)

Geoffrey Hall - Introduction AI and Applications in Ocular Pathology Dr. Geoffrey (11.04 MB)

Nikita Garg - Molecular risk stratification in uvealmelanoma:Utility of TCGA classification for clinical decision making (2.90 MB)

Orell Cytology - PowerPoint PDFs

Elisabeth Salisbufy - Artificial Intelligence and Cytopathology Friend or Foe? (2.77 MB)

Benjamin Spann - Cytological features of ROS1 rearranged Pulmonary Inflammatory Myofibroblastic tumour - Case discussion (0.89 MB)

Daniel Nguyen - A Cytological Diagnosis of An Unusual SMARCA4-Deficient Tumour With Chondromyxoid Stroma (5.82 MB)

Esther Myint - Cytology component of Part 2 Examination,RCPA (0.78 MB)

Kim Tran - Cytology examination (6.14 MB)

Pacific Islands Forum - PowerPoint PDFs

David Clift - A brief review of the RCPA Pathology Education Outreach Committee’s recent work (0.16 MB)

Hans Nogua - Pathology Training in Papua New Guinea, a Trainee’s Perspective (2.18 MB)

Malcolm Tangi - SECTRA – We can help Pasifika (2.35 MB)

Marion Saville - ELIMINATION OF CERVICAL CANCER IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC (4.67 MB)

Mridula Krishnaswamy - Thinking Beyond The Pathologist (5.36 MB)

Patrick Penitani - Insights into Problems Besetting Pathology Training in Tonga: A Trainee Perspective (2.12 MB)

Peter Earls - What a lab visit looks like (3.37 MB)

Paediatric and Perinatal Pathology - PowerPoint PDFS

Amanda Charlton - Finding nemaline rods in a muscle biopsy of 15 week fetus requires targeted electron microscopic examination (4.71 MB)

Disna Abeysuriya - Early Neonatal death and asphyxia (24.96 MB)

Edward Xing - Successful prevention of recurrent massive perivillousfibrin deposition in a woman with autoimmune disease (5.85 MB)

Fausto Rodriguez - Molecular pathology of pediatric gliomas and glioneuronal tumors: Evolving concepts (20.38 MB)

Renal Pathology - PowerPoint PDFs

Abeer Hagelamin - Between The Rock and The Kidney (3.24 MB)

Hans Kawatu - Renal Crystalline Induced Glomerulopathy (2.37 MB)

Jing Jing Li - A patient with mouth ulcers (14.13 MB)

Julia Low - Renal biopsy audit of Double Transplant recipients spanning 40 years (2.17 MB)

Julia Chan - Smoke and Mirrors (3.58 MB)

Uasim Harkus - TKI INDUCED GLOMERULOPATHIES (2.24 MB)

Special Session (Infectious Diseases) - PowerPoint PDFs

Alexandra Currie - Four Infections Not To Be Missed In The Head and Neck! (13.90 MB)

Anthony Amof - The Red Herring Case (2.02 MB)

Blake O'Brien - Balamuthia mandrillaris Case report: Delayed diagnosis with fatal outcome (3.69 MB)

Edwina Duhig - Infectious Diseases and the Lung: Granulomas (4.97 MB)

Gregory Miller - LFTs spiralling out of control (5.60 MB)

John Slavin - Soft tissue Mass (2.13 MB)

Uropathology - PowerPoint PDFs

Clifton Woods - A RARE TUMOUR IN AN EVEN RARER SITE (1.69 MB)

Fiona Maclean - Real Intelligence AI in GU Pathology (2.52 MB)

Forough Foroughi - Concurrent prostatic acinar adenocarcinoma and invasive urothelial carcinoma with squamous differentiation in prostate biopsy (17.81 MB)

Nicole Swarbrick - What’s new in prostate pathology: Update on morphologic aspects Emphasis on the poorly formed gland Nicole Swarbrick (2.73 MB)

Rebecca Morrow - BRCA testing in prostate cancer: a crash course for the Anatomical Pathologist (8.40 MB)

Renal Pathology PowerPoint PDFs

Jing Jing Li - Things I learned from... Oh, these tubules are funny looking... (4.46 MB)

Julia Low - A case of an unwanted diagnosis - C3 Glomerulonephritis (5.43 MB)

Amolika Namjoshi - Something lurking in the shadows (or IF dark room) . . . (30.42 MB)

Pui Shen (Rachel) Lau - An unexpected twist... (2.57 MB)

Uropathology PowerPoint PDFs

James Kench - Evolving issues in the 5th Edition of the WHO classification of prostate carcinoma (14.09 MB)

Jesse McKenney - Molecularly “defined” renal neoplasms in the WHO 2022 classification: an approach to recognition and work-up (23.40 MB)

The 49th Annual Scientific Meeting Educational Material (May 31st – June 2nd, 2024)

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