James Grenert, M.D.

Pathologist

Education

Mayo School of Medicine 2000

Residencies

UCSF Medical Center, Anatomic & Clinical Pathology 2002
UCSF Medical Center, Critical Care 2003

Fellowships

UCSF Medical Center, Surgical Pathology 2005

Selected Research and Publications

1. Siao D, Thoeni R, Grenert JP, Day LW. A rare presentation of abdominal pain: idiopathic mesenteric phlebosclerosis. Am J Gastroenterol. 2012 Nov; 107(11):1759-60.
2. Evason KJ, Grenert JP, Ferrell LD, Kakar S. Atypical hepatocellular adenoma-like neoplasms with ß-catenin activation show cytogenetic alterations similar to well-differentiated hepatocellular carcinomas. Hum Pathol. 2013 May; 44(5):750-8.
3. Aysal A, Karnezis A, Medhi I, Grenert JP, Zaloudek CJ, Rabban JT. Ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinoma: incidence and clinical significance of the morphologic and immunohistochemical markers of mismatch repair protein defects and tumor microsatellite instability. Am J Surg Pathol. 2012 Feb; 36(2):163-72.
4. Grenert JP, Smith A, Ruan W, Pillai R, Wu AH. Gene expression profiling from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue for tumor diagnosis. Clin Chim Acta. 2011 Jul 15; 412(15-16):1462-4.
5. Soon RK, Yan JS, Grenert JP, Maher JJ. Stress signaling in the methionine-choline-deficient model of murine fatty liver disease. Gastroenterology. 2010 Nov; 139(5):1730-9, 1739.e1.
6. Pickens MK, Ogata H, Soon RK, Grenert JP, Maher JJ. Dietary fructose exacerbates hepatocellular injury when incorporated into a methionine-choline-deficient diet. Liver Int. 2010 Sep; 30(8):1229-39.
7. Shah S, Sanford UR, Vargas JC, Xu H, Groen A, Paulusma CC, Grenert JP, Pawlikowska L, Sen S, Elferink RP, Bull LN. Strain background modifies phenotypes in the ATP8B1-deficient mouse. PLoS One. 2010; 5(2):e8984.
8. Rabban JT, McAlhany S, Lerwill MF, Grenert JP, Zaloudek CJ. PAX2 distinguishes benign mesonephric and mullerian glandular lesions of the cervix from endocervical adenocarcinoma, including minimal deviation adenocarcinoma. Am J Surg Pathol. 2010 Feb; 34(2):137-46.
9. Shafizadeh N, Grenert JP, Sahai V, Kakar S. Epidermal growth factor receptor and HER-2/neu status by immunohistochemistry and fluorescence in situ hybridization in adenocarcinomas of the biliary tree and gallbladder. Hum Pathol. 2010 Apr; 41(4):485-92.
10. de Alba Campomanes AG, Rutar T, Crawford JB, Seiff S, Goodman D, Grenert J. Crystal-storing histiocytosis and crystalline keratopathy caused by monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance. Cornea. 2009 Oct; 28(9):1081-4.
11. Carter JT, Grenert JP, Rubenstein L, Stewart L, Way LW. Neuroendocrine tumors of the ampulla of Vater: biological behavior and surgical management. Arch Surg. 2009 Jun; 144(6):527-31.
12. Cheng LE, Kanwar B, Tcheurekdjian H, Grenert JP, Muskat M, Heyman MB, McCune JM, Wara DW. Persistent systemic inflammation and atypical enterocolitis in patients with NEMO syndrome. Clin Immunol. 2009 Jul; 132(1):124-31.
13. Pickens MK, Yan JS, Ng RK, Ogata H, Grenert JP, Beysen C, Turner SM, Maher JJ. Dietary sucrose is essential to the development of liver injury in the methionine-choline-deficient model of steatohepatitis. J Lipid Res. 2009 Oct; 50(10):2072-82.
14. Hwang HS, Glastonbury CM, Grenert JP, Lustig LR. Expansile bone cyst and cholesteatoma of the temporal bone. Otol Neurotol. 2009 Feb; 30(2):170-3.
15. Rabban JT, Lerwill MF, McCluggage WG, Grenert JP, Zaloudek CJ. Primary ovarian carcinoid tumors may express CDX-2: a potential pitfall in distinction from metastatic intestinal carcinoid tumors involving the ovary. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 2009 Jan; 28(1):41-8.
16. Carter JT, Grenert JP, Rubenstein L, Stewart L, Way LW. Tumors of the ampulla of vater: histopathologic classification and predictors of survival. J Am Coll Surg. 2008 Aug; 207(2):210-8.
17. Somsouk M, Shergill AK, Grenert JP, Harris H, Cello JP, Shah JN. Actinomycosis mimicking a pancreatic head neoplasm diagnosed by EUS-guided FNA. Gastrointest Endosc. 2008 Jul; 68(1):186-7.
18. Kanwar B, Gao DW, Hwang AB, Grenert JP, Williams SP, Franc B, McCune JM. In vivo imaging of mucosal CD4+ T cells using single photon emission computed tomography in a murine model of colitis. J Immunol Methods. 2008 Jan 1; 329(1-2):21-30.
19. Modica R, Emery H, Lam W, Hermiston M, Grenert J, Wirt M, von Scheven E. Epstein-Barr virus-associated B cell lymphoproliferative disease in a child with neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease. Arthritis Rheum. 2006 Oct 15; 55(5):823-5.
20. Rajpal S, Warren RS, Alexander M, Yeh BM, Grenert JP, Hintzen S, Ljung BM, Bergsland EK. Pancreatoblastoma in an adult: case report and review of the literature. J Gastrointest Surg. 2006 Jun; 10(6):829-36.

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