POSTER SESSION IV Tuesday, March 25, 2003   —  1:00 - 4:30 PM Exhibit Hall A - C LIVER AND PANCREAS PATHOLOGY 167 Pain, Cholecystectomy and Pathology: What Is the Correlation? (1298) R Runge, S Sharma Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA 168 The Expression of Matrix Metalloproteinase (MMP)-2, MMP-9, Tissue Inhibitor of MMP (TIMP)-1 and TIMP-2 in Adenoma and Adenocarcinoma of the Gallbladder (1236) JY Bae, J Choi, HC Chung, C Park, YN Park Medical College of Pochon CHA University, Kumi, Korea; Medical College of Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea 169 Loss of CD10 (CALLA) Expression in Gallbladder Adenocarcinomas (1291) K Pang, L Hao, X Wu, S-Y Xiao University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; Medical College of Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China 170 Diffuse Lymphopalsmacytic Chronic Cholecystitis Is Highly Specific for Extrahepatic Biliary Tract Disease but Does Not Distinguish between Primary and Secondary Cholangiopathies (1232) SC Abraham, M Cruz-Correa, P Argani, EE Furth, RH Hruban, JK Boitnott Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; Univ. of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 171 Whipple Resections in Patients without Malignancy: Are They All "Chronic Pancreatitis"? (1231) SC Abraham, RE Wilentz, TA Sohn, CJ Yeo, JL Cameron, JK Boitnott, RH Hruban Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 172 A Modified Approach to Dissection of Pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) Specimens for a More Accurate but Practical Assessment of the Clinically Relevant Pathologic Parameters (1312) P Vyas, A Andea, M Othman, J Cheng, NV Adsay Harper University Hospital; The Karmanos Cancer Institute; Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI 173 In Search of a Stem Cell in Pancreatic Ducts: The Nature of Round, Non-Ductal Appearing Cells in Human Pancreatic Ducts (1311) P Vyas, A Andea, F Sarkar, S Leach, J Cheng, NV Adsay Harper University Hospital; The Karmanos Cancer Institute; Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI; Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, MD 174 Criteria for Distinction of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma(DA) from Chronic Pancreatitis (1237) S Bandyopadhyay, N Kilinc, P Vyas, M Othman, J Cheng, NV Adsay The Karmanos Cancer Institute and Harper University Hospital, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 175 Expression of Cytokeratin 15 in Inflammatory and Neoplastic Conditions of the Pancreas — A Marker of the Stem Cell Phenotype? (1251) JD Goldsmith, G Cotsarelis, X Cai, TL Pasha, EE Furth Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland, OR 176 Eosinophilic Pancreatitis and Increased Eosinophils in the Pancreas (1261) RH Hruban, S Leach, CJ Yeo, JL Cameron, LA Murakata, JK Boitnott, J Albores-Saavedra, SC Abraham The Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD; AFIP, Washington, DC; UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 177 Solid-Pseudopapillary Tumor of the Pancreas: Evaluation of Molecular Pathogenesis (1285) S Musunuri, P Kashireddy, Y Chen, MS Talamonti, MS Rao The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 178 Microvascular Density in Pancreatic Endocrine Neoplasms Is Associated with VEGF-C and VEGFR-2 Expression (1258) DE Hansel, A Rahman, J Hermans, R de Krijger, R Ashfaq, C Yeo, J Cameron, RH Hruban, A Maitra The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Erasmus University Medical Center, JNI, Rotterdam, Netherlands; UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 179 Global Expression Analysis of Pancreatic Endocrine Neoplasms Using Oligonucleotide Microarrays (1280) A Maitra, DE Hansel, A Rahman, J Geradts, CJ Yeo, MG House, P Argani, RH Hruban Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY 180 p27Kip1 Expression in Metastatic and Non-Metastatic Pancreatic Endocrine Neoplasms (1296) A Rahman, A Maitra, CJ Yeo, JL Cameron, RH Hruban, R Ashfaq, DE Hansel The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 181 Heterogenous Protein Expression Pattern in Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells: Analysis by Novel Protein Chip Technology ( SELDI-TOFM) (1265) NC Jhala, E Tytler, S Vickers, D Jhala, D Oeschlenger, WE Grizzle University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 182 Progressive Loss of Mesothelin Protein Expression with Advanced Metastatic Disease in Patients with Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (1262) CA Iacobuzio-Donahue, S Swierczynski, A Maitra, RH Hruban The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 183 Claudin 4 Is Overexpressed in Invasive Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinomas (1289) LS Nichols, R Ashfaq, RH Hruban, CA Iacobuzio-Donahue The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 184 Deregulation of the p53/HDM2/p14ARF Pathway in Ductal Adenocarcinomas of the Pancreas (1248) J Geradts, H Roberts, S Kern, R Hruban, R Wilentz Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY; University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 185 Telomere Shortening Is Nearly Universal in Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia (1309) NT Van Heek, AK Meeker, SE Kern, MG Goggins, GJ Offerhaus, AM Demarzo, RH Hruban, A Maitra Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands 186 Association and Correlation of Grade of Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia (PanIN) and Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Tumors (IPMT) (1297) CJ Richards, D McGrath, U Bayliss, C Fernandez-del Castillo, GY Lauwers UHL NHS Trust, Leicester, United Kingdom; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 187 Aberrant Methylation of Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling (SOCS-1) Gene in Ductal Adenocarcinoma and Intraductal Papillary-Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas (1245) N Fukushima, N Sato, F Sahin, G Su, RH Hruban, M Goggins The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 188 Microsatellite Instability Occurs in a Subset of Pancreatic Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms (1295) A Rahman, PS Houlihan, CA Iacobuzio-Donahue, DS Klimstra, S Zee, A Maitra, M Torbenson, RH Hruban, SC Abraham, TT Wu, RE Wilentz The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 189 Cyclooxygenase-2 and Microsomal Prostaglandin E Synthase Are Overexpressed in Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia (608) J-Y Tan, A Kazior, D Golijanin Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 190 Perineural Invasion in Pancreatic Cancer: An In Vitro Study (664) H Dai, R Edlund, TW Wheeler, N Ali, GE Ayala Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX