POSTER SESSION V Wednesday, March 2, 2005   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Convention Center, Exhibit Hall B CYTOPATHOLOGY 29 Are "Inflammatory" Pap Tests Caused by Infection? (264) DL Aslan, DM McKeon, S Setty, GM Oprea, HE Gulbahce, RC McGlennen, SE Pambuccian - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 30 Coccobacilli and Cervical Dysplasia: Is There a Link? (348) S Steinman, R Samuel - Highland Hospital, Rochester, NY 31 Are Infections Other Than HPV Responsible for ASC-US? (263) DL Aslan, S Setty, GM Oprea, DM McKeon, RC McGlennen, SE Pambuccian - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 32 The Lack of Impact of Reflex HPV Testing on Interpretation and Management of Thin-Prep Paps (329) Y Peng, HH Wang - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC); Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 33 Significance and Possible Causes of False Negative Results of Reflex HPV-DNA Test (281) I Eltoum, D Chhieng, D Kosatka, J Roberson, G Jin, T Broker - University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 34 Parakeratotic Pearls and HCII HPV Results: Correlation in Liquid Based Cervicovaginal Cytology Specimens Interpreted as ASC-US (308) LA Kubba, JL Tice, H Antonopoulos, BM Oddo, AG Nickolov, EA Hahn, KL Kaul, CD Sturgis - Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Evanston, IL; Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL; Center for Outcomes Research and Education, Evanston, IL 35 Two-Year Follow up of Women with High Risk HPV DNA Positive ASCUS Interpretation in a Community Practice Setting (286) J Feng, M Husain - Wayne State University, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI 36 Significance of Positive High-Risk HPV DNA Tests in Patients with Cytologic Diagnosis of Atypical Squamous Cells of Undetermined Significance (ASC-US) (344) S Shen, M Myint, J Bonadio, L de la Maza, M Gu - University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA 37 Atypical Squamous Cells-Cannot Exclude High Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesion (ASC-H): Diagnostic Reproducibility, HPV Positivity Rates and Clinical Implications (337) RS Saad, A Kanbour, N Mauser, J Modery, DJ Dabbs - Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA 38 ASC-H: Should We Reflex-Test for HPV DNA Too? (334) M Roychowdhury, S Setty, HE Gulbahce, EB Stelow, K Kjeldahl, SE Pambuccian - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 39 High Risk HPV DNA by Hybrid Capture II Is a Useful Triage Method for Women with ASC-H on ThinPrep Pap Tests (359) HH Wu, SL Allen, J Kirkpatrick, TM Elsheikh - Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie, IN; Pathologists Associated Medical Laboratory, Muncie, IN 40 High-Risk HPV Testing by PCR of Cervical Cytology Samples Classified According to Bethesda 2001 Guidelines May Benefit Both ASC-US and LSIL Patient Management (283) MF Evans, CS-C Adamson, JL Papillo, TL St. John, G Leiman, K Cooper - University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 41 To Triage or Not? A Multi-Institutional Study Examining Prevalence of HPV High-Risk Types in LSIL Cases (330) MN Qureshi, DR Bolick, N Zafar, SE Pambuccian, RC McGlennen - Lakewood Pathology Associates, Lakewood, NJ; Ameripath, Utah, Sandy, UT; Univ. of Tennessee at Memphis, Memphis, TN; Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Access Genetics, Eden Prairie, MN 42 The Incidence of HPV and Cervical Dysplasia in Rural Nigeria (318) N Markelova, PF Schnatz, D Holmes, J Harp, K Stevens, K Hodges, W Waszczak, SR Mandavilli - Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT 43 ASC-H: Can We Do Better? (341) MJ Schmidt, BS Ducatman - West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV 44 Cytomorphologic Analysis and Histological Correlation of High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions in Postmenopausal Women (336) RS Saad, A Kanbour-Shakir, E Lu, J Modery, A Kanbour - Magee Womens Hospital at UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA 45 Histopathologic Extent of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia 3 Lesions Correlates with the Number of Abnormal Cells in the Preceding HGSIL ThinPrep Cytology (292) S H. Khayyata, C Christensen, D Kmak, M Husain - Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 46 Predictive Value of p16INK4A in Detection of CIN 2/3 from Women with LSIL Pap Results, a Biopsy Comparison Study (291) M Guo, L Hu, J Zhou, Z He, L Martin, M Baliga - The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 47 Application of p16INK4AImmunostaing for Definitive Interpretation of ASC-H in Liquid Based Cervical Cytology Smears with SurePath ® (306) P Kotov, L Parameswaran, JA Parisi, M Chivkula, A Cafaro, M Fuentes, VB Shidham - Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 48 p16INK4a Immunostaing of Liquid Based Cervical Cytology Smears with SurePath ®- Comparison of Two Antibodies (305) P Kotov, L Parameswaran, JA Parisi, M Chivkula, A Cafaro, M Fuentes, VB Shidham - Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 49 Assessment of DNA Ploidy in Residual Liquid-Based Cervical/Vaginal Specimens using Laser Scanning Cytometry (LSC) (338) A Salhadar, CN Booth, R Massarani-Wafai, M Laudermith, EM Wojcik - Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL 50 Split Sample Analysis of Throw Away Cells from ThinPrep® Pap Smear Sampling Devices (332) A Rinas, B Mittman, L VanLe, K Hartmann, J Cayless, HK Singh - The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 51 Cytologic-Histologic Correlation of Screening and Diagnostic Pap Tests (275) DJ Chute, J Covell, SE Pambuccian, EB Stelow - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 52 Impact of Bethesda 2001 on the Unsatisfactory ThinPrep Specimen: Clinical Implications and Contributing Conditions (290) KB Green, CK Arnott, PL Schubert, KA Ely - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 53 Routine Vaginal Pap Test Is Not Useful in Low-Risk Women Status-Post Hysterectomy for Benign Disease (284) H Farghaly, V Padmanabhan, D Bourgeois, C Shwede, RS Hoda - Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 54 Benign Endometrial Cells in Papanicolau Tests of Women over 40 Have a Low Predictive Value for Endometrial Malignancy (352) M Thrall, K Savik, K Kjeldahl, HE Gulbahce, SE Pambuccian - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN