POSTER SESSION II
Monday, March 19, 2012   —  1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
CC Exhibit Hall B3 & C


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GASTROINTESTINAL PATHOLOGY



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80 Conversion of Goblet to Non-Goblet Columnar Metaplasia of the Esophagus. A Clinical/Pathologic and Molecular Study of 8 Cases (731)
TA Rege, CA Sanchez, X Li, DS Cowan, BJ Reid, PL Blount, RD Odze - Brigham and Women´s Hospital, Boston; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington, Seattle 		Add
81 Poor Agreement for Detection of Goblet Cells in Esophageal and GEJ Biopsies (764)
H Wang, I Brown, P Kumarasinghe, C Langner, G Lauwers, N Shepherd, M Vieth, A Srivastava, R Odze - Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Boston; Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; PathWest QEII/UWA, Perth, Australia; Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Cheltenham General Hospital, Cheltenham, United Kingdom; Institute of Pathology, Bayreuth, Germany; Brigham and Women´s Hospital, Boston 		Add
82 Goblet Cells Are Depleted with Advancing Degrees of Preneoplasia in Barrett´s Esophagus (631)
AT Agoston, A Sanpavat, RD Odze, A Srivastava - Brigham & Women´s Hospital, Boston, MA 		Add
83 Novel Chromosomal Abnormalities in Barrett´s Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Identified by Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) (629)
A Agarwal, T Appleberry, S Guha, J Ajani, W Hofstetter, S Swisher, P Lennon, A Rashid, D Maru - The University of Texas M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, Houston; PerkinElmer, Inc, Waltham; Pathgroup, Nashville 		Add
84 Bone Marrow Micrometastases in Esophagogastric Cancer – 10-Year Follow-Up Confirms Prognostic Significance (736)
P Ryan, H Furlong, C Murphy, F O´Sullivan, T Walsh, GC O´Sullivan - Bon Secours Hospital, Cork, Ireland; James Connelly Memorial Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; Mercy University Hospital, Cork, Ireland 		Add
85 Use of Immunohistochemical Expression of IMP3 in the Risk Stratification of Patients with Barrett´s Esophagus-Related High Grade Dysplasia (BE-HGD) (641)
A Bakula, R Cartun, DZ Sterns, P Newcomb, J Burghardt, S Ligato - Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT 		Add
86 Telomere Shortening in Esophageal Epithelium of Alcoholics: Differences in Terms of ADH-1B and ALDH-2 Genotypes and Chromoendoscopy Findings (633)
J Aida, A Yokoyama, N Shimomura, K-i Nakamura, N Ishikawa, SSS Poon, M Fujiwara, M Sawabe, T Arai, K Takubo - Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan; National Hospital Organization Kurihama Alcoholism Center, Yokosuka, Japan; British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, Canada; Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan; Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital, Tokyo, Japan 		Add
87 Inlet Patch in Children: Clinical and Pathological Characteristics of 18 Cases (647)
A Bousamra, AG Saad - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 		Add
88 A Clinicopathologic Review of Esophageal Candidiasis (651)
S Chen, R Sams, N Shillingford, E Yakirevich, A Ross, L Noble, R Tavares, M Resnick, S Mangray - Rhode Island Hospital and Alpert Medical SChool of Brown University, Providence, RI 		Add
89 Biopsies from the GEJ Area Composed of Pure Oxyntic Glands Is Not Necessarily Indicative of the Proximal Stomach (747)
G Soucy, TL Vaughan, LE Onstad, RD Odze - Brigham and Women´s Hospital, Boston; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle 		Add
90 Squamous Papillomas of the Esophagus: A Clinicopathologic Study of 171 Patients Revealing a Possible Association with Eosinophilic Esophagitis (691)
JE Lapinski, KD Bohman, WE Katzin, RE Petras - Ameripath Institute of Gastrointestinal Pathology, Oakwood Village, OH 		Add
91 Web-Based Teaching, a Contemporary Diagnostic Method of Educating Canadian Pathologists on Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST) (710)
EC Marginean, S Verma - Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada 		Add
92 HER2 Copy Number in the Assessment of HER2 Status in Gastric/GOJ Cancers: Does It Matter? (689)
P Kumarasinghe, B de Boer, K Sheng, E Ooi, S Jayasinghe, S Fox - PathWest, QEII Medical Centre, Perth, WA, Australia; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, St Andrews Place, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia 		Add
93 Micropapillary Carcinoma Predicts Recurrence in Patients with Stage II Gastric Cancer and Treated with Surgery Only (656)
I Do, J Lee, S Kim, K-M Kim - Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea 		Add
94 Sonic (Shh), Desert (Dhh) and Patched (PTCH1) Hedgehog Pathway Protein Expression Correlates with Aggressive Disease in Gastric/GE Junction Carcinomas (GCA) (701)
K Linos, C Sheehan, J Ross - Department of Pathology, New York, NY; Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 		Add
95 HER2/Neu Testing in 207 Gastric and Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinomas: Immunohistochemistry and Silver In Situ Hybridization (SISH) Provide Effective Brightfield Methods for Clinical HER2 Testing (674)
E Hsieh, P Henry, K Kwok, W Hanna - Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada 		Add
96 The Heterogeneity of HER2 Expression in Esophageal and Gastric Adenocarcinomas (687)
BR Koltz, DG Hicks, CL Whitney-Miller - University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 		Add
97 Massive Foveolar-Gland Polyposis of the Stomach: Clinicopathologic, Histologic, and Molecular Analysis of Three Cases with Gastrectomy (666)
RS Gonzalez, JM Sarmiento, N Osborn, S Keilin, JR Spivey, M Rossi, C Hill, P Bagci, V Adsay - Emory, Atlanta 		Add
98 Autoimmune Gastritis Versus Severe Body Predominant H.pylori Gastritis: A Comparative Analysis of 88 Cases (671)
HS Han, GY Lauwers - Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 		Add
99 The Sydney System Twenty Years Later: Who Uses It and Does It Matter? (692)
JG Lash, RM Genta - Caris Life Sciences, Irving, TX 		Add
100 Gastric Chief Cell Adenomas: Proposal for a New Entity (745)
S Shroff, M Taggart, A Rashid, T Mounajjed, T-T Wu, S Abraham - MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston; Mayo Clinic, Rochester 		Add
101 Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia with Dysplasia-Like Atypia: A Morphological and Biologic Evaluation (698)
Y Li, X Chang, W Zhou, Y Xiao, J Chen, GY Lauwers - Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 		Add
102 Chronic Granulomatous Disease Involving Gastrointestinal Tract (Pathology Study of 87 Cases) (690)
J-P Lai, PP Aung, S Khangura, N Kamal, JI Gallin, SM Holland, HL Malech, T Heller, M Quezado - NCI, NIH, Bethesda, MD; NIH, Bethesda, MD 		Add
103 Phylogeographic Origin of Helicobacter pylori Is Associated with Eosinophilic Infiltration of the Gastric Mucosa (726)
MB Piazuelo, T de Sablet, KT Wilson, LE Bravo, BG Schneider, J Romero-Gallo, R Chaturvedi, AG Delgado, RM Peek, P Correa - Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville; Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville; Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia 		Add
104 A Muscular Abnormality: An Overlooked Cause of Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction (645)
A Best, C Chisholm, L Donner, D Rampisela - Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple, TX 		Add
105 An Interobserver Study on IgG4 Related Disease (733)
TL Rice-Stitt, Y Zen, V Deshpande - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; King´s College Hospital, London, United Kingdom 		Add
106 In Situ Contribution of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in Gut Acute Graft Versus Host Disease: Relation with the Th17 Immune Response (646)
C Bossard, F Malard, J Arbez, P Chevalier, T Guillaume, J Delaunay, J-F Mosnier, P Saas, M Mohty, B Gaugler - EA 4273 Biometadys, Université de Nantes, Faculté de Médecine, Nantes, France; INSERM UMR892, Nantes, France; INSERM UMR 645, Besançon, France; Service d´Hématologie Clinique, CHU Hotel Dieu, Nantes, France 		Add
107 Immunohistochemical Stains for CD3 and CD8 Do Not Improve Detection of Gluten Sensitivity in Duodenal Mucosal Biopsies (677)
RM Hudacko, XK Zhou, RK Yantiss - Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 		Add
108 Immunohistochemical Positivity for Reg1 and IL6: Potential Markers for Distinguishing between Colitis-Associated Dysplasia and Sporadic Adenoma in IBD (669)
X Gui, SK Jensen, S Liu, Z-h Gao - University of Calgary and Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, AB, Canada 		Add
109 Clinicopathologic and Molecular Characterization of PIK3CA Mutations in Colorectal Neoplasms (758)
E Vakiani, M Janakiraman, R Shen, Z Zeng, J Shia, DS Klimstra, P Paty, L Saltz, M Weiser, DB Solit - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 		Add
110 Loss of PTEN Immunohistochemical Expression in Patients with Advanced Colorectal Adenocarcinoma: Implications for Targeted Therapy (640)
R Bakkar, R Broaddus - University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM; M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 		Add
111 Polyp Landscape in Serrated Polyposis Syndrome (734)
C Rosty, D Buchanan, N Walker, S Parry, J Young - Royal Brisbane and Women´s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia; Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia; Envoi Specialist Pathologists, Brisbane, Australia; Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand 		Add
112 Low-Grade Appendiceal Mucinous Neoplasms Show Activation of the Mitogen Activated Protein (MAP) Kinase Pathway (773)
RK Yantiss, DB Solit, M Janakiraman, J Misdraji - Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 		Add
113 Evaluation and Prognostic Significance of Human Tissue Kallikrein-Related Peptidase 10 (KLK10) in Colorectal Cancer (659)
W Dubinski, C Petraki, Y Youssef, GM Yousef - St. Michael´s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; Metropolitan Hospital, Athens, Greece 		Add
114 Large-Scale Genome-Wide mRNA Expression Profiling of 1003 Colorectal Cancers (719)
