Dr. John Anthony Papalas M.D.
Dermapathologist | Dermatopathology
Duke University Medical Center Department Of Durham NC, 27710About
Dr. John Papalas practices Dermatopathology in Durham, NC. Dermatopathology is a medical specialty that focuses on dermatology and pathology, and involves the diagnosis of various diseases of the skin, hair, and nails by looking at cutaneous diseases at a microscopic and molecular level. By revealing the histology of diseases and results from a specific diagnostic interpretation, Dr. Papalas is able to analyze the potential causes of skin diseases at a basic level.
Education and Training
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University 2006
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP- Dermatopathology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Paget disease of the vulva: a histologic study of 56 cases correlating pathologic features and disease course.
- Acquired vulvar lymphangioma circumscriptum: a comparison of 12 cases with Crohn's associated lesions or radiation therapy induced tumors.
- Primary mucinous carcinoma of the eyelid: a clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 4 cases and an update on recurrence rates.
- Pyogenic variant of primary cutaneous anaplastic large-cell lymphoma: a lymphoproliferative disorder with a predilection for the immunocompromized and the young.
- Molecular evidence of a genotypically novel large T-cell lymphoma after anti-CD4 therapy for refractory mycosis fungoides.
- Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK1) immunohistochemistry in diagnostic dermatopathology; an update.
- Clinical and histopathologic overlap between subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma with systemic features and small cell CD8+ ALK+ systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma with cutaneous involvement.
- Postal censorship of Bosnian public health institutions during the Second World War: The Independent State of Croatia versus Dr. Stanko Sielski.
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