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A comparative study of 200 head and neck FNAs performed by a cytopathologist with versus without ultrasound guidance: evidence for improved diagnostic value with ultrasound guidanceMaoxin Wu
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029 6574, USA
Diagn Cytopathol 39:743-51. 2011..With ultrasound guidance, a cytopathologist will be able to perform FNAs in smaller, nonpalpable lesions and target complex lesions with confidence and accuracy, thus achieving a better outcome...- Feasibility of immunocytochemical detection of tumor markers (XIAP, phosphohistone H1 and p63) in FNA cellblock samples from head and neck squamous cell carcinomaM Wu
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Diagn Cytopathol 36:797-800. 2008..p-H1 and XIAP may be useful for monitoring actions of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors, XIAP-lowering, and/or apoptosis-inducing drugs, respectively. Future studies will focus on the impact of therapies upon these staining profiles... - Immunohistochemical detection of XIAP and p63 in adenomatous hyperplasia, atypical adenomatous hyperplasia, bronchioloalveolar carcinoma and well-differentiated adenocarcinomaMaoxin Wu
1Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029 6574, USA
Mod Pathol 21:553-8. 2008..In contrast, diffuse p63 staining may facilitate the identification of rare cases that may have been misclassified as alveolar in origin based on morphology but may be of BRC origin... - Papanicolaou stain may not be necessary in majority of head and neck fine-needle aspirations: evidence from a correlation study between Diff-Quik-based onsite diagnosis and final diagnosis in 287 head and neck fine-needle aspirationsMaoxin Wu
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029 6574, USA
Diagn Cytopathol 38:846-53. 2010..It is plausible to use D-Q-stained slides alone with most head and neck FNAs in order to provide more cost effective and efficient triaging and patient management... 
Case report: Lung disease in World Trade Center responders exposed to dust and smoke: carbon nanotubes found in the lungs of World Trade Center patients and dust samplesMaoxin Wu
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:499-504. 2010..Between 60,000 and 70,000 responders were exposed. Many reported adverse health effects...- Immunohistochemical detection of p63 and XIAP in thymic hyperplasia and thymomasMaoxin Wu
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029 6574, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 131:689-93. 2009..However, the level of expression does not correlate with capsular invasion or atypia... - Pneumonia due to Legionella feeleii: case report and review of the literatureJ Lee
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Transpl Infect Dis 11:337-40. 2009..We report a 69-year-old man who underwent bone marrow transplantation and developed pneumonia due to L. feeleii, and review the clinical characteristics of 7 cases of L. feeleii infection reported in the literature... 
Collagen balls in cervica-vaginal smearsArnold Szporn
Division of Cytopathology, Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Acta Cytol 49:262-4. 2005..To dewribe the recent detection of collagen balls in cervical-vaginal specimens from 7 women within the previous 2 years...- Increase in the incidence of peritoneal collagen balls over a 10-year periodArnold H Szporn
Division of Cytopathology, Department of Pathology, Box 1194, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1 Gustave L Levy Place, New York, New York 10029, USA
Acta Cytol 49:387-90. 2005..To describe the detection of collagen balls in peritoneal washings over a 10-year period, revealing an unexpected and unexplained higher incidence than in the past... - Immunohistochemical detection of XIAP in mesothelium and mesothelial lesionsMaoxin Wu
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York University, New York, NY 10029 6574, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 128:783-7. 2007..Elevated expression of XIAP could contribute to tumorigenesis in mesothelioma... - Cytology applications of p63 and TTF-1 immunostaining in differential diagnosis of lung cancersMaoxin Wu
Division of Cytopathology, Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Diagn Cytopathol 33:223-7. 2005..All 4 PDSCC cases were p63+/TTF-1-. The panel of p63 and TTF-1 appears to be useful in the diagnostic evaluation of cytologic cell-block samples of pulmonary malignancy... - Immunocytochemical detection of XIAP in body cavity effusions and washesMaoxin Wu
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Mod Pathol 18:1618-22. 2005.... - p63 and TTF-1 immunostaining. A useful marker panel for distinguishing small cell carcinoma of lung from poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma of lungMaoxin Wu
