PROFFERED PAPERS
Tuesday, March 1   —  1:00 PM   —  Convention Center Room 207


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Section F - ENDOCRINE
Chaired by: Sylvia L. Asa and Robert Osamura



1:00 Thyroid Tissue within Cervical Lymph Nodes: Benign Thyroid Inclusions or Metastasis from Occult Thyroid Cancer? (426)
AG Saad, PW Biddinger, RV Lloyd, YE Nikiforov - University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
1:15 Postmenopause and Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Recurrence. A Multivariate Analysis (409)
A Gamboa-Dominguez, FA Candanedo-Gonzalez - National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition, Mexico City, Tlalpan, Mexico
1:30 Correlation between Genetic Alterations and Microscopic Features of Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas (397)
AJ Adeniran, Z Zhu, R Ciampi, YE Nikiforov - Universty of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1:45 Various Mechanisms of BRAF Activation in Thyroid Tumors (403)
R Ciampi, M Gandhi, YE Nikiforov - University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
2:00 Mutation Analysis of the Succinate Dehydrogenase Subunits SDHB, SDHC and SDHD in Sporadic and Familial Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (421)
M Montani, S Schmid, T Locher, P Komminoth, A Perren - University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland; Institute for Pathology, Baden, Switzerland
2:15 Allelic Imbalance in Sporadic and Syndromic Pheochromocytomas: Implicating the PTEN Gene Locus (415)
JL Hunt, J Murphy - University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2:30 Somatic Down-Regulation of Mismatch Repair Proteins Correlates with Accumulation of Microsatellite Abnormalities in Pheochromocytomas (400)
A Blanes, SJ Diaz-Cano - University of Malaga School of Medicine, Malaga, Spain; King's College Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom
2:45 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION IV
4:00 BUSINESS MEETING - Convention Center, Ballroom B
4:35 AWARD PRESENTATIONS
Stowell-Orbison, Autopsy, Surgical Pathology, Castleman and Vogel Awards
Distinguished Pathologist Awards - Bruce Beckwith and Robert Collins
F.K. Mostofi Distinguished Service Award - Ronald A. DeLellis
President's Award - Andrew Huvos
Young Investigator Award - Marc Ladanyi
5:05 MAUDE ABBOTT LECTURE - David L. Page
The Surgical Pathologist and the History of Breast Disease
6:00 WINE and CHEESE RECEPTION - River Center Salons H and I