POSTER SESSION II Monday, February 28, 2005   —  1:00 - 4:30 PM Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B AUTOPSY PATHOLOGY 1 Unexpected Significant Autopsy Findings: A Quality Assurance Tool (23) A Patil, G Ramaswamy - Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY 2 Phenotype-Genotype Correlations in Chromosome 4q Deletion with Involvement of c-KIT and PDGFRA Genes (18) AJ Iafrate, SO Vargas - Brigham & Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 3 Development and Application of Geriatric Autopsy Database and Internet-Based Database of Japanese Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms for Geriatric Research (JG-SNP) (26) M Sawabe, T Arai, T Hosoi, K Takubo, N Tanaka - Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan; Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan; Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan 4 Histological Changes in Lupus Nephritis According to the Improvement of Immunotherapy: An Autopsy Study (22) T Matsumoto, T Kon, K Ogura, H Abe, K Suda, H Hashimoto - Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan; Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan 5 Cause of Death in Hepatitis C Cirrhotic Patients: An Autopsy Study (10) PO Emanuel, MI Fiel, P Lento, SN Thung - Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY 6 How Many Blocks Are Needed To Diagnose a Transmural Acute Myocardial Infarction? (6) FJ Bilbao, P Sa'ez, MC Etxezarraga, C Ereño, JI López, J Froufe - Hospital de Basurto, Basque Country University (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain; Hospital de Cruces, Basque Country University (UPV/EHU), Barakaldo, Bizkaia, Spain 7 Demographics and Co-Morbidities Associated with Pulmonary Embolism at Autopsy in a Community Hospital (11) K Emerick, J Dlott, P Mellen - Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie, IN; Midwest Hemostasis and Thrombosis Laboratory, Muncie, IN 8 Lymphoplasmacytic Sclerosing Pancreatitis Is Not an Occult Disease in the Autopsy Population (17) SD Hurtt, EE Furth - University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 9 AIDS and Infection in Mexican Children. A Survey of 35 Autopsies (21) E Lopez-Corella, C Ridaura-Sanz, B De Leon-Bojorge - National Institute of Pediatrics, Mexico City, Mexico 10 Over-Twisting of Umbilical Cord as a Cause of Intrauterine Fetal Demise: A Frequent but Underrecognized Abnormality (16) DL Harris, P Zhang - West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV