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Janice M. Lage, M.D.
Professor and Chair,
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Room 304, Children's Hospital

Phone: 843-792-3121
Fax: 843-792-0555

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Clinical Expertise:

  • Obstetric/Gynecologic/Placenta/Perinatal Pathology

  • General Surgical Pathology


 

Education:

  • B.S., 1973, California State University

  • M.D., 1980, Washington University School of Medicine

  • Intern in Pathology 1980-1981, Stanford University Medical Center

  • Pathology Resident, 1981-1982, Barnes Hospital and Washington University

  • Obstetrics/Gynecology Resident, 1982-1983, Barnes Hospital and Washington University

  • Surgical Pathology Fellow, 1983-1984, Barnes Hospital and Washington University

 

Research Interests:

  • Gestational Pathology, Placenta, Perinatal

  • Trophoblastic Disease

  • Breast Pathology

  • Gynecologic Pathology

 

Recent Publications:

  1. Bullard RS, Belgrave JK, Gibson W, Eaddy AC, Hazen-Martin D, Wright C, Keane TE, Ganz TA, Lage JM, Donald CD.  Functional analysis of the host defense peptide  human beta denfensin-1 :  New insight in its potential role in cancer.  Molecular Immunology. 2008, February, 45(3):  839-48
  2. Farghaly H, Bourgeois D, Padmanabhan V, Houser PM, Lage JM, Hoda RS. Routine vaginal pap test is not useful in women status-post hysterectomy for benign disease. Diag Cytpath 2006:34:640-643.
  3. Sheikh SS, Amr SS, Lage JM. Acute placental infection due to Klebsiella pneumoniae: Report of a unique case. 2005 Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol 2005;13(1)49-52. (abstract)
  4. Lage JM. Yolk sac tumor (endodermal sinus tumor). PIP-2005 CAP Performance Improvement Program, Case # 2005-02, pp 8-10.
  5. Lage JM. Complex endometrial hyperplasia. DSP-2005 CAP Digital Slide Performance Improvement Program, Case # 2005-A1, pp 1-2.
  6. Lage JM. Atypical polypoid adenomyoma. DSP-2005 CAP Digital Slide Performance Improvement Program, Case # 2005-A2, pp 3.
  7. Kim Mi-Jung, Kim Kyu-Rae, Ro Jae Y, Lage Janice M, Lee Hyang-Im. Diagnostic and pathogenetic significance of increased stromal apoptosis and incomplete vasculogenesis in complete hydatidiform moles in very early pregnancy periods. Am J Surg Pathol 2006;30:362-369. (abstract)
  8. Laudadio J, Keane TE, Reeves HM, Savage SJ, Hoda RS, Lage JM, Wolff DJ. Fluorescence in situ hybridization for detecting transitional cell carcinoma: implications for clinical practice. British Journal of Urology 2005;96(9):1280-1285. (abstract)
  9. Fukunaga M, Katabuchi H, Nagasaka T, Mikami Y, Minamiguchi S, Lage JM. Interobserver and intraobserver variabilit in the diagnosis of hydatidiform mole. Am J Surg Pathol 2005;29(7):942-947. (abstract)
  10. Lage JM. Metastatic gastric carcinoma. PIP-2004-35 CAP Performance Improvement Program, Case # 2004-35, pp 15-18. (abstract)
  11. Papadea C, Lage JM. Immunosuppressants testing in transplantation. Letter to the Editor, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. In press, December 2004.
  12. Lage JM. Juvenile Granulosa Cell Tumor. PIP-2004 CAP Performance Improvement Program, Case # 2004-15, pp 14-17. (abstract)
  13. Christiansen LR, Lage JM, Wolff DJ, Pai GS, Harley RA. Mosaic duplication 1(q11q44) in an infant with nephroblastomatosis and mineralization of extraplacental membranes. Pediatric and Developmental Pathology 2004;7:1-9 (abstract)
  14. Lage JM et al. Protocol applies to all gestational trophoblastic malignancies. Cancer Committee, College of American Pathologists Web Publication January 2004.
  15. Lage, JM, Minamiguchi S, Richardson, MS. Gestational trophoblastic diseases: update on new immunohistochemical findings. Current Diagnostic Pathology 2003;9:1-10.

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