POSTER SESSION II
Monday, February 28, 2011   —  1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Exhibit Hall


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202 Mislabeling Rates of Cases, Specimens, Blocks and Slides; a College of American Pathologists Study of 136 Institutions. (1853)
RE Nakhleh, MO Idowu, R Souers, LG Bekeris - Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville; VCU Health System, Richmond, VA; Phoenixville Hospital, PA; College of American Pathologists, Northfield, IL
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203 Misidentifications as Root Causes for Amended Reports in Surgical Pathology. (1847)
FA Meier, RC Varney, C Neuman, A Ormsby, O Alassi, RJ Zarbo - Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
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204 Improving Patient Safety: Root Cause Analysis of Surgical Pathology Reports Released on Wrong Patients. (1862)
S Shuja, B Villas, K Lee - University of Florida, College of Medicine-Jacksonville, Jacksonville
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205 Simulation Based Medical Education (SBME) of Intraoperative Frozen Section Interpretation. (1846)
GR Kotnis, TA Wilkerson, CP Yantsides, SS Raab - University of Colorado Denver, Aurora
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206 Enhancing Peri-Operative Tissue Specimen Safety . Standardization of the Surgery-Pathology Hand-Off. (1840)
R D'Angelo, R Zarbo, R Varney, F Torres, O Alassi, G Sharma, O Kryvenko, D Lubensky, A Ormsby, N Main, S Richard - Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
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207 Current Practice Patterns among Pathologists in the Assessment of Venous Invasion in Colorectal Cancer. (1849)
DE Messenger, DK Driman, RS McLeod, RH Riddell, R Kirsch - Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; London Health Sciences Centre, ON, Canada
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208 Adherence to ASCO/CAP HER2 Testing Guidelines: Equivocal Rates and Impact on Management within a Single Institution. (1856)
BP Portier, E Downs-Kelly, C Lanigan, C Cotta, D Patil, G Procop, JR Cook, H Moore, GT Budd, RR Tubbs - Cleveland Clinic, OH; Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH
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209 Image Analysis of the HER2 Immunohistochemical (IHC) Stain . A Study Comparing a Lab Validated Scoring Method and the Manual Assessment Method. (1850)
DM Minot, JS Voss, SB Rademacher, TY Lwin, JL Orsulak, A Nassar, B Chen, AC Clayton - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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210 Determination of HER2 Status Variability by Immunohistochemistry in Chile. (1839)
L Contreras, M Garmendia, J Levican, A Piottante - Clinica Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
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211 Lean Preanalytic Process Improvement of Lymphoma Workup. (1841)
R D'Angelo, K Inamdar, R Varney, D Lubensky, G Sharma, J Crane, J Pimentel, ON Kryvenko, RJ Zarbo - Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
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212 Application of Lean Principles To Improve Turn Around Time in Gynecologic Cytology Laboratory. (1871)
RJ Wong, M Harigopal, K Schofield, D Chhieng, A Levi - Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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213 A 383% Increase in Testing Efficiency in a Diagnostics Molecular Lab: LEAN Work Design and Continuous Process Improvements Are Critical for Maintaining Steady Expansion of Services and Short Turn-Around Times. (1836)
M Cankovic, L Whiteley, J Beher, D Lubensky, RJ Zarbo, D Chitale - Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
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214 An Audit of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology Amended Reports over a 5 Year Period in a Tertiary Care Hospital. (1859)
C Rowsell, M Sidiropoulos, Z Ghorab, MA Khalifa - Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
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215 An Analysis of Amendments of Diagnoses in Surgical Pathology Reports. (1860)
C Rowsell, M Sidiropoulos, MA Khalifa - Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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216 Documentation of Quality Assurance Activities in Surgical Pathology: 5-Year Experience Post Introduction of a Comprehensive Quality Assurance Program. (1863)
M Sidiropoulos, MA Khalifa, C Rowsell - Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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217 Comparison of Two Staging Systems for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Post-Transplant Liver Patients. (1843)
M Garcia-Buitrago, P Bejarano - University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, FL
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218 Immunofluorescent (IF) Slides for Renal Biopsies Can Be Safely Used for Review after One and Half Years of Storage in Room Temperature. (1842)
TR Fennell, MT Rooney, PL Zhang - William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI
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219 Cholangiocarcinoma: Causes of Failure in Detection in Biliary Brushing Specimens. (1851)
FN Moore, SB Sams, SS Raab - University of Colorado at Denver Health Science Center, Aurora
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220 How Adequate Are Head and Neck Fine-Needle Aspiration Specimens for HPV Molecular Analysis? An Institutional Experience. (1852)
MO Nakashima, D Nielsen, VM van Deerlin, GS Weinstein, KT Montone, VA LiVolsi, ZW Baloch - Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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221 Making a Case for Rapid Prescreening of Pap Tests in Quality Assurance/Quality Control and Systems Based Approach to Reducing Errors. (1855)
V Padmanabhan, SQ Armstrong, DM Green, FM Quinlisk, SL Augustinowicz, VE Johncox - Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
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222 Standardized Prosection Protocol for Whipple Specimens Does Not Affect Lymph Node Counts. (1837)
DH Carpenter, DC Linehan, EM Brunt - Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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223 Template Reporting of Colorectal Carcinoma Resections: 5-Year Follow-Up Shows a Stable, High Adherence Rate to the Implemented Guideline. (1838)
B Casati, R Bjugn - Akershus University Hospital, Lorenskog, Norway; Oslo University Hospital, Norway
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224 Standarized Synoptic Cancer Pathology Reporting: Implementation Strategies for a Population-Based Change Management Initiaitve Involving 400 Pathologists across 86 Hospitals. (1865)
J Srigley, D Divaris, T McGowan, M Yurcan, C Sawka, J Ross, MJ King, T Yardley, K Milnes, J Mazuryk, J Irish, R McLeod - Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Canada; McMaster Univ, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Univ. of Toronto, ON, Canada
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225 Do Neoplastic Surgical Pathology Reports Contain Redundant Information? (1858)
N Rassaei, CE Parra-Herran, V Nose - University of Miami . Jackson Memorial Hospital, FL
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226 Validating a Checklist for the Gross Examination of Benign Uteri. (1861)
MS Ryan, ML Smith, GR Kotnis, TA Wilkerson, SS Raab - University of Colorado, Aurora
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227 Quality Control in Microsatellite Instability Testing. (1835)
AN Bartley, R Luthra, D Saraiya, R Broaddus - The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
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228 Effect of Fixatives and Duration of Fixation on Expression of MSI Markers. (1834)
PA Adegboyega - LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA
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229 High Frequency of Instability in Penta D in Microsatellite Instability High Colorectal Cancer: Potential Pitfall in Tumor DNA Identity Interpretation. (1844)
MA Grilliot, M Bronner, D Patil, T Plesec, X Liu - Cleveland Clinic
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230 EGFR Mutation Analysis: What's Being Tested? The Experience of a Single Academic Medical Center. (1867)
LJ Tafe, MC Schwab, JA Lefferts, C Hart, CC Black, VA Memoli, V Padmanabhan, GJ Tsongalis - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
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231 Solid Tumor Molecular Diagnostics: Workflow Challenges for Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Testing. (1854)
R Ochs, C Deshpande, C Watt, K Montone, V VanDeerlin, A Sepulveda - Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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