Terminology Changes for 2024

The following terms may be seen on board certification exams and were updated to reflect changes in current guidelines. Terms are listed alphabetically by old term.

Old Term: Term was used in 2023 exams and prior.	New Term: Term will be used in 2024 exams and going forward.
abused	misused
alcoholic	person with alcohol use disorder
alcoholism	alcohol use disorder
allergic esophagitis	eosinophilic esophagitis
angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia	epithelioid hemangioma
benign follicular nodule (thyroid questions only)	follicular nodular disease
benign papillary mesothelioma	well-differentiated papillary mesothelial tumor of the pleura
Churg-Strauss disease or syndrome	eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
cribriform-morular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma	cribriform morular thyroid carcinoma
cystic adenomatoid malformation	congenital pulmonary airway malformation
electrical conductive device	conducted energy device
endometrial adenosarcoma	adenosarcoma of the uterine corpus
endometrial stromal sarcoma	low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma
hyalinizing trabecular adenoma	hyalinizing trabecular tumor
Hürthle cell adenoma (thyroid questions only)	oncocytic adenoma of the thyroid
Kleihauer-Betke	fetal RBC quantitation in maternal blood
Lacazia loboi	Paracoccidioides loboi
metaphyseal fibrous defect	non-ossifying fibroma
Mongolian spot	congenital dermal melanocytosis
myxoid chondrosarcoma	extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma
pigmented villonodular synovitis	tenosynovial giant cell tumor
poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma (thyroid questions only)	poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma
pulmonary blastoma	pleuropulmonary blastoma
Reference ranges	Reference Value(s) or Reference Interval, as appropriate
sclerosing hemangioma (lung questions only)	sclerosing pneumocytoma
Wegener granulomatosis	granulomatosis with polyangiitis
well-differentiated papillary mesothelioma (In GYN pathology questions only)	well-differentiated papillary mesothelial tumor