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The gastrointestinal and liver pathology service at UCLA provides rapid and high quality diagnostic histopathology on gastrointestinal endoscopic biopsies, liver biopsies, and resections of the gastrointestinal and hepatopancreatico-biliary systems. Our services aid clinicians to provide the most appropriate care for such conditions as:
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Barrett’s esophagus
- Gastritis
- Including complications of Helicobacter pylori, such as lymphoma and carcinoma
- Colonic neoplasia
- Celiac disease and other malabsorptive states
- Hepatitis C and other forms of chronic liver disease
- Hemochromatosis
- Hepatic, pancreatic
- Biliary tumors
- GI dysplasia
- Pancreatic tumor pathology
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Galen Cortina, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief of Gastrointestinal Pathology |
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Charles Lassman, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Director, Residency Training Program
and Surgical Pathology Fellowship
Vice-Chair for Clinical Education |
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Sarah Dry, M.D.
Co-Director, Translational Pathology Core Laboratory
Associate Professor, Gastrointestinal & Liver Pathology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Skeletal & Soft Tissue Pathology, Surgical Pathology |
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Sam W. French, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Gastrointestinal & Liver Pathology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Surgical Pathology |
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David Dawson, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Gastrointestinal & Liver Pathology, Surgical Pathology |
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Steven D. Hart, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Cytopathology, Gastrointestinal & Liver Pathology, Santa Monica-UCLA Pathology & Clinical Laboratory |
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Ohsie S, Gerney G, Gui D, Kahana D, Martín MG, Cortina G. A paucity of colonic enteroendocrine and/or enterochromaffin cells characterizes a subset of patients with chronic unexplained diarrhea/malabsorption. Hum Pathol. 2009 Jul;40(7):1006-14. Epub 2009 Mar 17. PubMed PMID: 19297006. |
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Pinsky P, Mutch M, Umar A, Dry SM, Seligson D, Rall C. The Natural History of Aberrant Crypt Foci. Gastrointest. Endosc. 2008 67(7):1097-102 |
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Mutch MG, Schoen RE, Fleshman JW, Rall CJ, Dry S, Seligson D, Charabaty A, Chia D, Umar A, Viner J, Hawk E and Pinsky PF. A multicenter study of prevalence and rish factors for aberrant crypt foci. Clin. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 2009: 7(5):568-74 |
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Kahn, Melissa E., French, Samuel, Wang, Hanlin L. (2009) Hepatocellular adenoma: morphological and molecular variants and distinction from well-differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma. Pathology Case Reviews 14(1):13-20. |
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Tang, R.S., Weinberg, B., Dawson, D.W., Reber, H., Hines, O.J., Tomlinson, J.S., Chaudhari, V., Raman, S., and Farrell, J.J. (2008) Evaluation of the guidelines for management of pancreatic branch-duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 6:815-9. |
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