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   Ximing J. Yang, MD, PhD
   Professor of Pathology
   Director, Pathology Core Facility, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center        
   Feinberg 7-338
   251 East Huron Street  
   Chicago, IL  60611

   xyang@northwestern.edu  

Phone:  (312) 926-3213
Fax:  (312) 926-3127  

Anatomic Pathology Division
Surgical Pathology  

Medical School

Beijing University, Medical School   /  University of California, San Diego (PhD; Molecular Pathology)

Site of Residency

University of Chicago

Site of Fellowship

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Research Interests

Clinical Expertise
General Surgical Pathology and Urological Surgical Pathology
Diagnosis of genital urinary cancers including prostate, bladder, kidney, testis and other GU organs
Immunohistochemistry

Research Interests
Pathogenesis of prostate cancer, kidney cancer and bladder cancer
Identification of new molecular markers of GU cancers
Solid tumor banking for biological studies

Selected Publications

Yang XJ, Zhou M, Hes O, Shen S, Li R, Lopez J, Shah RB, Yang Y, Chuang ST, Lin F, Tretiakova M, Kort EJ, Teh BT. Tubulocystic carcinoma of the kidney - clinicopathological and molecular characterization. Am J Surg Pathol, 2008, 32:177-187.

Hes O, Michal M, Radek Šíma R, Vanecek T, Matteo Brunelli M, Martignoni G, Kuroda N, Alvarado-Cabrero I, Perez-Montiel D, Hora M, Ürge T, Dvorák M, Jarošová M, Yang X. Renal oncocytoma with and without intravascular extension to the branches of renal vein have the same morphological, immunohistochemical and genetic features. Virchow Archives, 2008, 452:285-293.

Lin F, Shi J, Liu H, Zhang J, Zhang PL, Wang HL, Yang XJ, Schuerch C. Immunohistochemical detection of the von Hippel-Lindau gene product (pVHL) in human tissues and tumors: A diagnostic marker for metastatic renal cell carcinoma and clear cell carcinoma of the ovary and uterus. Am J Clinic Pathol. 2008, 129:592-605.

Zynger DL, Everton MJ, Dimov ND, Chou PM, Yang XJ. Expression of glypican 3 in ovarian and extragonadal germ cell tumors. Am J Clinic Pathol. 2008, 130:224-230.

Anatelli F, Yang XJ, Chuang TS, Wang HL. Value of glypican-3 immunostaining in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma on needle biopsy. Am J Clinic Pathol. Am J Clin Pathol. 2008, 130:219-223.

Kort EJ, Farber L, Tretiakova M, Petillo D, Furge KA, Yang XJ, Cornelius A, Teh BT. The E2F3-Oncomir-1 axis is activated in Wilms' tumor. Cancer Res. 2008, 68:4034-4037.

Latour M, Amin MB, Billis A, Egevad L, Grignon DJ, Humphrey PA, Reuter VE, Sakr WA, Srigley JR, Wheeler TM, Yang XJ, Epstein JI. Grading of invasive cribriform carcinoma on prostate needle biopsy: An interobserver study among experts in genitourinary pathology. Am J Surg Pathol. 2008 Aug21.

Anatelli F, Zhai Q, Adley B, Chuang ST, Yang XJ. Glypican-3 as a useful diagnostic marker that distinguishes hepatocellular carcinoma from benign hepatocellular mass lesions. 2008, Arch Pathol Lab Med. In Press.


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