Cousar

John B. Cousar, M.D.

Professor of Pathology
Associate Director of Clinical Hematology Laboratory

CLINICAL:

Diagnostic hematopathology, including morphologic, immunologic and molecular genetic features of reative and neoplastic disorders of the hematopoietic and lymphoid systems

RESEARCH:

Morphologic, immunologic and molecular genetic features of malignant lymphomas

REFERENCES:

  • Felgar RE, Steward KR, Cousar JB, Macon WR.  T-cell rich large B-cell lymphomas contain nonactivitated CD8+ cytolytic T-cells, show increased tumor cell apoptosis, and have lower BCL-2 expression than diffuse large B-cell lymphomas. Am J Pathol 153 (6): 1707-1715, 1998.
  • Miranda RN, Cousar JB, Hammer RD, Collins RD, Vnencak-Jones CL.  Somatic mutation analysis of IgH variable regions reveals that tumor cells from parafollicular (monocytoid) B-cell lymphoma, splenic marginal zone lymphoma and hairy cell leukemia are predominantly memory B lymphocytes. Hum Pathol 30:306-312, 1999.
  • Miranda RN, Briggs RC, Shults K, Kinney MC, Jensen RA, Cousar JB.  Immunocytochemical analysis of MNDA in tissue sections and sorted normal bone marrow cells documents expression only in maturing normal and neoplastic myelomonocytic cells land a subset of normal and neoplastic B lymphocytes. Hum Pathol 30:10-40-1049, 1999.
  • Miranda RN, Briggs RC, Kinney MC, Veno PA, Hammer RD, Cousar JB. Immunohistochemical detection of Cyclin D1 using optimized conditions is highly specific in mantle cell lymphoma and hairy cell leukemia.  Mod Pathol 13: 1308-14, 2000.
  • Luther JM, Lakey, DL, Larson RS, Kallianpur AR, D’Agata E, Cousar JB, Hass DW.  Utility of bond marrow biopsy for rapid diagnosis of febrile illnesses in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.  Southern Medical Journal 93: 692-697, 2000.
  • Macon WR, Levy NB, Kurtin PJ, Salhany KE, Elkalifa MY, Casey TT, Craig FE, Vnencak-Jones CL, Gulley ML, Park JP, Cousar JB.  Hepatosplenic αβT-cell lymphomas: a report of 14 cases and comparison with hepatosplenic gamma-delta T-cell lymphomas. Am J Surg Pathol 25: 285-96, 2001.
  • Cousar JB. B-cell lymphomas. In Pediatric Hematopathology. Collins RD, Swerdlow SS (eds.) Churchill Livingstone, Philadelphia, 2001, pp. 235-44.
  • Cousar JB. Neoplasms other than lymphomas in lymph nodes. In Pediatric Hematopathology. Collins RD, Swerdlow SS (eds.). Churchill Livingstone, Philadelphia, 2001, pp. 317-321.
  • Riley, RS, Ben-Ezra JM, Massey D, Cousar J.  The virtual blood film. Clin Lab Med 22; 317-345, 2002.
  • Arrowsmith ER, Macon WR, Kinney MC, Stein RS, Goodman SA, Morgan DS, Flexner JM, Cousar JB et. al.  Peripheral T-cell lymphomas: clinical features and prognostic factors of 92 cases defined by the Revised European American Lymphoma Classification. Leukemia and Lymphoma 44: 241-49, 2003.
  • Cousar JB. The hematopoietic and lymphoid neoplasms: principles of diagnosis. In: Greer JP, Foerster J, Lukens JN, et al (eds): Wintrobe’s Clinical Hematology, 11th edition.  Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (in press).
  • Cousar JB, Casey JT, Macon WR, McCurley TL, Swerdlow SH.  Lymph nodes. In: Mills, SE et al (eds).  Sternberg’s Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, 4th Edition.  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (in press).