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Clinical Activities

Keywords: Genitourinary pathology, testicular tumours, prostate cancer

Description of clinical activities: Reporting of biopsies and surgical specimens with emphasis in genitourinary tract, head and neck and breast pathology.  Review of genitourinary pathology consultation cases for pathologists from Canada and abroad.  Participation in interdisciplinary patient management conferences.  Performance of post-mortem examinations.

Research Interests

Keywords: testicular tumours, prostate cancer, history of pathology.

Description of research activities: Correlation of prostatectomy specimens with imaging modalities for the optimization of pre-operative diagnosis, biopsy protocols and surgical planning.  Study of prognostic factors in testicular neoplasms and prostatic adenocarcinoma.

Selected Publications

1. Nicolas MM, Tamboli P, Gómez JA, Czerniak BA. Pleomorphic and dedifferentiated leiomyosarcoma: clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 41 cases. Hum Pathology 2010 May;41(5):663-71.
2. Spiess PE, Kassouf W, Brown GA, Kamat AM, Liu P, Gómez JA, Tu M,Tannir NM, Pisters LL. Surgical management of growing teratoma syndrome: the MD Anderson Cancer Center experience. 1: J Urol. 2007 Apr;177(4):1330-4; discussion 1334.
3. Rybicki BA, Savera AT, Gómez JA, Patel SC, Ballard NE, Benninger MS, Zarbo RJ, Van Dyke DL. Allelic loss and tumor pathology in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Mod Pathol. 2003 Oct;16(10):970-9.
4. McKenney JK, Gómez JA, Desai S, Lee MW, Amin MB. Morphologic expressions of urothelial carcinoma in situ: a detailed evaluation of its histologic patterns with emphasis on carcinoma in situ with microinvasion. Am J Surg Pathol. 2001 Mar;25(3):356-62.
5. Gómez JA, Amin MB, Ro JY, Linden MD, Lee MW, Zarbo RJ. Immunohistochemical profile of myogenin and MyoD1 does not support skeletal muscle lineage in alveolar soft part sarcoma. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1999;123:503-7.