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What's New
NEW!! Meeting evaluations, session materials, SAM post- tests, and CME/SAM claim forms for the 2013 SPP Spring Meeting held in Baltimore, MD, March 2-3, 2013 are now available. Please click here to access.
Latest updates from the Education and Research Committees are now online. Please click here to read more.
2012 Fall Meeting SAM Post-tests are still available. Please click here to access them. (Please note that you must first click on the link to the Evaluations and CME/SAM Claims page and complete meeting evaluations before Post-test access will appear.)
Perspectives, Volume 28, Insights Into Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, and Volume 29, Soft Tissue Tumors in Children and Adolescents, can now be ordered online direct from Allen Press! Please click here to go to the Allen Press ordering page.



2013 Society for Pediatric Pathology Spring Meeting
March 2-3, 2013
Baltimore, MD

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Journal Watch
An eclectic selection of two dozen potentially interesting articles from current journals*

*Click here for the current watch list of journals.

All articles are in print. Please click the PMID number at the end of each citation to see the abstract on PubMed.

DISCLAIMER: Articles are listed in this section for information purposes only. The SPP does not approve or endorse these articles, and the SPP is not responsible for their content.

March 2013 Update
This month's Journal Watch prepared by Jason Jarzembowski, M.D., Ph.D.

Click here to download March 2013 Journal Watch list.

  • Abdul-Karim R, Berkman BE, Wendler D, et al. Disclosure of incidental findings from next-generation sequencing in pediatric genomic research. Pediatrics. 2013 Mar;131(3):564-571. PubMed PMID: 23400601.
  • Been JV, Lievense S, Zimmermann LJ, et al. Chorioamnionitis as a risk factor for necrotizing enterocolitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Pediatr. 2013 Feb;162(2):236-42.e2. PubMed PMID: 22920508.
  • Bream EN, Leppellere CR, Cooper ME, et al. Candidate gene linkage approach to identify DNA variants that predispose to preterm birth. Pediatr Res. 2013 Feb;73(2):135-141. PubMed PMID: 23168575.
  • de Weerth C, Fuentes S, Puylaert P, de Vos WM. Intestinal microbiota of infants with colic: development and specific signatures. Pediatrics. 2013 Feb;131(2):e550-558. PubMed PMID: 23319531.
  • Franzblau EB, Punzalan RC, Friedman KD, et al. Use of purified fibrinogen concentrate for dysfibrinogenemia and importance of laboratory fibrinogen activity measurement. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2013 Mar;60(3):500-502. PubMed PMID: 23129109.
  • Gielen GH, Gessi M, Hammes J, et al. H3F3A K27M Mutation in Pediatric CNS Tumors: A Marker for Diffuse High-Grade Astrocytomas. Am J Clin Pathol. 2013 Mar;139(3):345-349. PubMed PMID: 23429371.
  • Haskell SE, Hermann GM, Reinking BE, et al. Sertraline exposure leads to small left heart syndrome in adult mice. Pediatr Res. 2013 Mar;73(3):286-293. PubMed PMID: 23232669.
  • Hotta R, Stamp LA, Foong JP, et al. Transplanted progenitors generate functional enteric neurons in the postnatal colon. J Clin Invest. 2013 Mar 1;123(3):1182-1191. PubMed PMID: 23454768.
  • Jiang P, Smith B, Qvist N, et al. Intestinal proteome changes during infant necrotizing enterocolitis. Pediatr Res. 2013 Mar;73(3):268-276. PubMed PMID: 23324825.
  • Kazmi SJ, Byer SJ, Eckert JM, et al. Transgenic mice overexpressing neuregulin-1 model neurofibroma-malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor progression and implicate specific chromosomal copy number variations in tumorigenesis. Am J Pathol. 2013 Mar;182(3):646-667. PubMed PMID: 23321323.
  • Lagarde P, Przybyl J, Brulard C, et al. Chromosome instability accounts for reverse metastatic outcomes of pediatric and adult synovial sarcomas. J Clin Oncol. 2013 Feb 10;31(5):608-615. PubMed PMID: 23319690.
  • Liu Q, Salaverria I, Pittaluga S, et al. Follicular lymphomas in children and young adults: a comparison of the pediatric variant with usual follicular lymphoma. Am J Surg Pathol. 2013 Mar;37(3):333-343. PubMed PMID: 23108024.
  • Luxán G, Casanova JC, Martínez-Poveda B, et al. Mutations in the NOTCH pathway regulator MIB1 cause left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy. Nat Med. 2013 Feb;19(2):193-201. PubMed PMID: 23314057.
  • McHugh JB, Gopal P, Greenson JK. The clinical significance of focally enhanced gastritis in children. Am J Surg Pathol. 2013 Feb;37(2):295-299. PubMed PMID: 23108022.
  • Morley SR, Becker J, Al-Adnani M, Cohen MC. Drug- and alcohol-related deaths at a pediatric institution in the United kingdom. Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 2012 Dec;33(4):390-394. PubMed PMID: 22835964.
  • O'Leary CM, Jacoby PJ, Bartu A, et al. Maternal Alcohol Use and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Infant Mortality Excluding SIDS. Pediatrics. 2013 Mar;131(3):e770-778. PubMed PMID: 23439895.
  • Rosado FG, Tang YW, Hasserjian RP, et al. Kikuchi-Fujimoto lymphadenitis: role of parvovirus B-19, Epstein-Barr virus, human herpesvirus 6, and human herpesvirus 8. Hum Pathol. 2013 Feb;44(2):255-259. PubMed PMID: 22939574.
  • Suganuma R, Wang LL, Sano H, et al. Peripheral neuroblastic tumors with genotype-phenotype discordance: a report from the Children's Oncology Group and the International Neuroblastoma Pathology Committee. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2013 Mar;60(3):363-370. PubMed PMID: 22744966.
  • Tanpowpong P, Obuch JC, Jiang H, et al. Multicenter Study on Season of Birth and Celiac Disease: Evidence for a New Theoretical Model of Pathogenesis. J Pediatr. 2013 Mar;162(3):501-504. PubMed PMID: 23084709.
  • Vodopiutz J, Zoller H, Fenwick AL, et al. Homozygous SALL1 Mutation Causes a Novel Multiple Congenital Anomaly-Mental Retardation Syndrome. J Pediatr. 2013 Mar;162(3):612-617. PubMed PMID: 23069192.
  • Wallingford JB, Niswander LA, Shaw GM, Finnell RH. The continuing challenge of understanding, preventing, and treating neural tube defects. Science. 2013 Mar 1;339(6123). PubMed PMID: 23449594.
  • Watanabe Y, Tsuda H, Kotani T, et al. Amniotic lamellar body count and congenital diaphragmatic hernia in humans and in a rat model. Pediatr Res. 2013 Mar;73(3):344-348. PubMed PMID: 23344660.

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From the Editor's Desk

Salutations!


I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving holiday. Abstract submission is now closed for the upcoming SPP Spring Meeting in Baltimore, to be held March 2 and 3, 2013. More meeting information will be available soon.

Please don't forget to renew your SPP membership for 2013 by using the links above and on the Membership page. Also, the final set of 2012 Slide Survey Online cases will be posted shortly, and registration for the 2013 Slide Survey is now beginning.

Please check back frequently for additional announcements and links to important activities.


Until next time,
Robert E. Ruiz
SPP Website Editor
(last updated 11/24/12)



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