POSTER SESSION IV Tuesday, March 25, 2003   —  1:00 - 4:30 PM Exhibit Hall A - C PULMONARY PATHOLOGY 191 Improving Pathology Practice by Review of Cases Presented at Chest Conference (1429) SS Raab, KM Clary, DM Grzybicki University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 192 CT-Detected Lung Cancers in the Early Lung Cancer Action Program [ELCAP]: Cytologic Findings on Transthoracic FNA (1444) M Vazquez, J Koizumi, D Flieder, A Kramer, D Yankelevitz, C Henschke New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, NY, NY 193 Baseline Lung Cancers in the Early Lung Cancer Action Program (ELCAP): Pathologic Features and Expert Panel Findings (1399) DB Flieder, M Vazquez, D Carter, E Brambilla, A Gazdar, M Noguchi, W Travis, D Yankelevitz, C Henschke NYPH-CUMC, NY; Yale Univ, CT; Univ Grenoble, France; UTSW, TX; Univ Tsukuba, Japan; AFIP, Washington, DC 194 Tracheobronchial Adenoid Cystic Carcinomas (ACCs): Clinical Pathological Features and CD117 Expression (1388) E Albers, T Lawrie, J Harrell, ES Yi University of California San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA 195 Surfactant Protein A ( SP-A ) Detection in Large Cell Carcinoma of the Lung (1436) T Stuempel, U Costabel, W Bartsch, J Guzman General and Experimental Pathology, Ruhr-Universitaet, Bochum, Germany; Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany; Frauenhofer Institute, Hannover, Germany 196 Basaloid Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Lung: A Review of 292 Cases (1404) LK Green Houston Veterans Afairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 197 The Bronchopulmonary Pathology of Alpha 1-Antitrypsin (AAT) Deficiency: Findings of the Death Review Committee of the National Registry for Individuals with Severe Deficiency of Alpha 1-Antitrypsin (1441) JF Tomashefski, Jr, RG Crystal, HP Wiedemann, E Mascha, JK Stoller MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 198 Expressions of Telomerase and Telomeric-Repeat Binding Factor (TRF) in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - Comparison with Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia (AAH) (1411) T Kawai, S Hiroi, F Kumaki, K Nakanishi, T Yokose, Y Terasaki National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan; Ibaraki Central Hospital, Nishiibaraki, Ibaraki, Japan; Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan 199 The Role of Microvascular Injury in the Evolution of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (1442) J Turbiner, WJ Waldman, JN Allen, A Pope-Harman, P Ross, Jr, AN Crowson, C Magro The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK 200 TGF-beta 1 and CTGF Expression in Diffuse Alveolar Damage and Advanced Pulmonary Fibrosis (1420) O Matsubara, N Imazeki, Y Okochi, T Tanimoto, E Shinto, Y Nakatani, EJ Mark National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan; Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 201 Lymphocyte Sub-Populations and Non-Langerhans Cell Monocytoid Cells in Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Granulomatosis (1430) N Rao, C-C Chang, J Tomashefski Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; MetroHealth Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 202 Molecular Aberrations in Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis of the Lung (1397) S Dacic, C Trusky, A Bakker, S Finkelstein, SA Yousem University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 203 Pulmonary Non-Necrotizing Granulomatous Vasculitis - A Manifestation of Systemic Autoimmune Disorders (1434) K Shilo, YC Liu, RE Clarke, JF Tomashefski, Jr MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; Summa Health System, Akron, OH 204 Physiological Role of Lymphotoxin and IgE in Minimizing Harmful TH1-Mediated Inflammation in the Lung (1413) OS Kim, H-S Kang, RK Chin, Y-X Fu University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 205 Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis in Infancy (1409) KD Jones, BM Shehata, TV Colby University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Toledo Childrens Hospital, Toledo, OH; Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ 206 Unusual Histopathologic Patterns of Acute Rejection (AR) and Infection (INF) in Post-Transplant Transbronchial Biopsies (TBX) (1389) TC Allen, R Bag, D Zander, J Mody, B Patrick, PT Cagle Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX