POSTER SESSION II Monday, February 13, 2006   —  1:00 - 4:30 PM Exhibit Level HEMATOPATHOLOGY 134 BCL-6 Negativity, Female Gender, and Morphologic Type Predict Poor Overall Survival in Primary Cutaneous Large B-Cell Lymphomas with a Diffuse Architecture (1169) X Xie, U Sundram, S Kohler, I Lossos, Y Natkunam, JR Cook, SH Swerdlow, J Guitart, M Smith, D Bosler, C Listinsky, J Hammel, ED Hsi - Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Stanford University School of Medicine; University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; William Beaumont Hospital; Northwestern University; University Hospital of Cleveland; University of Miami 135 Extranodal Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma of Cutaneous Follicular Lymphoma Type (995) F Aigner, D Korol, E Levi, N Probst-Hensch, H Moch, M Kurrer - University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; John D Dingell VAMC and Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 136 Intrachromosomal Translocations Of BCL6: An Under Recognized Mechanism Of BCL6 Deregulation In B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas (1078) CE Keller, S Nandula, E Vakiani, B Alobeid, VS Murty, G Bhagat - Columbia University, New York, NY 137 MYC Translocations Involving Immunoglobulin Light Chain Loci In B-Cell Lineage Neoplasms Are Widely Dispersed (1039) RR Einerson, ME Law, HE Blair, PJ Kurtin, RF McClure, RP Ketterling, HC Flynn, JE Allen, A Dogan, ED Remstein - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 138 The Spectrum Of B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas With Combined IgH-BCL2 And BCL6 Translocations: Evidence For Early Acquisition Of BCL6 Translocations (1079) CE Keller, S Nandula, E Vakiani, VS Murty, B Alobeid, G Bhagat - Columbia University, New York, NY 139 Expression Of N-Cadherin In B-Cell Non-Hodgkin And Hodgkin Lymphomas (1168) Q Xie, L Chen, J Albanese, R Shaknovich - Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 140 RNA-Binding Protein VICKZ is Expressed in a Germinal Center Associated Pattern Among Lymphoma Subtypes (1106) Y Natkunam, G Vainer, S Zhao, G Amir, E Pikarsky, AS Hammer, S Hamilton-Dutoit, R Levy, J Yisraeli, IS Lossos - Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Hebrew University-Hadessah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel; Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center & University of Miami, Miami, FL 141 Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Expression in B-cell Lymphomas and Reactive Lymph Nodes Analyzed by Flow Cytometry (1059) D Grier, S Al-Quran, Y Li, R Braylan - University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 142 Expression Of Inhibitor Of Apoptosis Proteins In B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas And Hodgkin Lymphomas (1127) Y Ren, N Akyurek, GZ Rassidakis, LJ Medeiros - MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 143 ZAP-70 Expression By Immunohistochemical And Quantitative RT-PCR Methods Correlate With Somatic Hypermutation Of Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Genes In CLL/SLL (1084) RJ Knoblock, LV Abruzzo, KR Coombes, EJ Schlette, LJ Medeiros, MJ Keating, D Jones, JH Admirand - The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 144 Necrosis in Lymph Nodes Involved by CLL/SLL: A Rare Finding Virtually Always Associated with Herpes Simplex Virus Infection (1033) RD DeHaan, PJ Kurtin - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 145 Bcl-2 Expression Levels in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Correlation with Other Prognostic Indicators (1136) RL Sargent, FE Craig, SH Swerdlow - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 146 B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemias With p53 Deletion Are Highly Resistant To Fludarabine In Vitro (1177) Y Zhong, AC Bakke, G Fan, KM Gatter, R Braziel, JZ Huang - Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 147 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Prognostic Indicators for Fludarabine, Cyclophosphamide, and Rituxan (FCR) Therapy (1031) J De, SM O'Brien, L Abruzzo, CE Bueso-Ramos - UT - Houston Medical School; UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 148 Aberrant Expression of CD5 and CD10 in Hairy Cell Leukemia: Correlation with Clinical Presentation and Outcome (1125) A Rahemtullah, S Rezk, SA Wang, RP Hasserjian - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA 149 Novel Anti-ZAP-70 Antibody For Flow Cytometry In Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Comparison With ZAP-70 Immunohistochemistry And IgVH Mutation Status (1075) JL Jorgensen, D Jones, RG Luthra, DG Cooper, A Brahmandam - UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 150 Comparative Analysis Of Zap-70 Flow Cytometry Assessment Techniques With Regard To IgVH Mutational Status In Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) (1017) Y Chen, LC Peterson, R Gupta, VT Shankey, A Khoong, A Evens, CL Goolsby - Feinberg School of Medicine, IL; John H Stroger, Jr Hospital, IL; Beckman-Coulter, FL 151 Methylation Analysis in Mantle Cell Lymphoma (1058) TC Greiner, DL Klinkebiel, L Tang, DD Weisenburger, WC Chan, JK Christman - University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 152 Sequence Analysis Proves Clonal Identity In Five Patients with Typical and Blastoid Mantle Cell Lymphoma (1173) CC Yin, LJ Medeiros, P Lin, C Cromwell, D Jones, R Luthra, LV Abruzzo - UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 153 Differential Expression of Cyclin Dependent Kinase 1 (CKS-1) in Small Cell And Blastoid Variant Mantle Cell Lymphoma (996) N Akyurek, GZ Rassidakis, K Giaslakiotis, RJ Knoblock, LJ Medeiros - The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 154 Detection of t(11;18) API2/MALT1 Translocation Specifically Associated With MALT Lymphoma by Robust Real-Time RT-PCR (1174) W Zhang, J Garces, HY Dong - Genzyme Genetics, New York, NY; Genzyme Genetics, Westborough, MA 155 Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma and MALT-Lymphoma of Breast Uncommonly Have MALT1 Gene Rearrangements (1155) JR Valbuena, SS Talwalkar, LV Abruzzo, J Admirand, GZ Rassidakis, S Konoplev, CE Bueso-Ramos, LJ Medeiros - MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 156 Chlamydia psittaci Is Variably Associated With Ocular MALT Lymphoma In Different Geographical Regions (1012) E Chanudet, Y Zhou, C Bacon, A Wotherspoon, H Müller-Hermelink, P Adam, Y Li, R Wei, X Gong, Q Wu, R Ranaldi, G Goteri, S Pileri, H Ye, H Liu, J Radford, MQ Du - University of Cambridge, Royal Marsden Hospital, United Kingdom; Würzburg University, Germany; Sun Yat-Sen Ophthalmologic Hospital, China; Changzheng Hospital, China; Hainan Province Hospital, China; Sun Yat-Sen Tumour Hospital, China; Pathology Institute, Italy; UnitB Operativa di Emolinfopatologia, Italy; Christie Hospital, United Kingdom 157 MALT Lymphoma of the Dura: Analysis of Clinical, Histological and Genetic Features (1130) KA Rizzo, B Streubel, A Chott, L Sorbara, S Kumar, S Pittaluga, M Raffeld, ES Jaffe - National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; Vienna General Hospital, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; VA Medical Center, Washington, DC