PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, February 28   —  8:00 AM   —  Convention Center Room 007 A-D


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Section D - GYNECOLOGIC PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: John H. Eichhorn and C. Blake Gilks



8:00 Interobserver Variability of the Two-Tier System for Grading Ovarian Serous Carcinoma (900)
A Malpica, MT Deavers, C Tornos, RJ Kurman, R Soslow, J Seidman, EN Atkinson, EG Silva - The UT M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
8:15 Survival Benefit for Patients with Advanced-Stage Transitional Cell Carcinomas vs. Other Subtypes of Ovarian Carcinoma after Chemotherapy with Platinum and Paclitaxel (878)
F Kommoss, S Kommoss, D Schmidt, J Pfisterer, A du Bois - A2,2, Mannheim, Germany; Campus Kiel, Universitaetsklinikum Schleswig Holstein, Kiel, Germany; Dr.-Horst-Schmidt-Kliniken (HSK), Wiesbaden, Germany
8:30 Classification of Extra-Ovarian Implants Associated with Ovarian Serous Tumors of Low Malignant Potential (S-LMP): Clinicopathologic Study of 181 Cases (904)
JK McKenney, CB Gilks, TA Longacre - Stanford University, Stanford, CA; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC; UAMS, Little Rock, AR
8:45 The Recurrence Rate of Ovarian Serous Borderline Neoplasms with Noninvasive Implants Is Time Dependent (947)
EG Silva, DM Gershenson, A Malpica, MT Deavers - M D Anderson; M D Anderson, Houston, TX
9:00 Histologic Patterns of Lymph Node Involvement in Women with Primary Ovarian Serous Tumors of Low Malignant Potential (S-LMP): A Clinicopathologic Study of 58 Cases (903)
JK McKenney, BL Balzer, TA Longacre - Stanford University, Stanford, CA; UAMS, Little Rock, AR
9:15 Patterns of p53 Mutations Separate Ovarian Serous Borderline Tumors, Low and High-Grade Carcinomas and Provide Support for a New Model of Ovarian Carcinogenesis (949)
G Singer, RJ Kurman, R Dehari, I-M Shih - Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION I
11:00 Endocervical-Like Mucinous Borderline Tumors of the Ovary: A Clinicopathologic Analysis of 31 Cases (933)
IM Rodriguez, JA Irving, J Prat - Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
11:15 Metastatic Colorectal Adenocarcinoma in the Ovary: Still a Diagnostic Challenge (888)
MR Lewis, MT Deavers, EG Silva, A Malpica - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
11:30 Utility of Immunohistochemistry in Determining the Site of Origin of Metastatic Mucinous Carcinomas Involving the Ovary (934)
B Ronnett, AM Gown, TS Barry, R Vang - Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; PhenoPath Laboratories, Seattle, WA
11:45 Higher Frequencies of Chromosomal Aberrations in Ovarian Compared to Extragenital Endometriosis: A Possible Link to Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma (882)
M Korner, E Burckhardt, L Mazzucchelli - University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Locarno, Switzerland