Thursday, 4th October 2001

• 8.00 a.m.: Registration

  Self-assessment course in Dermatopathology

• 8.30 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.:
  Examination of Glass Slides*
  * The Self-assessment Course in Dermatopathology will be held in Microscopes Room at Congress Centre; participants registered at Self-assessment Course will be divided in groups of 30 persons, each on a first come first served basis. Please note that in any case every participant registered will have 90 minutes maximum for the Course. After that, next turn will have place.

• 1.00-1.15 p.m.: Opening Wellcome Addresses

• MAIN LECTURES
  Chairmen: L. Cerroni, J.C. Maize, J.J. Sanchez

• 1.15-1.35 p.m.:
  Histologic diagnosis of inflammatory diseases: the evolution of a method
  A.B. Ackerman (New York)

• 1.35-1.50 p.m.:
  Pityriasis rosea and inflammation of papillary dermis
  B.J. Cribier (Strasbourg)

• 1.50-2.10 p.m.:
  Histologic and Immunohistologic Diagnosis of Subepidermal Vesicular Dermatitis: Sometimes Straightforward; Sometimes Not
  C. Cockerell (Dallas)

• 2.10-2.30 p.m.:
  The morphologic spectrum of cutaneous inflammatory pseudotumor
  H. Kerl (Graz)

• 2.30-2.40 p.m.:
  Annular Lichenoid Dermatitis of Youngsters (ALDY)
  G. Annessi (Rome)

• 2.40-3.00 p.m.:
  Cutaneous clinicopathological features of deficiency diseases
  R. Cerio (London)

• 3.00-3.20 p.m.:
  Fibroses, atrophies and scleroses
  J.J. Sànchez (San Juan de Puerto Rico)

• Discussion: 10 minutes
  
  

• 3.30-4.20 p.m.:
  Free communications
  Chairpersons: A.B. Ackerman, V. Brazzelli, P. Umbert

  Cutaneous Giant Cell Arteritis
  G.F. Kao, M.H. Lowitt, A.M. Linquist, A.J. Saladino, A. Borkowski, T. Lang (Baltimora,Washington)

  Is it psoriasis or is lymphoma?
  T. McCalmont (San Francisco)

  Sweet's syndrome and erythema nodosum-like panniculitis
  G. Filosa, L. Bugatti (Jesi)

  Predominance of neutrophilic granulocytes in inital lesions of prurigo pigmentosa
  A. Böer, R. Kaufmann, M. Wolter (Frankfurt/M.)

  Cutaneous Destombes-Rosai-Dorfman disease (cutaneous sinus histiocytosis). Investigation for a viral etiology
  N. Ortonne, A.M. Fillet, H. Kosuge, M. Bagot, C. Frances, J. Wechsler (Creteil, Paris)

Primary cutaneous Rosai-Dorfman disease. Presentation of a case with unusual histological characteristic
C. Lopez, N. Aranzazu, M. Chopite, M. Oliver (Caracas)

Melanin transfer block: a possible primary mechanism of hypopigmentation in lichen sclerosus
J.A. Carlson, R. Grabowski, X.C. Mu, A. Del Rosario, J. Malfetano, A. Slominski (Memphis)

"Ouranite glandulaire"
A. Amantea (Rome)

Adhesion molecules ICAM-1, VCAM-1 and IL-2r in the skin of psoriatic patients
L. Cabrijan, G. Zamolo, F. Gruber, M. Palle, S. Stifter (Rijeka)

Neurocutaneous melanosis: a case report
V. Feier, P. Ghitulescu, A. Koreck, F. Birsasteanu, L. Budiu (Timisoara)

Trachyonychia: a histologiacal study of 30 patients
U. Sass, B. Richert, J. André (Brussels)

Discussion: 10 minutes

• 4.25-4.40 p.m.:
  Coffee break - Poster viewing in the exhibition area

  Self-assessment Course in Dermatopathology: Discussion part 1

• 4.40-6.30 p.m.:
  Chairmen: Z.B. Argenyi, G. Borroni, G. Burg, C. Cockerell
  Discussion case 1-9

  Chairmen: K. Resnik, T McCalmont, R.Cerio, N. Walsh
  Discussion case 10-18

• 6.30-7.00 p.m.:
  General Assembly of the European Society of Dermatopathology
  (President: Prof. Rino Cerio - London)

• 7.00 p.m.:
  Evening Welcome Reception
  

Friday, 5th October 2001

• MAIN LECTURES
  Chairmen: A.B. Ackerman, L. Balus, H. Kerl, M. Pippione

• 8.00-8.20 a.m.:
  Mimickers in Dermatopathology
  J. Bhawan (Boston)

