PROFFERED PAPERS
Tuesday, March 25   —  8:00 AM   —  Marriott Salon 1


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Section A - HEMATOPATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Steven Kroft and Attilio Orazi



8:00 Increased Proliferation Rate and Activation of the B-RAF/ MEK/ Erk Pathway at Relapse of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (1076)
G Hoefler, PB Staber, C Beham-Schmid, C Guelly, S Schauer, W Linkesch
University of Graz, Graz, Austria
8:15 Characterization of Hairy Cell Leukemia and Variants: an Update on Immunophenotype with 209 Cases (1052)
HY Dong, J Weisberger, W Gorczyca, Z Liu, X Li, S Tugulea, C Dy
IMPATH, Inc, New York, NY
8:30 Detection of the c-kit Point Mutation Asp8166Val in Archival Tissues of Different Sites in Various Subtypes of Mastocytosis (1155)
K Sotlar, DM Menke, K Hartmann, B Bultmann, H Horny
University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
8:45 Expression of Jun Activation Binding Protein 1 (JAB1) and Inverse Correlation with p27Kip1 in Lymphoma Cell Lines and Tumors (1138)
GZ Rassidakis, F-X Claret, P Tsioli, R Lai, D Jones, LJ Medeiros
UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
9:00 Immunohistochemical Expression Pattern of Germinal Center and Activation B-Cell Markers Correlates with Prognosis in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (1112)
S McClintock, SL Perkins, RP Cleveland, B Logan, M Datta, A Balla, B Kampalath, C-C Chang
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; University of Utah, Slat Lake City, UT; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
9:15 BCL2 Rearrangement May Define a Distinct Subset of De Novo Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphomas (1185)
Y Xu, RW McKenna, JE Doolittle, CL Hladik, SH Kroft
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION III
11:00 Neutral Endopeptidase (CD10) Knockout Mice Develop B Cell Lymphomas and Plasmacytosis (1057)
SA Ely, DM Knowles
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY
11:15 Discordant Bone Marrow Involvement in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma: Comparative Molecular Analysis Reveals a Heterogeneous Group of Disorders (1098)
M Kremer, M Spitzer, S Mandl-Weber, B Schmidt, H Hoefler, L Quintanilla-Martinez, F Fend
Technical University, Munich, Germany; GSF-National Research Center for Health and Environment, Neuherberg, Germany
11:30 Dysregulated Angiogenesis in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL): Morphologic, Immunohistochemical, and Flow Cytometric Evidence (1061)
JL Frater, NE Kay, CL Goolsby, SE Crawford, LAC Peterson
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
11:45 Acute Panmyelosis with Myelofibrosis (APMF) and Its Distinction from Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia (AML-M7) (1086)
J Jiang, C An, M Czader, D O'Malley, W Fang, A Orazi
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN