Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine
Pathology
Dr. Sophia K. Apple, MD
Sophia Apple is an expert in the field of Pathology. She studied medicine at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. Sophia K. Apple, MD has written publications. She has 54 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Fine needle aspiration diagnosis of fibromatosis colli. A report of three cases.' Sophia K. Apple accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Cytokeratin 7 negative invasive breast carcinoma: clinicopathological and immunohistochemical analysis of 14 cases with clinical follow-up.
- The impact of atypia/follicular lesion of undetermined significance and repeat fine-needle aspiration: 5 years before and after implementation of the Bethesda System.
- Is axillary lymph node dissection necessary after sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with mastectomy and pathological N1 breast cancer?
- Comparative Evaluation of ProEx C and ImmunoCyt/uCyt Assays in Atypical Urine Cytology.
- Recurrence Rates in Breast Cancer Patients Who Had Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Alone Versus Completion Axillary Lymph Node Dissection: A 7-Year Clinical Follow-Up Study.
- Ductal Carcinoma In-situ Arising in a Complex Sclerosing Lesion with Secretory Endometrium-Like Changes.
- Utility of ProEx C in the histologic evaluation of the neoplastic and nonneoplastic urothelial lesions.
- A Pregnant Dilemma: Primary Hyperparathyroidism Due to Parathyromatosis in Pregnancy.
- Paraganglioma with unusual presentation in parotid gland: A diagnostic dilemma in fine needle aspiration.
- ProEx C as an adjunct marker to improve cytological detection of urothelial carcinoma in urinary specimens.
- Uterine Leiomyosarcoma Presenting as Breast Metastasis.
- High concordance between HercepTest immunohistochemistry and ERBB2 fluorescence in situ hybridization before and after implementation of American Society of Clinical O...
- In Papanicolaou smears, benign appearing endometrial cells bear no significance in predicting uterine endometrial adenocarcinomas.
- Effect of Ischemic Time, Fixation Time, and Fixative Type on HER2/neu Immunohistochemical and Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Results in Breast Cancer.
- Exclusion of the uniform tetraploid cells significantly improves specificity of the urine fish assay.
- Primary effusion lymphoma involving the cerebrospinal fluid.
- Fine needle aspiration of pigmented villonodular synovitis of the temporomandibular joint.
- Heterotopic breast tissue versus occult metastatic carcinoma in lymph node, a diagnostic dilemma.
- Does size matter? Comparison study between MRI, gross, and microscopic tumor sizes in breast cancer in lumpectomy specimens.
- A correlation study of diagnostic fine-needle aspiration with histologic diagnosis in cystic neck lesions.
- Comparison of fluorescent in situ hybridization HER-2/neu results on core needle biopsy and excisional biopsy in primary breast cancer.
- Sebaceous adenoma of the parotid gland: a case report with fine needle aspiration findings and histologic correlation.
- Should histologic type be taken into account when considering neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast carcinoma?
- A retrospective study of the diagnostic accuracy of fine-needle aspiration for breast lesions and implications for future use.
- Is a short-interval postradiation mammogram necessary after conservative surgery and radiation in breast cancer?
- A correlation study on diagnostic endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration of lymph nodes with histological and clinical diagnoses, the UCLA Medical Center ...
- Mucinous adenocarcinomas of the thymus: report of 2 cases and review of the literature.
- Interventional breast imaging: current procedures and assessing for concordance with pathology.
- Extensive sampling changes T-staging of infiltrating lobular carcinoma of breast: a comparative study of gross versus microscopic tumor sizes.
- Variability in gross and microscopic pathology reporting in excisional biopsies of breast cancer tissue.
- Histopathologic characteristics predicting HER-2/neu amplification in breast cancer.
- Spinal epidural compression complicating cancer of the cervix: review of seven cases.
- Treatment in patients with glioblastoma multiforme and poor performance status: is it worthwhile?
- Jejunal lymphangioma. An unusual cause of chronic gastrointestinal bleeding.
- How do we measure a residual tumor size in histopathology (the gold standard) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy?
- Fine needle aspiration diagnosis of fibromatosis colli. A report of three cases.
- Polymerase chain reaction-based K-ras mutation detection of pancreatic adenocarcinoma in routine cytology smears.
- Immunohistochemical evaluation of K-ras, p53, and HER-2/neu expression in hyperplastic, dysplastic, and carcinomatous lesions of the pancreas: evidence for multistep c...
- Comparative polymerase chain reaction analysis of c-myc amplification on archival breast fine-needle aspiration materials.
- Fine needle aspiration biopsy of solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura. A report of two cases with a discussion of diagnostic pitfalls.
- Single cell multiple biomarker analysis in archival breast fine-needle aspiration specimens: quantitative fluorescence image analysis of DNA content, p53, and G-actin ...
- Triple test approach to inadequate fine needle aspiration biopsies of palpable breast lesions.
- The effect of delay in fixation, different fixatives, and duration of fixation in estrogen and progesterone receptor results in breast carcinoma.
- Association between HER2, TOP2A, and response to anthracycline-based preoperative chemotherapy in high-risk primary breast cancer.
- Higher levels of GATA3 predict better survival in women with breast cancer.
- A pilot clinical study of short-term isoflavone supplements in breast cancer patients.
- Expression pattern of the novel gene EG-1 in cancer.
- HER2 in well differentiated breast cancer: is testing necessary?
- Do the histologic features and results of breast cancer biomarker studies differ between core biopsy and surgical excision specimens?
- Invasive ductal carcinoma with tissue neutrophilia: a distinct entity?
- Accurate classification of sentinel lymph node metastases in patients with lobular breast carcinoma.
- Significance of lobular intraepithelial neoplasia at margins of breast conservation specimens: a report of 38 cases and literature review.
- Reflex high risk HPV testing in atypical squamous cells, cannot exclude high grade intraepithelial lesion: a large institution''s experience with the significance of t...
Schools
Wright State University Main Campus
Doctors Specialties
- Cytopathology
- Pathology
Accepted Insurances
Education
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UCLA Medical Center -
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
Hospital
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Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital -
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
Helpful Reviews
Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1861437683 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | APPLE |
| First Name Of The Provider | SOPHIA |
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