About Vania Nose, MD, PhD
Dr. Nose is a surgical pathologist with subspecialty expertise in endocrine pathology. She has served as a consultant for difficult endocrine pathology cases locally, regionally, and internationally. Dr. Nose has published extensively on endocrine pathology, tumor pathology, and also in molecular aspects of neoplasia with over 150 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Nose has described the pathological classification of familial thyroid tumors, inherited tumor syndromes, as well as the pituitary pathology synoptic reporting. She is the author of the CAP endocrine pathology competencies. She had served on the editorial boards of numerous pathology journals and is a past President of the Endocrine Pathology Society. Dr. Nose authored a comprehensive textbook in endocrine pathology titled "Diagnostic Pathology: Endocrine."
Clinical Interests:
- Adrenal tumors
- Endocrine pancreas
- Endocrine pathology
- Endocrine tumors
- Parathyroid tumors
- Pituitary tumors
- Salivary Gland Tumors
- Surgical pathology
- Thyroid pathology
- Thyroid tumors
Treats:
- Adult & Pediatrics
Languages:
- Portuguese
Locations
Mass General Pathology
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-643-0800
Medical Education
- MD, State University of Campinas School of Medical Sciences
- Residency, Boston Children's Hospital
- Residency, Boston University Medical Center
- Residency, Brown / Rhode Island Hospital
- Residency, Mallory Institute of Pathology
- Residency, New England Deaconess Hospital
- Residency, New England Deaconess Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Clinical Pathology, American Board of Pathology
- Pathology-Anatomic, American Board of Pathology
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Publications
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Son E, Nose V. Familial follicular cell-derived thyroid carcinoma.Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2012;3:61
Nose V, et al. Protocol for the examination of specimens from patients with primary pituitary tumors. Arch Pathol Lab Med.2011;135(5):640-6
Nose V. Familial thyroid cancer: a review. Mod Pathol.2011;24 S2:S19-33
Chen J, Faquin W, Lloyd R, Nose V. Clinicopathological and molecular characterization of nine cases of columnar cell variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma.Mod Pathol.2011;24(5):739-49
Laury A, et al, Nose V. Thyroid pathology in PTEN-hamartoma tumor syndrome: characteristic findings of a distinct entity. Thyroid. 2011;21(2):135-44
Nose V. Thyroid cancer of follicular cell origin in inherited tumor syndromes. Adv Anat Pathol. 2010;17(6):428-36
Sadow P,et al, Nose V. Absence of BRAF,NRAS, KRAS, HRAS mutations, and RET/PTC gene rearrangements distinguishes dominant nodules in Hashimoto thyroiditis from papillary thyroid carcinomas. EndocrPathol.2010;21(2):73-9
Nose V. Familial follicular cell tumors:classification and morphological characteristics. EndocrPathol.2010;21(4):219-26
Schmidt J, et al, Nose V. BRAF in papillary thyroid carcinoma of ovary (struma ovarii). Am J Surg Pathol. 2007;31(9):1337-43
Reimann J, Dorfman D, Nose V. Carcinoma showing thymus-like differentiation of the thyroid (CASTLE): a comparative study: evidence of thymic differentiation and solid cell nest origin. Am J Surg Pathol. 2006;30(8):994-1001