PROFFERED PAPERS
Tuesday, March 25   —  1:00 PM   —  Delaware Suite


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Section F - NEUROPATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Arie Perry and Gregory N. Fuller



1:00 Use of Tissue Microarrays (TMA) in Evaluating Prognostic Factors in 100 Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) Patients (1319)
AG Chiesa-Vottero, RA Prayson, EA Castilla, M Hartke, LA Rybicki, RR Tubbs, M Vogelbaum, G Barnett
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
1:15 Correlation of EGFR Gene Amplification and Overexpression by Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization (CISH), and Immunohistochemistry in High Grade Gliomas (1334)
MM Quezado, RD Ronchetti, C Harris, JL Perez, F Tavora, R Patrocinio, N Ghatak
National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; BIOPSE Laboratories, Brazil
1:30 Molecular Classification of Human Diffuse Gliomas by Molecular Voting Using the K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm (1323)
GN Fuller, C Mircean, I Tabus, E Taylor, J Astola, R Sawaya, JM Bruner, W Zhang
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
1:45 Absence of DMBT1 Gene Mutation in Glioblastoma, Medulloblastoma and Oligodendroglial Tumors (1331)
HK Ng, JCS Pang, ZQ Dong, R Zhang, YH Liu, LF Zhou, WS Poon
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2:00 TTF-1 Positivity of Neurohypophysis and Pineal Gland and Its Diagnostic Implications (1330)
MI Misztal, JF Silverman, HG Brown
Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
2:15 Immunohistochemical and FISH Markers for Anaplastic Meningioma vs. Meningeal Hemangiopericytoma (1336)
V Rajaram, A Perry
Washington University School of Medicine, St.Louis, MO
2:30 Activation of STAT3 in Human Meningiomas (1338)
H Wang, H Wang, T Ribalta, W Zhang, GN Fuller
University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX; University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2:45 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION IV - Exhibit Hall A - C
4:00 BUSINESS MEETING - MARRIOTT BALLROOM
4:35 AWARD PRESENTATIONS
Stowell-Orbison, Autopsy, Castleman and Vogel Awards
Distinguished Pathologist Award - Richard Kempson
F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award - Elaine S. Jaffe
President's Award - Kamal Ishak
Young Investigator Award - Julia A. Bridge
5:00 MAUDE ABBOTT LECTURE - James R. Downing
Oncogenic Transcription Factors in Acute Leukemia
5:50 WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION - MARRIOTT BALLROOM FOYER