PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, March 24   —  1:00 PM   —  Delaware Suite


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Section F - ENDOCRINE PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Toshiaki Sano and Virginia LiVolsi



1:00 Diagnosis of Follicular Variant of Papillary Carcinoma by a Panel of Endocrine Pathologists (476)
RV Lloyd, LA Erickson, TJ Sebo
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
1:15 Prevalence, Quantitation, and Biological Significance of RET/PTC Rearrangements in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (503)
Z Zhu, CM Caudill, MN Nikiforova, M Gandhi, YE Nikiforov
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1:30 Genetic and Biologic Subgroups of Early Stage Follicular Thyroid Cancer (468)
CA French, EK Alexander, ES Cibas, V Nose, J Laguette, WC Faquin, J Garber, F Moore, JA Fletcher, PR Larsen, TG Kroll
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
1:45 Co-Existing Anaplastic and Well Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma: Genotyping To Assess Transformation (474)
JL Hunt, M Tometsko, VA LiVolsi, S Finkelstein, A Bakker, J Murphy, E Sasatomi, P Swalsky, L Barnes
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2:00 Analysis of Parathyroid Neoplasms by Interphase Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) (465)
LA Erickson, SM Jalal, A Harwood, L Jin, RV Lloyd
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
2:15 Is the Histopathology of Excised Hypersecreting Gland Predictive of Late Post-Operative Parathyroid Function in Primary Hyperparathyroidism? (479)
M Nadji, R Romaguera, D Carneiro, G Irvin
University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Medical Center, Miami, FL
2:30 Congenital Hyperinsulinism: Intraoperative Biopsy Interpretation Can Direct the Extent of Pancreatectomy (496)
M Suchi, PS Thornton, NS Adzick, C MacMullen, A Ganguly, CA Stanley, ED Ruchelli
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
2:45 Alpha-Internexin, a Novel Marker of Pheochromocytoma: Discovery by DNA Microarray Analysis and Validation by Tissue Array Immunohistochemistry (493)
L Smith, D Thomas, D Sanders, M Lizyness, A Smith, D Misek, R Kuick, S Hanash, B Shulkin, T Giordano
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
3:00 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION II
4:30 NATHAN KAUFMAN TIMELY TOPICS LECTURE
Dr. Irving L. Weissman
Stem Cell Biology: Past, Present and Future
Marriott Ballroom