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Robert
H. Young, M.D.
Professor
of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Pathologist, and Associate Chief, Anatomic Pathology
Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Department of Pathology – WRN 2
Massachusetts General Hospital
55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114
Tel: 617-726-8892
Fax: 617-726-9151 |
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out: GYN and GU surgicals and frozen sections.
Research:
Clinicopathological studies in the
field of gynecological and urological pathology. In
gynecologic pathology a particular interest has been
in ovarian tumors in the categories of the sex cord-stromal
tumors and metastatic neoplasms. Dr. Young has written
many papers with his senior colleague, Dr. Robert
E. Scully, including large numbers on sex cord tumors
which have helped define their morphologic spectrum
and clinical behavior. In recent years, Dr. Young
and Dr. Scully have highlighted the propensity for
mucinous tumors metastatic to the ovary to simulate
primary mucinous cancers of the ovary, work that has
been confirmed by other observers. Studies continue
on the exploration of various aspects of the morphology
of primary and metastatic ovarian neoplasms. In the
area of uterine pathology, Dr. Young’s special
interests at this time include the morphology of unusual
variants of endometrial cancer. Several studies have
just been completed or are in progress in that field.
Dr. Young, Dr. Scully and other colleagues have written
extensively on both benign and malignant glandular
lesions of the cervix and have defined several new
entities in this area of pathology, entities whose
recognition has very important clinical consequences
with regard to therapy.
In urologic pathology, Dr. Young’s
major interests are in bladder and testicular tumor
pathology. Dr. Young and fellow collaborators have
highlighted in recent years some deceptively benign
patterns of bladder cancer that can cause them to
be misinterpreted as benign lesions. In companion
with that area of investigation he has explored the
morphology of the converse problem, namely the misinterpretation
of various benign lesions as cancer, a recent example
being the first description of pseudocarcinomatous
proliferations in the bladder related to radiation
therapy. Dr. Young has written extensively on unusual
variants of testicular cancer, several of the studies
representing the largest reported experience with
certain unusual neoplasms. Dr. Young has co-authored
an Atlas of Gynecological Pathology. He is also a
co-author with Dr. Robert Scully of the 3rd Series
Fascicle on Tumors of the ovary, and with others of
two other works in the same series, on tumors of the
testis, and tumors of the prostate gland and related
structures. He is director of annual courses on surgical
pathology, gynecological pathology and urologic pathology.
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