Vasiliki Leventaki
Department of Hematopathology, Division of Pathology-Lab Medicine Div
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Pathology-Lab Medicine Div, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2004 | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, GR, Medical Degree |
Postgraduate Training
| 2011-2013 | Postgraduate Fellow, Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
| 2007-2011 | Resident, Anatomical and Clinical Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 2005-2007 | Postgraduate Fellow, Hematopathology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
Licenses & Certifications
| 2023 | Physician License |
Experience & Service
Faculty Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, Children’s Wisconsin & Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2018 - 2023
Assistant Member, Department of Pathology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, 2015 - 2018
Research Associate, Department of Pathology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, 2013 - 2015
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Technical Director Hematology/Coagulation and Flow cytometry Laboratories, Department of Pathology, Children’s Wisconsin & Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Tennessee, 2018 - 2023
Intramural Institutional Committee Activities
Member, Professionalism Enrichment Committee, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2021 - 2023
Editorial Activities
Guest Editor, Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694), 2022 - 2023
Honors & Awards
| 2010 | Resident Research Grant, College of American Pathologists |
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations & Talks
Local Presentations
- 2025. Molecular Mechanisms Driving Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma. Lecture (DPLM Grand Rounds), US.
- 2019. Indolent (rare) mature B-cell lymphomas in Children. Invited. Update Course in Diagnostic Pathology. Milwaukee, Tennessee, US.
National Presentations
- 2025. Molecular Heterogeneity in pediatric ALK+ Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma. Invited. 8th International Symposium on Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult NHL. Valhalla, New York, US.
- 2023. Molecular Mechanisms Driving Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma. Invited. Translational Molecular Pathology Seminar. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2022. Molecular Mechanisms Driving Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma. Invited. Pathology Grand Rounds. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
International Presentations
- 2019. Histiocytic Proliferations. Invited. Asociacion de Hemato-Oncologia Pediatrica de Centro America (AHOPCA). San Jose, CR.
- 2018. Pediatric Lymphomas. Invited. Asociacion de Hemato-Oncologia Pediatrica de Centro America (AHOPCA). Panama City, PA.
Formal Peers
- 2019. Uncommon Leukemic Presentation of Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma. National Harbor, TexMaryland, US.
- 2019. Pediatric Lymphoma, Pediatric Pathology CME. Kolkata, IN.
- 2019. Pediatric Leukemia, Pediatric Pathology CME. Kolkata, IN.
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- E, S, Jelloul, FZ, Nahmod, KA, Short, NJ, Leventaki, V, Jia, F, Xu, J, Loghavi, S, Wang, W, Jabbour, LE, Tang, G, Medeiros, LJ, Wang, S. Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia with T- and B-lineage defining markers. Pathology 57(6):739-745, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40318961.
- Xu, J, Kim, DH, Wang, W, Li, S, Lin, P, Tang, G, Konoplev, SN, Qiu, L, Fang, H, Garces, S, Leventaki, V, Shuyu, E, Medeiros, LJ, Wang, S. Flow cytometric immunophenotypic features of acute myeloid leukemia with mast cell differentiation. American journal of clinical pathology 163(2):240-250, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39244687.
- Shaw, TI, Pounds, S, Cao, X, Ma, J, Palacios, G, Mason, J, Perkins, SL, Wu, G, Fan, Y, Wang, J, Zhou, X, Obermayer, AN, Kinney, MC, Kraveka, JM, Gross, T, Sandlund, JT, Zhang, J, Mullighan, CG, Lim, MS, Leventaki, V. Comprehensive genomic analysis reveals molecular heterogeneity in pediatric ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Leukemia 39(1):199-210, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 39592809.
- Dimopoulos, YP, Thakral, B, Lin, P, Toruner, GA, Zuo, Z, Medeiros, LJ, Leventaki, V. From the archives of MD Anderson Cancer Center. Annals of Diagnostic Pathology 73, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39208652.