• 8.20-8.30 a.m.:
  Interstitial granulomatous dermatitis with plaques
  C. Tomasini, M. Pippione (Turin)

• 8.30-8.45 a.m.:
  Unusual granulomatous infiltrates - when the exception may become the rule!
  R. Bergman (Haifa)

• 8.45-9.00 a.m.:
  Granuloma Anulare: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
  N. Walsh (Halifax)

• 9.00-9.20 a.m.:
  Tuberculosis Resurgent
  E. Wilson Jones (London)

• 9.20-9.35 a.m.:
  Lepra: clinicopathologic correlation
  M. Magaña (Mexico City)

• 9.35-9.50 a.m.:
  Cutaneous inflammatory conditions simulating sarcomas
  C. Diaz-Cascajo (Freiburg)

• 9.50-10.05 a.m.:
  Coffee break - Poster viewing in the exhibition area

• MAIN LECTURES
  Chairmen: R. Anadolu, B.J. Cribier, D. Metze

• 10.05-10.25 a.m.:
  Atopic dermatitis: fact or factitious
  A.B. Ackerman (New York)

• 10.25-10.35 a.m.:
  Atopic dermatitis: fact and factitious
  G. Borroni (Pavia)
  

• 10.35.-10.55 a.m.:
  The many faces of pemphigus
  J.C. Maize (Charleston)

• 10.55-11.15 a.m.:
  The spectrum of reactive vascular proliferations with an inflammatory component
  E. Calonje (London)

• Discussion: 15 minutes
  

  Self-assessment Course in Dermatopathology: Discussion part 2

• 11.15 a.m.-1.00 p.m.:
  Chairmen: R. Bergman, J. Bhawan, H, Kutzner, M. Tronnier
  Discussion case 19-25

  Chairmen: C. Diaz, O. Sangueza, P. Soyer, B. Zelger
  Discussion case 26-33
  

• 1.00-2.00 p.m.:
  Lunch and Poster viewing

  
  Executive Committee Meeting of the International Society of Dermatopathology
  

• 2.15-2.45 p.m.:

A. Bernard Ackerman Lecture Award to: Ing. Sergio Pininfarina
Chairman: H. Kerl

My life: not only design

Ing. Sergio Pininfarina
Presidente Gruppo Pininfarina S. p. A. (Torino)

 

Special Session:
Young Dermatopathologists for young Residents

Chairmen: A.B. Ackerman, G. Borroni

• 2.45-3.45 p.m.:

  Solid type retiform hemangioendothelioma
  H. Kutzner (Friedrichshafen)

  Case pro diagnosis
  K. Bullani-Kerl (Geneva)

  B-cell rich cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
  D. Massi (Florence)

  A patient with a perianal tumor
  C. Moreno (Madrid)

  A monolateral erythemato-squamous plaque of the breast
  L. Muscardin (Rome)

  Pseudomembranous angiomatoid papillomatosis (PAP) of mucous membranes in two young patients after Bone Marrow Transplantation
  M. Ardigò (Pavia)

• MAIN LECTURES
  Chairmen: S. Chimenti, H. Kerl, M. Paulli, W. Sterry

• 3.45-4.00 p.m.:
  Coffee break - Poster viewing in the exhibition area

• 4.00-4.20 p.m.:
  A pragmatic approach to the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of cutaneous pseudolymphoma
  L. Cerroni (Graz)

• 4.20-4.40 p.m.:
  From inflammation to neoplasia
  G. Burg (Zurich)

• 4.40-5.00 p.m.:
  Benign inflammatory skin diseases simulating cutaneous T-cell lymphomas
  W. Sterry (Berlin)

• 5.00-5.15 p.m.:
  Panniculitis versus panniculitic lymphoma
  T. McCalmont (San Francisco)

Chairmen: E. Berti, G. Burg, O. Clemmensen, W. Kempf, W. Meigel

• 5.15-5.35 p.m.:

  Free communications
  

  Cutaneous pseudo-T cell lymphoma rich in plasmacytoid monocytes.
  Case description
  E. Boveri (Pavia)

  Pleomorphic CD30-positive lymphocytic infiltrate associated with molluscum contagiosum: report of 3 cases.
  D.V. Kazakov, H. Kutzner, G. Palmedo, B. Müller, G. Burg, W. Kempf (Zurich)

  Mycosis fungoides simulating inflammatory dermatoses. African experience.
  K.F. Jacyk, K.F. Ayerst (Pretoria)

