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Research and Clinical Interests

Dr. Cangiarella is a member of the breast program with an intense interest in the use of fine needle aspiration biopsy to diagnoses diseases of the breast. Her research focus has been on the identification of morphologic criteria for accurate cytologic characterization of common and unusual mammary lesions.

Selected Publications

Mercado CL, Toth HK, Axelrod D, Cangiarella J. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of benign adenomyoepithelioma of the breast: Radiologic and pathologic correlation in four cases. Diagn Cytopathol. 2007 Nov;35(11):690–4. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 17924402.

Rapkiewicz A, Thuy Le B, Simsir A, Cangiarella J, Levine P. Spectrum of head and neck lesions diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration cytology in the pediatric population. Cancer. 2007 Aug 25;111(4):242–51. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 17554755.

Wang J, Simsir A, Mercado C, Cangiarella J. Can core biopsy reliably diagnose mucinous lesions of the breast? Am J Clin Pathol. 2007 Jan;127(1):124-7. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 17145634 .

Ende L, Mercado C, Axelrod D, Darvishian F, Levine P, Cangiarella J. Intraparenchymal leiomyoma of the breast: a case report and review of the literature. Ann Clin Lab Sci. 2007;37(3):268–73. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 17709693.

Ramdall RB, Cai G, Levine PH, Bhanote M, Garcia R, Cangiarella J. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy findings in epithelioid myoepithelioma of the parotid gland: a case report. Diagn Cytopathol. 2006 Nov;34(11):776–9. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 17041958 .

Guth AA, Mercado C, Roses DF, Hiotis K, Skinner K, Diflo T, Cangiarella J. Intramammary lymph nodes and breast cancer: a marker for disease severity, or just another lymph node? Am J Surg. 2006 Oct;192(4):502–5. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16978960.

Reid-Nicholson MD, Tong G, Cangiarella JF, Moreira AL. Cytomorphologic features of papillary lesions of the male breast: a study of 11 cases. Cancer. 2006 Aug 25;108(4):222–30. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16721805.

Mercado CL, Hamele-Bena D, Oken SM, Singer CI, Cangiarella J. Papillary lesions of the breast at percutaneous core-needle biopsy. Radiology. 2006 Mar;238(3):Epub 2006 Jan 19. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16424237.

Levine PH, Joutovsky A, Cangiarella J, Yee H, Simsir A. CDX-2 expression in pulmonary fine-needle aspiration specimens: a useful adjunct for the diagnosis of metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma. Diagn Cytopathol. 2006 Mar;34(3):191–5. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16470859.

Simsir A, Ioffe O, Sun P, Elgert P, Cangiarella J, Levine PH. Effect of Bethesda 2001 on reporting of atypical squamous cells (ASC) with special emphasis on atypical squamous cells-cannot rule out high grade (ASC-H). Diagn Cytopathol. 2006 Jan;34(1):62-6. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16355376.

Simsir A, Chhieng D, Wei XJ, Yee H, Waisman J, Cangiarella J. Utility of CD10 and RCCma in the diagnosis of metastatic conventional renal-cell adenocarcinoma by fine-needle aspiration biopsy. Diagn Cytopathol. 2005 Jul;33(1):3–7. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 15945081.

Levine PH, Nimeh D, Guth AA, Cangiarella JF. Aspiration biopsy of nodular pseudoangiomatous stromal hyperplasia of the breast: clinicopathologic correlates in 10 cases. Diagn Cytopathol. 2005 Jun;32(6):345-50. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 15880710.

Giashuddin S, Cangiarella J, Elgert P, Levine PH. Metastases to the kidney: eleven cases diagnosed by aspiration biopsy with histological correlation. Diagn Cytopathol. 2005 Jun;32(6):325–9. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 15880728.

Selected Books and Reviews

Levine PH, Cangiarella J. Cytomorphology of benign breast disease [review]. Clin Lab Med. 2005 Dec;25(4):689–712, vi. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16308087.

Levine P, Simsir A, Cangiarella J. Management issues in breast lesions diagnosed by fine-needle aspiration and percutaneous core breast biopsy [review]. Am J Clin Pathol. 2006 Jun;125 Suppl:S124–34. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 16830962.

Cangiarella J, Feiner H, Greco MA. Urinary System. In: Moran C, Illick FG, editors. Systemic Pathology of HIV infection and AIDS in children. Washington, DC: Armed Forces Institute of Pathology; 1997.

Organizational Associations

United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, American Society of Cytopathology, Papanicalaou Society of Cytopathology, Editorial Board, Diagnostic Cytopathology

Selected Awards

1986 NYU Alumni Key Pin Award; 1986-1990 Silverstein Scholarship, NYU School of Medicine; 1989 NYU Alumni Club Scholarship; 1990 Mandelbaum Prize in Pathology, NYU SOM

Hospital Affiliations

Tisch Hospital
Bellevue Hospital

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