PROFFERED PAPERS
Tuesday, March 9   —  8:00 AM   —  Ballroom A


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Section A - BONE AND SOFT TISSUE PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Torsten Nielsen and Matt van de Rijn



8:00 Spindle Cell Rhadbomyosarcoma in Adults (60)
AF Nascimento, CDM Fletcher - Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
8:15 When Can Ewing Sarcoma/ Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor (ES/PNET) Be Diagnosed without Genetic Confirmation?: A Study of 62 Proven Cases (40)
AL Folpe, JR Golblum, BP Rubin, B Shehata, W Liu, SW Weiss - Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; U. Washington, Seattle, WA
8:30 Translocation (16;17)(q22;p13) Fuses Osteoblastic Cadherin CDH11 to USP6 in Aneurysmal Bone Cyst (61)
AM Oliveira, B-L Hsi, S Weremowicz, AR Perez-Atayde, AE Rosenberg, P Dal Cin, N Joseph, JA Bridge, JA Fletcher - Brigham and Women's Hospital - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN; Children's Hospital, Boston, MA; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
8:45 PDGFRa RNA Expression in Neoplasia (68)
RB West, C Corless, M Heinrich, S Zhu, S Subramanian, TO Nielsen, JR Goldblum, R Patel, BP Rubin, P Brown, M van de Rijn - Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH; University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
9:00 PDGFRA Exon 18 Mutations in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GISTs) A Molecular Genetic Study of 350 KIT Mutation Negative Tumors (54)
J Lasota, A Dansonka-Mieszkowska, M Sarlomo-Rikala, LH Sobin, M Miettinen - Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC; Haartman Institute of the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
9:15 Gene Expression in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST) Is Distinguished by KIT Genotype and Anatomic Site (25)
CR Antonescu, A Viale, L Sarran, SL Tschernyavsky, M Gonen, RG Maki, RP DeMatteo, P Besmer - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, NY
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION III
11:00 Gene Microarray Guided Immunophenotypic Analysis of Clear Cell Sarcomas and Melanomas (72)
PJ Zhang, F Barr, JR Goldblum, C Fisher, TL Pasha, G Acs, PE Van Belle, D Elder, X Xu - University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH; Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
11:15 Expression Profiling of Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma: Identification and Validation of Novel Lineage-Associated Markers (52)
M Lae, B Hutchinson, AB Olshen, D Thomas, LH Baker, M Ladanyi - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, NY; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
11:30 Chondroblastoma (CB): Study of Cartilage Specific Genes Expression (63)
S Romeo, JMVG Bovée, AM Cleton-Jansen, H van Beerendonk, PCW Hogendoorn - Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands; "la Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy
11:45 Extraskeletal Myxoid Chondrosarcoma: Gene Discovery Using cDNA Microarrays (66)
S Subramanian, RB West, S Zhu, TO Nielsen, SM Dry, JR Goldblum, R Patel, BP Rubin, P Brown, M van de Rijn - Stanford University, Stanford, CA; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH; University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA