PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, February 13   —  8:00 AM   —  Regency VI


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Section E - LIVER & PANCREAS PATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Julia C. Iezzoni and Charles R. Lassman



8:00 Activated Caspase-3 And Survivin Expression And Cell Proliferation In Hepatocellular Carcinomas And Their Relationship With Disease Outcome (1305)
AC Tsamandas, V Zolota, N Pagoni, T Petsas, C Karatza, CD Scopa - University of Patras School of Medicine, Patras, Greece
8:15 Immunostains of Clusterin and Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen Help Distinguish Benign from Malignant Liver Nodules (1256)
ZM Chen, MQ Zhang, KG Crone, HL Wang - Washington University, St. Louis, MO
8:30 Vasculogenic Mimicry is Associated with Shorter Survival in Hepatocellular Carcinomas (1302)
BC Sun, SW Zhang, XL Zhao, XS Hao - Tianjin Cancer Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
8:45 Clinicopathologic Review Of Transplant Patients With Adenocarcinoma Of The Biliary System. (1289)
RE Nakhleh, M Krishna, DM Harnois - St Luke's Hospital/Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
9:00 Bile Duct Dysplasia In The Setting Of Chronic Hepatitis C Infection (1303)
M Torbenson, MM Yeh, SC Abraham - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
9:15 Characterization Of Biliary Dysplasia And Metaplasia In Liver Explants Removed For Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (1281)
JT Lewis, JA Talwalkar, TC Smyrk, SC Abraham - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
9:30 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION I
11:00 Hepatic Progenitor Cell Activation And Periportal Ductular Reaction Presence, In Chronic Hepatitis C. Correlation With Disease Severity, Impaired Hepatocyte Replication And Response To Treatment. (1306)
AC Tsamandas, I Syrokosta, D Dimitropoulou, T Kourelis, C Gogos - Univ of Patras, Greece
11:15 Total Parenteral Nutrition Therapy And Liver Injury In Infants And Adults, A Comparative Study. (1288)
BV Naini, CR Lassman - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
11:30 Long Term Histological And Clinical Follow-Up Of Anti-Mitochondrial Antibody (AMA) Positive Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH): Another Variant Of Autoimmune Hepatitis Or A Well Controlled Overlap Syndrome? (1269)
S Joshi, M Guindi, JJ Feld, HP Diennes, A Lohse, EJ Heatchote - Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga, ON, Canada; University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; NIH, Bethesda, MD; University of Cologne, Germany
11:45 Immunohistochemical Expression Of Vitamin D Receptor In Steatosis And Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis. (1252)
LK Campbell, T Troy, W Liu, M Tretiakova, S Mohanty, J Hart - University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL