POSTER SESSION IV Tuesday, March 1, 2005   —  1:00 - 4:30 PM Convention Center Exhibit Hall B CYTOPATHOLOGY 32 Histopathological and Cytopathological Diagnoses Discrepancies in Head and Neck Region: Pitfalls, Causes and Preventive Strategies (285) L Fathallah, OE Tulunay, M Al-Abbadi, J Feng, JR Jacobs, M Husain - Wayne State University, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI 33 Rapid Stamp Cytologic Interpretation of Nasopharygeal Biopsy: Usefullness and Pitfalls (274) A-Y Chuang, M-L Wu, M-H Tsou - Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan 34 Follicular Thyroid Proliferations without Conclusive Cytology: Telomerase Activity Increases Diagnostic Sensitivity (313) E Lerma, J Mora, F Alvarez-NuZez, S Bague, A Carreras, E Esteva, A Clua, X Rius, A Leiva, J Prat - Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Autonomous University of Barcelona., Spain 35 A Simplified Classification of Thyroid Fine Needle Aspirations Correlated with Clinical Outcome (302) MA Jones, DM Dressel, ST Bigo - Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME 36 Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration of Parathyroid Lesions (278) HH Dimashkieh, S Krishnamurthy - MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 37 Initial Bronchoalveolar Lavage Cell Counts Correlate with Chest Radiograph Stage in Sarcoidosis (349) CH Stone, L Stagner, M Maliarik, MC Iannuzzi - Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 38 Improving the Quality of Cytopathology Practice: Root-Cause Analysis for Negative Diagnoses in Bronchial Washings and Brushings (325) L Nodit, SS Raab - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 39 Comparison of Biopsy and Cytology Samples Taken with the Light Induced Fluorescence Endoscopy (LIFE) Bronchoscopy System (320) SJ Maygarden, W Funkhouser, G Flake, R Slebos, F Detterbeck, J Taylor, M Rivera - UNC, Chapel Hill, NC; NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC; Vanderbilt Medical Center, Nashville, TN 40 Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Elucidates Equivocal Lung Cytology (339) S Savic, B Grilli, P Spieler, P Dalquen, G Feichter, M Tamm, L Bubendorf - University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Cantonal Hospital, St. Gallen, Switzerland 41 Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization in Detecting Lung Cancer in Bronchial Brushing Specimens (312) S Latif, EA Turbat-Herrera, A Sarker, S Martin, M Lowery-Nordberg - Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA; Shreveport, LA 42 Microtubule-Associated Protein-2 (MAP-2) Is a Sensitive Marker for Small Cell Carcinoma in Bronchial Brushing and Washing Cytology (361) SX Yan, JF Silverman, B Ujevich, M Tung, RS Saad, YL Liu - Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 43 Utility of GLUT 1 Immunostaining in Transbronchial Needle Aspiration Biopsies (276) LE De Las Casas, RH Bardales, P White, LJ Cloar, P Mukunyadzi, M Thomas, RN Miranda - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, MO 44 CDX2 Protein Expression in Pulmonary FNA Specimens: A Useful Adjunct for the Diagnosis of Metastatic Colorectal Adenocarcinoma (314) P Levine, A Joutovsky, J Cangiarella, H Yee, A Simsir - New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY 45 Fine Needle Aspiration of Lung Lesions: A Clinicopathological and Cytopathological Review of 150 Cases in a Community-Based Hospital with Emphasis on the Relation between the Number of Passes and the Incidence of Pneumothorax (293) RA Halloush, FA Khasawneh, H Saleh, T Piskorawski, M Alabbadi - Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI 46 Ki-67 and p53 Antigen Detection in Aspiration Biopsies of Non-Small Cell Carcinoma of the Lung (NSCLC) (269) N Cai, A Kramer, D Yankelevitz, C Henschke, M Vazquez - New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY 47 Atypical Bronchioloalveolar Proliferation: A New Cytologic Category for Lung Aspiration Biopsy Representing a Bronchioloalveolar Growth Pattern (323) JL Morhaime, AL Kramer, MF Vazquez - NewYork Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY 48 Image-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy of the Mediastinum: A Study of 318 Cases (356) X Wang, HM Cramer - Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 49 Prediction of Malignant Potential of GIST Based on Immunostaining with Ki-67, bcl-2, and p53 Using FNA Materials (321) RS Meara, A Simsir, D Horton, I Eltoum, DC Chhieng - University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; New York University, New York, NY 50 FNA of the Stomach: A Review of 241 Cases (295) J Hu, HM Cramer - Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 51 Transrectal FNA: An Analysis of 121 Cases (343) JD Sen, HM Cramer - Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 52 Differential Expression of Neuroendocrine Markers in Liver Metastases of Cancers of Unknown Primary (294) DE Hansel, A Maitra, MG House, CJ Yeo, SZ Ali - The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 53 Diagnostic Value of CDX-2 and MUC-2 in Determining the Origin of Metastatic Adenocarcinoma in Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsies of the Liver (268) E Bracamonte, G Iezza, R Baehner - University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 54 An Immunohistochemical and Reticulin Study of Liver Fine Needle Aspiration (350) Y Sun, A Macias, C Sugrue, A Tarectecan, P Wasserman - Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY