POSTER SESSION II Monday, February 28, 2005   —  1:00 - 4:30 PM Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B TECHNIQUES 195 Fast Computerized Texture Analysis in Pancreas Cytology without Accurate Nuclear Segmentation (1515) M Bitar, H-S Wu, A Szporn, D Burstein, J Gil - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 196 Quantitative Determination of Neutrophil Morphologic Changes by Coulter Automated Hematology Analyzer with VCS Technology (1518) F Chaves, B Tierno, S Smith, D Xu - Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 197 Telepathology: Three Years of Routine Evaluation of Breast Lesions (1532) CL Hitchcock, LE Hitchcock, S Suster - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 198 Computerized Diagnostic Consultation System for Hepatobiliary Pathology (1544) DA Ostler, S Ninan, Z Qu - UT-MS Houston, Houston, TX 199 An Accurate Method for Determination of Tissue Thickness in Paraffin Blocks by Faxitron Analysis: Application to Tissue Microarray Construction (1563) Y Zhao, X Kong, M Ksionsk, PD Walden, MC Bosland, J Melamed - NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY 200 A Virtual Microscopy Image Database for Liver Pathology Education (1550) C Reading, L Proctor, Y Shen, J Woosley - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 201 Balancing Education and Turnaround Time: The University of Iowa Experience with Implementation of Rapid Continuous Tissue Processing (1521) BR DeYoung, MB Cohen - The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 202 Expression Profiling of Microdissected Endothelial Cells from Colorectal Cancer (1554) M Sridhar, AM Jubb, LA Strickland, Z Modrusan, WL Ince, TD Wu, H Koeppen - Genentech Inc, South San Francisco, CA 203 BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Screening Using High Resolution Melt Curve Analysis (1523) SD Dufresne, DR Belloni, OA Adeyi, WA Wells, GJ Tsongalis - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 204 Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) Expression in Colorectal Carcinoma: Image Cytometric Quantitation (1530) M Gupta, G Costonis, D Lawson, C Cohen - Emory University School of Medicine, Emory University School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA 205 Enabling the Molecular Profiling of Clinical Specimens: A Novel Tissue Procurement Protocol for Translational Studies (1541) WD Mojica, A Arshad, S Sharma, SP Brooks - SUNY @ Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 206 "Amyloid Chip" for Tissue Detection and Characterization of Deposits by SELDI-MS Spectrometry (1546) MM Picken, V Thulasiraman, RN Picken, L Lomas - Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL; Hines VA Hospital, Hines, IL; Ciphergen Biosystems Inc, Fremont, CA 207 Facilitating the Evaluation of Differential Protein Phosphorylation in Clinical Specimens: Combination of a Novel Tissue Procurement Protocol with a Fluorescent Phosphorylation Sensor Dye (1542) WD Mojica, Y Piao, S Sharma, SP Brooks - SUNY @ Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 208 Multiplex STR and Mitochondrial DNA Testing for Paraffin Embedded Specimen of Healthy and Malignant Tissue: Interpreation Issues (1548) DA Popiolek, P Illei, BA West, M Prinz, ZM Budimlija - New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY; NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner, New York, NY 209 A Simple One-Tube Method for DNA Isolation and Polymerase Chain Amplification of Fresh and Paraffin-Embedded Tissues (1553) LR Sorbara, S Dieffenbach, T Pham, TH Pham, M Raffeld - National Institutes of Health/NCI, Bethesda, MD 210 Use of Array-Based Comparative Genome Hybridization To Distinguish Hepatic Adenoma from Hepatocellular Carcinoma (1555) BA Stohr, LD Ferrell, FM Waldman, K Mehta, S Kakar - UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 211 Enzymatic Detection of Aneuploidy in Chromosomes 13, 18, 21, X and Y in Paraffin-Embedded Products of Conception (1562) EL Zarovnaya, LS Tooke, K Ornvold, M Curtis, TK Mohandas, GJ Tsongalis - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; Third Wave Technologies, Madison, WI 212 Non-Invasive Prenatal RHD Genotyping by Real-Time PCR Using Plasma from RHD-Negative Pregnant Women (1564) L Zhou, J Thorson, CE Nugent, RD Davenport, WJ Judd - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 213 Detection of Microscopic FOCI of Metastatic Melanoma in Sentinel Lymph Nodes (1519) AW Davis, A Palekar, K Schoedel, UN Rao - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 214 Step Sectioning Increases Diagnostic Yield of Melanoma Micrometastases in Sentinel Lymph Nodes with MCW Melanoma Cocktail (1551) VB Shidham, R Komorowski, P Gupta, L Parameswaran, CC Chang, W Dzwierzynski - Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; 215 Diagnostic Value of D2-40, CD31 and CD34 in Detecting Angiolymphatic Invasion in Thyroid Follicular Carcinoma (1539) YL Liu, X Lin, RS Saad, M Tung, JF Silverman - Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 216 Does Smear Technique Affect the Accuracy of Intraoperative Sentinel Lymph Node Cytology in Breast Cancer? (1540) NC Messias, ELC Alonsozana, GA Jockle, LS Logan, OB Ioffe - University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, MD