Soft Tissue Pathology

Details

Title

Soft Tissue Pathology

Type

Stage One

Module code

HLS391

Requirement

Compulsory

Module objective

By the end of the training period trainees will, in respect to background and principles, be able to:

• Analyse, synthesise, evaluate and apply knowledge
• Perform a range of technical and clinical skills and procedures
• Demonstrate the attitudes and behaviours necessary for professional practice as a consultant clinical scientist dealing with the complexities, uncertainties and tensions of professional practice at this level.

Knowledge and understanding

• Demonstrates understanding of the correlation of pathologic soft tissue lesions with their clinical and radiological appearances
• Demonstrates understanding of commonly encountered neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease processes, for example:
  • Lipoma
  • Angiolipoma
  • Neurofibroma
  • Dermatofibroma
  • Inflammatory pathology
  • Other benign, hamartomatous, indeterminate, and malignant soft tissue lesions
• Demonstrates knowledge of immunohistochemical techniques to apply
• Understands the value of cytogenetics

Technical and clinical skills

• Recognises morphological features suggestive of main subtypes of tumours (i.e., lipomatous, fibromatous, myomatous, neural, vascular characteristics)
• Recognises inflammatory lesions and mimics
• Recognises high-grade sarcoma