COURSE DIRECTOR: Oleksiy Tsybrovskyy, MD, Graz
GUEST FACULTY: Giovanni Tallini, MD, Bologna & Manuel Sobrinho Simões, MD, PhD, Porto
Hot topics this year:
• WHO 2022 classification: important changes for thyroid tumors in focus
• Molecular testing on FNA: pro and contra
• Highly selective RET-kinase inhibitors and RET testing: when and how
Program features and highlights:
• Hands-on microscopy with real cytology and histology slides circulating among all participants
• Presentation and discussion of the participants’ diagnoses for each case (questionnaire-based survey during microscopy sessions) in comparison with the experts’ consensus diagnoses
• Extensive correlation of cytology and histology
• Especially challenging cases presented by the guest faculty
• Interactive discussion among participants and the faculty
• Technical/methodological aspects (frozen section, macroscopy, sampling, FNB, touch imprint cytology, staining protocols) specifically addressed
• Application of immunohistochemical and molecular markers
• Presentation of follow-up data, therapeutic and prognostic implications of histopathologic diagnoses
• Slide scans available via internet after the course
• Lectures and in-depth discussion of selected topics (FNA cytology, NIFT-P and related tumors, papillary carcinoma variants, oncocytic lesions).
