PROFFERED PAPERS
Tuesday, March 1   —  8:00 AM   —  Convention Center Room 006 C,D


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Section C - CYTOPATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Kristin A. Atkins and Nour Sneige



8:00 HER2 Immunostaining in Cytologic Samples of Metastatic Breast Cancer: Does Antibody Clone and Pretreatment Method Effect Results? (287)
PA Fetsch, A Abati - National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
8:15 Utility of Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy in Measuring the Gene Transfer Efficacy of Adenoviral p53 (Advexin) Gene Therapy in Patients with Locally Advanced Breast Cancer (307)
S Krishnamurthy, LT Guerra, V Valero, M Cristofanilli - M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
8:30 The Significance of Squamous Dysplasia in Urine Specimens from Patients with High Grade Urothelial Carcinoma (HGUC) (319)
S Masoom, CN Booth, A Salhadar, R Massarani-Wafai, EM Wojcik - Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
8:45 Atypical Urine Cytology: First Try, Second Try, Do We Improve? (317)
I Mansoor, B Al-Khafaji - St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit, MI
9:00 Spectral and Spatial Analysis of Thyroid Fine Needle Aspiration Specimens Using the Hybrid Genetic Algorithm "GENIE" (262)
C Angeletti, NR Harvey, V Bossuyt, RM Levenson, DL Rimm - Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; CRI,Inc, Woburn, MA
9:15 Clinical Application of a Panel of Immunocytochemical Markers in the Cytological Diagnosis of Thyroid Follicular Lesions (354)
M Volante, E Saggiorato, R De Pompa, AP Dei Tos, F Orlandi, M Papotti - University of Torino, Torino, Italy; Regional Hospital, Treviso, Treviso, Italy
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION III
11:00 K-ras and Microsatellite Marker Analysis of Fine Needle Aspirates from Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas (342)
KE Schoedel, KM McGrath, A Khalid, SD Finkelstein, NP Ohori - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
11:15 A 10-Year Review of Pancreatic and Bile Duct Brushings: Findings in over 1,000 Cases (355)
KE Volmar, RT Vollmer, MJ Routbort, AJ Creager - UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; Duke University, Durham, NC; M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
11:30 Can Apomucin (MUC4) Be Used as a Biomarker To Differentiate Chronic Pancreatitis from Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma on Endosonographically Obtained Fine Needle Aspirates? (300)
NC Jhala, DN Jhala, WE Grizzle, IE Eltoum, M Eloubeidi, J Jones, SK Batra - University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; University of Nebraska Medical Center and Eppley Cancer Institute, Omaha, NE
11:45 A Panel of Immunohistochemical Stains Is Useful in the Differential Diagnosis of Primary Round Cell Pancreatic Neoplasms (297)
J Hu, RE Emerson - Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN