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


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LIVER & PANCREAS PATHOLOGY



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199 Adequacy of Liver Biopsies: Variability across Different Methods of Specimen Acquisition (1356)
R Abdalian, F Siadat, EJ Heathcote, M Guindi - University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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200 General Pathologist Inter and Intraobserver Variability in Knodell Scoring of Liver Biopsies from Patients with Hepatitis C (1363)
D Azar, N Weidner - University of California, San Diego, CA
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201 Factors Affecting Disease Progression in Chronic Hepatitis C: A Study of 387 Liver Biopsies from 128 Patients (1382)
MC Davies, R Winters, EL Krawitt, TD Trainer, A Elhosseiny - University of Vermont/Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, VT
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202 Hepatitis C: A VAMC Pathology Report (1428)
NM Patil, HX Bui, CL Mendenhall, GA Roselle - VAMC, Cincinnati, OH; U of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
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203 Diabetic Hepatosclerosis: A 10 Year Autopsy Series (1374)
G Chen, EM Brunt - Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO
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204 Hepatic Histopathologic Features of the American Lifestsyle Induced Obesity Syndrome Mouse Model (1370)
EM Brunt, LH Tetri, LM Yerian, BA Neuschwander-Tetri - Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO; Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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205 Variants of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis with Rapidly Progressive Course (1444)
V Tan, C Jimenez, R Merriman, L Ferrell - UCSF, San Francisco, CA; Calif Pacific Med Ctr, San Francisco, CA
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206 Preoperative ALT Levels Are Associated with Centrilobular Fibrosis in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery (1412)
X Liu, AJ Lazenby, R Clements, N Jhala - Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH; University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE; University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
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207 Unexpected Cirrhosis and Vascular Findings in the Gastric Bypass Population: Implications for Pre-Operative Screening (1421)
Z Meriden, N Williams, J Grau, A Burkart, EE Furth - University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
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208 Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Associated with Obesity: Histological Evolution after Bariatric Surgery (1437)
MT Salcedo, V Vargas, MA Montero, S Ramon y Cajal, H Allende - University Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
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209 Ductular Hepatocytes Constitute a Cell Population Different from Oval Cells, Express HNF4a and Contribute to Liver Regeneration in Experimental Acute Liver Failure (1396)
C Kalogeropoulou, I Tsota, P Zabakis, V Tzelepi, T Petsas, A Tsamandas - Patras University, Patras, Greece
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210 The Potential Role of Myofibroblast Presence and Transforming Growth Factor-b1 in Two Different Models of Experimental Cirrhosis (1394)
C Kalogeropoulou, I Tsota, P Zabakis, V Tzelepi, T Petsas, D Kardamakis, A Tsamandas - University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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211 BAX/BCL-2 Ratio and Caspase-3 Expression in Two Different Models of Experimental Cirrhosis (1395)
C Kalogeropoulou, I Tsota, P Zabakis, V Tzelepi, T Petsas, D Kardamakis, A Tsamandas - University of Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
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212 Identification of Serum Markers in Cirrhosis [ndash] A Proteomics Based Approach (1403)
D Koutsogiannis, K Summers, B George, P Marotta, S Chakrabarti - London Health Science Centre and Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada
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213 Pan-Hypopituitarism: An Under-Recognized Cause of Neonatal Giant Cell Hepatitis (1446)
MS Torbenson, AO Scheimann - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
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214 Wilson's Disease: Histopathological Correlations with Treatment (1379)
S Cope-Yokoyama, V Medici, M Rugge, MJ Finegold - Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX; UC Davis, Sacramento, CA; University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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215 ABCB4 Mutation and Intrahepatic Cholestasis: Cholesterol Crystals in Bile Canaliculi (1448)
BE Wagner, SS Strautnieks, J Devlin, A Dhawan, MH Edreessi, RPJ Oude Elferink, RJ Thompson, AS Knisely - Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom; King's College London School of Medicine, London, United Kingdom; King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom; Dhahran Health Center, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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216 Common Variable Immunodeficiency Involving the Liver (1380)
