Joseph T Rabban

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Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Ovarian pathology in risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomies from women with BRCA mutations, emphasizing the differential diagnosis of occult primary and metastatic carcinoma
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California, M 551 San Francisco, California 94143, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 33:1125-36. 2009
  2. ncbi Primary ovarian carcinoid tumors may express CDX-2: a potential pitfall in distinction from metastatic intestinal carcinoid tumors involving the ovary
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
    Int J Gynecol Pathol 28:41-8. 2009
  3. ncbi Pure and predominantly pure intralymphatic breast carcinoma after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: an unusual and adverse pattern of residual disease
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 33:256-63. 2009
  4. ncbi Transitional cell metaplasia of fallopian tube fimbriae: a potential mimic of early tubal carcinoma in risk reduction salpingo-oophorectomies from women With BRCA mutations
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, Cancer Risk Program, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 33:111-9. 2009
  5. ncbi Multistep level sections to detect occult fallopian tube carcinoma in risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomies from women with BRCA mutations: implications for defining an optimal specimen dissection protocol
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 33:1878-85. 2009
  6. ncbi PAX2 distinguishes benign mesonephric and mullerian glandular lesions of the cervix from endocervical adenocarcinoma, including minimal deviation adenocarcinoma
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, M 551, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 34:137-46. 2010
  7. ncbi D2-40 expression by breast myoepithelium: potential pitfalls in distinguishing intralymphatic carcinoma from in situ carcinoma
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Hum Pathol 39:175-83. 2008
  8. ncbi Synchronous ovarian granulosa cell tumor and uterine serous carcinoma: a rare association of a high-risk endometrial cancer with anestrogenic ovarian tumor
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Gynecol Oncol 103:1164-8. 2006
  9. ncbi HMGA2 rearrangement in a case of vulvar aggressive angiomyxoma
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, 94193, USA
    Int J Gynecol Pathol 25:403-7. 2006
  10. ncbi Immunophenotypic overlap between adenoid cystic carcinoma and collagenous spherulosis of the breast: potential diagnostic pitfalls using myoepithelial markers
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Mod Pathol 19:1351-7. 2006

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  1. ncbi Ovarian pathology in risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomies from women with BRCA mutations, emphasizing the differential diagnosis of occult primary and metastatic carcinoma
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California, M 551 San Francisco, California 94143, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 33:1125-36. 2009
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  2. ncbi Primary ovarian carcinoid tumors may express CDX-2: a potential pitfall in distinction from metastatic intestinal carcinoid tumors involving the ovary
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
    Int J Gynecol Pathol 28:41-8. 2009
    ....
  3. ncbi Pure and predominantly pure intralymphatic breast carcinoma after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: an unusual and adverse pattern of residual disease
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 33:256-63. 2009
    ..D2-40 immunostaining is useful in this setting. Current staging criteria should be clarified to define whether extensive intralymphatic tumor should be incorporated in tumor stage assignment...
  4. ncbi Transitional cell metaplasia of fallopian tube fimbriae: a potential mimic of early tubal carcinoma in risk reduction salpingo-oophorectomies from women With BRCA mutations
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, Cancer Risk Program, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 33:111-9. 2009
    ..This study demonstrates that transitional cell metaplasia of the fimbriae is a common benign finding in RRSO specimens that should not be confused with the much less common finding of tubal intraepithelial carcinoma...
  5. ncbi Multistep level sections to detect occult fallopian tube carcinoma in risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomies from women with BRCA mutations: implications for defining an optimal specimen dissection protocol
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 33:1878-85. 2009
    ..Guidelines for evaluation of RRSO specimens should emphasize the use of an optimal dissection protocol and the importance of thin tissue slice intervals...
  6. ncbi PAX2 distinguishes benign mesonephric and mullerian glandular lesions of the cervix from endocervical adenocarcinoma, including minimal deviation adenocarcinoma
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, M 551, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 34:137-46. 2010
    ..001); however, PAX2 should not be interpreted in isolation from the architectural and cytologic features of the lesion as it may be expressed in some stage II endometrial adenocarcinomas involving the cervix...
  7. ncbi D2-40 expression by breast myoepithelium: potential pitfalls in distinguishing intralymphatic carcinoma from in situ carcinoma
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Hum Pathol 39:175-83. 2008
    ..We recommend that myoepithelial markers be used in conjunction with D2-40 to distinguish solid intralymphatic tumor emboli from solid pattern in situ carcinoma...
  8. ncbi Synchronous ovarian granulosa cell tumor and uterine serous carcinoma: a rare association of a high-risk endometrial cancer with anestrogenic ovarian tumor
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Gynecol Oncol 103:1164-8. 2006
    ..The endometrial carcinoma is thought to occur under the influence of the estrogen receptor pathway and is typically a low-grade, low-stage endometrioid adenocarcinoma...
  9. ncbi HMGA2 rearrangement in a case of vulvar aggressive angiomyxoma
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, 94193, USA
    Int J Gynecol Pathol 25:403-7. 2006
    ..HMGA2 involvement has also been described in a variety of benign gynecologic mesenchymal neoplasms. We report an additional case of HMGA2 rearrangement in vulvar aggressive angiomyxoma, using fluorescence in situ hybridization...
