POSTER SESSION I Monday, March 08, 2004   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Exhibit Hall B and C LIVER & PANCREAS PATHOLOGY 168 Colloid Carcinoma of the Pancreas Lacks the Mollecular Alterations Characteristic of Ordinary Ductal Adenocarcinoma (1240) AA Andea, O Basturk, D Klimstra, R Hruban, F Sarkar, VN Adsay - Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York, NY; Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 169 Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Biliary Tract: Analysis of 10 Patients (1252) RD DeHaan, SC Abraham, TC Smyrk - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 170 Image-Guided Liver Biopsy in the Evaluation of Clinically Suspected HCC: Correlation of Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) and Core Biopsy (bx) (1254) AM Ezenekwe, EM Brunt, ES Bialecki, TB Ponder, BT Collins, BK Bieneman, AM Di Bisceglie - Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 171 Correlation of Liver Biopsy Grade and Stage with Age, Laboratory Tests, Viral Load, and RT-PCR in 202 Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C (1258) SA Gadre, D Zhang, S Schneider, X Ding, HL Wang, S-Y Xiao - University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX; Washington University, St Louis, MO 172 Expression of b4 Integrin Subunit in Pancreatic Ductal and Ampullary Adenocarcinomas (1259) B Gleason, B Adley, MS Rao, LK Diaz - Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 173 Evaluation of the Role of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor a in Methionine-Choline Deficient Diet-Induced Steatohepatitis (1260) R Gupta, P Kashireddy, MS Rao - Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 174 Analysis of 222 Cases of the Extrahepatic Bile Duct Carcinoma (EBD Ca) According to New AJCC Staging (1264) S-M Hong, M-J Kim, DY Pi, D Jo, E Yu, JY Ro - Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Republic of Korea 175 The Nature of "Ovarian-Like" Mesenchyme (OLM) of Pancreatic and Hepatic Mucinous Cystic Neoplasms: A Recapitulation of the Periductal Fetal Mesenchyme? (1278) I Khalifeh, F Qureshi, S Jacques, J Cheng, S Wahl, NV Adsay - Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University, Providence Hospital, Detorit, MI; Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC, NY 176 Determination of Lymph Node Status in Pancreatoduodenectomy Specimens (1281) F Khanani, G Altinok, O Basturk, JD Cheng, D Weawer, NV Adsay - Harper University Hospital, Karmanos Cancer Institue and Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; Providence Hospital, Southfield, MI 177 Incidence of Chronic Pancreatitis in Patients Undergoing Whipple Resection for Clinically Suspected Carcinoma: A Single Institution Experience (1294) S Musunuri, YH Chen, MS Talamonti, SM Rao - Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 178 Association of Her2/neu Overexpression with Akt Activation in Pancreatic Ductal Carcinoma (1303) E Pryor, E Levi, F Sarkar, JD Cheng, O Basturk, NV Adsay - Harper University Hospital, Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University, Detroit, MI; VA Medical Center, Detroit, MI; Providence Hospital, Southfield, MI 179 Utilization of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B and Insulin Receptor Immunoperoxidase Stains To Differentiate Between Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (1309) SO Sanderson, TC Smyrk - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN