Lester J. Layfield

TL;DR: The two-day "live" conference in October, attended by 154 registrants, gave the committees an in-depth opportunity to present their conclusions and debate controversial areas, and the establishment of an on-line educational cytopathology atlas.

TL;DR: A consensus conference on second Opinions in Diagnostic Anatomic Pathology: Who, What, and When John E. Tomaszewski (chair) and Harry D. Bear (chair), and Julia A. Bear, MD, PhD, FACS.

TL;DR: The authors studied a series of 34 specimens with histologically proven GBM by immunohistochemistry for the presence of EGFR overexpression and by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for gene amplification of the EGFR gene to determine which variables were predictive of survival.

TL;DR: The sporadic and VHL disease-associated ELS tumors in this study had normal VHL-mediated HIF-1 regulation, a result ofnormal VHL gene expression in the case of the sporadic ELS tumor.

TL;DR: With routine and special stains, distinction of metastatic carcinoma from a primary neoplasm of the thyroid is achievable, but, to assist with this, clinicians are expected to supply the history of malignancy on the requisition form.