POSTER SESSION II Monday, March 8, 2004   —  1:00 - 4:30 PM Exhibit Hall B and C CYTOPATHOLOGY 31 Clinical Implications of Polyoma Virus Detected in Urine Cytology (245) MA Baig, I Mansoor - St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI 32 Atypical Squamous Cells in Voided Urine Specimens: Clinico-Cytopathologic Correlates 317 CL Owens, AV Parwani, SZ Ali - The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 33 Fine Needle Aspiration of Synovial Fluids. A Retrospective Study of 63 Cases (359) A Zarif, R Ariga, F Manosca, VB Reddy, L Kluskens, L Green, P Gattuso - Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL; Houston VA Medical Center, Houston, TX 34 The Histologic Subtype of Ovarian Tumors Affects Their Detection Rate by the Pelvic Wash (262) O Fadare, MR Mariappan, S Wang, D Hileeto, DL Rimm - Yale Univ. School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 35 Cytologic Evaluation of Pelvic Washings from Patients with Endometriosis (249) JA Brainard, J Noriega, T Falcone - The Cleveland Clinc Foundation, Cleveland, OH 36 Diagnostic Utility of GLUT-1 Expression in Adenocarcinomas Presenting in Serous Fluids (362) H Zhou, LP Howell, AM Afify - University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 37 Utility of Cell Block Preparation in Bloody Pleural Effusion Evaluation (302) CA Livasy, SJ Maygarden - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 38 Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor of the Brain: Cytopathologic Characteristics and Differential Diagnosis (318) AV Parwani, PC Burger, SZ Ali - The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 39 Cytological Diagnosis of Vitrectomy Samples Utilizing a Fluid-Based, Thin-Layer System (340) A Vijayvargiya, N Laver, M Stoleru, E Raeichel, C Baumal, J Duker - Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 40 Granulomatous Inflammation in Cytology Specimens: Correlation of Morphologic Findings with Etiology in 121 Cases (271) WR Geddie, M Sarina, SL Boerner - University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; The Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, ON, Canada 41 FISH on Cytology Specimens: Simpilfied Specimen Preparation and Enhanced Morphology Using Heat Induced Epitope Retrieval (270) WR Geddie, L Elliot, SL Boerner - University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; The Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, ON, Canada 42 The Evolving Role of Cellblock Preparations in Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsies (FNABs) (296) JF Lara, MA Tarau - Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ 43 Clinical Implications for Utilization of Microdissection and the Polymerase Chain Reaction on Archival Cytologic Material (305) R Mattu, L Sorbara, AC Filie, R Little, W Wilson, M Raffeld, A Abati - National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 44 Proteomic Approaches to the Characterization and Discovery of Distinct Protein Profiles Specific for Malignant Melanoma (MM) Using SELDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry in Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) Samples (310) SE Mendrinos, M Lewis, M Gillett, C Landers, C Cohen, JDL Nolen, JL Arbiser, D Lawson, JC Ritchie - Winship Cancer Insitute, Emory University School of Medicine., Atlanta, GA 45 Cytologic Features of Myoepithelial Lesions: Benign vs Malignant (261) F Darvishian, O Lin - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 46 Fine Needle Aspiration of Lymph Nodes as an Initial Diagnostic Tool: Retrospective and Prospective Study of 160 Cases Combining Cytomorphology and Immunophenotypic Analysis by Flow Cytometry with Emphasis on a Specific Technique for Optimal Cellular Procurement (243) MA Al-Abbadi, HA Saleh, DR Lucas, PM Tabaczka - Sinai-Grace Hospital and Harper University Hospital - Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 47 Comparison of Ki-67 and Image Analysis Parameters in Transformed Lymphomas To Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma and Grade 3 Follicular Lymphoma (332) W Sun, NP Caraway, RL Katz - UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 48 Complementary Role of Molecular Studies (MS) and Flow Cytometry (FC) When Cytopathology Specimens Are Evaluated for a Diagnosis of Lymphoproliferative Disease (358) Z Zaki, K Hewan-Lowe, L Dobbs - Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC