Selected Publications

Many of our pathologists contribute to the advancement of pathology and study of medicine by participation in research in their field of expertise. Please see the references below for a list of select recent publications by our pathologists.

Cytopathology

Michaels PJ, Brachtel EF, Bounds BC, Brugge WR, Pitman MB.
Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas: cytologic features predict histologic grade.
Cancer. 2006 Jun 25;108(3):163-73.
PMID: 16550572 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Steele DJ, Michaels PJ.
Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 40-2004 - a 42-year-old woman with long-standing hematuria.
N Engl J Med. 2004 Dec 30;351(27):2851-9. No abstract available.
PMID: 15625337 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Michaels PJ, Fishbein MC, Colvin RB.
Humoral rejection of human organ transplants.
Springer Semin Immunopathol. 2003 Sep;25(2):119-40. Review.
PMID: 12955463 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Michaels PJ, Espejo ML, Kobashigawa J, Alejos JC, Burch C, Takemoto S, Reed EF, Fishbein MC.
Humoral rejection in cardiac transplantation: risk factors, hemodynamic consequences and relationship to transplant coronary artery disease.
J Heart Lung Transplant. 2003 Jan;22(1):58-69.
PMID: 12531414 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Salomao DR, Hughes JH, Raab SS. Atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance favor endometrial origin. Criteria for separating low grade endometrial adenocarcinoma from benign endometrial lesions. Acta Cytol. 46(3): 458-464, 2002.

Hughes JH, Raab SS, Cohen MB. The cytologic diagnosis of low grade transitional cell carcinoma. Am J Clin Pathol. 114 (Suppl): S59-67, 2000.

Hughes JH, Jensen CS, Donnelly AD, Cohen MB, Silverman JF, Geisinger KR, Raab SS. The role of fine needle aspiration cytology in the evaluation of metastatic clear cell tumors.  Cancer.  87(6): 380-389, 1999.

Raab SS, Sigman JD, Hoffman HT. The utility of parotid gland and level I and II neck fine needle aspiration. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 122(9): 823-827, 1998.

Raab SS, Snider TE, Potts SA, McDaniel HL, Robinson RA, Nelson DL, Sigman JD, Thomas PA. Atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance. Diagnostic accuracy and interobserver variability using select cytologic criteria. Am J Clin Path. 107(3):299-307, 1997.

Dermatopathology

Murry, TC; et al. Chapter 21- Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue, pgs. 389-403; from Pediatric Hematopathology, Collins, R, and Swerdlow, S, ed; Churchill Livingstone, 2001.

Hematopathology

Marmaduke DP, Greenson JK, Cunningham I, Herderick EE, Cornhill JF. Gastric vascular ectasia in patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation.  Am J Clin Pathol, 102(2): 194-198, 1994.

Pediatric pathology

Kosarek JN, Woodruff RV, Rivera-Begeman A, Guo C, D'Souza S, Koonion EV, Walker GC, Friedberg EC. Comparative Analysis of in vivo interactions between Rev 1 protein and other Y-family DNA polymerases in animals and yeasts. 2008. Volume 7. Pages 439-451.

McDaniel LD, Rivera-Begeman A, Doughty AT, Schultz RA, Friedberg EC. Validation of XP-C pathogenic variations in archival material from live XP patient. DNA Repair. January 2007. Volume 6. Issue 1. Pages 115-120.

Rivera-Begeman A, McDaniel LD, Schultz RA, friedberg EC. A novel XPC pathogenic variant detected in archival material from a patient diagnosed with Xeroderma. Pigmentosum: A case report and review of the genetic variants reported in XPC. DNA Repair. January 2007. Volume 6. Issue 1. pages 100-114.

Rivera-Begeman A, Sarode R. Muscular Weaknes and Respiratory Distress in a Pediatric Patient. LabMedicine. March 2003. Volume 34. Number 3.