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 119:696-702. 2003..p63 and TTF-1 appear to be useful for differentiating SCLC from lung PDSCC in formalin-fixed and alcohol-fixed, formalin-postfixed material... - Metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma presenting as a pancreatic mass by computed tomography scan and mimicking a primary neuroendocrine tumor: a potential pitfall in aspiration cytologyValerie A Fitzhugh
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Diagn Cytopathol 37:915-9. 2009..This case illustrates the utility of FNA for diagnosing uncommon presentations of HCC and the importance of clinical history, cell block, and an immunocytochemical panel in determining the origin of the tumor... - Association between CCND1 G/A870 polymorphism, allele-specific amplification, cyclin D1 expression, and survival in esophageal and lung carcinomaVanita K Gupta
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Clin Cancer Res 14:7804-12. 2008..We explored the relationship between gene amplification, G/A870 genotype, D1a and D1b expression, and overall survival in esophageal adenocarcinoma and non-small cell lung cancer... - Comparative study in the expression of p53, EGFR, TGF-alpha, and cyclin D1 in verrucous carcinoma, verrucous hyperplasia, and squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck regionMaoxin Wu
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 10:351-6. 2002..Correlation between the level of expression of all markers and the grade of this group of squamous lesions revealed statistically significant correlation coefficients for p53 and EGFR but not for TGF-alpha and cyclin D1... - p63 Immunohistochemistry in the distinction of adenoid cystic carcinoma from basaloid squamous cell carcinomaPatrick Emanuel
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Mod Pathol 18:645-50. 2005..Diffuse p63 positivity in basaloid squamous cell carcinoma suggests dysregulation of p63-positive stem cells in poorly differentiated squamous carcinoma... - p63 immunostaining in destained bronchoscopic cytological specimensViktor Shtilbans
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
Diagn Cytopathol 32:198-203. 2005..Criteria for conservative interpretation of results are discussed and include examination of reserve cells and ciliated cells on the same slide as internal positive and negative controls... - Immunohistochemical detection of the X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP) in cervical squamous intraepithelial neoplasia and squamous carcinomaDavid E Burstein
Department of Pathology, Box 1194, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Ann Diagn Pathol 12:85-9. 2008..Detection of enhanced XIAP expression may also pinpoint those lesions that might benefit from pharmacologic disruption of XIAP's actions... - MicroRNA expression profiles of esophageal cancerAndrew Feber
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 135:255-60; discussion 260. 2008..The purpose of our study was to examine microRNA expression in Barrett esophagus and esophageal cancer to identify potential markers for disease progression... - A comparative study of 200 fine needle aspiration biopsies performed by clinicians and cytopathologistsMaoxin Wu
Department of Pathology, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Laryngoscope 116:1212-5. 2006..0002134, two-tailed t-test). FNA provides valuable information in the workup of suspicious head and neck masses. Cytopathologists may achieve significantly better results... - Cellular swirls in fine needle aspirates of papillary thyroid carcinoma: a new diagnostic criterionArnold H Szporn
Division of Cytopathology, Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Mod Pathol 19:1470-3. 2006.... - Whole genome exon arrays identify differential expression of alternatively spliced, cancer-related genes in lung cancerLiqiang Xi
Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 36:6535-47. 2008..Such studies may lead to the development of additional tools for tumor diagnosis, prognosis and therapy... - Current overview of the role of Akt in cancer studies via applied immunohistochemistryViktor Shtilbans
Genzyme Genetics, New York, NY 10019, USA
Ann Diagn Pathol 12:153-60. 2008..To date, the findings overall suggest that the major use of p-AKT immunohistochemical staining lies in prognostication and possibly in individualization of therapy rather than in differential diagnosis... - An immunohistochemical study of XIAP expression in pleomorphic adenoma and carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenomaBenjamin L Hoch
Department of Pathology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98195 6100, USA
J Oral Pathol Med 37:634-8. 2008..The biological progression from pleomorphic adenoma (PA) to carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma (CXPA) has been poorly understood. We studied XIAP expression by immunohistochemistry in PA and CXPA...