- Opoku, KB, Santiago, T, Kumar, P, Roush, SM, Fedoriw, Y, Tomoka, T, Leventaki, V, Furtado, LV, Bhakta, N, Alexander, TB, Wang, JR. Transcriptome profiling of pediatric extracranial solid tumors and lymphomas enables rapid low-cost diagnostic classification. Scientific reports 14(1), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39169157.
- Kamens, JL, Dang, J, Shaw, TI, Gout, AM, Newman, S, Hagiwara, K, Smith, AM, Obermayer, AN, Aldridge, S, Ma, J, Zhang, Y, Wu, G, Leventaki, V, Santiago, T, Raimondi, SC, Nakitandwe, J, Pappo, A, Li, CL, Zhang, J, Gruber, TA. Malignant Progression of an Ancestral Bone Marrow Clone Harboring a CIC-NUTM2A Fusion in Isolated Myeloid Sarcoma. Molecular Cancer Research 21(4):301-306, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36637394.
- Ratiani, M, Leventaki, V. Neutrophils and monocytes with increased azurophilic granules resembling toxic changes in mucopolysaccharidosis type VI. Blood 141(7):807, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36795445.
- Lyvannak, S, Khauv, P, Keller, F, Leventaki, V, Camitta, BM. Pyrites. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 44(6):347-350, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35797179.
- Lyvannak, S, Sreynich, K, Heng, S, Thyl, M, Chandna, A, Chanpheaktra, N, Pises, N, Farrilend, P, Jarzembowski, J, Leventaki, V, Davick, J, Neunert, C, Keller, F, Kean, LS, Camitta, BM, Tarlock, KG, Watkins, B. Case Report. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 107(2):336-338, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35895585.
- Hopp, AM, Tetzlaff, JE, Kopidlansky, K, Leventaki, V, Parsons, LN, Bone, KM, Drendel, HM, Sreynich, K, Lyvannak, S, Heng, S, Chanpheaktra, N, Putchhat, H, Khauv, P, Camitta, BM, Jarzembowski, J. It Takes a Village. American journal of clinical pathology 158(1):81-95, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35050350.
- Chioureas, D, Beck, J, Baltatzis, GE, Vardaki, I, Fonseca, P, Tsesmetzis, N, Vega Vazquez, F, Leventaki, V, Eliopoulos, A, Drakos, E, Rassidakis, GZ, Panaretakis, T. ALK+ Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma (ALCL)-Derived Exosomes Carry ALK Signaling Proteins and Interact with Tumor Microenvironment. Cancers 14(12), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35740600.
- Lyvannak, S, Sreynich, K, Heng, S, Farrilend, P, Keller, F, Tarlock, KG, Leventaki, V, Camitta, BM. Pyrites. Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology 44(3):113-114, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35319504.
- Miller, LJ, Leventaki, V, Harker-Murray, P, Drendel, HM, Bone, KM. A complex KMT2A::AFF3 fusion resulting from a three-way chromosomal rearrangement in pediatric B lymphoblastic leukemia. Cancer Genetics 262-263:43-46, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34995897.
- Wang, S, Oh, DY, Leventaki, V, Drakos, E, Zhang, R, Sahin, AA, Resetkova, E, Edgerton, ME, Wu, W, Claret, F. MicroRNA-17 acts as a tumor chemosensitizer by targeting JAB1/CSN5 in triple-negative breast cancer. Cancer Letters 465:12-23, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31473252.
- Graetz, D, Crews, KR, Azzato, EM, Singh, RK, Raimondi, SC, Mason, J, Valentine, MB, Mullighan, CG, Holland, A, Inaba, H, Leventaki, V. Leukemic presentation of ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma with a novel partner, poly(A) binding protein cytoplasmic 1 (PABPC1), responding to single-agent crizotinib. Haematologica 104(5):e218-e221, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30819904.
