June 2017 : Report of KCIAPM Interactive Slide Seminar

Columbia Asia Hospital, Bengaluru

Columbia Asia Referral Hospital, Bangalore organised a CME on Saturday, 17th June 2017. It was a 4 hour programme and 77 postgraduates / consultants turned up from across the state.

There were interactive lectures on biochemistry ( Liver function tests – A case based approach, by Dr Sweta Shivashanker ), microbiology ( Hepatitis viruses – A case based approach, by Drs Angelina Mendos and Anisha M Fernandes ) and, ‘How to write a paper’ by Dr Sanjay A Pai.

Finally, there was a slide seminar ( cases discussed by Drs Jayashree D Kulkarni, Shwetha R Bangalore and Divya P ), in which were 8 cases, spanning haematology and histopathology.

Case Slide Diagnosis

Case 1 Contestant 1 MANEC (mixed adenocarcinoma with neuroendocrine tumour) of the Extrahepatic bile duct
Case 2 Contestant 2 Kikuchi-Fujimoto lymphadenitis
Case 3 Contestant 3 Cryptococcosis
Case 4 Contestant 4 APL with PML-RARA, hypogranular variant
Case 5 Contestant 5 IgG4 related disease
Case 6 Contestant 6 Adenocarcinoma with amoebiasis
Case 7 Contestant 7 Cystic neutrophilic granulomatous mastitis ( probably caused by Corynebacterium spp )
Case 8 Contestant 8 AML with inv 16