SHORT COURSES Friday Morning - February 17, 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM Room locations are indicated on the back of the Short Course Ticket A coffee break is scheduled for 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. Registrants who received microscopic slide sets prior to the meeting must return the slides to the meeting registration desk before the course or make a fifty-dollar ($50) refundable deposit for each set of slides in order to be issued the ticket for that short course. Slides sets for most short courses which are available for review in the Microscopic Study Room (Chicago B-F). It is open Sunday through Thursday from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight and on Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. 06 — Pathology of the Placenta 24 — Frozen Section Diagnosis, Indications and Pitfalls 28 — Diagnostic Considerations for the Intraoperative (frozen section) Assessment of Selected Head and Neck Lesions 36 — Management and Compliance in Large and Academic Pathology Practices 45 — Ophthalmic Pathology in the General Surgical Pathology Practice 46 — Cutaneous Mesenchymal Tumors and Non-Mesenchymal Mimics: An Update and Approach to Diagnosis 51 — Issues and Controversies in Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Disease 52 — Soft Tissue Tumors in Children and Adolescents: A Morphologic Pattern-Oriented Approach with Molecular and Genetic Correlation. 55 — Current Issues in the Surgical Pathology and Pathobiology of Prostate Cancer 57 — Atherosclerosis: Practical Issues for Pathologists 62 — Introduction to Statistics for Pathologists 63 — A Practical Aproach to the Diagnosis of Common Hematopoietic and Solid Tumors of Childhood 64 — Vascular Pathology: From Vasculitis to Vasculopathy to Vascular Rejection