POSTER SESSION I STOWELL-ORBISON/AUTOPSY and SURGICAL PATHOLOGY AWARDS COMPETITION Monday, March 9, 2009   —  9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Hynes Convention Center, Hall C/D 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 92 Notch Overexpression in Colorectal Adenocarcinoma (565) JD Choate, KA Robstad, MN Donovan, MA DiMaio, CE Sheehan, JS Ross, DM Jones - Albany Medical College, Albany, NY Add 93 Down-Regulation of RKIP Predicts a Worse Outcome in Dukes B Colorectal Carcinoma. Is This Down-Regulation Due to Hypermethylation? (572) B Doyle, S Hagan, L Scott, J O'Sullivan, HE Mulcahy, K Sheehan, W Kolch - Beatson Institute for Cancer Research and University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom; St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland Add 94 Up-Regulation of REG g Is Associated with Human Gastric Adenocarcinoma: A Study of 216 Cases (577) W Feng, CD Truong, RE Brown, X Duan, W Li, J Xiao, K Xie, D Tan - The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX Add 95 CDK8 Expression Is Associated with b -Catenin Activation and Poor Outcome in Colon Cancer (578) R Firestein, K Shima, K Nosho, S Kure, N Irahara, E Bojarski, GJ Kirkner, WC Hahn, EL Giovannucci, CS Fuchs, S Ogino - Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA Add 96 Simplified Staging for Extrahepatic Bile Duct Carcinoma (596) S-M Hong, TM Pawlik, H Cho, B Aggarwal, M Goggins, RA Anders - Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD; Korea University, Seoul, Korea Add 97 Expression Pattern of LGR5, a Recently Described Intestinal Stem Cell Marker, in Human Duodenum and Duodenal Adenomas (599) AC Iuga, G Levi, M Sabour, V Ghali, N Theise - St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center and Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY Add 98 High-Level Expression of HSP90 Is an Independent Prognostic Factor Predicting Recurrence in Intermediate and High-Risk Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (602) GH Kang, DY Kang, KM Kim, CK Park - Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea; Chung Nam National University, Daejeon, Korea Add 99 TFF-3 as an Early Biomarker of Neoplasia in Ulcerative Colitis (613) KK Lai, R Chen, TA Brentnall, MP Bronner - Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; University of Washington, Seattle, WA Add 100 Cytochrome C Oxidase-I Deficient Foci in Ulcerative Colitis: A Novel Surrogate Biomarker of Early Carcinogenesis (627) HS McElligott, J Liao, MS Rao, GY Yang - Northwestern University, Chicago, IL Add 101 Focal Duodenal Intraepithelial Lymphocytosis and Underlying Lymphoid Aggregates: The Utility of Deeper Histologic Sections (635) RM Najarian, D Leffler, JD Goldsmith - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Add 102 Modified Marsh Grade 2 Change in Duodenal Biopsies Is as Suggestive of Serological Positivity in Celiac Disease as Are Higher Grades (649) A Patel, D Bradly, M McIntire, D Giusto, S Jakate - Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL Add 103 Role of Antigen Presenting Cells in the Pathogenesis of Adult Eosinophilic Esophagitis - A Single Institutional Study of 285 Patients (651) DT Patil, J Liao, N Gonsalves, I Hirano, MS Rao, GY Yang - Northwestern University, Chicago, IL Add 104 Sessile Serrated Adenoma: Do Clinicians Understand the Concept and Manage Patients Appropriately? (653) JR Pettus, L Butterly, GY Lauwers, A Srivastava - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA Add 105 Frequent Loss of Heterozygosity of a DNA Repair Gene, hOGG1, in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (655) DC Phan, CM Quick, H Zhang, L Gilbrech, SA Schichman, BR Smoller, LW Lamps, CY Fan - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR; John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital, Little Rock, AR Add 106 Overexpression of Notch-1 Correlates with Grade, Stage and Overall Survival in Colorectal Adenocarcinoma (658) KA Robstad, JD Choate, MN Donovan, MA DiMaio, CE Sheehan, JS Ross - Albany Medical College, Albany, NY Add 107 The Type of Host Inflammatory Immune Response Predicts Survival in EBV-Associated Gastric Carcinomas: A Multivariate Analyses of 109 Cases (667) HJ Song, JH Noh, M Joo, KT Jang, CK Park, KM Kim - Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Add 108 Cadherin Expression in Gastrointestinal Tract Endometriosis: Possible Role in Deep Tissue Invasion and Development of Malignancy (679) KE Van Patten, V Parkash, D Jain - Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT Add