PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, February 28   —  8:00 AM   —  Convention Center Room 207


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Section F - LIVER & PANCREAS PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Susan C. Abraham and John A. Hart



8:00 The Potential Effect of Liver Cell Steatosis and Apoptosis on the Progression of the Disease in Cases of Chronic Hepatitis B and C (1333)
AC Tsamandas, K Thomopoulos, G Theocharis, I Syrrokosta, D Dimitropoulou, T Petsas, C Karatza, C Gogos - Univ. of Patras, Greece
8:15 p62 as a Reliable Marker for Mallory Bodies in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) (1335)
G-H Wang, A Mehrotra, JP Ong, ZM Younossi, Z Goodman - Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC; Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA
8:30 Arterialization of Central Zones in Alcoholic Cirrhosis (1338)
A Yabes, LD Ferrell - Univ of California, San Francisco, CA
8:45 Hepatitis C Recurrence and Acute Cellular Rejection Following Orthotopic Liver Transplantation (OLTX): A Histopathologic Preliminary Report on the "Hepatitis C 3" Trial (1314)
GJ Netto, C Fasola, M Abecassis, the Hepatitis 3 Trial Group - Baylor University Med Ctr, Dallas; Emory University; Northwestern University
9:00 Histologic Abnormalities Are Common in Protocol Liver Allograft Biopsies from Patients with Normal Liver Function Tests (1258)
SC Abraham, AM Krasinskas - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
9:15 p53, Ki-67, VEGF and EGFR Expression in Liver Transplant Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) with and without Subsequent HCC Recurrence (1261)
V Alagiozian-Angelova, S Cotler, D Mehta, A Kajdacsy-Balla, G Guzman - Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION I
11:00 Prevalence of Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia in Non-Ductal Type Neoplasms of the Pancreas (1325)
EB Stelow, DJ Chute, CA Moskaluk - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
11:15 Tissue Transglutaminase II: A Biomarker of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (1339)
G-Y Yang, HP Dilworth, R Ashfaq, RH Hruban, A Maitra - Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
11:30 Villous-Intestinal Differentiation and Progression to Colloid Carcinoma, Characterstic of a Major Subset of IPMNs, Are Not Features of Mucinous Cystic Neoplasms (1301)
I Khalifeh, O Basturk, G Zamboni, DS Klimstra, W Frankel, RH Hruban, J Cheng, NV Adsay - Wayne State University, MI; University of Verona, Italy; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY; Ohio State University, OH; Johns Hopkins University, MD
11:45 The Distinction of Mixed Mucinous Carcinomas of Ampullo-Pancreatobiliary Region from Colloid Carcinoma: A Clinocopathologic Analysis of 25 Cases (1302)
F Khanani, O Basturk, S Khayyata, JD Cheng, A Andea, L Fathallah, NV Adsay - Wayne State University, MI