  MF simulating lichen nitidus
  P. Heenan (Perth)

• Discussion: 5 minutes

• MAIN LECTURES
  Chairmen: L. Cerroni, J.L. Sánchez, C.A. Sander, O.P. Sangueza

• 5.35-5.50 p.m.:
  Lymphomas that simulate inflammatory diseases
  O.P. Sangueza (Winston-Salem)

• 5.50-6.05 p.m.:
  Lymphomatoid papulosis: lymphoma versus pseudolymphoma? A still controversial issue
  M. Paulli (Pavia)

• 6.05-6.20 p.m.:
  Subcutaneous Panniculitis-like T-cell Linphoma
  E. Berti, E. Alessi (Milano)

• 6.20-6.35 p.m.:
  The spectrum of Langerhans cell histiocytosis simulating various inflammatory diseases
  H. Starz (Augsburg)

• 6.35-6.50 p.m.:
  Reactive angioendotheliomatosis versus malignant angioendotheliomatosis (AE)
  B. Zelger (Innsbruck)

• 6.50-7.05 p.m.:
  Herpes virus infection versus cutaneous lymphoma
  P. Heenan (Perth)

• Discussion: 10 minutes

• 8.00 p.m.:
  Piano Recital at the Main Hall of Palazzo dei Congressi

• 8.45 p.m.:
  Gala Dinner at Hotel La Palma

• 8.00-8.45 a.m.:
  

  Free communications

  Chairmen: M. Aricò, E.Calonje, P. Heenan, J. Metcalf, W. Weyers

Fibro-Osseous Pseudotumor of a toe
I. Moulonguet, S. Goettman (Paris)

Cutaneous inflammatory pseudotumor: a case report
R. Strumia, A.R. Lombardi, A. Marzola, L. Cavazzini (Ferrara)

Dermatofibroma with eosinophilic globules - An unrecognized variant?
J. Lindebjerg, E. Spaun (Aalborg)

Dermatofibroma-like stromal reaction in syringocystadenoma
M.W. Lee, C.H. Stone, A. Savera, A. Mollabashy (Detroit)

Intraepidermal Merkel cell carcinoma simulating lymphocytic epidermotropism
M.W. Lee, M. Chaffins, L. Stein, M. Balle, K. Hashimoto (Detroit)

Glomangiosracoma of the forearm developed in a superficial glomus tumor
B. Cavelier-Balloy, I. Bardy-Decrion, J. Buis (Paris)

Follow-up of a primary cutaneous plasmacytosis in a child
M. Aricò, M.R. Bongiorno (Palermo)

Clear cell papulosis: an immunohistochemical study to determine histogenesis
Y. C. Kim, D.A. Mehregan, D. Bang (Cheonan and Seoul, Monroe)

Solitary fibrous tumour (SFT): the occurrence of this rare tumour at unusual sites
E. Wilson Jones (London)

Discussion: 10 minutes

MAIN LECTURES
Chairmen: J. Sánchez, W.P.D. Su, B. Zelger

8.45-9.05 a.m.:
Lupus Erythematosus: a Unifying Concept
A.B. Ackerman (New York)

9.05-9.25 a.m.:
Imitators of inflammatory disorders: drug induced pigmentation
Z.B. Argenyi (Seattle)

9.25-9.40 a.m.:
Normal looking skin in oncohaematological patients after allogenic bone-marrow transplantation: is not normal
C. Vassallo (Pavia)

9.40-9.50 a.m.:
A cutaneous eruption to doxorubicin which histologically mimics Bowen diseases
J. Metcalf (Charleston)

9.50-10.10 a.m.:
Exanthematous and lymphomatoid drug eruption
D. Metze (Münster)

10.30-10.45 a.m.:
The impact of telecommunication on the histopathologic diagnosis of inflammatory versus non inflammatory skin lesions
H.P. Soyer (Graz)

Discussion: 10 minutes

10.45-11.00 a.m.:
Coffee break - Poster viewing in the exhibition area

 

11.00 a.m-1.00 p.m.:

Special Session:

Consultation: five difficult problems in diagnosis presented to a panel of expert and to the audience

Chairman: W. Weyers (Freiburg)

The Presenters:
C. Rose, C. Vassallo, J. Maize, J. Sánchez, B. Cribier

The Experts:
A.B. Ackerman, L. Cerroni, H. Kutzner, G. Borroni, B. Zelger

1.00 p.m.:
Closing remarks

1.15 p.m.:
Lunch