POSTER SESSION I STOWELL-ORBISON/AUTOPSY and SURGICAL PATHOLOGY AWARDS COMPETITION Monday, March 3, 2008   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A Click on the blue numbers in parentheses to display abstracts. Click the button next to any title to add to Itinerary Planner... HEMATOPATHOLOGY Poster# Title and Authors Itinerary Planner 156 Identifying Red Blood Cell Surface Markers Associated with Neocytolysis by Flow Cytometry (1138) Y Chen, K Modi, C Alfrey, L Rice, C-C Chang - The Methodist Hosp. & TMHRI, Houston, TX; Baylor Coll. of Med., Houston, TX; Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; The Methodist Hosp., Houston, TX Add 157 Analysis of DNA Methylation and Histone H3 Trimethylation at Lysine 27 (H3K27me3) in Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) with a Novel Sequential Methylated DNA Immunoprecipitation (SMeDIP) and Sequential Chromatin-Immunoprecipitation (SChIP) Technology: A Pilot Study of Refractory Cytopenia with Multilineage Dysplasia (RCMD) (1140) JX Cheng, J Anastasi, JW Vardiman - U.Chicago, Chicago, IL Add 158 A New Immunostain Algorithm Improves the Classification of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma into Prognostically Significant Subgroups (1144) WWL Choi, DD Weisenburger, TC Greiner, MA Piris, AH Banham, DL Jaye, PA Wade, J Iqbal, CP Hans, K Fu, RD Gascoyne, J Delabie, A Rosenwald, L Rimsza, E Campo, ES Jaffe, LM Staudt, WC Chan - Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; Spanish National Cancer Center, Madrid, Spain; University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Emory University, Atlanta, GA; BCCA, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway; University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; NCI, Bethesda, MD Add 159 Flow Cytometry (FCM) Sorting and Genome-Wide Profiling Using Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) Array To Explore Genetic Lesions in Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) (1147) E Conway, J Hagenkord, C Keever-Taylor, L Novoa-Takara, K Young, C Chang - The Methodist Hosp/TMHRI., Houston, TX; Univ. of Pittsburgh Med. Cent., Pittsburgh, PA; Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Weill Medical Coll. of Cornell Univ., New York, NY Add 160 Comparative Flowcytometric Study on Isolated 5q- and 5q- with Complex Genetic Abnormality: Flow Parameter Expression Level Analysis (1150) V Datta, L Zhang, J Mirocha, MK Hibbard - University of Tennessee, Health Services, Memphis, TN; U S Labs, Irvine, CA; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA Add 161 Defining the Borders of Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma (SMZL) (1155) SD Dufresne, RE Felgar, JR Cook, RL Sargent, SM Gollin, SH Swerdlow - Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland; Univ. of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh Add 162 Atypical Age-Related ("Senile") EBV-Associated B-Cell Lymphoproliferative Disorders (LPDs) (1166) SE Gibson, ED Hsi - The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH Add 163 Do Follicular Lymphomas (FL) with Plasmacytic Differentiation (PCD) Have Characteristic Features? An ImmunoFISH Study (1168) JF Gradowski, ES Jaffe, R Warnke, S Pittaluga, U Surti, L Gole, SH Swerdlow University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Add 164 BCL6 Translocation at the Alternative Breakpoint Region Is Associated with t(14;18)-Negative Follicular Lymphoma (1170) K Gu, BJ Dave, K Fu, J Iqbal, S Jain, WG Sanger, DD Weisenburger, WC Chan - University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE Add 165 The Pattern of CD99 Expression in Pediatric Lymphoid Neoplasms (1171) I Gurevich, SG Williams, J Polzer, M Medina, X Liang - University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO; The Children's Hospital, Denver, Denver, CO Add 166 Expression of Foxp3 and STAT3 in ALK+ and ALK- Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL) (1174) RA Higgins, SR Lampkin, MC Kinney - University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX Add 167 Expression of BMI-1 Is a Poor Prognostic Factor in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (1179) S Hukku, S Almiski, H Vakil, M Kurrer, E Levi - Harper University Hospital, Wayne State University, Detroit; Cantonal Hospital, Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland; John D. Dingell VAMC, Detroit Add 168 Utility of the World Health Organization (WHO) Criteria for Diagnosis of Systemic Mastocytosis in Bone Marrow (1186) MR Johnson, S Verstovsek, J Jorgensen, T Manshouri, R Luthra, D Jones, LJ Medeiros, YO Huh - UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston; UTMDACC, Houston Add 169 Hodgkin Lymphoma-Like PTLD Resembles Monomorphic B-Cell PTLD Both Immunohenotypically and Clinically (1194) S Krishnamurthy, A Hassan, J Frater, F Kreisel - Washington University, St. Louis, MO Add 170 FoxP3+ CD4+ T-Regulatory Cells in Reactive Lymph Nodes from HIV+ and HIV- Patients (1196) MB Levin, MS McLemore, Q Xie, H Ratech - Montefiore Med Ctr/Albert Einstein Coll Med, Bronx, NY Add 171 Analysis of HDM4 Expression, a Key Regulator of p53, in B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas: The HDM4-S Splice mRNA Variant Is Aberrantly Overexpressed in Mantle Cell Lymphoma (1201) M Liang, X Han, M Fernandez, M Nguyen, GZ Rassidakis, I Drakos, LJ Medeiros, CE Bueso-Ramos - University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Add 172 Characterization of Differential microRNA Expression in the Transformation of Follicular Lymphoma to Large B-Cell Lymphoma (1210) SA McClintock-Treep, S Liang, JD Hallock, MP Robinson, MA Thompson - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Add 173 Expression of Grb2 Distinguishes Classical Hodgkin Lymphomas from Primary Mediastinal B-Cell Lymphomas and Other Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphomas (1211) RR Miles, LB Smith, S Ogilvie, J Teruya-Feldstein, ED Hsi, KSJ Elenitoba-Johnson, MS Lim - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH Add 174 The Clinical Utility of PCR-Based Clonality Assessment in Diagnostic Hematopathology (1253) NR Shumaker, GC Bullock, LM Silverman, JB Cousar - University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA Add 175 Phosphorylated STAT3 and Survivin Expression in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) (1260) JY Sung, GY Kim, SJ Lim, S Lee, JH Park, YK Park, YW Kim, JH Lee - College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea Add 176 Phosphorylation Status of the Retinoblastoma Protein Predicts Survival in Follicular Lymphoma (1278) H Vakil, S Hukku, M Raoufi, M Kurrer, A Rishi, J Frank, E Levi - Harper University Hospital, Wayne State University, Detroit; Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit; Cantonal Hospital, Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland; John D. Dingell VAMC, Wayne State University, Detroit Add