POSTER SESSION VI Wednesday, February 15, 2006   —  1:00 - 4:00 PM Exhibit Level PULMONARY PATHOLOGY 173 cDNA Arrays Differentiate Benign From Malignant Mesothelial Cells In Effusions (1427) B Davidson, M Schaner, A Bergamaschi, M Skrede, HP Dong, R Reich, AL Borresen-Dale - Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA; School of Pharmacy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 174 Nuclear Maspin Predicts Favorable Morphological And Molecular Features Of Lung Adenocarcinoma And Pleural Malignant Mesothelioma (1430) AB Frey, F Siddiq, R Singh, M Al-Abbadi, HI Pass, F Lonardo - Wayne State University, The Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI 175 Pleuropulmonary Involvement In Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (1432) KR Geisinger, RF Bradley, P Shen, EA Levine - Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC 176 Lymphohistiocytoid Variant Of Mesothelioma: A Series Of 21 Cases (1431) F Galateau-Salle, R Attanoos, AR Gibbs, L Burke, P Astoul, P Rolland, P Brochard, H Begueret, JM Vignaud, G Launoy, M Goldberg - CHU Caen, Caen, France; Hopital Saint Maurice, Saint Maurice, France; Llandough Hospital, Cardiff, United Kingdom 177 EGFR In Malignant Mesothelioma Of The Pleura: Analysis Of Protein Expression, Gene Copy Number, And Transcript Levels (1443) PB Illei, F Lopez-Rios, V Rusch, M Ladanyi - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 178 Cellular Localization Of B-Catenin Correlates With Expression Of Proliferation Markers In Diffuse Malignant Mesothelioma (DMM) (1479) NA Singhal, TC Allen, AE Sienko, DS Zander, AK Haque, RJ Barrios, CY Castro, L Garza, DE Killen, PT Cagle - The Methodist Hospital, UTHSC-Houston Medical School, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, UTMB, Galveston, TX; UTHC-Tyler, Tyler, TX; 179 Clinicopathologic Features Of Long-Term Survivors After Extrapleural Pneumonectomy In Patients With Diffuse Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (1421) LR Chirieac, JM Corson, DJ Sugarbaker, JJ Godleski - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 180 Immunoreactivity of Anti-L523S on Normal and Malignant Lung Pleural Tissue Biopsies. (1480) KM Sojka, B Spaulding, GK Nielsen, SA Dinnogen, R Welcher - DakoCytomation, Carpinteria, CA 181 Thymic Carcinoma Usually Lacks Activating Mutations in KIT (1426) OW Cummings, JD Henley, PJ Leohrer, MC Heinrich, CL Corless - Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN; Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 182 Clinicopathologic Analysis of 61 Cases of Thymic Neoplasms: Is the WHO Classification Scheme Practical? (1450) T Khoury, M Murphy, J Yang, N Ramnath, L Ali, A Arshad, S Zhang - Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY; Kaleida Health System, Buffalo, NY 183 Adhesion molecules (±-catenin, ²-catenin, and E-cadherin), and EGFR expression in thymic neoplasms with clinicopathologic correlation (1492) S Zhang, M Murphy, J Yang, N Ramnath, L Ali, A Arshad, T Khoury - Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Kaleida Health System, Buffalo, NY 184 Inflammation Of Airway Smooth Muscle In Allergic Asthma: An Ulstrastructural Approach (1409) H Begueret, P Berger, PO Girodet, JM Vernejoux, R Marthan, A de Mascarel, JM Tunon De Lara - Hopital Haut-Leveque, Pessac, France; Universite Victor Segalen Bordeaux2, Bordeaux, France 185 Diagnostic Value Of Routine Histochemical Organism Stains In The Work-Up Of Granulomatous Inflammation Detected In Transbronchial Biopsy Specimens (1410) A Bell, J Weydert - University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA 186 Role Of Lymphangiogenesis In Repair And Remodeling Of The Lung After Acute Lung Injury (1459) O Matsubara, N Imazeki, Y Nakatani, EJ Mark - National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan; Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical College, Boston, MA 187 Enhanced Pulmonary Expression Of Endothelin-1 In Lung Tissue After Inhalation Injury (1474) JW Shim, HS Shin, CH Kim, IG Hyun - Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 188 Distribution, Density And Morphology Of Langerhans' Cells In The Lung: Relationship To Lung Development, Pulmonary Fibrosis And Smoking (1458) O Matsubara, N Imazeki, Y Okochi, Y Nakatani, EJ Mark - National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan; Chiba University, Chiba, Japan; Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 189 Immunohistochemical Analysis of Langerin in Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis and Other Pulmonary Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases (1475) LM Sholl, JL Hornick, JL Pinkus, GS Pinkus, RF Padera - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 190 The Movat Pentachrome Stain Facilitates the Recognition of Microcrystalline Cellulose Among Other Crystals Found in Lung Tissue (1477) S Sigdel, T Gemind, JF Tomashefski, Jr - MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 191 The Lung Pathology Of Cocaine Paste (Basuco) Smoking In Bogota, Colombia (1460) CA Moreno, PA Bejarano - Hospital Universitario Clinica San Rafael, Bogotá, Colombia; University of Miami, Miami, FL 192 Quantitation of Lymphocytes in Lung Allograft Biopsies With and Without Rejection (1484) FR Tavora, CI Drachenberg, J Papadimitriou, AP Burke - University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 193 Hypertensive Vasculopathy in Pulmonary Sequestration (1441) JY Hutto, AN Husain - University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL