Z. Laura Tabatabai, MD
Research and Clinical Interests
My interests are primarily in cytopathology and genitourinary pathology. I participate in research projects involving the cytopathology of cancers of the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts, effusion cytology, and application of immunohistochemical techniques in interpretation of cytological and surgical samples. I am also involved in projects studying the role of three dimensional magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging and clinical MR imaging in the detection of prostate cancer and its relation to diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of disease as well as studies aimed at characterization of the epigenetic alterations involved in aging and ethnicity-related prostate cancer.
Selected Publications
- Z. L. Tabatabai; S. Krishnamurthy. Radiation-induced atypical glandular cells mimicking recurrent adenocarcinoma in a posthysterectomy vaginal smear. Acta Cytol. 47:106-107, 2003
- ZL Tabatabai, GA Staerkel. Distinguishing primary and metastatic conventional renal cell carcinoma from other malignant neoplasms in fine needle aspiration biopsy specimens. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 129(8):1017-21, 2005
- Ogishima T, Shiina H, Breault JE, Tabatabai L, Bassett WW, Enokida H, Li LC, Kawakami T, Urakami S, Ribeiro-Filho LA, Terashima M, Fujime M, Igawa M, Dahiya R. Increased heparanase expression is caused by promoter hypomethylation and up-regulation of transcriptional factor early growth response-1 in human prostate cancer. Clin Cancer Res 11(3):1028-1036, 2005
- Enokida H, Shiina H, Urakami S, Igawa M, Ogishima T, Pookot D, Li LC, Tabatabai ZL, Kawahara M, Nakagawa M, Kane CJ, Carroll PR, Dahiya R. Ethnic group-related differences in CpG hypermethylation of the GSTP1 gene promoter among African-American, Caucasian and Asian patients with prostate cancer. Int J Cancer 116(2):174-181, 2005
- Mark G. Swanson, Andrew S. Zektzer, Z. Laura Tabatabai, Jeffry Simko, Samson Jarso, Kayvan R. Keshari, Lars Schmitt, Peter R. Carroll, Katsuto Shinohara, Daniel B. Vigneron, and John Kurhanewicz. Quantitative Analysis of Prostate Metabolites using 1H HR-MAS Spectroscopy. Magn Reson Med 55(6):1257-64, 2006
- Associate Professor of Pathology, UCSF; Director, Cytopathology, SFVA
- Pathology
- Surgical Pathology
- Cytopathology
Specialty Area
- Cytopathology
Contact Information
- laura.tabatabai@
ucsf.edu - Phone: 415-221-4810 ext. 3315
- Pager: 415-739-6266
- Fax: 750-6947
- Department of Pathology, 113B
- 4150 Clement Street
- San Francisco, CA 94121
Hospital Affiliation(s)
- Moffitt-Long
- Veterans Administration