PROFFERED PAPERS
Monday, March 24   —  1:00 PM   —  Virginia Suite


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Section G - CYTOPATHOLOGY
Chaired by: Sana Tabbara and Martha Pitman



1:00 Diagnostic Efficacy of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of Low Suspicion Breast Lesions Detected with Ultrasound (317)
L Kiss, S Chung, T Kolb, M Vazquez
Weill Cornell Medical College, NY, NY; Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, NY, NY
1:15 Role of Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy of Indeterminate and Suspicious Axillary Lymph Nodes in the Management of Breast Carcinoma (371)
W Sun, D Bedi, P Dempsey, S Krishnamurthy
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
1:30 The Usefulness of Cytogenetic Analysis in Fine Needle Aspirates for Histologic Subtyping of Sarcomas (316)
SE Kilpatrick, S Bergman, MJ Pettenati, ML Gulley
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC
1:45 Hyalinizing Trabecular Adenoma of the Thyroid Gland: Identification through MIB-1 Staining of Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy Specimens in 23 Cases (266)
MB Casey, TJ Sebo, JA Carney
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
2:00 Atypical Thyroid Cyst Lining Cells: A Pitfall for the FNA Diagnosis of Cystic Thyroid Lesions (282)
WC Faquin, ES Cibas, AA Renshaw
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Baptist Hospital of Miami, Miami, FL
2:15 MUC 1Expression in Diagnosing Pancreatic Ductal Carcinoma Obtained by Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (270)
DC Chhieng, E Benson, IA Eltoum, MA Eloubeidi, NC Jhala, D Jhala, GP Siegal, WE Grizzle, U Manne
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
2:30 Rapid Detection of the t(11;14) Translocation in Mantle Cell Lymphoma by Two-Color Interphase Flourescence In Situ Hybridization on Archival Cytopathologic Material (258)
JS Bentz, LR Rowe, SR Anderson, PK Gupta, CM McGrath
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Associated Regional and University Pathologists (ARUP) Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2:45 Open Biopsy of Lymphomas Primarily Diagnosed by Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB): How Much Additional Information Is Gained? (337)
WA Mourad, S Al Omran, M Shoukri, A Tulbah
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
3:00 RECESS, EXHIBITS, POSTER SESSION II
4:30 NATHAN KAUFMAN TIMELY TOPICS LECTURE
Dr. Irving L. Weissman
Stem Cell Biology: Past, Present and Future
Marriott Ballroom