Professor of Pathology, Associate Professor of Dermatology, Professor of Oncology, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Director, Head and Neck Pathology Laboratory
Pathology
Dr. William Westra, MD
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Doctor William Westra, MD practices Pathology. He went to University of Florida College of Medicine. University of Florida College of Medicine has a rank of 43 in research and a 78 in primary care He over the years received 2 awards: "Top Doctors:Baltimore Area" and "Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore". William Westra is a published doctor. He published 43 publications, including: 'RNA in-situ hybridization is a practical and effective method for determining HPV status of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma including discordant cases that are p...' William Westra accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Paraneoplastic syndromes in patients with laryngeal neuroendocrine carcinomas: clinical manifestations and prognostic significance.
- Cetuximab activity in dysplastic lesions of the upper aerodigestive tract.
- Eosinophilic Mucin Otomastoiditis and Otopolyposis: A Progressive Form of Eosinophilic Otitis Media.
- Randomized Phase III Trial to Test Accelerated Versus Standard Fractionation in Combination With Concurrent Cisplatin for Head and Neck Carcinomas in the Radiation The...
- Saliva and plasma quantitative polymerase chain reaction-based detection and surveillance of human papillomavirus-related head and neck cancer.
- SMARCB1 (INI-1)-deficient Carcinomas of the Sinonasal Tract.
- Detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) in clinical samples: Evolving methods and strategies for the accurate determination of HPV status of head and neck carcinomas.
- Clinical, Genomic and Metagenomic Characterization of Oral Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Patients Who Do Not Smoke.
- Key tumor suppressor genes inactivated by "greater promoter" methylation and somatic mutations in head and neck cancer.
- Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma Does Not Harbor Transcriptionally Active High Risk Human Papillomavirus Even in the Absence of the MAML2 Translocation.
- Human papillomavirus (HPV) status of non-tobacco related squamous cell carcinomas of the lateral tongue.
- Long Interspersed Element-1 Protein Expression Is a Hallmark of Many Human Cancers.
- Human papillomavirus status of head and neck cancer as determined in cytologic specimens using the hybrid-capture 2 assay.
- Glandular Odontogenic Cysts (GOCs) Lack MAML2 Rearrangements: A Finding to Discredit the Putative Nature of GOC as a Precursor to Central Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma.
- Clusterin Is a Gene-Specific Target of microRNA-21 in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
- Aquaporin-1 Promoter Hypermethylation Is Associated with Improved Prognosis in Salivary Gland Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma.
- The expanding role of cytopathology in the diagnosis of HPV-related squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.
- Differential expression of degradome components in cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas.
- HPV-related oropharyngeal carcinoma with Overt Level II and/or III metastases at presentation: The risk of subclinical disease in ipsilateral levels IB, IV and V.
- Utility of mammaglobin immunohistochemistry as a proxy marker for the ETV6-NTRK3 translocation in the diagnosis of salivary mammary analogue secretory carcinoma.
- Most nonparotid "acinic cell carcinomas" represent mammary analog secretory carcinomas.
- Long-term prognosis and risk factors among patients with HPV-associated oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.
- Cytopathologic features of mammary analogue secretory carcinoma.
- Recurrence patterns and management of oral cavity premalignant lesions.
- GATA3 Immunohistochemical Expression in Salivary Gland Neoplasms.
- Human Papillomavirus-related Carcinoma With Adenoid Cystic-like Features: A Peculiar Variant of Head and Neck Cancer Restricted to the Sinonasal Tract.
- Association between BRAF V600E mutation and mortality in patients with papillary thyroid cancer.
- Identification of guanine nucleotide-binding protein ?-7 as an epigenetically silenced gene in head and neck cancer by gene expression profiling.
- DNA copy number variations characterize benign and malignant thyroid tumors.
- Rare diagnosis of IgG4-related systemic disease by lip biopsy in an international Sjögren syndrome registry.
- Molecular etiology of second primary tumors in contralateral tonsils of human papillomavirus-associated index tonsillar carcinomas.
- Metastatic squamous cell carcinoma to the brain: an unrecognized pattern of distant spread in patients with HPV-related head and neck cancer.
- A broad survey of cathepsin k immunoreactivity in human neoplasms.
- Exomic Sequencing of Medullary Thyroid Cancer Reveals Dominant and Mutually Exclusive Oncogenic Mutations in RET and RAS.
- Human papillomavirus-related carcinomas of the sinonasal tract.
- Tissue imprint for molecular mapping of deep surgical margins in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
- Regenerative potentials of the murine thyroid in experimental autoimmune thyroiditis: role of CD24.
- Outlier Analysis Defines Zinc Finger Gene Family DNA Methylation in Tumors and Saliva of Head and Neck Cancer Patients.
- Novel insight into mutational landscape of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
- Expression Microarray Analysis Reveals Alternative Splicing of LAMA3 and DST Genes in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
- Molecular pathology of head and neck cancer: implications for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment.
- RNA in-situ hybridization is a practical and effective method for determining HPV status of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma including discordant cases that are p...
Schools
University Of Florida
Johns Hopkins University School Med
Doctors Specialties
- Anatomic Pathology
- Pathology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top Doctors:Baltimore Area
- Top Doctors:Washington-Baltimore
Education
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Johns Hopkins University -
University of Florida College of Medicine
Hospital
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Johns Hopkins Hospital
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1114953346 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | WESTRA |
| First Name Of The Provider | WILLIAM |
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