- Rampersaud, E, Ziegler, DS, Iacobucci, I, Payne-Turner, D, Churchman, ML, Schrader, KA, Vijai, J, Offit, K, Tucker, K, Sutton, R, Warby, M, Chenevix-Trench, G, Huntsman, DG, Tsoli, M, Scott Mead, R, Qu, C, Leventaki, V, Wu, G, Mullighan, CG. Germline deletion of ETV6 in familial acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood Advances 3(7):1039-1046, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30940639.
- Bjornard, KL, Leventaki, V, Nichols, KE, Sandlund, JT, Prockop, SE, Ehrhardt, MJ. Two-year-old female with EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and subsequent CNS involvement with neurolymphomatosis. Pediatric Blood and Cancer 65(12), 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30151967.
- Leventaki, V, Flerlage, JE. Sarcoid-like granulomatosis in a patient receiving anti-TNFα for psoriasis. American journal of hematology 93(5):722-723, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29274117.
- Atsaves, V, Tsesmetzis, N, Chioureas, D, Kis, L, Leventaki, V, Drakos, E, Panaretakis, T, Grandér, D, Medeiros, LJ, Young, KH, Rassidakis, GZ. PD-L1 is commonly expressed and transcriptionally regulated by STAT3 and MYC in ALK-negative anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Leukemia 31(7):1633-1637, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28344319.
- Helton, KJ, Maron, G, Mamcarz, E, Leventaki, V, Patay, Z, Sadighi, ZS. Unusual magnetic resonance imaging presentation of post-BMT cerebral toxoplasmosis masquerading as meningoencephalitis and ventriculitis. Bone marrow transplantation 51(11):1533-1536, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27348541.
- Ferguson-Paul, K, Mangum, S, Porter, A, Leventaki, V, Campbell, P, Wolf, J. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and progressive disseminated histoplasmosis. Emerging Infectious Diseases 22(6):1119-1121, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27191972.
- Ok, CY, Leventaki, V, Wang, S, DiNardo, C, Medeiros, LJ, Konoplev, SN. Detection of an abnormal myeloid clone by flow cytometry in familial platelet disorder with propensity to myeloid malignancy. American journal of clinical pathology 145(2):271-276, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26800764.
- Atsaves, V, Zhang, R, Ruder, D, Pan, Y, Leventaki, V, Rassidakis, GZ, Claret, F. Constitutive control of AKT1 gene expression by JUNB/CJUN in ALK+ anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Leukemia 29(11):2162-2172, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25987255.
- Atsaves, V, Lekakis, L, Drakos, E, Leventaki, V, Ghaderi, M, Baltatzis, GE, Chioureas, D, Jones, D, Feretzaki, M, Liakou, CI, Panayiotidis, P, Gorgoulis, VG, Patsouris, E, Medeiros, LJ, Claret, F, Rassidakis, GZ. The oncogenic JUNB/CD30 axis contributes to cell cycle deregulation in ALK+ anaplastic large cell lymphoma. British Journal of Haematology 167(4):514-523, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25145835.
- Leventaki, V, Drakos, E, Karanikou, M, Psatha, K, Lin, P, Schlette, EJ, Eliopoulos, A, Vassilakopoulos, TP, Papadaki, H, Patsouris, E, Medeiros, LJ, Rassidakis, GZ. C-JUN N-terminal kinase (JNK) is activated and contributes to tumor cell proliferation in classical Hodgkin lymphoma. Human Pathology 45(3):565-572, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24457077.
- Leventaki, V, Manning, J, Luthra, R, Mehta, P, Oki, Y, Romaguera, JE, Medeiros, LJ, Vega Vazquez, F. Indolent peripheral T-cell lymphoma involving the gastrointestinal tract. Human Pathology 45(2):421-426, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24439229.
- Kunkalla, K, Liu, Y, Qu, C, Leventaki, V, Agarwal, N, Singh, RR, Vega Vazquez, F. Functional inhibition of BCL2 is needed to increase the susceptibility to apoptosis to SMO inhibitors in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of germinal center subtype. Annals of Hematology 92(6):777-787, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23370596.
