Scholars@Duke
Michael Stuart Waugh

Michael Stuart Waugh

Assistant Professor of Pathology
Pathology
michael.waugh@duke.edu
Duke Box 3712, Durham, NC 27710
Dept of Pathology, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy of the intrapancreatic accessory spleen: a report of 2 cases.

Journal Article Acta Cytol · 2010 BACKGROUND: Intrapancreatic accessory spleen (IPAS) can pose a challenge in the diagnostic workup by mimicking a pancreatic neoplasm. Reports of IPAS identified by endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) are scant in the literature, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Extranodal follicular dendritic cell sarcoma.

Journal Article Arch Pathol Lab Med · October 2008 Extranodal follicular dendritic cell sarcoma is a rare tumor of follicular dendritic cells that can occur in a wide variety of sites. Although fairly well characterized histologically, with a distinct immunophenotype, it remains under-recognized, with as m ... Full text Link to item Cite

Use of the ThinPrep method in bile duct brushings: analysis of morphologic parameters associated with malignancy and determination of interobserver reliability.

Journal Article Diagn Cytopathol · September 2008 Recent work suggests the ThinPrep method can improve diagnostic sensitivity and accuracy in bile duct brushings. However, the proportion of atypical and suspicious diagnoses remains high. The aim of this study was to identify the most useful morphologic fe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Desmoplastic small round cell tumor: using FISH as an ancillary technique to support cytologic diagnosis in an unusual case.

Journal Article Diagn Cytopathol · August 2007 Desmoplastic small round cell tumor is a rare and aggressive neoplasm that predominantly affects young males. In almost all cases, a reciprocal translocation is present resulting in the fusion of the Ewing sarcoma gene with the Wilms' tumor gene. Here we d ... Full text Link to item Cite

Silent corticotroph cell pituitary adenoma in a struma ovarii.

Journal Article Int J Gynecol Pathol · January 2007 This is the first report of a silent corticotroph cell pituitary adenoma arising in a struma ovarii. The patient, a 79-year-old woman, was found to have an asymptomatic left-sided adnexal mass confirmed by vaginal sonography to be a complex cystic and soli ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ras1 controls pheromone expression and response during mating in Cryptococcus neoformans.

Journal Article Fungal Genet Biol · February 2003 The Cryptococcus neoformans Ras1 signal transduction pathway controls mating, hyphal differentiation, and the ability of this opportunistic human fungal pathogen to grow at elevated temperatures. To further elucidate how Ras1 signals in this organism, the ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ras1 and Ras2 contribute shared and unique roles in physiology and virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans.

Journal Article Microbiology (Reading) · January 2002 The Ras1 signal transduction pathway controls the ability of the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans to grow at high temperatures and to mate. A second RAS gene was identified in this organism. RAS2 is expressed at a very low level compared to RAS1, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Ras1 and Ras2 contribute shared and unique roles in physiology and virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans

Journal Article Microbiology · 2002 The Ras1 signal transduction pathway controls the ability of the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans to grow at high temperatures and to mate. A second RAS gene was identified in this organism. RAS2 is expressed at a very low level compared to RAS1, ... Cite

Signal transduction cascades regulating fungal development and virulence.

Journal Article Microbiol Mol Biol Rev · December 2000 Cellular differentiation, mating, and filamentous growth are regulated in many fungi by environmental and nutritional signals. For example, in response to nitrogen limitation, diploid cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae undergo a dimorphic transiti ... Full text Link to item Cite