  10. ncbi Immunophenotypic overlap between adenoid cystic carcinoma and collagenous spherulosis of the breast: potential diagnostic pitfalls using myoepithelial markers
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Mod Pathol 19:1351-7. 2006
    ..Reliance on p63 or smooth muscle actin alone poses a potential diagnostic pitfall in evaluating cribriform breast lesions...
  11. ncbi Correlation of macroscopic and microscopic pathology in risk reducing salpingo-oophorectomy: implications for intraoperative specimen evaluation
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94313, USA
    Gynecol Oncol 121:466-71. 2011
    ..The aim of this study was to correlate the macroscopic and microscopic pathologic findings in RRSO...
  12. ncbi Solid papillary ductal carcinoma in situ versus usual ductal hyperplasia in the breast: a potentially difficult distinction resolved by cytokeratin 5/6
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Hum Pathol 37:787-93. 2006
    ..Pathologists must guard against misinterpreting SP-DCIS as UDH in those cases in which the carcinoma cells engulf cytokeratin 5/6-expressing residual, native epithelial cells...
  13. ncbi COMT polymorphisms affecting protein expression are risk factors for endometrial cancer
    Hiroshi Hirata
    Department of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94121, USA
    Mol Carcinog 47:768-74. 2008
    ..This is the first study demonstrating that polymorphisms in COMT codon 62 and codon 158 altered protein expression levels in EC, suggesting that they may be risk factors for EC in Caucasians...
  14. ncbi Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) in BRCA mutation carriers: experience with a consecutive series of 111 patients using a standardized surgical-pathological protocol
    C Bethan Powell
    Cancer Risk Program, Department of Pathology, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
    Int J Gynecol Cancer 21:846-51. 2011
    ..We report outcomes in 111 consecutive BRCA-positive women who had RRSO using a rigorous surgical-pathological protocol from 1996 to 2008...
  15. ncbi Decidualized endometrioma during pregnancy: recognizing an imaging mimic of ovarian malignancy
    Liina Poder
    Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0628, USA
    J Comput Assist Tomogr 32:555-8. 2008
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  16. ncbi Squamous metaplasia of the ovarian surface epithelium and subsurface fibrosis: distinctive pathologic findings in the ovaries and fallopian tubes of patients on peritoneal dialysis
    Elizabeth M Hosfield
    Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
    Int J Gynecol Pathol 27:465-74. 2008
    ..Dialysis-associated changes involving the ovary and fallopian tube form a mechanical barrier that could contribute to the low rate of fertility in peritoneal dialysis patients...
  17. ncbi Superficial endometrial spread of squamous cell cervical carcinoma: a diagnostic challenge at magnetic resonance imaging
    Felix Adler
    Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0628, USA
    J Comput Assist Tomogr 31:247-50. 2007
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  18. ncbi Minimal uterine serous carcinoma: current concepts in diagnosis and prognosis
    Joseph T Rabban
    University of California San Francisco, Department of Anatomic Pathology, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Pathology 39:125-33. 2007
    ..We review the diagnostic criteria for minimal USC, pitfalls in the differential diagnosis, and discuss a practical approach to evaluating biopsies, polypectomies, or hysterectomies containing minimal USC...
  19. ncbi Ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinoma: incidence and clinical significance of the morphologic and immunohistochemical markers of mismatch repair protein defects and tumor microsatellite instability
    Anıl Aysal
    Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 36:163-72. 2012
    ..Thus, in patients with ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinoma who undergo uterus-sparing surgery, abnormal MMR/MSI should prompt further diagnostic evaluation of the endometrium for tumor...
  20. ncbi CYP1A1, SULT1A1, and SULT1E1 polymorphisms are risk factors for endometrial cancer susceptibility
    Hiroshi Hirata
    Department of Urology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
    Cancer 112:1964-73. 2008
    ..The authors hypothesized that single nucleotide polymorphisms (single nucleotide polymorphisms) of CYP1A1, CYP1A2, CYP1B1, CYP17, SULT1A1, SULT1E1, and SHBG genes may be risk factors for endometrial cancer...
  21. ncbi Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the uterus: a clinicopathologic study of 6 cases emphasizing distinction from aggressive mesenchymal tumors
    Joseph T Rabban
    Department of Anatomic Pathology, University of California-San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    Am J Surg Pathol 29:1348-55. 2005
    ..ALK expression appears to be of diagnostic value in conjunction with other immunohistochemical stains...
  22. ncbi Current issues in the pathology of ovarian cancer
    Joseph T Rabban
    Gillette Center in Women's Cancer Pathology and Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
    J Reprod Med 50:467-74. 2005
    ..Special processing of the pathologic specimens is required to detect early and minimal neoplasia in this setting. These current issues in the pathology of ovarian carcinoma and their clinical significance form the basis of this review...
  23. ncbi Sclerosing lesions of the breast
    Joseph T Rabban
    James Homer Wright Pathology Laboratories, Molecular Pathology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 149 13th St, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
    Semin Diagn Pathol 21:42-7. 2004
    ..Important diagnostic features of these lesions are highlighted and contrasted with those of invasive carcinoma...