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... GASTROINTESTINAL PATHOLOGY Poster# Title and Authors Itinerary Planner 87 Application of a Global Proteomic Approach to Archival Precursor Lesions: Upregulation of DMBT-1 and TG2 in Pancreatic Cancer Precursors (524) WL Cheung, DB Krizman, H Alvarez, BL Hood, MM Darfler, TD Veenstra, J Mollenhauer, N Habbe, G Feldman, A Maitra - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Expression Path Incorporated, Gaithersburg, MD; NCI, Frederick, MD; Deutschen Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany Add 88 Overexpression of GADD 45± in Colorectal Adenocarcinoma (525) JD Choate, DM Jones, CE Sheehan, JS Ross - Albany Medical College Mail Code 81, Albany, NY Add 89 Selective Internal Radiation Therapy-Induced Extrahepatic Injury: An Emerging Cause of Iatrogenic Organ Damage (530) CD Crowder, C Grabowski, S Inampudi, T Sielaff, C Sherman, KP Batts - Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Abbott Northwestern Hospital (ANW), Minneapolis; ANW, Minneapolis; Virginia Piper Cancer Institute at ANW, Minneapolis; Minnesota Gastroenterology, P.A., Minneapolis Add 90 Isolated Asymptomatic Ileitis Does Not Progress to Crohn's Disease Despite Presence of Features of Chronicity in Ileal Biopsies (537) EL Fingar, T Vay, A Wilcox, C Siegel, AA Suriawinata, A Srivastava - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH Add 91 Differences in Pediatric and Adult Granulomatous Gastritis: A Clinicopathological Analysis of 40 Patients (547) A Goodier, N Siddaiah, J Cespedes, M Nowicki, P Bishop, SA Bigler, C Subramony - University of Nississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS; G.V.Montgomery VA Medical Center, Jackson, MS Add 92 High-Grade Squamous Dysplasia with Partial Mucosal Thickness Involvement (PTI): A Common Precursor Lesion of Invasive Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus (549) P Goyal, SE Pambuccian, CD Crowder, MY Ngae, C Iwamoto, J Jessurun - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN Add 93 Helicobacter pylori Infection in the Stomach: Is This an Invasive Organism? (566) CS Knight, NC Jhala - University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL Add 94 Histopathologic Features and Clinical Correlates of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (570) PJ Lappinga, SC Abraham, JA Murray, EA Vetter, R Patel, TT Wu - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Add 95 Tissue Polarity Protein Lgl2 Is Specific for Gastric Epithelium and Is Lost in Gastric Dysplasia and Carcinoma (576) M Lisovsky, K Dresser, B Banner - UMassMemorial Medical Center, Worcester Add 96 Diagnostic Utility of WT1 Immunostaining in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (588) H Miyamoto, PA Bourne, Z Qu, JL Yao, HL Wang, H Xu - University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA Add 97 Cox-2 Is a Valuable Prognostic Marker in Gastric Carcinoma and Is Not Associated with EBV Infection (595) ES Park, KT Jang, KM Kim, MJ Kim, DY Kang, CK Park - Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea Add 98 A Large Cohort of 270 Eosinophilic Esophagitis Cases - A Single Institutional Study of Distinct Morphologic Features, Classification Consideration and Clinical Correlation (596) DT Patil, N Gonsalves, I Hirano, MS Rao, G-Y Yang - Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Add 99 Genomic Instability in Non-Dysplastic Intestinal Biopsies Distinguishes Crohn's Disease (CD) Neoplastic Progressors from Non-Progressors Using Illumina 300K SNP Array Analysis (601) TL Pua, LA Lai, B-I Lee, M Settle, LM Yerian, AE Bennett, TA Brentnall, PS Rabinovitch, MP Bronner - Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; University of Washington, Seattle, WA Add 100 Thrombotic Microangiopathy of the Gastrointestinal Tract (604) SH Ra, S Dry, CR Lassman - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Add 101 Inverted Hyperplastic Polyp of the Colon: A Hitherto Unrecognized Pitfall in the Diagnosis of Sessile Serrated Adenoma (609) CR Rund, SR Owens, SF Kuan - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA Add 102 Alpha-Methylacyl-CoA Racemase (AMACR) Is Upregulated in Gastric Cancer: A Study of 220 Cases (624) CD Truong, W Li, W Feng, P Cagle, T Khoury, S Alrawi, K Xia, J Yao, D Tan - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; UT Health Science Center in Houston, Houston, TX; The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY; UF at Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL Add 103 Utility of Alpha-Methylacyl-CoA-Racemase (AMACR) Immunohistochemical Expression in Distinguishing Dysplasia from Adenoma in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (636) M Westerhoff, B Yan, M Tretiakova, J Hart, A Noffsinger - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Add 104 Human Papillomavirus (HPV) 16 and 18 in Anal Intraepithelial Neoplasia (AIN) and Anal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) Detected in Tissue Biopsies (639) AK Wong, RC Chan, WS Nichols, S Bose - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA Add 105 Nuclear Beta-Catenin Labeling Implicates Perturbations of Wnt Signaling in the Pathogenesis of Some Sessile Serrated Adenomas (640) JM Wu, CA Iacobuzio-Donahue - Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD Add