Amir Banihashemi, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Contact information
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
6 Founders Building, Office # 6.047
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
6 Founders Building, Office # 6.047
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
MD
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, 2002.
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Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, 2002.
Description of Clinical Expertise
NeuropathologyDescription of Research Expertise
Translational research on CNS tumorsSelected Publications
Gubbiotti M, Banihashemi A: Rare Case of Marchiafava-Bignami Disease in a Patient with Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and No History of Alcohol Use. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology 82(6): 489-592, June 2023 Notes: Abstracts of the 99th Annual Meeting June 8–11, 2023 Monterey, California/Poster presentation https://doi.org/10.1093/jnen/nlad029.Alhamar M, Oyedeji O, Banihashemi A, Perry K: Molecular Profiling of Cytology Cell Block Samples in Non-Small Cell Carcinoma of Lung: A Large Metropolitan Institutional Experience. Modern Pathology 35 (2): 218-291, March 2022 Notes: USCAP 2022 Abstracts: Cytopathology/Poster presentation.
Rutland JW, Gill CM, Ladner T, Goldrich D, Villavisanis DF, Devarajan A, Pai A, Banihashemi A, Miles BA, Sharma S, Balchandani P, Bederson JB, Iloreta AM, Shrivastava RK.: Surgical outcomes in patients with endoscopic versus transcranial approach for skull base malignancies: a 10-year institutional experience. Br J Neurosurg 26(issue 1): 79-85, Feb 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1080/02688697.2020.1779659. Epub 2020.
Banihashemi A, Oza T, DiMaio C, Szporn A: Pelvic Inflammatory Mass Associated with Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate Crystals Diagnosed by Endoscopic Ultrasound‐guided. Diagnostic Cytopathology 48(12): 1307-1308, Jun 2020 Notes: https://doi.org/10.1002/dc.24519.
Yao A, Rutland JW, Verma G, Banihashemi A, Padormo F, Tsankova NM, Delman BN, Shrivastava RK, Balchandani P.: Pituitary adenoma consistency: Direct correlation of ultrahigh field 7T MRI with histopathological analysis. European Journal of Radiology 126(no issue): article 108931, May 2020 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2020.108931.
Hao Q, Tsankova M, Shoirah H, Kellner C P, Nael K: Vessel Wall MRI Enhancement in Noninflammatory Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy. American Journal of Neuroradiology 41(3): 446-448, Mar 2020 Notes: collaborated in histopathology evaluation.
Sundaram, V.K.; Banihashemi, A.; Tsankova, N.; Bederson, J.; Som, P.: Extranasopharyngeal Angiofibroma of the Ethmoid Sinus: A Rare Entity. American Society of Neuroradiology 4(1): 288-292, Aug 2019 Notes: https://doi.org/10.3174/ng.1800036.
Banihashemi A, Umphlett M, Fowkes M: Choroid Plexus carcinoma: Report of a rare case in an adult patient. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology 78(6): 520-579, June 2019 Notes: Abstracts of the 95th Annual Meeting June 6–9, 2019 Atlanta, Georgia/ poster presentation.
Banihashemi A, Bryce C, Fowkes M: A 24 year old woman with primary intracranial synovial sarcoma. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology 78(6), June 2019 Notes: Abstracts of the 95th Annual Meeting June 6–9, 2019 Atlanta, Georgia/ poster presentation.
Heidarian A, Banihashemi A, Wieczorek R: Synchronous of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma and papillary renal cell carcinoma, a supportive evidence for the cancer stem cell hypothesis. American Journal of Clinical Pathology 150(1): S52, October 2018 Notes: American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) annual meeting, Baltimore, 2018/ poster presentation.