JA Daniels, MS Torbenson, RA Anders, JK Boitnott - Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
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217 Peripheral Liver Histology in Autoimmune Pancreatitis with Sclerosing Cholangitis: Is Percutaneous Liver Biopsy Useful? (1358)
Z Afshar-Ghotli, M Guindi - University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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218 Hepatocellular Adenomas in a US Center: Clinical-Pathologic Correlations Utilizing a Recently Proposed Classification (1405)
R Kumari, BW Pinsky, BR Bacon, EM Brunt - Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
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219 Microvascular Density Image Analysis Using CD34 Staining Reliably Differentiate Well-Differentiated Hepatocellular Carcinoma from Hepatocellular Adenoma (1430)
MJ Pickup, OA Adeyi - University of Toronto / University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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220 Microvessel Density in the Malignant Progression of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Arising from Cirrhotic Liver in Comparison with Those from Non-Cirrhotic Liver (1373)
I Chebib, M Chow, MT Shabani-Rad, J Hart, M Tretiakova, ZH Gao - University of Calgary and Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, AB, Canada; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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221 Analysis of Nucleic Acid Index in Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Dysplastic Nodules, Regenerative Macronodules and Cirrhotic Liver (1385)
A Felipe-Silva, M Quezado, S Garfield, S Wincovitch, V Alves - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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222 Can Hepatocellular Carcinoma Occur in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus in the Absence of Cirrhosis? (1388)
M Guindi - University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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223 Glypican-3 Shows Intermediate Sensitivity between Hepatocyte and Alpha-Fetoprotein: A Tissue Microarray Study of 809 Carcinomas (1441)
SL Simpson, WL Marsh, M Bloomston, S Jones, WL Frankel - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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224 VEGFr2 Expression in Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Adjacent Cirrhotic Liver (1452)
LM Yerian, R Lopez, K Hirose, N Zein, CM Miller, F Aucejo - Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
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225 Expression of a-Methylacyl Coenzyme A Racemase (AMACR/P504S) in Neoplastic and Nonneoplastic Liver Lesions (1409)
W Li, P Cagle, Z Zhang, D Tan - University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX; Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX; The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
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226 DNA DNA Hypermethylation of 43 CpG Island Loci and DNA Hypomethylation of Repetitive Elements in HCC and Their Inter-Relationship and Prognostic Implication (1397)
GH Kang, BH Kim, NY Cho, EJ Yoo, M Choi, JJ Jang, KS Suh - Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Cancer Reserach Institute and Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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227 The Akt Pathway in Angiogenesis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Immunohistochemical Stain Based Analysis (1408)
W Li, D Tan, Z Zhang, RE Brown - University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX; The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Canter, Houston, Houston, TX
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228 Interobserver Variability in Evaluating Vascular Invasion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (1415)
MT Mac, DP Frishberg, D Dhall, X Fan, BL Balzer, J Lennerz, HL Wang - Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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229 Immunohistochemistry for PAX-2 Distinguishes Hepatocellular Carcinomas with Clear-Cell Morphology from Renal Cell Carcinomas (1369)
LW Browne, VO Tan, S Kakar, YY Chen, GE Kim, LD Ferrell - UCSF, San Francisco, CA
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230 KOC, TTF-1 and CDX2 Discriminate Small Cell Carcinoma from Carcinoid and Pancreatic Endocrine Tumor Metastasized to the Liver (1450)
H Xu, AJ Briones, PA Bourne, BO Spaulding, D Lu, R Fischer-Colbrie, Z Qu, HL Wang - University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester; Dako North Ameica, Carpinteria; Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis; Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
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231 Ossifying Desmoplastic Nested Epithelial-Spindle Tumors of the Liver - A Clinicopathologic and Immunohistochemical Study of 8 Cases (1416)
HR Makhlouf, HM Abdul-Al, ZD Goodman - Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC
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