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   Elizabeth J. Perlman, MD
   King Professor of Pathology
   Associate Chairman of Pathology        
   CMH
   Box 17
   2300 Children's Plaza
   Chicago, IL  60614

   eperlman@childrensmemorial.org  

Phone:  (773) 880-4306
Fax:  (773) 880-3858  

Anatomic Pathology Division
Autopsy   Pediatric Pathology  

Medical School

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1984

Site of Residency

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1984-1988

Site of Fellowship

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1988-1990

Research Interests

Wilms tumors, germ cell tumors, genitourinary development

Selected Publications

  Eberhart CG, Kratz JE, Schuster A, Goldthwaite P, Cohen KJ, Perlman EJ, Burger PC. Comparative genomic hybridization detects an increased number of chromosomal alterations in large cell/anaplastic medulloblastoma. Brain Research 12(1):36-44, 2002.

  Schuster AE, Schneider DT, Fritsch MK, Grundy P, Perlman EJ. Genetic and Genetic Expression Analyses in Clear Cell Sarcoma of the Kidney. Lab Invest 2003 83:1293-9

  Swartz M, Karth J, Beckwith JB, Argani, Perlman EJ. Renal medullary carcinoma: clinical and pathologic analysis with pathogenetic implications. Urology Dec. 60:1083-9, 2002.

  Fuji H, Anbazhaan R, Bornman DM, Perlman EJ, Gabrielson E. Mucinous Cancers have fewer chromosomal alterations than more common classes of breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2002 Dec;76(3):255-60.

  Bella AJ, Winquist EW, Perlman EJ. Primary biphasic synovial sarcoma of the kidney diagnosed by molecular detection of SYT-SSX fusion transcripts. J Urol 168:1092-3, 2002.

  Fritsch MK, Bridge JA, Schuster AE, Perlman EJ, Argani P. Performance characteristics of a reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assay for the detection of tumor specific fusion transcripts from archival tissue. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2003 Jan-Feb;6(1):43-53)

  Miser JS, Krailo MD, Tarbell NJ, Link MP, Fryer CJH, Pritchard DJ, Gebhardt MC, Dickman PS, Perlman EJ, Meyers PA, Donaldson SS, Moore S, Rausen AR, Vietti TJ, Grier HE. Treatment of metastatic Ewing sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor of bone: evaluation of increasing the dose of intensity of chemotherapy – a Children’s Cancer Group and Pediatric Oncology Group Study. In press (Cancer).

  Grier HE, Krailo MD, Tarbell NJ, Link MP, Fryer CJH, Pritchard DJ, Gebhardt MC, Dickman PS, Perlman EJ, Meyers PA, Donaldson SS, Miser JS, Moore S, Rausen AR, Vietti TJ. Addition of Ifosfamide and Etoposide to standard chemotherapy in Ewing sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor of bone: a Children’s Cancer Group/Pediatric Oncology Group Study. N Engl J Med. 2003 Feb 20;348(8):694-701.

  Looijenga LH, Stoop H, De Leeuw HP, De Gouveia Brazao CA, Gillis AJ, Van Roozendaal KE, Van Zoelen EJ, Weber RF, Wolffenbuttel KP, Van Dekken H, Honecker F, Bokemeyer C, Perlman EJ, Schneider DT, Kononen J, Sauter G, Oosterhuis JW. POU5F1 (OCT3/4) Identifies Cells with Pluripotent Potential in Human Germ Cell Tumors. Cancer Res. 2003 63(9):2244-50.

  Fan X, Wang Y, Kratz J, Brat DJ, Robitaille Y, Moghrabi A, Perlman EJ, Dang CV, Burger PC, Eberhart CG. hTERT Gene Amplification and Increased mRNA Expression in Central Nervous System Embryonal Tumors. Am J Pathol. 2003 162:1763-9.

Abstracts:
  Fitchev P, Beckwith JB, Perlman EJ and the National Wilm Tumor Study Group. Congenital Mesoblastic Nephroma: Prognostic Factors. Lab Invest 83:2P, 2003

  Gupta A, Perlman EJ. Intrarenal Neuroblastomas: Evaluation of 60 cases.Lab Invest 83:3P, 2003.

  Hasan C, Kersey D, Grundy P, Perlman EJ and the National Wilms Tumor Study Group. Differences in genetic expression between hyperplastic perilobar nephrogenic rests and Wilms tumors Lab Invest 83: 4P, 2003.

  Kersey D, Hasan C, Grundy P, Perlman EJ and the National Wilms Tumor Study Group. Genetic Expression profiling of clear cell sarcoma of the kidney. Lab Invest. 83:4P, 2003.

Book Chapters:
  Murphy WM, Perlman EJ, Grignon D. Tumors of the Kidney, Bladder, and Related Urinary Structures. Atlas of Tumor Pathology, Fourth Series. Washington DC: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (in press).

  Perlman, EJ. “Pediatric Neoplasms” in Surgical Pathology Dissection: An Illustrated Guide. (Ed. R. Hruban, W. Westra, Phelps, Isaacson), Springer-Verlag. 2003. pp 212-215.

  Grundy PE, Ritchey ML, Perlman EJ, Kalapurakal JA. “Renal tumors of childhood”. In Cancer Medicine. Holland and Frei. 2003.

  Perlman EJ, Bocon-Gibod L. Nephroblastoma and nephroblastomatosis. World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs. Eble, Sauter, Epstein, Sesterhenn, ed. (in press)

  Marx A, Bokkemeyer M, Perlman EJ, Germ cell tumors of the thymus. World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Mediastinum. (in press).

Recommended Resources

United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology; Society for Pediatric Pathology; Children’s Oncology Group

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