POSTER SESSION V
Wednesday, March 5, 2008   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon
Convention Center Exhibit Hall A


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GASTROINTESTINAL PATHOLOGY



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76 Lymphocytic Esophagitis in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Manifestation of Upper Gastrointestinal Crohn Disease (629)
AD Vanderheyden, J Ellison, D Ebach, CS Jensen - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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77 Immunohistochemical Demonstration of Esophageal Dilated Intercellular Spaces in Squamous Mucosa (605)
RH Riddell, S McDonald, R White, C Yang, D Armstrong - Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; Astra-Zenica, Mississauga, ON, Canada; McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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78 Practical Utility of Mucosal Eotaxin-3 mRNA Expression Levels in Diagnostically Challenging Cases of Reflux/Eosinophilic Esophagitis (513)
B Bhattacharya, J Goldsmith, P Meitner, E Sabo, S Mangray, D Treaba, M Resnick - Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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79 Slouging Esophagitis: A Type of Contact Esophageal Injury in Debilitated Patients? (602)
JK Purdy, HD Appelman, BJ McKenna - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
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80 Prevalence of Helicobacter Infection in Biopsies Taken from the Gastroesophageal Junction Only for the Evaluation of Reflux (542)
J Gao, B Winn, G Bailey, S Mangray, D Treaba, M Resnick, B Bhattacharya - Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI
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81 Predictive Value of Mitosin and CDC2 Expression in the Development of Adenocarcinoma in Barrett's Esophagus (527)
D Coco, Q Huang, RD Odze - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Boston VA Healthcare System, Boston, MA
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82 Heparanase Induction in Barrett's Mucosa and during Esophageal Carcinoma Progression (591)
I Naroditsky, R Brun, O Ben-Izhak, G Groisman, N Ilan, I Vlodavsky - Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Hillel-Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel; Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel
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83 Non-Adenomatous Dysplasia in Barrett's Esophagus: A Clinical, Pathologic and Molecular Study (608)
RL Rucker-Schmidt, CA Sanchez, PL Blount, K Ayub, X Li, PS Rabinovitch, BJ Reid, RD Odze - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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84 Evaluations of Diagnostic Markers of Dysplasia in Endoscopic Mucosal Resections of Barretts Mucosa (635)
C Weber, L Campbell, C McBride, M Tretiakova, C Gong, A Ross, I Waxman, H Schmidt, M Posner, A Noffsinger, J Hart - The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
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85 Expression of MUC-6, Gastric (Sox-2) and Intestinal (Cdx-2) Transcription Factors in Long Segment Barrett's Esophagus: A Complex Interplay at the Neo-Squamocolumnar Junction (552)
M Gupta, M Mino-Kenudson, GY Lauwers, A Srivastava - Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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86 Microarray Gene Expression Analysis of High Grade Dysplasia in Barrett Esophagus (611)
E Sabo, T Meitner, SF Moss, J Gao, R Tavares, CL Corless, GY Lauwers, MB Resnick - Warren Alpert Brown University Medical School, Providence, RI; Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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87 The Effect of Tumor Characteristics and Duplication of the Muscularis Mucosae on Endoscopic Staging in Barrett Esophagus Related Neoplasia (582)
RV Mandal, M Mino-Kenudson, GY Lauwers - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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88 Event Rate over a 15-Year Period in a Regional Veteran Affairs Barrett's Cohort without Baseline Dysplasia (531)
KK Dunning, BR Lindgren, MS Sawhney, S Askari - U of Minnesota Med. Ctr., Minneapolis; Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Ctr., Boston; VAMC, Minneapolis
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89 Expression of Phosphatase Regenerating Liver -1 and -3 Proteins in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (577)
YQ Liu, HX Li, K Guo, X Lou, J Wang, JY Lei - The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China; Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Proteos, Singapore; Cblpath, Rye Brook, NY
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90 Investigation of the Molecular Mechanism of Esophageal Basaloid Squamous Cell Carcinoma (512)
AM Bellizzi, RL Woodford, EB Stelow - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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91 Clinicopathologic Features and Prognosis of High-Grade Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of Esophagus (584)
DM Maru, H Khurana, AM Correa, SG Swisher, JA Ajani, A Rashid, WL Hofstetter - M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX
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92 Paget Cells in the Esophagus: Assessment of Their Histopathologic Features and Near-Universal Association with Underlying Adenocarcinoma (508)
SC Abraham, H Wang, KK Wang, T-T Wu - MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
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93 DNA Repair Proteins MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, and MGMT in 495 Gastric and Esophageal Adenocarcinomas (540)
E Fukuda, MD Begnami, JH Fregnani, EM Silva, FA Soares, RA Coudry, FA Soares - Hospital A C Camargo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; Santa Casa, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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94 Glucose Transporter-1 Expression & PET-CT-SUVmax in Esophageal Carcinomas (618)
PW Smith, WK Brix, KA Atkins, BD Kozower, DR Jones, MR Wick - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
