PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, March 24   —  8:00 AM   —  Marriott Salon 2


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Section B - GENITOURINARY PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Ximing Yang and Christopher Foster



8:00 Adenoid Cystic/ Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Prostate: Clinical Significance in 18 Cases (690)
DD Grier, DG Bostwick, D Hossain, SS Banerjee, KA Iczkowski
University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB; Christie Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom; Bostwick Laboratories, Richmond, VA
8:15 The Addition of a Negative 34 b E12 Stain to a Small Focus of Atypical Glands on Prostatic Core Biopsies Does Not Predict a Higher Incidence of Prostatic Adenocarcinoma on Follow Up Biopsies (693)
MK Halushka, H Kahane, JI Epstein
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; Dianon Corp., Stratford, CT
8:30 Basal Cell Cocktail (34 bE12 +p63) Improves the Detection of Prostate Basal Cells (807)
M Zhou, R Shah, R Shen, MA Rubin
University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
8:45 A Comparison Study of 34bE12 and p63 in 100 Consecutive Prostate Carcinoma Diagnosed by Needle Biopsies (803)
HH Wu, O Lapkus
Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie, IN
9:00 Stroma Adjacent to Metastatic Mature Teratoma after Chemotherapy for Testicular Germ Cell Tumor Is Derived from the Same Progenitor Cells as the Teratoma (658)
L Cheng, DW Brandli, TM Ulbright, RS Foster, OW Cummings, S Zhang, JN Eble
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
9:15 Solid Pattern of Yolk Sac Tumor of the Testis: A Histologic and Immunohistochemical Study of 9 Cases (696)
JD Henley, H Michael, RH Young, TM Ulbright
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Massachuetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION I
11:00 Analysis of Allelic Imbalance (AI) on Chromosome (chr) 8p and 18 in Prostate Cancer (PCa) by a Novel Technique: "Counting Alleles" To Estimate Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH) (725)
SD Lim, W Zhou, TY Williams, KE Rusthoven, R Lyles, M Benjamin, JA Petros, MB Amin
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
11:15 High Levels of Androgen Receptor in PCa Is Associated with Aggressive Disease and Is an Independent Predictor of Survival (636)
GE Ayala, N Weigel, R Li, A Frolov, TM Wheeler
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
11:30 Transcriptional Programs Affected by Androgen Ablation Therapy and the Development of Therapy Resistant Prostate Cancer (721)
P Lal, J Holzbeierlein, E LaTulippe, J Satagopan, A Smith, C Ryan, H Scher, P Scardino, V Reuter, W Gerald
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS; Hotel Dieu de Quebec, Quebec, QC, Canada
11:45 The Prognostic Significance of Tertiary Gleason Pattern 5 in Radical Prostatectomy Specimens (741)
CA Mosse, JI Epstein
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD