Fattaneh Abbas-Zadeh Tavassoli MD

Professor of Pathology and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Director, Pathology Women's Health Program

Departments & Organizations

Yale Medical Group

Cancer Center, Yale: Breast Cancer Program

Pathology: Surgical Pathology: Breast Pathology; Gynecologic Pathology

Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences

Research Interests

Breast carcinoma; Basal-like carcinomas; Intraepithelial neoplasias; Invasive mammary carcinomas; Necrotic variant and common types of lobular intraepithelial neoplasia; Markers for breast and ovarian carcinoma; Micro and macroenvironment on mammary carcinogenesis; Protein expression profile of mammary and ovarian carcinomas more...

Education

• M.D., ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, 1972

Selected Publications

• Burga AM, Fadare O, Lininger RA, Tavassoli FA. Invasive carcinomas of the male breast: a morphologic study of the distribution of histologic subtypes and metastatic patterns in 778 cases. Virchows Arch. 2006;449:507-512.
• Ghofrani M, Tapia B, Tavassoli FA. Discrepancies in the diagnosis of intraductal proliferative lesions of the breast and its management: results of a multinational survey. Virchows Arch. 2006 449:609-16.
• Moinfar F, Azodi M, Tavassoli FA. Uterine sarcomas. Pathology. 2007 Feb39(1):55-71.

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