Dr. Carolyn Corlies Compton M.D., PH.D.
Pathologist | Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
31 Center Dr Suite 10a03 Bethesda MD, 20892About
Dr. Carolyn Compton is a pathologist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Compton is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Compton can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Compton 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.
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PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Loss of glutathione S-transferase (GST) mu phenotype in colorectal adenocarcinomas from patients with a GSTM1 positive genotype.
- Prevalence and prognostic significance of acinar cell differentiation in pancreatic endocrine tumors.
- Pathologic prognostic factors in the recurrence of rectal cancer.
- Histology of cystic tumors of the pancreas.
- Colorectal carcinoma: diagnostic, prognostic, and molecular features.
- Telomere shortening in cultured autografts of patients with burns.
- Surgical pathology for the oncology patient in the age of standardization: of margins, micrometastasis, and molecular markers.
- The staging of colorectal cancer: 2004 and beyond.
- A predictive model of rectal tumor response to preoperative radiotherapy using classification and regression tree methods.
- VEGF as a predictive marker of rectal tumor response to preoperative radiotherapy.
- The predictive value of apoptosis protease-activating factor 1 in rectal tumors treated with preoperative, high-dose-rate brachytherapy.
- Key issues in reporting common cancer specimens: problems in pathologic staging of colon cancer.
- Scoring of p53, VEGF, Bcl-2 and APAF-1 immunohistochemistry and interobserver reliability in colorectal cancer.
- Protocol for the examination of specimens from patients with invasive carcinomas of the appendix.
- Optimal pathologic staging: defining stage II disease.
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