S Ogino, L Waldron, Y Hoshida, G Parmigiani, T Golub, C Huttenhower, C Fuchs - Brigham and Women´s Hosp., Boston; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston; Broad Institute, Cambridge 		Add
115 Mitochondrial Mutagenesis and Inflammation in the Colorectal Adenoma-Carcinoma Sequence (708)
A Maguire, K Sheahan, E Fox, P Martin, D Hughes, R Geraghty, N Swan, H Mulcahy, J Hyland, D O´Donoghue, J O´Sullivan - St. Vincent´s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; University of Washington, Seattle; Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland 		Add
116 Scoring of Mesorectum: Confrontation between Surgeon´s and Pathologist´s Assessments (727)
FH Poizat, C de Chaisemartin, B Lelong, B Esterni, J Ewald, JR Delpero, L Xerri, GM Monges - Institut Paoli Calmettes, Marseille, France 		Add
117 Serrated Polyps of the Extracolonic Gastrointestinal Tract: Histologic Findings and Genetic Alterations (753)
MW Taggart, A Rashid, J Estrella, SC Abraham - MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 		Add
118 Reproducibility of Villous Component and High Grade Dysplasia in Colorectal Adenomas < 1 cm: Implications for Endoscopic Surveillance (709)
D Mahajan, E Downs-Kelly, X Liu, R Pai, DT Patil, L Rybicki, A Bennett, T Plesec, O Cummings, DK Rex, JR Goldblum - Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, IN 		Add
119 In Situ Validation of an Intestinal Stem Cell Signature in Colorectal Cancer (777)
JL Ziskin, D Dunlap, M Yaylaoglu, WF Forrest, H Koeppen, AM Jubb - Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA; Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA 		Add
120 Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase T/Paxillin – An Unappreciated Pathway of Colon Carcinogenesis (771)
J Willis, Y Hao, A Scott, Y Zhao, D Dawson, S Markowitz, Z Wang - Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 		Add
121 Low Grade Neuroendocrine Tumors Arising in Intestinal Adenomas: Evidence for Alterations in the Beta-Catenin/APC Pathway (662)
JS Estrella, MW Taggart, A Rashid, SC Abraham - U.T. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 		Add
122 Colonic Dysplasia and Malignancy in Patients with SMAD4 Mutation-Associated Juvenile Polyposis-Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (680)
ZS Kamil, F Schwenter, T Berk, A Pollett, A Grin, ME Faughnan, CJ Streutker - University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; St. Michael´s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada 		Add
123 Sporadic Colonic Adenocarcinomas with a High Degree of Microsatellite Instability (MSI-H) Do Not Show Evidence of Wnt Signaling Abnormalities (722)
NC Panarelli, C Vaughn, WS Samowitz, RK Yantiss - Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 		Add
124 Young Age and High Frequency of Multiplicity, Well Differentiation, Crohn´s-Like Reaction, Tumor Heterogeneity, and Signet Ring Differentiation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Associated Colorectal Adenocarcinoma (703)
X Liu, M Landau, JR Goldblum, Z Zhao, J Lin - Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 		Add
125 Molecular Characteristics of HPV Positive anal Carcinoma (760)
S Valmary-Degano, J-L Pretet, F Monnien, R Hamlaoui, E Jacquin, J-F Bosset, C Mougin, B Kantelip - University Hospital, Besançon, France; IFR133 - UFR SMP - Les Hauts du Chazal, Besançon, France 		Add
126 High Grade Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Anorectum: A Clinicopathologic Study of 7 Cases of a Rare Entity (769)
H Wiland, R Odze, S Schulte, JR Goldblum - Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH; Brigham and Women´s Hospital, Boston, MA 		Add
127 Expression of Cancer Testis Antigens (CTAs) and Melanocyte Differentiation Antigens (MDAs) in Malignant Melanoma of the Ano-Rectal Mucosa (MMARM) (679)
AA Jungbluth, D Frosina, M Holz, M Weiser, KJ Busam - Ludwig Institue for Cancer Research, New York, NY; Dep. of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Dep. of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 		Add
128 ´Basal Cell Carcinoma Where the Sun Doesn´t Shine´ – A Clinicopathologic Analysis of Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Anal Region and Its Distinction from Basaloid Squamous Cell Carcinoma (723)
DT Patil, JR Goldblum, SD Billings - Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 		Add
129 Histopathology of ´Cord Colitis Syndrome´ in Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant Recipients (644)
AM Bellizzi, G Soriano, AF Herrera, FM Marty, JL Hornick - University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City; Brigham and Women´s Hospital, Boston 		Add
130 Histologic Features, Particularly Eosinophilic Inflammation, Can Discriminate Mycophenolate-Induced from GVHD- Induced Colitis (749)
K Star, RD Odze - Brigham and Women´s Hospital, Boston 		Add
131 Histological Findings in Acutely Symptomatic Ulcerative Colitis Patients with Superimposed Clostridium difficile Infection (765)
T Wang, L Matukas, CJ Streutker - University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; St. Michael´s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada 		Add