Litigation risk cases in cytology: How to approach the discrepancy, discover the root cause and implement the relevant countermeasures

3^rd International Conference on Cytopathology & Histopathology

June 21-22, 2017 Philadelphia, USA

Farnaz Hasteh

University of California, USA

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Cytol Histol

Abstract :

This course will provide a practical review of a few false negative and false positive cytology cases that were discovered in the setting of intradepartmental quality assurance (QA), peer review or after correlation with the surgical outcomes. The cause will be a case based presentation in a broad range of cytology fields from gynecological, non-gynecologic and finally FNA cases. This session will emphasis on diagnostic pitfalls, differential diagnosis, detailed cytomorphologic features, review of clinical, radiological histories and finally comparison with corresponding histology. The emphasis will be in discovering the roots of errors and implementing a safer system to prevent mistakes. This presentation is an interactive presentation which we expect and encourage audience participation. This course is designed for surgical pathologists, cytopathologists, cytopathology fellows, cytotechnologists and pathologists-in-training.

Biography :

Email: fhasteh@ucsd.edu