Thomas Krausz, MD, FRCPath

Professor of Pathology

Director, Anatomic Pathology

Dr. Thomas Krausz is an expert pathologist with broad interests in tumor pathology including melanocytic tumors, soft tissue tumors, breast tumors, lung tumors, and mesothelioma.

The author of more than 140 peer-reviewed journal articles, Dr. Krausz teaches surgical pathology and cytology. In addition to his teaching duties here, he regularly lectures at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London and Harvard Medical School. He is frequently invited to lecture at national and international meetings.

The National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Environmental Health Science have funded Dr. Krausz's research.

Practice Location

University of Chicago Hospitals
5841 S. Maryland Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

Year Started Practice

1972

Board Certification

Anatomic Pathology

Medical School

Semmelweis University Medical School
Budapest, Hungary

Residency and Fellowship

Robert Karoly Hospital, Budapest, Hungary
Hammersmith Hospital, Royal Postgraduate Medical School,
London, UK

Memberships

American College of Pathologists
Association of Clinical Pathologists
Association of Directors of Anatomic Pathology
Association of Peruvian Pathologists
British Society for Clinical Cytology
Chicago Pathology Society
College of American Pathologists
Illinois Registry of Anatomic Pathology
International Society of Gynaecological Pathologists
The Royal College of Pathologists

Languages Spoken

English
Hungarian

Email

thomas.krausz@uchospitals.edu

Office Phone

(773) 834-8541

Office Fax

(773) 834-7644

Office Postal Address

Thomas Krausz, MD, FRC Path
Professor of Pathology
Director of Anatomic Pathology
University of Chicago Hospitals
5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 6101
Chicago, IL 60637

Clinical Interests

• Anatomic pathology

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Selected Publications

Sattar H, Husain A, Kim A, Krausz T. The Presence of a CD21+ Follicular Dendritic Cell Network Distinguishes Invasive Quilty Lesions From Cardiac Acute Cellular Rejection. Am J Surg Pathol. 2006 Aug;30:1008-1013.

Pang D, Kocherginsky M, Krausz T, Kim SY, Conzen SD. Dexamethasone Decreases Xenograft Response to Paclitaxel Through Inhibition of Tumor Cell Apoptosis. Cancer Biol Ther. 2006 Aug 2;5(8).

Mooi WJ, Krausz T. Spitz nevus versus spitzoid melanoma: diagnostic difficulties, conceptual controversies. Adv Anat Pathol. 2006 Jul;13:147-56

Rubin B, Fletcher C, Inwards C, Montage A, Peabody T, Qualman S, Rosenberg A, Weiss S, Krausz T. Protocol for the Examination of Specimens From Patients With Soft Tissue Tumors of Intermediate Malignant Potential, Malignant Soft Tissue Tumors, and Benign/Locally Aggressive and Malignant Bone Tumors. Accepted. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2006.

Pytel P, Taxy JB, Krausz T. Divergent differentiation in malignant soft tissue neoplasms: the paradigm of liposarcoma and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor. Int J Surg Pathol. 2005 Jan;13:19-28.

Chang T, Husain A, Colby T, Taxy
J, Welch W, Cheung S, Early A, Travis W, Krausz T. Pneumocytic Adenomyoepithelioma: a distinctive lung tumor with epithelial, myoepithelial, and pneumocytic differentiation. Accepted. Am J Surg Path. 2006.