Diagnostic Histopathology of Soft Tissue Tumors

Regione Veneto
Azienda ULSS N. 9 Treviso
Dipartimento Funzionale di Oncologia
Unità Operativa Complessa di Anatomia Patologica
Diagnostic Histopathology
of Soft Tissue Tumors
23 rd -24 th May 2011
Course Co- Directors:
Christopher D.M. Fletcher MD
Professor of Pathology
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Chief of Oncologic Pathology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Harvard Medical School, Boston USA
Angelo Paolo Dei Tos MD
Director, Department of Oncology
Director of Anatomic Pathology
General Hospital of Treviso
Treviso, ITALY
Course Faculty:
Jonathan A. Fletcher MD
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Associate Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School, Boston USA
Pancras C.W. Hogendoorn
Leiden University Medical School
Leiden, The Netherlands
Thomas Mentzel MD
Associate Professor
University of Freiburg
Dermatopathologische Gemeinschaftspraxis
Friedrichshafen, Germany
Paola Dal Cin PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

May 23 rd
8.30 Registration
9.00 AP Dei Tos. Welcome and Introduction.
9.15 CDM Fletcher. Problems of prognostication in soft tissue tumors
10.15 Coffee break.
10.30 T Mentzel: Cutaneous vascular tumors .
11.15 Slide seminar
13. 00 Lunch
14.00 AP Dei Tos: Molecular diagnosis of soft tissue tumors
14.45: JA Fletcher. Biology of gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Slide seminar
May 24 th
9.00 CDM Fletcher. Pitfalls in the morphologic diagnosis of soft tissue tumors
10.00 P. Dal Cin: Newly recognised genetic changes in soft tissue tumors
10.45 Coffee break
11.30 Slide Seminar
13.00 Lunch
14.00 PCW Hogendoorn: Pleomorphic sarcomas
14.45 JA Fletcher. How do we identify new therapeutic targets in soft tissue tumors ?
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Slide seminar

The Department of Pathology of Treviso, organizes a two-day course focused upon
the diagnostic pathology and molecular genetics of soft tissue tumors. The course will be
co-directed by Prof. Christopher D. M Fletcher, Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA, USA.
The course is directed to pathologists and will include lectures and slide seminars.
All the participants are kindly invited to submit one case for the slide seminar. The first 70
registrants will receive the slide box at the end of the course.
For each case, submission of a short clinical history, and a paraffin block form
which at least 70 sections can be prepared, is required. The deadline for submission of
cases is April 10 th 2011.
All registrants will have access to the virtual slides of the cases included in the slide
seminar. The number of participants will be limited and therefore early application is
advised.
Please contact the organizers before making the payment: tel. + 39 0422-322707;
fax. + 39 0422-322705. Email: apdeitos@ulss.tv.it
Registration fee: € 350,00 (VAT included), comprehensive of CD-ROM,
handouts and breaks. Members of S.I.A.P.E.C. € 300,00. Residents: €
100,00.
Payment should be made by remittance to the:
Associazione Trevigiana di Patologia Oncologica,
Account N. 000047382501
UniCredit Banca: ABI: 02008 - CAB: 12015
IBAN: IT96B0200812015000047382501
SWIFT: UNCRITB1A15
The registration form along with the receipt of the payment should be sent to the following
address:
Mrs. Eleonora Fonte, Organizing Secretary,
BIBLIOTECA
OSPEDALE CIVILE, PIAZZA OSPEDALE 1
I-31100 TREVISO – ITALY
Fax. + 39 0422 322663
Tel. + 39 0422 322743
Email: efonte@ulss.tv.it
Registration will be confirmed upon receipt of payment.
For Italian participants only: Please indicate clearly to whom the invoice should be
addressed.