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A practical approach to immunohistochemical diagnosis of ovarian germ cell tumours and sex cord-stromal tumoursJoseph T Rabban
Pathology Department, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Histopathology 62:71-88. 2013..In addition, the limited role of immunohistochemistry in determining the primary site of origin of an ovarian carcinoid tumour is discussed...- Transitional cell metaplasia of fallopian tube fimbriae: a potential mimic of early tubal carcinoma in risk reduction salpingo-oophorectomies from women With BRCA mutationsJoseph 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... - Primary ovarian carcinoid tumors may express CDX-2: a potential pitfall in distinction from metastatic intestinal carcinoid tumors involving the ovaryJoseph T Rabban
Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Int J Gynecol Pathol 28:41-8. 2009.... - Pure and predominantly pure intralymphatic breast carcinoma after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: an unusual and adverse pattern of residual diseaseJoseph 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... - 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 protocolJoseph 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... - PAX2 distinguishes benign mesonephric and mullerian glandular lesions of the cervix from endocervical adenocarcinoma, including minimal deviation adenocarcinomaJoseph 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... - D2-40 expression by breast myoepithelium: potential pitfalls in distinguishing intralymphatic carcinoma from in situ carcinomaJoseph 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... - Correlation of macroscopic and microscopic pathology in risk reducing salpingo-oophorectomy: implications for intraoperative specimen evaluationJoseph 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... - Ovarian pathology in risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomies from women with BRCA mutations, emphasizing the differential diagnosis of occult primary and metastatic carcinomaJoseph T Rabban
Department of Pathology, University of California, M 551 San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 33:1125-36. 2009.... 
Synchronous ovarian granulosa cell tumor and uterine serous carcinoma: a rare association of a high-risk endometrial cancer with anestrogenic ovarian tumorJoseph 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...- HMGA2 rearrangement in a case of vulvar aggressive angiomyxomaJoseph 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... - Solid papillary ductal carcinoma in situ versus usual ductal hyperplasia in the breast: a potentially difficult distinction resolved by cytokeratin 5/6Joseph 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... - Immunophenotypic overlap between adenoid cystic carcinoma and collagenous spherulosis of the breast: potential diagnostic pitfalls using myoepithelial markersJoseph 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... - Risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) in BRCA mutation carriers: experience with a consecutive series of 111 patients using a standardized surgical-pathological protocolC 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... - COMT polymorphisms affecting protein expression are risk factors for endometrial cancerHiroshi 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... - Decidualized endometrioma during pregnancy: recognizing an imaging mimic of ovarian malignancyLiina Poder
Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0628, USA
J Comput Assist Tomogr 32:555-8. 2008.... - Transitional cell-like morphology in ovarian endometrioid carcinoma: morphologic, immunohistochemical, and behavioral features distinguishing it from high-grade serous carcinomaAnthony N Karnezis
Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0102, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 37:24-37. 2013.... - Squamous metaplasia of the ovarian surface epithelium and subsurface fibrosis: distinctive pathologic findings in the ovaries and fallopian tubes of patients on peritoneal dialysisElizabeth 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... 
Breast fibroblasts modulate early dissemination, tumorigenesis, and metastasis through alteration of extracellular matrix characteristicsNancy Dumont
Department of Pathology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Neoplasia 15:249-62. 2013..Our results suggest that normalizing the organization of the ECM could be effective in limiting systemic dissemination and tumor growth...- Superficial endometrial spread of squamous cell cervical carcinoma: a diagnostic challenge at magnetic resonance imagingFelix Adler
Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0628, USA
J Comput Assist Tomogr 31:247-50. 2007.... - Minimal uterine serous carcinoma: current concepts in diagnosis and prognosisJoseph 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... - Utility of the broccoli sign in the distinction of prolapsed uterine tumor from cervical tumorPriyanka Jha
Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94143 0628, United States
Eur J Radiol 81:1931-6. 2012..To describe the utility, histopathological basis, and clinical correlates of the broccoli sign... - Ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinoma: incidence and clinical significance of the morphologic and immunohistochemical markers of mismatch repair protein defects and tumor microsatellite instabilityAnıl 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... - CYP1A1, SULT1A1, and SULT1E1 polymorphisms are risk factors for endometrial cancer susceptibilityHiroshi 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... - CD36 repression activates a multicellular stromal program shared by high mammographic density and tumor tissuesRosa Anna DeFilippis
Department of Pathology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Cancer Discov 2:826-39. 2012..Levels of CD36 and extent of mammographic density are both modifiable factors that provide potential for intervention... - Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the uterus: a clinicopathologic study of 6 cases emphasizing distinction from aggressive mesenchymal tumorsJoseph 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... - The diagnosis of endometrial carcinomas with clear cells by gynecologic pathologists: an assessment of interobserver variability and associated morphologic featuresOluwole Fadare
Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
Am J Surg Pathol 36:1107-18. 2012..Cases that display broad and significant qualitative deviations from the aforementioned profile should prompt the consideration of a diagnosis other than CCC... - Current issues in the pathology of ovarian cancerJoseph 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... - Sclerosing lesions of the breastJoseph 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...