Research
The Institute's extensive research program includes 1649 presentations and lectures, 277 journal articles, 172 abstracts, 90 book chapters,18 books, 33 other publications and 255 collaborations. Programs include research in basic science, environmental pathology and toxicology, geographic and infectious disease pathology, oncology, molecular diagnostics, and forensic science. All approved protocols have military relevance and civilian applications.

For information on current research projects in a particular field, please refer to the appropriate Web page listed in the Consultation section of this Web site.

Recent Publications by AFIP Staff

1. Centeno JA. Natural disasters and their long-term impacts on the health of communities. J Environ Monit. 2008;10:266.
2. Deyrup AT, Miettinen M, North PE, Khoury JD, Tighiouart M, Spunt SL, Parham D, Weiss SW, Shehata BM. Angiosarcomas arising in the viscera and soft tissue of children and young adults: a clinicopathologic study of 15 Cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 2008 Nov 3. [Epub ahead of print]
3. Franks TJ, Colby TV, Travis WD, Tuder RM, Reynolds HY, Brody AR, Cardoso WV, Crystal RG, Drake CJ, Engelhardt J, Frid M, Herzog E, Mason R, Phan SH, Randell SH, Rose MC, Stevens T, Serge J, Sunday ME, Voynow JA, Weinstein BM, Whitsett J, Williams MC. Resident cellular com-ponents of the human lung: current knowledge and goals for research on cell phenotyping and function. Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2008 Sep 15;5(7):763-6.
4. Heffner DK. Treatments for pulmonary sarcoidosis. Respir Med. 2008 Nov;102(11):1674. Epub 2008 Sep 18.
5. Laskin WB, Miettinen M, Fetsch JF. Infantile digital fibroma/fibromatosis: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 69 tumors from 57 patients with long-term follow-up. Am J Surg Pathol. 2008 Sep 30. [Epub ahead of print]
6. Lasota J, Miettinen M. Clinical significance of oncogenic KIT and PDGFRA mutations in gastroin-testinal stromal tumours. Histopathology. 2008 Sep;53(3):245-66. Epub 2008 Feb 28.
7. Maggio KL, Kalasinsky VF, Lewin-Smith MR, Mullick FG. Wound fragments from cutaneous sites of U.S. Military personnel deployed in operation Iraqi Freedom: clinical aspects and pathologic characterizations. Dermatol Surg. 2008 Apr;34(4):475-82. Epub 2008 Jan 31.
8. Mehrotra AK, Levy A, Shaw JC, Su J, Sobin LH. Heterotopic mesenteric ossification. VHJOE. Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2008
9. Miettinen M, Sobin LH, Lasota J. True Smooth Muscle Tumors of the Small Intestine: A Clinicopa-thologic, Immunhistochemical, and molecular genetic study of 25 Cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 2008 Oct 28. [Epub ahead of print]
10. Murphey MD, Rhee JH, Lewis RB, Fanburg-Smith JC, Flemming DJ, Walker EA. Pigmented villonodular synovitis: radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics. 2008 Sep-Oct;28(5):1493-518.
11. Shaw JC, Levy A, Mehrotra AK, Sheldon L, Sobin LH. Gastrointestinalstromal tumors, endocrine tumors, and neurofibroma involving the gastrointestinal tract of a patient with neurofibromatosis-1. VHJOE. Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2008.
12. Smith AB, Smirniotopoulos JG, Rushing EJ. From the archives of the AFIP: central nervous system infections associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection: radiologic-pathologic correlation. Radiographics. 2008 Nov-Dec;28(7):2033-58.
13. Tavora F, Miettinen M, Fanburg-Smith J, Franks TJ, Burke A. Pulmonary artery sarcoma: A histologic and follow-up study with emphasis on a subset of low-grade myofibroblastic sarcomas with a good long-term follow-up. Am J Surg Pathol. 2008 Sep 5. [Epub ahead of print]
14. van der Voet GB, Sarafanov A, Todorov TI, Centeno JA, Jonas WB, Ives JA, Mullick FG. Clini-cal and analytical toxicology of dietary supplements: a case study and a review of the literature. Biol Trace Elem Res. 2008 Oct;125(1):1-12. Epub 2008 Aug 16.