Kristen A. Atkins
Pathologist | Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
Lee St Charlottesville VA, 22908About
Dr. Kristen Atkins is a pathologist practicing in Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Atkins is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Atkins can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Atkins may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
Education and Training
Univ of Vt Coll of Med, Burlington Vt 1996
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP- Cytopathology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The diagnosis of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma by cytologic means.
- Mass-forming extramedullary hematopoiesis diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration cytology.
- Cytology of desmoplastic small round-cell tumor: comparison of pre- and post-chemotherapy fine-needle aspiration biopsies.
- Diagnosis of hydatidiform moles using p57 immunohistochemistry and HER2 fluorescent in situ hybridization.
- Distinguishing breast carcinoma from Müllerian serous carcinoma with mammaglobin and mesothelin.
- Expression of the urothelial differentiation markers GATA3 and placental S100 (S100P) in female genital tract transitional cell proliferations.
- Vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 is a regulator of ovarian cancer peritoneal metastasis.
- Podoplanin expression in basal and myoepithelial cells: utility and potential pitfalls.
- The significance of tumor involved adenomyosis in otherwise low-stage endometrioid adenocarcinoma.
- Assessing endometrial hyperplasia and carcinoma treated with progestin therapy.
- Atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ at core breast biopsy: use of careful radiologic-pathologic correlation to recommend excision or observation.
- Imaging VCAM-1 as an indicator of treatment efficacy in metastatic ovarian cancer.
- Liver cytology.
- Inhibition of α4β1 integrin increases ovarian cancer response to carboplatin.
- A time- and matrix-dependent TGFBR3-JUND-KRT5 regulatory circuit in single breast epithelial cells and basal-like premalignancies.
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