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Thomas Krausz, MD, FRCPath

Director of Anatomic Pathology

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Department of Pathology
University of Chicago
5841 S. Maryland Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637-1470
Phone: (773) 834-8541
Fax: (773) 834-7644
Thomas.Krausz@uchospitals.edu

Clinical Interest

Dr. Thomas Krausz is an expert pathologist with broad interests in tumor pathology including melanocytic tumors, soft tissue tumors, breast tumors, lung tumors and mesothelioma.

Research Interests

The relationship between the persistence of neutrophil metabolic activity and the development of pulmonary fibrosis in animal models following pulmonary challenge with fibrogenic and non-fibrogenic inflammatory stimuli. Pathogenesis of shock caused by Gram-positive and negative bacteria. Develop sulphated dextrins as anti-HIV agents. Investigation of survival and maturation of human primordial ovarian follicles in vitro. Changes of extracellular matrix, integrins and expression of stem cell factor receptor in melanocytic tumors. The National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Environmental Health Science have funded Dr. Krausz's research

Selected Textbook Publications

Mooi WJ, Krausz T: Biopsy Pathology of Melanocytic Disorders. Biopsy Pathology Series. Chapman & Hall Medical, London, 1992.
Schofield JB, Krausz T: Serous Cavities: Metastatic disease and lymphomas. In: Diagnostic Cytopathology, Ed. Gray W. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, pp. 149-193, 1995.

Selected Publications

Sattar HA, Husain AN, Kim AY, Krausz T. The Presence of a CD21+ Follicular Dendritic Cell Network Distinguishes Invasive Quilty Lesions From Cardiac Acute Cellular Rejection. Am J Surg Pathol. 2006 Aug;30(8):1008-1013.
Pang D, Kocherginsky M, Krausz T, Kim SY, Conzen SD. Dexamethasone Decreases Xenograft Response to Paclitaxel Through Inhibition of Tumor Cell Apoptosis. Cancer Biol Ther. 2006 Aug 2;5(8).
Mooi WJ, Krausz T. Spitz Nevus Versus Spitzoid Melanoma: Diagnostic Difficulties, Conceptual Controversies. Adv Anat Pathol. 2006 Jul;13(4):147-156.
Rubin B, Fletcher C, Inwards C, Montage A, Peabody T, Qualman S, Rosenberg A, Weiss S, Krausz T. Protocol for the Examination of Specimens From Patients With Soft Tissue Tumors of Intermediate Malignant Potential, Malignant Soft Tissue Tumors, and Benign/Locally Aggressive and Malignant Bone Tumors. Accepted. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2006.
Chang T, Husain A, Colby T, Taxy J, Welch W, Cheung S, Early A, Travis W, Krausz T. Pneumocytic Adenomyoepithelioma: a distinctive lung tumor with epithelial, myoepithelial, and pneumocytic differentiation. Accepted. Am J Surg Path. 2006.
Pytel P, Taxy JB, Krausz T. Divergent differentiation in malignant soft tissue neoplasms: the paradigm of liposarcoma and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor. Int J Surg Pathol. 2005 Jan;13:19-28

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