Dr. Peter Murray Banks M.D.
Pathologist | Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
1000 Blythe Blvd Charlotte NC, 28203About
Dr. Peter Banks is a pathologist practicing in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Banks is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Banks can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Banks 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
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1971
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Spontaneous splenic rupture with fatal outcome following G-CSF administration for myelodysplastic syndrome.
- Myocardial calcification in a fetus: a distinctive presentation of in utero herpes simplex virus type II infection.
- Human herpesvirus-6-associated acute lymphadenitis in immunocompetent adults.
- Acute panmyelosis with myelofibrosis: an entity distinct from acute megakaryoblastic leukemia.
- Langerhans cell sarcoma.
- Brief communication: severe hepatotoxicity of telithromycin: three case reports and literature review.
- Castleman disease of the hyaline-vascular type confined to the kidney.
- Co-occurrence of Langerhans cell histiocytosis and Rosai-Dorfman disease: possible relationship of two histiocytic disorders in rare cases.
- In immunocompromised patients, Epstein-Barr virus lymphadenitis can mimic angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma morphologically, immunophenotypically, and genetically: a case report and review of the literature.
- The recognition and classification of lymphoproliferative disorders of the gut.
- Comparison of Dual-ISH (DISH) With Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) and Correlation With Immunohistochemical Findings for HER2/Neu Status in Breast Carcinoma.
Fellowships
- Univeristy of Minnesota, Surgical Pathology, MN, USA 1976
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