POSTER SESSION VI Wednesday, March 26, 2003   —  1:00 - 4:00 PM Exhibit Hall A - C CYTOPATHOLOGY 40 Reducing the Preanalytical Error of the Pap Test (329) JA Maksem, IH Kapadia, K Justice, RA Savage Mercy Medical Center—Des Moines, Des Moines, IA 41 Gauging Precision of Liquid-Based Cytology Instruments (328) JA Maksem, VL Dhanwada, RA Savage, J Weidmann Mercy Medical Center—Des Moines, Des Moines, IA; Cooper Hospital, Camden, NJ 42 Specimen Adequacy on Liquid-Based Pap Tests: Comparison of Two Bethesda Systems (363) T Stanford, XJ Zhang, SB Stowell, KK Khurana SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital, Syracuse, NY 43 Evaluation of the SurePathtm Liquid-Based Cervical Cancer Screening System: Direct-to-Vial Performance at a University Hospital (332) C McGrath, P Gupta University of Pennsylvania Madical Center, Philadelphia, PA 44 False Negative Rate of Cervical Cancer Cytologic Screening: Comparison of Conventional Papanicolaou Smear to Liquid-Based Cytology (271) S Coutinho, C Sahin-Kandemir, G Yu, C McGrath University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; Suleymaniye Women's Disease and Maternity Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey 45 Comparison of Cytologic Preparations for Atypical Glandular Cells (AGC) in Cervicovaginal Cytopathology: Conventional Smear vs. ThinPreptm vs. SurePathtm (333) T McHale, J Bentz, L Rowe, P Gupta, C McGrath University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 46 Cytologic Features of Microglandular Hyperplasia of the Endocervix (304) SJ Huang, LP Howell, AM Afify University of California, Davis, CA 47 Atrophy Associated ASCUS: Follow Up with and without Estrogen Challenge Test (326) MO Lovell, PT Valente The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 48 ASCUS Pap Smear Downgraded by a Cytopathologist: Is There an Increased Risk for Missing Clinically Significant Lesions? (361) A Simsir, P Elgert, J Cangiarella New York University Medical Center, New York, NY 49 Histologic Predictors of Subsequent Correlation in Noncorrelating Dysplastic Pap Smears and Cervical Biopsies (342) R Pai, M Wolz, N Joste University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM 50 Comparison of Cytologic Preparations for Atypical Squamous Cells (ASC) in Cervicovaginal Cytopathology: Conventional Smear vs. ThinPreptm vs. SurePathtm (331) C McGrath, T McHale, L Rowe, P Gupta, J Bentz University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT 51 Cytologic Versus Histologic Diagnosis of LSIL: Similarities and Differences in HPV Types and Implications for Management (368) D Sun, L Yuan, D Aldovini, CP Crum Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy 52 Analysis of HPV In Situ Hybridization Assay (INFORM®HPV, Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.) by the ACIS® Image Analysis System (Chromavision® Medical Systems, Inc.) (345) MN Qureshi, RD Rudelli, PJ Ringer Bayonne Medical Center, Bayonne, NJ; Lakewood Pathology Associates, Lakewood, NJ 53 Prevalence and Typing of HPV DNA by HCII in Women with ASCUS, ASC-H, AGC, and LSIL on ThinPrep Pap Test (351) LR Rowe, C.T. (ASCP) JS Bentz, M.D. Associated Regional and University Pathologists (ARUP) Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 54 HPV and Biopsy Correlates of ASCUS Re-Classified as ASC-US and ASC-H According to the 2001 Bethesda System (291) HE Gulbahce, VP Johari, K Savik, RC McGlennen, D McKeon, SJ Lundeen, SE Pambuccian University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55 Interobserver Variability of ASCUS Reclassified as ASC-US and ASC-H According to the 2001 Bethesda System (292) HE Gulbahce, VP Johari, KA Savik, DM McKeon, SJ Lundeen, SE Pambuccian University of Minnesota/Fairview University Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 56 Reflex HPV Testing in a Military Medical Population (314) KJ Kaplan, KJ Sconce, DW Craft Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 57 Integrated Molecular Pathology Analysis of Cervical Squamous Dysplasia Using Thin Prep Pap Smears (348) S Rajendiran, G Trucco, PA Swalsky, C Trusky, D Lomago, S Finkelstein UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA; Magee Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 58 High Grade Pap Smear with Condyloma on Histologic Follow-Up: Factors Associated with Cytologic Overcall (307) SJ Hwang, A Simsir, D Popiolek New York University Medical Center, New York, NY 59 The Utility of the Pap Test at Follow up Colposcopy in the Detection of Incident HSIL (276) MA Duggan, P Brasher, J Nation University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada 60 Use of Robotic Telepathology for Liquid Based Cytology (313) KJ Kaplan, AY Bolger, DL Boast Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 61 A Novel Automated Screening and Interpretation Process for Cervical Cytology Using Internet Transmission of Low Resolution Images: A Pilot Study (278) JH Eichhorn, JA Gelfand, TA Brauns, DC Wilbur Massachusetts General Hospital; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 62 Detection of p16INK4A in Residual Liquid-Based Cervical Specimens Using Laser Scanning Cytometry (LSC) (380) EM Wojcik, JC Lim, MJ Laudermith Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL 63 Cytology to Histology Correlation in Anal Specimens of HIV Positive Males (318) NE Klipfel, JY Rao, SB Natarajan, CH Chang, SJ Tang, DJ Wiley UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA