Fattaneh Abbas-Zadeh Tavassoli MD
Professor of Pathology and of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences; Director, Pathology Women's Health Program
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
Extensive Research Description
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.
- Martel M, Barron-Rodriguez, Ocal IT, Dotto J, Tavassoli FA. Flat DIN1 (flat epithelial atypia) on core needle biopsy: 63 cases identified retrospectively among 1751 core biopsies performed over an 8-year period (1992-1999). Virchows Arch 2007;451:883-891.
- Haines GK 3rd, Wiley E, Susnik B, Apple SK, Frkovic-Grazio S, Reyes C, Goldstein LC, Dadmanesh F, Gown AM, Nadji M, Bracko M, Tavassoli FA. HER2 in well differentiated breast cancer: is testing necessary? Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2008
- Fadare O, Tavassoli FA. Clinical and pathologic aspects of basal-like breast cancers. Nat Clin Pract Oncol. 2008;5:49-59.
- Moinfar F, Beham A, Friedrich G, Deutsch A, Hrzenjak A, Luschin G, Tavassoli FA. Macro-environment of breast carcinoma: frequent genetic alterations in the normal appearing skins of patients with breast cancer. Mod Pathol. 2008 Feb 8
- J Dotto J, Kluk M, Geramizadeh B, Tavassoli FA. Frequency of clinically occult intraepithelial and invasive neoplasia in reduction mammoplasty specimens. A study of 516 cases. Int J Surg Pathology 2008;16:25-30.
- Ueng SH, Mezzetti T, Tavassoli FA. Papillary neoplasms of the breast: a review. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2009 Jun;133(6):893-907
- Tavassoli FA. Lobular Neoplasia: Evolution of its significance and morphologic spectrum. Int J Surg Pathol 2010;174S-177S
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.
- Martel M, Barron-Rodriguez, Ocal IT, Dotto J, Tavassoli FA. Flat DIN1 (flat epithelial atypia) on core needle biopsy: 63 cases identified retrospectively among 1751 core biopsies performed over an 8-year period (1992-1999). Virchows Arch 2007;451:883-891.
- Haines GK 3rd, Wiley E, Susnik B, Apple SK, Frkovic-Grazio S, Reyes C, Goldstein LC, Dadmanesh F, Gown AM, Nadji M, Bracko M, Tavassoli FA. HER2 in well differentiated breast cancer: is testing necessary? Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2008
- Fadare O, Tavassoli FA. Clinical and pathologic aspects of basal-like breast cancers. Nat Clin Pract Oncol. 2008;5:49-59.
- Moinfar F, Beham A, Friedrich G, Deutsch A, Hrzenjak A, Luschin G, Tavassoli FA. Macro-environment of breast carcinoma: frequent genetic alterations in the normal appearing skins of patients with breast cancer. Mod Pathol. 2008 Feb 8
- J Dotto J, Kluk M, Geramizadeh B, Tavassoli FA. Frequency of clinically occult intraepithelial and invasive neoplasia in reduction mammoplasty specimens. A study of 516 cases. Int J Surg Pathology 2008;16:25-30.
- Ueng SH, Mezzetti T, Tavassoli FA. Papillary neoplasms of the breast: a review. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2009 Jun;133(6):893-907
- Tavassoli FA. Lobular Neoplasia: Evolution of its significance and morphologic spectrum. Int J Surg Pathol 2010;174S-177S
- Ueng S-H, Pinto MM, Alvarado-Cabrera I, Lee L-Y, Tavassoli FA. Ovarian malignant melanoma: A clinicopathologic study of 5 cases. Int J Surg Pathol 2010;18:184-192
- Tavassoli FA. Correlation between gene expression profiling-based molecular and morphologic classification of breast carcinoma. Int J Surg Pathol 2010;167S-169S
- Buza N, Zekry N, Charpin C, Tavassoli FA. Myoepithelial carcinoma of the breast: a clinicopathological and immunohistochemical study of 15 diagnostically challenging cases. Virchows Arch 2010 Sep;457(3):337-45
- Tramm T., Kim JF, Tavassoli FA. Diminished number or complete loss of myoepithelial cells associated with metaplastic and neoplastic apocrine lesions of the breast. Am J Surg Pathol. 2011 Feb;35(2):202-11
- Charpin C, Tavassoli FA, Secq V Giusiano S, Villeret J, Garcia S, Birnbaum D, Bonnier P, Lavaut MN, Boubli L, Carcopino X, Iovanna J. Validation of an immunohistochemical signature predictive of 8-year outcome for patients with breast carcinoma. Int J Cancer. 2011 Nov 28
- Stacher E, Boldt V, Leibl S, Labwedl I, Popper HH, Ullmann R, Tavassoli FA, Moinfar F. Chromosomal aberrations as detected by array comparative genomic hybridization in early low-grade intraepithelial neoplasias of the breast. Histopathology, 2011 Sep;59(3):549-55.
- Burch DM, Tavassoli FA. Myxoid leiomyosarcoma of the uterus. Histopathology. 2011 Dec;59(6):1144-55
- Flynn C, Kadivar M, Kwon MY, Bonzanini M, Haines GK 3rd, Tavassoli FA. Basal cell adenocarcinoma arising in salivary gland metaplasia of the breast: a novel salivary gland-type tumor developing in the breast. Hum Pathol 2012 Jun 1