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95 Morphologic Alterations of Esophageal Carcinomas Post Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Therapy (631)
B Wang, WJ Hunter, C Bewtra - Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE
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96 Surface SMAD4 Protein Expression in Hyperplastic Polyps of the Stomach (567)
B Kraemer, NC Jhala - University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
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97 Immunohistochemical and Molecular Evaluation of Gastric "Hyperplastic" Polyps (534)
JS Estrella, PA Chadwick, Y-T Chen, RK Yantiss - Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
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98 Expression of Cell Cycle Proteins p53, p21, p27, p14 and p16 and Proliferation Index Ki67 in Gastric Carcinomas (649)
V Zolota, A Liava, V Tzelepi, P Tsiamalos, K Vagenas, C Scopa, A Tsamandas - Patras University, Patras, Greece
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99 Expression of CDX2 and Ets-1 Closely Correlated with Patients' Survival in Gastric Adenocarcinoma (573)
MJ Lee, GW Yu, HJ Jeon, CH Suh, QJ Zhai, AG Ayala, JY Ro - College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea; The Methodist Hospital and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Houston, TX
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100 Thyroid Transcription Factor 1 Is Not Expressed in Gastric Adenocarcinoma: A Study of 220 Cases (536)
W Feng, CD Truong, W Li, T Khoury, S Alrawi, K Xia, J Yao, D Tan - M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX; Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY; UF at Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
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101 Characteristics of Epstein-Barr Virus - Associated Gastric Cancer: 20-Year Experience in a Single Medical Center (625)
CD Truong, W Feng, W Li, T Khoury, S Alwari, K Xia, J Yao, D Tan - M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; UT Health Science Center, Houston, TX; Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY; UF at Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
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102 Post Transcriptional Regulation of Cellular Prion Protein in Pancreatic and Gastric Adenocarcinomas (598)
AA Petrolla, J Xu, L Zhou, W Xin - University Hospital Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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103 t(11;18)(q21;q21) in Gastric Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphoma: A Molecular, Immunohistochemical and Histological Study of 65 Cases (632)
GH Wang, MQ Wei, N Dow, A Auerbach, L Hodge, J Przybocki, D Schaffer, N Aguilera, LH Sobin - Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC
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104 Immunohistochemical Classification of Primary Gastrointestinal Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphomas (587)
KA Mitchell, SR Owens - University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
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105 Difficulty in Predicting Behavior of Small Bowel Carcinoid Tumors: Neither ki-67 Index nor Coronin 1C Staining Aids in Forecasting Outcome (616)
CS Sigel, MS Waugh, JE Bear, KE Volmar - UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; Duke University, Durham, NC
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106 Appendiceal Mixed Carcinoid-Adenocarcinomas Share Better Prognosis Associated with Goblet Cell Carcinoid Tumors (620)
MW Taggart, H Wang, DM Maru, D Tan, A Rashid - University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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107 Thymidylate Synthase Expression in Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Correlates with the Grade of Malignancy (594)
ZG Pan, P Sharma, B Loggie, Z Gatalica - Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE
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108 Lymphangiomas in the Gastrointestinal Tract: A Comparison between Adults and Children (578)
KA Lloyd, RP Kapur, PE Swanson, MP Upton, MM Yeh - University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA
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109 Fibroblastic Polyps of the Colon and Colonic Perineuriomas: Two Names for a Single Entity (551)
GM Groisman, S Polak-Charcon - Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, Israel; Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
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110 Neural Tumors of the Gastrointestinal Tract: A Case Series of 59 Tumors (517)
MA Burtelow, JK McKenney, RV Rouse, LW Lamps, TA Longacre - Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA; UAMS, Little Rock, AR; Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, CA
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111 True Smooth Muscle Tumors of the Jejunum and Ileum - A Clinicopathologic Study of 32 Cases (586)
M Miettinen, LH Sobin, J Lasota - Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC
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112 Rare High Grade Sarcoma Arising in or near the Gastrointestinal Tract May Mimic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Histologically and Immunohistochemically (529)
ME Costaldi, FW Abdul-Karim, W Xin, CM Listinsky, WW Liu - Case Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
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113 Coexisting C-KIT and PDGFRA Mutations in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (559)
M Jimeno, L Martinez, L Sanchez-Cid, S Mojal, N Juanpere, P Garcia, T Baro, T Ribalta, S Serrano, B Bellosillo, J Lloreta - Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain; Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; UAB, Barcelona, Spain; IMIM, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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114 Clinicopathologic Study of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors from a Single Institution with Emphasis on Prognostic Stratification Based on the National Institute of Health Consensus Criteria (543)
R Ghai, S Yong, K Oshima, L Horvath, R Hammadeh, GP Paner - Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
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