- Kim, Y, Leventaki, V, Bhaijee, F, Jackson, CC, Medeiros, LJ, Vega Vazquez, F. Extracavitary/solid variant of primary effusion lymphoma. Annals of Diagnostic Pathology 16(6):441-446, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22497739.
- Leventaki, V, Rodic, V, Tripp, SR, Bayerl, MG, Perkins, SL, Barnette, P, Schiffman, JD, Miles, RR. TP53 pathway analysis in paediatric Burkitt lymphoma reveals increased MDM4 expression as the only TP53 pathway abnormality detected in a subset of cases. British Journal of Haematology 158(6):763-771, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22845047.
- Liakou, P, Tepetes, K, Germenis, A, Leventaki, V, Atsaves, V, Patsouris, E, Roidis, N, Hatzitheophilou, K, Rassidakis, GZ. Expression patterns of endothelin-1 and its receptors in colorectal cancer. Journal of surgical oncology 105(7):643-649, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22213082.
- Drakos, E, Leventaki, V, Atsaves, V, Schlette, EJ, Lin, P, Vega Vazquez, F, Miranda, R, Claret, F, Medeiros, LJ, Rassidakis, GZ. Expression of serine 194-phosphorylated Fas-associated death domain protein correlates with proliferation in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Human Pathology 42(8):1117-1124, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21315423.
- Furtado, LV, Leventaki, V, Layfield, LJ, Lowichik, A, Muntz, HR, Pysher, TJ. Yolk sac tumor of the thyroid gland. Pediatric and Developmental Pathology 14(6):475-479, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21793665.
- Tian, L, Peng, G, Parant, JM, Leventaki, V, Drakos, E, Zhang, Q, Parker-Thornburg, J, Shackleford, TJ, Dai, H, Lin, S, Lozano, G, Rassidakis, GZ, Claret, F. Essential roles of Jab1 in cell survival, spontaneous DNA damage and DNA repair. Oncogene 29(46):6125-6137, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20802511.
- Chen, W, Drakos, E, Grammatikakis, I, Schlette, EJ, Li, J, Leventaki, V, Staikou-Drakopoulou, E, Patsouris, E, Panayiotidis, P, Medeiros, LJ, Rassidakis, GZ. MTOR signaling is activated by FLT3 kinase and promotes survival of FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukemia cells. Molecular cancer 9, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 21067588.
- Drakos, E, Rassidakis, GZ, Leventaki, V, Cotta, CV, Vega Vazquez, F, Medeiros, LJ. Nodular lymphocyte predominant hodgkin lymphoma with clusters of lp cells, acute inflammation, and fibrosis. American Journal of Surgical Pathology 33(11):1725-1731, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19730363.
- Inamdar, KV, Romaguera, JE, Drakos, E, Knoblock, RJ, Garcia, M, Leventaki, V, Medeiros, LJ, Rassidakis, GZ. Expression of eukaryotic initiation factor 4E predicts clinical outcome in patients with mantle cell lymphoma treated with hyper-CVAD and rituximab, alternating with rituximab, high-dose methotrexate, and cytarabine. Cancer 115(20):4727-4736, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19708031.
- Chen, W, Konoplev, SN, Medeiros, LJ, Koeppen, H, Leventaki, V, Vadhan, S, Jones, D, Kantarjian, HM, Falini, B, Bueso-Ramos, CE. Cuplike nuclei (prominent nuclear invaginations) in acute myeloid leukemia are highly associated with FLT3 internal tandem duplication and NPM1 mutation. Cancer 115(23):5481-5489, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19672946.
- Drakos, E, Atsaves, V, Li, J, Leventaki, V, Andreeff, M, Medeiros, LJ, Rassidakis, GZ. Stabilization and activation of p53 downregulates mTOR signaling through AMPK in mantle cell lymphoma. Leukemia 23(4):784-790, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19225536.
- Cotta, CV, Leventaki, V, Atsaves, V, Vidaki, A, Schlette, EJ, Jones, D, Medeiros, LJ, Rassidakis, GZ. The helix-loop-helix protein Id2 is expressed differentially and induced by myc in T-cell lymphomas. Cancer 112(3):552-561, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18085637.
