PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, March 8   —  1:00 PM   —  Ballroom C


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Section C - DERMATOPATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Steven R. Tahan and Stephen Lyle



1:00 Lymphatic Vessel Density Is Significantly Increased in Melanoma (380)
T Giorgadze, PJ Zhang, T Pasha, Coogan, G Acs, DE Elder, X Xu - University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
1:15 Peritumoral Lymphangiogenesis: A Novel Predictor of Cutaneous Melanoma Metastasis to Sentinel Lymph Nodes (376)
SS Dadras, B Lange-Asschenfeldt, P Velasco, A Vora, L Nguyen, DG Jackson, MC Mihm, M Detmar - Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany; John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
1:30 Promoter Hypermethylation of Death-Associated Protein Kinase and p16 Tumor Suppressor Genes in Melanoma of the Skin (394)
O Middleton, L Li, X Su, C-Y Fan, BR Smoller - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital, Little Rock, AR
1:45 Increased Levels of DNA Mismatch Repair Proteins Predict Histology of Human Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer as Assayed by Tissue Microarray (415)
LC Young, J Listgarten, MJ Trotter, SE Andrew, VA Tron - University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
2:00 Analysis of Sebaceous Hyperplasia, Adenoma and Carcinoma by Immunohistochemistry for Deficiency of DNA Mismatch Repair Proteins MLH1, MSH2 and MSH6 (389)
AJF Lazar, M Redston, W Grayson, E Calonje - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; University of Witwaterswand, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa; St. John's Institute of Dermatology, St. Thomas Hospital, London, UK
2:15 Loss of Heterozygosity of Chromosome 9p21 and Expression of p16 Protein in Acral Melanomas (372) CA Chian-Garcia, CA Torres-Cabala, Z Lozano, LS Wrathall, MJ Merino - National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Hospital Nacional Arzopispo Loayza, Lima, Peru
2:30 Paraganglioma-Like Dermal Melanocytic Tumor: A Unique Entity Distinct from Cellular Blue Nevus, Clear Cell Sarcoma and Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma (378)
AT Deyrup, P Althof, M Zhou, A Solomon, JA Bridge, SW Weiss - Emory University, Atlanta, GA; University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
2:45 Radiation-Induced Cutaneous Atypical Vascular Lesions and Angiosarcoma: Clinicopathologic Analysis of 39 Cases (369)
T Brenn, CDM Fletcher - Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
3:00 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION II
4:30 NATHAN KAUFMAN TIMELY TOPICS LECTURE
Dr. David Walker
Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: A Critical Opportunity for Pathology in the Era of Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections
Hall A