Posts by Kristine M. Cornejo, MD
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Pathology Exam Protocol Proposed for Gender-affirming Orchiectomy Specimens
In most specimens from patients who underwent gender-affirming orchiectomy, Massachusetts General Hospital researchers identified absent or markedly reduced quantity of Leydig cells, epithelial hyperplasia, nuclear cytomegaly, and reduced tubular diameter. They propose a grossing protocol for adequate evaluation.
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Biopsy Tract Seeding Resulting in Perirenal Tissue Involvement in RCC May Not Warrant Upstaging
Kristine M. Cornejo, MD, genitourinary pathologist at Mass General and the Mass General Cancer Center, and colleagues determined that pT1 renal cell carcinomas that have perinephric fat involvement due to biopsy tract seeding, without other upstaging variables, behave more like pT1 tumors than tumors that are staged as pT3a due to true invasion.
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Review: Updates in Staging and Reporting of Genitourinary Malignancies
Pathologists at Massachusetts General Hospital urge colleagues to become aware of changes in the tumor, node, metastasis classification of prostate, penile, testicular, bladder, urethral, renal pelvis/ureter and kidney cancers.
Biography
Dr. Cornejo received her medical degree from the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and completed residency training in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She then completed a Genitourinary Pathology Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by a Dermatopathology Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center. She is board certified in anatomic and clinical pathology and holds subspecialty board certification in Dermatopathology. She joined the Massachusetts General Hospital Staff in 2017. Dr. Cornejo loves all aspects of Genitourinary Pathology and Dermatopathology, but has research interests particularly in translational and molecular studies involving renal, testicular and bladder neoplasms, and melanocytic and adnexal neoplasms, respectively. She has recently earned the Eleanor and Miles Shore Fellowship Award and is investigating BK (Polyoma)-virus associated urothelial carcinoma in post-transplant patients.
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