- Leventaki, V, Drakos, E, Medeiros, LJ, Lim, MS, Elenitoba-Johnson, KS, Claret, F, Rassidakis, GZ. NPM-ALK oncogenic kinase promotes cell-cycle progression through activation of JNK/cJun signaling in anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Blood 110(5):1621-1630, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17416736.
- Drakos, E, Thomaides, A, Medeiros, LJ, Li, J, Leventaki, V, Konopleva, M, Andreeff, M, Rassidakis, GZ. Inhibition of p53-murine double minute 2 interaction by nutlin-3A stabilizes p53 and induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in Hodgkin lymphoma. Clinical Cancer Research 13(11):3380-3387, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17545546.
- Drakos, E, Rassidakis, GZ, Leventaki, V, Guo, W, Medeiros, LJ, Nagarajan, L. Differential expression of the human MIXL1 gene product in non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphomas. Human Pathology 38(3):500-507, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17303500.
- Drakos, E, Leventaki, V, Schlette, EJ, Jones, D, Lin, P, Medeiros, LJ, Rassidakis, GZ. c-Jun expression and activation are restricted to CD30+ lymphoproliferative disorders. American Journal of Surgical Pathology 31(3):447-453, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17325487.
- Peponi, E, Drakos, E, Reyes, G, Leventaki, V, Rassidakis, GZ, Medeiros, LJ. Activation of mammalian target of rapamycin signaling promotes cell cycle progression and protects cells from apoptosis in mantle cell lymphoma. American Journal of Pathology 169(6):2171-2180, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 17148679.
- Vega Vazquez, F, Medeiros, LJ, Leventaki, V, Atwell, C, Cho-Vega, JH, Tian, L, Claret, F, Rassidakis, GZ. Activation of mammalian target of rapamycin signaling pathway contributes to tumor cell survival in anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Cancer Research 66(13):6589-6597, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 16818631.
- Oyarzo, M, Medeiros, LJ, Atwell, C, Feretzaki, M, Leventaki, V, Drakos, E, Amin, H, Rassidakis, GZ. c-FLIP confers resistance to FAS-mediated apoptosis in anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Blood 107(6):2544-2547, 2006. e-Pub 2006. PMID: 16304056.
- Amin, H, McDonnell, TJ, Ma, Y, Lin, Q, Fujio, Y, Kunisada, K, Leventaki, V, Das, P, Rassidakis, GZ, Cutler, C, Medeiros, LJ, Lai, R. Selective inhibition of STAT3 induces apoptosis and G1 cell cycle arrest in ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Oncogene 23(32):5426-5434, 2004. e-Pub 2004. PMID: 15184887.
- Amin, H, Medeiros, LJ, Ma, Y, Feretzaki, M, Das, P, Leventaki, V, Rassidakis, GZ, O'Connor, SL, McDonnell, TJ, Lai, R. Inhibition of JAK3 induces apoptosis and decreases anaplastic lymphoma kinase activity in anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Oncogene 22(35):5399-5407, 2003. e-Pub 2003. PMID: 12934099.
- Amin, H, McDonnell, TJ, Medeiros, LJ, Rassidakis, GZ, Leventaki, V, O'Connor, SL, Keating, MJ, Lai, R. Characterization of 4 mantle cell lymphoma cell lines. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 127(4):424-431, 2003. e-Pub 2003. PMID: 12683869.
- Lai, R, Rassidakis, GZ, Medeiros, LJ, Leventaki, V, Keating, MJ, McDonnell, TJ. Expression of STAT3 and its phosphorylated forms in mantle cell lymphoma cell lines and tumours. Journal of Pathology 199(1):84-89, 2003. e-Pub 2003. PMID: 12474230.
- Khoury, J, Medeiros, LJ, Rassidakis, GZ, Yared, MA, Tsioli, P, Leventaki, V, Schmitt-Gräff, A, Herling, M, Amin, H, Lai, R. Differential Expression and Clinical Significance of Tyrosinephosphorylated STAT3 in ALK+ and ALK− Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma. Clinical Cancer Research 9(10):3692-3699, 2003. e-Pub 2003. PMID: 14506160.
