Thomas Eskin
Professor, Chief of Neuropathology
Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Florida College of Medicine
Gainesville, Florida

Publications (Please refer to CV for complete list of publications)

    1. Maria B, Rehder K, Eskin T, Hamed L, Fennell E, Quisling R, Mickle J, Marcus R, Drane W, Mendenhall N, McCoullough W, Kedar A.  Brainstem Glioma: I. Pathology, Clinical features, and therapy.  J Child Neurology  8:112-128, April 1993.
    2. Kazee A, Eskin T, Lapham L, Gabriel K, McDaniel K, Hamill R.  Clinico-pathological correlations in Alzheimer's Disease:  Assessment of clinical and pathological diagnostic criteria.  Alzheimer's Dis Assoc Disord  7(3):132-135, 1993.
    3. Maria BL, Eskin TA, Quisling RG.  Brainstem and Other Malignant Gliomas: II. Possible mechanisms of brain infiltration by tumor cells.  J Child Neurol  8:292-305, 1993.
    4. Giovanini M, Eskin T, Mukherji S, Mickle JP.  Granulomatous angiitis of the spinal cord: A case report.  Neurosurg 34(3):540-543, 1994.
    5. Glasser R, Rojiani A, Mickle J, Eskin T.  Delayed occurrence of cerebellar pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma after supratentorial pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma removal.  Case report.  J. Neurosurg 82:116-118, 1995.
    6. Montine, O'Keane, Eskin, Giangasporo, Gray, Friedman and Burger.  "Isolated intra-medullary vascular malformations presenting as spinal cord tumors.  A report of three cases."  Neurosurgery 36:194-198, 1995.
    7. Powell SZ, Yachnis AT, Rorke LB, Rojiani AM, Eskin TA.  "Divergent differentiation in pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma: Evidence for a neuronal element and possible relationship to ganglion cell tumors.  Am J Surg Path 20:80-85, 1996.
    8. Yachnis AT, Berg J, Martinez-Salazar A, Bender BG, Diaz L, Rojiani AM, Eskin TA, Orenstein JM.  Disseminated microsporidiosis especially involving the brain, heart, and kidneys: report of a newly recognized pansporoblastic species in two symptomatic AIDS patients.  Am J Clin Pathol  106:535-543, 1996.
    9. Adair JC, Schwartz RL, Eskin TA, Yachnis A, Heilman KM.  Rapidly progressive dementia: a clinicopathologic correlation.  J Geriatr Psychiat Neurol 9:209-213, 1996.
    10. Yachnis AT, Powell SZ, Olmsted JJ, Eskin TA.  Distinct neurodevelopmental patterns of bcl-2 and bcl-x expression are altered in glioneuronal "hamartias" of the human temporal lobe.   J Neuropathol Exp Neurol  56:186-198, 1997.
    11. Giovanini MA, Reier PJ, Eskin TA, Wirth E, Anderson DK.  Characteristic of human fetal spinal cord grafts in the adult rat spinal cord: influences of lesion and grafting conditions.  Exp Neurol 148:523-543, 1997.
    12. Giovanini MA, Reier PJ, Eskin TA, Anderson DK.  MAP2 expression in the developing human fetal spinal cord and following xenotransplantation.  Cell Transplantation 6(3):339-346, 1997.
    13. Triggs WJ, Young MS, Eskin TA, Valenstein E.  Treatment of idiopathic lumbosacral plexopathy with intravenous immunoglobulin.  Muscle-Nerve  20(2):244-246, 1997.
    14. Yachnis AT, Giovanini MA, Eskin TA, Reier PJ, Anderson DK.  Developmental patterns of bcl-2 and bcl-x polypeptide expresion in the human spinal cord.  Exp Neurol 150:82-97, 1998.

Abstracts:

    1. Kurlan R, Eskin T.  Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis with severe chorea.  Movement Disorders  5 (Suppl.1):37, 1990.
    2. Mah V, Eskin T, Higgins G.  In situ hybridization of calcium/calmodulin dependent protein Kinase II and Tau mRNAs in Alzheimer's disease.  Society for Neuroscience Abstracts,  16:944, 1990.
    3. Eskin T.  Cerebral cortical changes in HIV-infected individuals with and without white matter alterations.  J Neuropath Exp Neurol 50:343, 1991.
    4. Kazee A, Eskin T, Lapham L, Gabriel K, McDaniel K, Hamill R.  Neuropathology from the Rochester Alzheimer's Disease Program.  J. Neuropathol. & Exp. Neurol. 51(3):315, May 1992.
    5. Powell SZ, Yachnis AT, Eskin TA.  Divergent differentiation in pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma:  Evidence for a "glioneuronal" element and possible relationship to ganglioglioma and related tumors.  Presented at the XIIth International Congress of Neuropathology, Toronto, Canada, September 17-23, 1994.  Brain Pathol 4:433, 1994. 
    6. Roper S, Gilmore R, Eskin TA, King, Browd, Leonard:  "MRI-based hippocampal volumetrics identify hippocampal sclerosis as confirmed by histologic examination."  Presented at the ASCP/CAP Spring Meeting in Orlando, Florida, April 1995. Am Assoc of Neurological Surg.
    7. Yachnis AT, Powell SZ, Eskin TA.  Developmental expression of bcl-2 in the human temporal lobe.  International Symposium on Oxidative Stress, Apoptosis, and Brain Damage.  Pittsburg PA, September 21-24, 1995.
    8. Yachnis AT, Bender BS, Martinez-Salazar A, Berg J, Rojiani AM, Eskin TA, Orenstein JM.  Central nervous system microsporidiosis in AIDS: a report of two cases. Presented at the U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology Meeting, Washington, DC, March 25, 1996. Lab Invest 74:133A [#773], 1996.
    9. Powell SZ, Eskin TA, Yachnis AT.  Bcl-2 like immunoreactivity identifies distinct cell populations in ependymal and astroglial neoplasms.  Presented at the U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology Meeting, Washington, DC., March 26, 1996.  Lab Invest 74:142A, 1996.
    10. Giovanini MA, Joy P, Eskin TA, Reier PJ, Anderson DK.  Early characterization and growth potential of human fetal spinal cord tissue grafts in intraspinal lesions in the rat.  Presented at the Third Annual American Society for Neural Transplantation, April 25-27, 1996.
    11. Yachnis AT, Eskin TA.  Distinct developmental programs of bcl-2 and bcl-x are altered in glioneuronal "hamartias" of the temporal lobe.  Presented at the American Association of Neuropathologists Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, June 1996.  J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 55:630 (Abstract #99), 1996.  Won the AANP Moore Award for best paper on Clinicopathologic Correlation.
    12. Sessions R, Yachnis AT, Eskin TA.  Bcl-2 expression in the normal human adenohypophysis and in pituitary adenomas.  Presented at the American Association of Neuropathologists Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, June 1996.  J Neuropathol Exp Neurol  55:627 (Abstract #87), 1996. 
    13. Roper SN, Eskin TA, King MA, Yachnis AT, Gilmore RL.  Dual pathology in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and developmental abnormalities.  Presented at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting, Denver, CO., April, 1997.
    14. Yachnis AT, Roper SN, Eskin TA.  Bcl-2 and bcl-x immunoreactivity in hippocampal sclerosis associated with temporal lobe epilepsy.  Presented at the American Association of Neuropathologists Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1997.  J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 56:600, 1997.
    15. Ellis TL, Roper SN, Gilmore RL, Eskin TA, Uthman BM, Eisenschenk S.  Seizure outcome after anterior temporal lobectomy: The University of Florida experience.  Congress of Neurological Surgeons, 1998.

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