EAU 2013 - Programme Book - YouMed

ESU Courses, 17 March
ESU Course 13
12.00 - 14.00 Pathology (prostate, bladder/UUT, kidney, testicles/penis)
Green Hall 1 - Level N-1
Chair: E. Compérat, Paris (FR)
How to get best results for your patient. Challenges in pathology of the prostate and bladder
E. Compérat, Paris (FR)
New insights and changes in pathology of the kidney and testis
F. Algaba, Barcelona (ES)
Aims and objectives
This course for urologists will treat prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular pathology. It is not a course of
pathology, but wants to improve the urologist-pathologist interaction. The attended aim is to get correct
diagnosis, understand as well problems which pathologists may encounter, as the most important details
mentioned in a pathology report.
Several question frequently asked by urologists will be treated:
I.) Clinical practice and optimal handling of pathology specimen.
Is my clinical practice optimal to obtain best pathology report, how can I improve the interaction with the
pathologist?
- The importance of clinical information and well edited, good sampling will be explained, especially limits
of diagnosis in case of artefacts. Solutions how to avoid them will be discussed.
- Which information has to be exchanged between the urologists and the pathologists? The importance of
clinical information and history will be underlined.
- Robustness of pathology reports and when urologists should ask for a second opinion will be discussed.
II.) When ask for frozen sections and biopsies that are possible results.
Evaluation of surgical margins
- The indication of frozen sections and biopsies is a topic of major concern. Indications of frozen sections
have to be precise and useful; otherwise it becomes an expensive and time spending procedure. We point
out the right indications.
- Another important point which overlaps with the above mentioned is the evaluation of the surgical margins,
limits in pathology and how we can improve.
- We also want to discuss the usefulness of biopsies in kidney tumours, prostate, bladder and upper urinary
tract. Where are our limits, what do urologists expect expectations and how to proceed to get optimal
results?
III.) Pathology report. How to read and understand all included information
The aim is to discuss the major items of a pathology report.
- Am I using all the information which is in a pathological report?
- Do I know the latest staging and grading?
- Which information do I have to expect and ask in case of absence?
- Understand why the pathologist does immunohistochemistry.
- The most important antibodies (understanding of which antibody is in favour of which lesion and evokes
which hypothesis).
IV.) Novelties in Uro-Onco Pathology. Applications in daily practice
- Many new acquisitions are regularly made in Uro-Oncological Pathology. The latest news in burning
research topic will briefly be discussed.
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