- Sinatkas, V, Stathopoulou, K, Xagoraris, I, Ye, J, Vyrla, D, Atsaves, V, Leventaki, V, Medeiros, LJ, Rassidakis, GZ, Drakos, E. MDMX/MDM4 is highly expressed and contributes to cell growth and survival in anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Leukemia and Lymphoma 62(7):1563-1573. PMID: 33569988.
Review Articles
- Alaggio, R, Amador, C, Anagnostopoulos, I, Attygalle, AD, Araujo, I, Berti, E, Bhagat, G, Borges, AM, Boyer, DF, Calaminici, M, Chadburn, A, Chan, JK, Cheuk, W, Chng, WJ, Choi, JK, Chuang, SS, Coupland, SE, Czader, M, Dave, SS, De Jong, D, Du, MQ, Elenitoba-Johnson, KS, Ferry, JA, Geyer, JT, Gratzinger, D, Guitart, J, Gujral, S, Harris, MH, Harrison, CJ, Hartmann, S, Hochhaus, A, Jansen, PM, Karube, K, Kempf, W, Khoury, J, Kimura, H, Klapper, W, Kovach, AE, Kumar, SK, Lazar, A, Lazzi, S, Leoncini, L, Leung, N, Leventaki, V, Li, XQ, Lim, MS, Liu, WP, Louissaint, A, Marcogliese, A, Medeiros, LJ, Michal, M, Miranda, R, Mitteldorf, C, Montes-Moreno, S, Morice, W, Nardi, V, Naresh, KN, Natkunam, Y, Ng, SB, Oschlies, I, Ott, G, Parrens, M, Pulitzer, M, Rajkumar, SV, Rawstron, AC, Rech, K, Rosenwald, A, Said, JW, Sarkozy, C, Sayed, S, Saygin, C, Schuh, A, Sewell, WA, Siebert, R, Sohani, AR, Tooze, R, Traverse-Glehen, A, Vega Vazquez, F, Vergier, B, Wechalekar, A, Wood, B, Xerri, L, Xiao, W. The 5th edition of the World Health Organization Classification of Haematolymphoid Tumours. Leukemia 36(7):1720-1748, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35732829.
- Leventaki, V, Bhattacharyya, S, Lim, MS. Pathology and genetics of anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology 37(1):57-71, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31882178.
- Atsaves, V, Leventaki, V, Rassidakis, GZ, Claret, F. AP-1 transcription factors as regulators of immune responses in cancer. Cancers 11(7), 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31340499.
Other Articles
Book Chapters
- Leventaki, V, Khoury, J, Voss, SD. Tumors of lymphoid and hematopoietic tissues. In: Pediatric Malignancies: Pathology and Imaging, 103-149, 2015.
- Leventaki, V, Vega Vazquez, F. Lymphoid malignancies. In: Molecular Genetic Pathology, 887-928, 2013.
Letters to the Editor
- Palacios, G, Shaw, TI, Li, Y, Singh, RK, Valentine, MB, Sandlund, JT, Lim, MS, Mullighan, CG, Leventaki, V. Novel ALK fusion in anaplastic large cell lymphoma involving EEF1G, a subunit of the eukaryotic elongation factor-1 complex. Leukemia 31: 743-747, 2017.
- Ohanian, M, Leventaki, V, Verstovsek, S, Estrov, Z, Lin, P, Yin, CC, Kantarjian, HM, Huh, YO, Ravandi-Kashani, F. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia arising in post-polycythemic myelofibrosis. Leukemia and Lymphoma 53: 1839-1841, 2012.
- Lai, R, Leventaki, V, Rassidakis, GZ, van den Berg, A, Visser, L, Rust, R, Poppema, S. Re. Journal of Pathology 207: 372-373, 2005.
Patient Reviews
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