Director, Dermatopathology Fellowship
Director, Dermatopathology Unit

Department / Division:
Pathology / Pathology

Address:
DUMC 3712
Durham, NC 27710

Office Telephone:
919-681-4632

Fax Telephone:
919-684-8693

• MD, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina), 1990

• Anatomic Pathology, Deaconess Hospital (Massachusetts), 1992-1994
• Dermatopathology, Harvard Medical School (Massachusetts), 1995-1997

Clinical Interests:
Inflammatory and neoplastic processes of the vulva, pigmented lesions, lymphomas, alopecias

Research Interests:
Malignant Melanoma, Dysplastic nevus, pigmented lesions and cell cycle markers, alopecias, Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

Early stages of melanocytic nevus and melanoma in situ, diagnostic approach, differentiation markers, and cell.

Cycle markers.

Nevoid melanoma, immunohistochemical profile.

Melphalan in the treatment of melanoma.

UVA damage in skin and carcinogenesis.

Solar protection in UVB and UVA exposed skin.

Vulvar dermatitis, morphologic variations and classification.

Sarcoma of the vulva.

Soft tissue tumors in HIV population.

Representative Publications:
2. Sundblad AS, Belloti MS, Casas JG, Zoppi JA, Selim MA. Consultas por correo electronico. Pathologia 38(3): 169-174, 2000. (2000)

1. A Selim and RS Tahan: Microscopic localization of calcifications in and around breast carcinoma: A cautionary note for needle core biopsies. Annals of Surgery 1998; 228: 95-98. (1998)

Thomas JE, Selim MA, Allee JA, Bussian AH, Burchette JL, Shea CR. Comparative histomorphology of congenital versus atypical nevi, with an emphasis on overlapping and distinguishing features. J Cutan Pathol, in press.

Bussian AH, Shea CR, Thomas JE, Burchette JL, Selim M. Immunohistochemical staining of previously stained paraffin-embedded tissue. J Cutan Pathol, in press.

A Selim and C Shea: Langerhans cell histiocytosis. eMedicine. Online Textbook of Dermatology. In press.