PROFFERED PAPERS
Tuesday, March 9   —  1:00 PM   —  Ballroom B


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Section B - HEMATOPATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Rita Braziel and Eric Hsi



1:00 Breaks in 14q32 and Deletions of 13q Are Frequent Events in Primary Extramedullary Plasmacytoma (EMP) (1013)
K Bink, M Kremer, G Ott, K Specht, S Mandl-Weber, L Quintanilla-Martinez, F Fend - GSF Research Center, Neuherberg, Germany; Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany; University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany
1:15 Correlation of Bone Marrow Clonal Plasma Cells with Disease Burden and Survival in 77 Patients with Systemic AL Amyloidosis (1057)
RP Hasserjian, HJB Goodman, HJ Lachmann, PN Hawkins - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, United Kingdom
1:30 Analysis of Hairy Cell Leukemia with Aberrant Immunophenotypes (1024)
YH Chen, MS Tallman, C Goolsby, LC Peterson - The Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
1:45 AML with t(6;9)(p23;q34): Association with Myelodysplasia, CD9 and c-kit Expression, and flt3 Abnormalities Suggests Origin from a Hematopoietic Progenitor with Disrupted c-kit Signaling (1081)
P Lin, MP Oyarzo, A Glassman, CE Bueso-Ramos, R Luthra, LJ Medeiros - The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
2:00 High Incidence of Allelic Imbalance in Low Grade Myelodysplastic Syndromes: Analysis of Archival Samples by Multiple DNA Microsatellite Markers (1075)
G Kong, M Czader, A Orazi, D O'Malley, S Zhang, L Cheng - Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
2:15 "Close Correlation between Quantitative Immunophenotype (QUIP) and Karyotype in AML: Identification of Distinctive QUIP Characteristics of AML with t(8;21) (1073)
H Khoury, BI Dalal, SH Nantel, DE Horsman, JD Shepherd, CL Toze, HJ Sutherland, DE Hogge, TJ Nevill - Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Center, British Columbia Cancer Agency and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2:30 Flow Cytometric Analysis of Bcl-2 Can Help Identify Small Numbers of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Cells (1056)
L Hartung, DW Bahler - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2:45 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION IV
4:00 BUSINESS MEETING - HALL A
4:35 AWARD PRESENTATIONS
Stowell-Orbison, Autopsy, Surgical Pathology, Castleman and Vogel Awards
Distinguished Pathologist Awards - Daria Haust and Kalman Kovacs
F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award - Donald A. Antonioli
President's Award - David F. Hardwick
Young Investigator Award - Mark A. Rubin
5:00 MAUDE ABBOTT LECTURE - J. Aidan Carney
The Complex of Spotty Pigmentation, Myxomas, Endocrine Overactivity
and Schwannomas (Carney complex): Discovery to Gene
5:45 WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION - Rooms 1,2,3 and South Foyer