13th Meeting of the International Pituitary Pathology Club

• Pituitary tumor pathology.
• Classification.
• Pathogenesis.
• Biomarkers.
• Invasion.
• Aggressiveness.
• Angiogenesis.
• Pituitary Carcinomas.
• Silent Adenomas.
• Medical Treatment and Surgery.

Alin Abreu
Centro Médco Imbanaco, Cali, Colombia

Carlo Capella
Professor of Pathology. Department of Human Morphology. University of Insubria. Varese, Italy     

Antonio Di Ieva
Department of Neurosurgery, St. Michael's Hospital, Medical University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hidetoshi Ikeda
Head of Research Institute for Pituitary Disease, Southern Tohoku General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan
   
Mark E. Jentoft
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

George Kontogeorgos
Department of Pathology, G. Gennimatas General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Kalman Kovacs
Professor of Pathology. St Michael´s Hospital, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada

M. Beatriz S. Lopes
Director of Neuropathology. University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, USA

Ian McCutcheon.
Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. USA

Fabio Rotondo
Department of Pathology. St Michael´s Hospital, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada

Wolfgang Saeger
Institute of Neuropathology of the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Aydin Sav
Department of Pathology, Acibadem University, School of Medicine, Maltepe, Istanbul, Turkey

Luis V. Syro
Department of Neurosurgery. Clinica Medellin, Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe. Medellin. Colombia

Jacqueline Trouillas
Laboratoire d'Histologie et Embryologie moléculaires. INSERM. Faculté de Médecine Lyon, France

Eduardo Vellutini
Department of Neurosurgery. DFV Neuro. Sao Paulo. Brazil.
        
Stefan Wolfsberger
Department of Neurosurgery. AKH. Medical University. Vienna, Austria

Thursday, October 3
12.00 - 20.00	Arrival and Registration
Friday, October 4
7.00 - 8.30	Registration and breakfast
8.30 - 8.45	Welcome Address and Opening Remarks Luis V. Syro
8.45 -10.00	Session 1 Chair: George Kontogeorgos Controversial diagnosis in pituitary pathology - atypical and invasive adenomas Beatriz  M. Lopes Aggressive pituitary adenomas: a diagnostic challenge. Kalman Kovacs
10.00 -10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 -12.00	Session 2 Chair:  Luis V. Syro     Recurrences of pituitary adenomas: comparisons with first tumors Wolfgang Saeger Proposal of a new prognostic clinicopathological classification of pituitary endocrine tumors Jacqueline Trouillas
12.00 -13.30	Session 3 Chair: Kalman Kovacs     Biomarkers of pituitary neoplasms Aydin Sav Treatment of aggressive pituitary tumors with temozolomide. An update Luis V Syro
13.30 -15.30	Lunch
15.30 -17.30	Session 4 Chair: Antonio Di Ieva Advances in navigation for pituitary surgery Stefan Wolfsberger Pituitary surgery beyond the sella Eduardo Vellutini Extracapsular resection of prolactinomas:  lessons learned from a series of 50 cases Ian McCutcheon Transsphenoidal microsurgical results of female patients with prolactinomas Hidetoshi Ikeda
20.00 - 23.00	Reception and Dinner
Saturday,  October 5
7.00 - 8.30	Breakfast
8.30 -10.30	Session 5  Chair: M.Beatriz Lopes     Plurihormonality and pluripotentiality of GH-secreting adenomas based on pathological analysis of 242 patients with acromegaly Acromegaly and pregnancy Alin Abreu Autophagy and the pituitary Fabio Rotondo Silent corticotroph adenomas: an update George Kontogeorgos
10.30 -11.00	Coffee Break
11.00 -12.30	Session 6 Chair: Jacqueline Trouillas Characterization of Pituitary Adenomas by Mass Spectometry Based Proteomics Mark Jentoft Angiogenesis and morphometrics of microvessels in pituitary tumors Antonio Di Ieva Case report: angiolipoma of the pituitary Wolfang Saeger Mixed pituitary adenoma-craniopharyngioma Carlo Capella
12.30 -13.30	Business Meeting
13.30 -15.30	Lunch
Sunday, October 6
8.30 -10.00	Session 7 Chair: Ian McCutcheon Update in pathology of ACTH tumors Jacqueline Trouillas Update in functional pathology of GH producing adenomas Wolfgang Saeger Update in pathology of nonfunctional pituitary adenomas George Kontogeorgos
10.00 -10.30	Coffee Break
10.30 -12.30	Session 8 Chair: Hypophysitis and TTF-1 Expressing Sellar Region Masses M. Beatriz Lopes The Correlation Between SPARC (osteonectin) expression with inmunophenotype and invasion characteristics of pituitary adenomas Aydin Sav Residual nonfunctional pituitary adenomas: what to do? Stefan Wolfsberger
12.30 -14.30	Lunch
14.30 -16.30	Session 9 Chair: The impact of IGF-1F and VEGF on cellular proliferation and invasivenes of pituitary adenomas Aydin Sav Surgery and radiotherapy of pituitary adenomas in the age of molecular diagnostics and pathology Ian McCutcheon
16.30	Closure
Monday, October 7
From 5.00	Departure from Medellin