Fourteen abstracts from Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology faculty, residents and fellows have been accepted for the 109th United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting, Feb. 29 – Mar. 5, 2020 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. They are as follows:

Hira Yousaf,  Khalid Amin, Tetyana Mettler, Jimmie Stewart

Measuring The Utility of Telecytology in Rapid Onsite Evaluation: Preliminary Diagnosis and Adequacy of Lymph nodes Cytology Collected by EUS and EBUS Guided Needle Aspiration. 

Hira Yousaf, Tetyana Mettler,  Khalid Amin, Jimmie Stewart

Measuring The Utility of Telecytology in Rapid Onsite Evaluation: Preliminary Diagnosis and Adequacy of Liver and Pancreatic Lesional Cytology Collected by Endoscopic Ultrasound Guided Needle Aspiration

Hira Yousaf, Andrew B Stone, Abdul Hanan, Tetyana Mettler, Khalid Amin, Jimmie Stewart

Measuring The Utility of Telecytology in Rapid Onsite Evaluation: Preliminary Diagnosis and Adequacy of Cytology Specimens Collected by EUS and EBUS Guided Needle Aspiration

Kimmie M. Rabe, Sayak Ghatak, Irina Stout, Britt Erickson, Mahmoud A. Khalifa

Nodal Metastasis Detection in Endometrial Carcinoma with Microcystic, Elongated, and Fragmented Pattern is Markedly Increased by Cytokeratin Immunostaining

Kimmie M. Rabe, Todd P. Knutson, Ryan Shanley, Colleen L. Forster, Molly E. Klein, Andrew C. Nelson 

Immuno-Oncology Biomarker Expression in Breast Cancer by mRNA-Nanostring and Protein-IHC Analysis

Sayak Ghatak, Kimmie M. Rabe, Irina Stout, Mahmoud A. Khalifa 

Digital Image Analysis to Detect Isolated Tumor Cells Positive Lymph Nodes

Aimi Toyama, Yan Zhou, Paari Murugan, Faqian Li, Lihong Bu

Differential expression of PRAME in testicular germ cell tumors

Aastha Chauhan, Tetyana Mettler, Rupendra Shrestha, Maria Evasovich, Lynn Burmeister, Jimmie Stewart, Khalid Amin

Utility of Afirma gene expression classifier in managing thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology: A two year institutional experience

Susan E. Harley, Pawel Mroz, Sophia Yohe, Matt Schomaker, Robyn Kincaid, Stephen Michel, Bradley Johnson, Faqian Li; and Andrew C. Nelson

Correlation of PDL1 Expression with Genomic Alterations in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: a 7-month retrospective analysis 

Mónica Sánchez-Ávila, Aastha Chauhan, Dale Snover

Goblet Cell Rich Hyperplastic Polyps of The Right Colon: A Common but Previously Underreported Entity of Uncertain Clinical Significance

Aastha Chauhan, Mónica Sánchez-Ávila, Dale Snover

Obliterative venopathy-like changes in routine liver biopsies without known portal hypertension

Yan Zhou, Kyu young Song, Alessio Giubellino.

Multiple Spitz Nevi: A Unique Entity with Diverse Pathologic Features 

Yan Zhou, Emilian Racila.

Correlation between Coronary Angiography and Autopsy Findings in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

David Dorfman, Christine Bashleben, Jolene Cardinali, Meghan Hupp, William Karlon, Michael Keeney, Catherine Leith, Claire Murphy, Vinodh Pillai, Flavia Rosado, Adam Seegmiller, Michael Linden. 

A new proficiency testing program for the flow cytometric analysis of plasma cell neoplasms: design and preliminary results. 

Justin Bateman, Oyedele Adeyi

Delayed Liver Graft Injury: An Analysis of Process, Pattern, and Clinical Implications

Justin Bateman, R Gonzales, Oyedele Adeyi

Clinicopathologic Comparison of Primary and Metastatic Leiomyosarcoma in the Liver