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Jane L Messina
Associate Professor

Department of Pathology and Cell Biology,
MDC 11 University of South Florida
12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33612
(813) 974-3744 (USF)/ (813) 979-3001 (MCC)

Jane Messina

Year appointed: 1994

 

Affiliations:
Site/Title
MCC: Cutaneous Oncology Program
STAFF DERMATOPATHOLOGIST

Qulaifications:
Diplomate of the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 1994, and special qualification in Dermatopathology, 1005

Expertise/ Research Interests:
- Dermatopathology
- Melanoma Sentinel Lymph Node Pathology

Memberships:
CAP, ASCP, FWCAP, American Society of DermatoPathology and Cell Biology

Publications:
1. Castellano-Howard L, Fairbee SI, Hogan DJ, Fenske NA, Messina JL*. Extrafacial Granuloma Faciale: Report of a Case and Response to Treatment. Cutis 2001 May; 67:413-415.

2. Cherpelis BS, Haddad F, Messina J, Cantor AB, Fitzmorris K, Reintgen DS, Fenske NA, Glass LF. Sentinel lymph node micrometastasis and other histologic factors that predict outcome in Patients with thicker melanomas. J Am Acad Dermatol 2001; 44:762-6.

3. Shivers SC, Li W, Lin J, Stall A, Stafford M, Messina J, Glass LF, Reintgen DS. The clinical relevance of molecular staging for melanoma. Recent Results Cancer Res. Jan 2001; 158: 187-99.

4. Lee JR; Dalton RR; Messina JL; Sharma MD; Smith DM; Burgess RE; Mazzella F; Antonia SJ; Mellor AL; Munn DH. Pattern of recruitment of immunoregulatory antigen-presenting cells in malignant melanoma. Lab Invest Oct. 2003; 83(10): 1457-66.

5. Reschly MJ; Messina JL*; Zaulyanov LL; Cruse W; Fenske NA Utility of sentinel lymphadenectomy in the management of patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Dermatol Surg Feb. 2003; 29(2): 135-40.

6. Sackstein R; Messina JL; Elfenbein GJ In vitro adherence of lymphocytes to dermal endothelium under shear stress: implications in pathobiology and steroid therapy of acute cutaneous GVHD. Blood Jan. 2003; 101(2): 771-8.

7. Lee JR, Dalton RR, Messina JL, Sharma MD, Smith DM, Burgess RE, Mazzella F, Antonia SJ, Mellor AL, Munn DH. Pattern of recruitment of immunoregulatory antigen-presenting cells in malignant melanoma. Lab Invest Oct. 2003; 83(10): 1457-66.

8. Bickle K, Glass LF, Messina JL, Fenske NA, Siegrist K. Merkel cell carcinoma: a clinical, histopathologic, and immunohistochemical review. Semin Cutan Med Surg. Mar 2004; 23(1): 46-53.

9. Munn DH, Sharma MD, Hou D, Baban B, Lee JR, Antonia SJ, Messina JL, Chandler P, Koni PA, Mellor AL. Expression of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase by plasmacytoid dendritic cells in tumor-draining lymph nodes. J Clin Invest Jul 2004; 114(2): 280-90.

10. Naing A, Messina JL, Vrionis FR, Daud AI. Uncommon manifestations of common malignancies: case 3. Malignant melanoma arising from a spinal nerve root.J Clin Oncol. Aug. 2004; 22(15): 3194-5.

11. Riker AI, Glass F, Perez I, Cruse CW, Messina J, Sondak VK. Cutaneous melanoma: methods of biopsy and definitive surgical excision. Dermatol Ther. 2005 Sept-Oct. 18(5): 387-93.

12. Puleo CA, Messina JL, Riker AI, Glass LF, Nelson C, Cruse CW, Johnson TM, Sondak VK. Sentinel node biopsy for thin melanomas: which patients should be considered? Cancer Control 2005 Oct; 12(4): 230-5

13. Homsi J, Kashani-Sabet M, Messina JL, Daud A. Cutaneous melanoma: prognostic factors. Cancer Control 2005 Oct; 12(4):223-9.

14. Chang SJ, Sims J, Murtagh FB, McCaffrey JC, Messina JL*. Proliferating trichilemmal cysts of the scalp on CT. Am J Neuroradiol. March 2006; 27(3): 712-4.

15. Baldwin BT, Prakash A, Fenske NA, Messina JL*. Aquagenic Acrosyringeal Keratoderma: Report of a Case with Histologic Findings. J Am Acad Dermatol; May 2006; 54(5): 899-902.