
Melissa Perry Upton
Pathologist | Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
University Of Washington Medical Ctr 1959 Ne Pacific St Seattle WA, 98195About
Dr. Melissa Upton is a pathologist practicing in Seattle, WA. Dr. Upton is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Upton can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Upton may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
Education and Training
Northwestern Uniiversity 1978
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine 1978
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP- Cytopathology
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP- 1983
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Buddhism and medicine: reflections.
- Tyrosine kinases expressed in vivo by human prostate cancer bone marrow metastases and loss of the type 1 insulin-like growth factor receptor.
- Co-expression of the squamous cell carcinoma antigens 1 and 2 in normal adult human tissues and squamous cell carcinomas.
- Benign axillary lymph node inclusions.
- Thyroid hormone differentially regulates rat intestinal brush border enzyme gene expression.
- Accuracy and consistency in application of a probabilistic approach to reporting breast fine needle aspiration.
- Cytomorphology of verrucous carcinoma of the cervix. A case report.
- Tissue print micropeel: a new technique for mapping tumor invasion in prostate cancer.
- Endotheliitis in chronic viral hepatitis: a comparison with acute cellular rejection and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.
- Adenocarcinoma arising in a gastrocystoplasty.
- Ovarian-type stroma in hepatobiliary cystadenomas and pancreatic mucinous cystic neoplasms: an immunohistochemical study.
- Gastric hyperplastic polyps in post transplant patients: a clinicopathologic study.
- "Give us this day our daily bread"--evolving concepts in celiac sprue.
- Preclinical in vivo evaluation of an extracorporeal HIFU device for ablation of pancreatic tumors.
- Inflammatory enteric neuropathy with severe constipation after ipilimumab treatment for melanoma: a case report.
Fellowships
- Children's Hospital Boston, Boston
- National Cancer Research Institute
Melissa Perry Upton's Practice location
Practice At University Of Washington Medical Ctr 1959 Ne Pacific St
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