PROFFERED PAPERS
Tuesday, March 9   —  8:00 AM   —  Room 2, 3


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Section F - PULMONARY PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Aliya Husain and Abida Haque



8:00 The Impact of Chest Imaging on the Pathologic Diagnosis of Pulmonary, Mediastinal, and Pleural Disease (1458)
H Xu, TJ Franks, JR Galvin, WD Travis - Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC
8:15 Long Term Survival in Primary Pulmonary Lymphangiectasia (1418)
WK Funkhouser, CR Esther, LA Fordham, SJ Maygarden, PM Barker - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
8:30 CD25+ Lymphocytes Are Expressed in Chronic Pulmonary Allograft Rejection (1431)
AC Laga, AH Cermik, TC Allen, RJ Barrios, A Haque, DS Zander, R Bag, G Ayala, PT Cagle - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, TX; University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, TX
8:45 Expression of C-Kit and Activated C-Kit (Phospho C-Kit) in Thymic Carcinomas and WHO Type B3 Thymomas (1421)
PB Illei, A Zamo, F Sen, G Inghirami, D Klimstra, R Chairle, G Palestro, M Chilosi - NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY; University of Torino, Torino, Italy; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; University of Verona, Verona, Italy
9:00 Immunohistochemical Detection of p53 and HHV-8 in Usual Interstitial Pneumonia (UIP): A Multi-Center Study of 66 Cases (1438)
N Mejia, AC Laga, A Haque, SD Hudnall, TC Allen, AC Cermik, R Barrios, DS Zander, PT Cagle - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, TX; University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
9:15 Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cell Repopulation Contributes Minimally to the Type II Pneumocyte Pool in Transplanted and Native Lungs (1459)
DS Zander, MA Baz, M Jorgensen, GA Visner, ND Theise, JM Crawford - University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, TX; University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL; Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION III
11:00 Localized Malignant Mesothelioma (LMM): Clinicopathologic Review of 22 Cases (1396)
TC Allen, A Churg, TV Colby, PT Cagle, AR Gibbs, SP Hammar, J Corson, M Grimes, N Ordonez, VL Roggli, WD Travis, MR Wick - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; The United States-Canadian Mesothelioma Reference Panel
11:15 Molecular Pathology Analysis of Mesothelial Cell Hyperplasia and Mesothelioma Assists Diagnosis (1439)
D Mohan, SD Finkelstein, R Pal, L Niehouse, PA Swalsky, SA Yousem - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA
11:30 Correlations of Global Gene Expression Profiles with Histology and p16/CDKN2A Deletion Status in 101 Pleural Mesotheliomas (1434)
F Lopez-Rios, PB Illei, AB Olshen, V Rusch, MF Zakowski, M Ladanyi - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
11:45 Her-2/neu Gene Amplification is Uncommon in Human Malignant Mesotheliomas: A Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization Assay (CISH) Using Tissue Microarrays (1457)
MA Vasef, K Sheibani - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, and Western Medical Center, Santa Ana, CA