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Scott R. Florell, M.D.

Scott R. Florell, M.D.

Associate Professor in Dermatology

  • B.S., highest distinction, 1989, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • M.D., Alpha Omega Alpha, 1993, University of Nebraska
  • Residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, 1993 – 1997, University of Utah and Dermatology, 1998 – 2002, University of Utah
  • Board Certification in Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Anatomic and Clinical Pathology

Clinical and Research Interests

  • My clinical interests include diagnostic dermatopathology, the use of digital technology in quantitative immunohistochemistry, and diagnostic telepathology.

Selected Publications

  • Panko J, Florell SR, Hadley J, Zone J, Leiferman K, Vanderhooft SL. Neonatal pemphigus in an infant born to a mother with serologic evidence of both pemphigus vulgaris and gestational pemphigoid. J Am Acad Dermatol, 60(6), 1057-62; 2009.
  • Chandler W, Zone JJ, Florell SL. C4d immunohistochemical stain is a sensitive method to confirm immunoreactant deposition in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue in bullous pemphigoid. J Cutan Pathol, 36(6), 655-9; 2009.
  • Florell SR, Coffin CM. Diagnostically Challenging Melanocytic Lesions in Children. Pathol Case Rev, 14(3), 85-92; 2009.
  • Bowen AR, Vster A, Marsden L, Florell SR, Sharp H, Summers PL. The role of vulvar skin biopsy in the evaluation of chronic vulvar pain. Am J Obstet Gynecol, 199(5), 47.el-6; 2008.
  • Florell SR, Smoller BR, Boucher KM, Grossman D, Harris RM, Bowen GM, Leachman SA. Sampling of melanocytic nevi for research purposes: a prospective, pilot study to determine effect on diagnosis. J Am Acad Dermatol, 59(5), 814-21; 2008.
  • Grande Sarpa H, Harris R, Hansen CD, Callis Duffin KP, Florell SR, Hadley ML. Angrogen receptor expression patterns in Becker's nevi: an immunohistochemical study. J Am Acad Dermatol, 59(5), 834-8; 2008.
  • Florell SR, Meyer LJ, Boucher KM, Grossman D, Cannon-Albright LA, Harris RM, Samlowski WE, Zone JJ, Leachman SA. Increased Melanocytic Nevi and Nevus Density in a G-34T CDKN2A/p16 Melanoma-Prone Pedigree. J Invest Dermatol, 128(8), 2122-2125; 2008.
  • Grande-Sarpa H, Callis Duffin KP, Florell SR. Onychodystrophy and tumor-stage mycosis fungoides confined to a single digit: report of a case and review of nail findings in cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. J Am Acad Dermatol, 59(1), 154-7; 2008.
  • Cotter MA, Florell SR, Leachman SA, Grossman D. Response to Gray-Schopfer et. al. and Michaloglou et al. J Invest Dermatol, 128(6), 1583-1584; 2008.
  • Wada DA, Perkins SL, Tripp S, Coffin CM, Florell SR. Human Herpesvirus 8 and iron staining are useful in differentiating Kaposi sarcoma from interstitial granuloma annulare. Am J Clin Pathol 127:263-70; 2007.
  • McKenna JK, Florell SR. Cost-effective telepathology in the Mohs surgery laboratory utilizing iChat AV videoconferencing software. Dermatol Surg 33:62-8; 2007.
  • Florell SR, Cessna M, Lundell RB, Boucher KM, Bowen GM, Harris RM, Petersen MJ, Zone JJ, Tripp S, Perkins SL. Utility (or lack, thereof) of immunophenotyping in atypical cutaneous T-cell infiltrates. Am J Clin Pathol 125:727-736; 2006.
  • Florell SR, Meyer LJ, Boucher KM, Hart M, Cannon-Albright LA, Harris RM, Samlowski WE, Zone JJ, Brinton JP, Leachman SA. Nevus distribution in a Utah melanoma kindred with a temperature-sensitive CDKN2A mutation. J Invest Dermatol 125:1310-1312;2005.
  • Florell SR, Boucher KM, Astle J, Kerber R, Mineau G, Wiggins C, Noyes RD, Tsodikov A, Cannon-Albright LA, Leachman SA. A population-based analysis of prognostic factors and survival in familial melanoma. J Clin Oncol 23:7168-77;2005.
  • Florell SR, Bowen AR, Hanks AN, Murphy KJ, Grossman D. Proliferation, apoptosis, and survivin expression in a spectrum of melanocytic nevi. J Cutan Pathol 32:45-49;2005.
  • Egan CA, Florell SR. Cicatricial pemphigoid. N Engl J Med 350(24):2499;2004.
  • Florell SR, Meyer LJ, Boucher KM, Porter-Gill PA, Hart M, Erickson J, Cannon-Albright LA, Pershing LK, Harris RM, Samlowski WE, Zone JJ, Leachman SA. Longitudinal assessment of the nevus phenotype in a melanoma kindred. J Invest Dermatol 123:576-582;2004.
  • Yang DT, Holden JA, Florell SR. CD117, CK20, TTF-1, and DNA topoisomerase II-a antigen expression in small cell tumors. J Cutan Pathol 31(3):254-61, 2004.
  • Florell SR, Krueger GG, Egan CA. Keratoderma blenorrhagicum. N Engl J Med 349(24):2367-8, 2003.
  • Florell SR, Schmidt SJ, Porter-Gill PA, Albertine KH, Murphy KJ, McKinney CB, Boucher KM, Grossman D, Biddle DL, Clayton F, Layfield LJ, Leachman SA. Novel application of a fibrin cell block method to evaluate melanocytic cell populations. Pigment Cell Res 16:662-69, 2003.
  • Florell SR, Boucher KM, Leachman SA, Azmi F, Harris RM, Malone JC, Martignoni G, Bowen GM, Gerwels JW, Hood AF. Histopathologic recognition of involved margins of lentigo maligna excised by staged excision: an interobserver comparison study, Accepted for publication, Arch Dermatol, 2002 Aug.
  • Florell SR, Layfield LJ, Gerwels JW. A comparison of touch imprint cytology and Mohs frozen section histology in the evaluation of Mohs micrographic surgical margins. J Am Acad Dermatol 2001;44:660-664
  • Florell SR, Zone JJ, Gerwels JW. Basal cell carcinomas are populated by melanocytes and Langerhans cells. Am J Dermatopathol 2001;23:24-28
  • Florell SR, Coffin CM, Holden JA, Zimmerman JW, Gerwels JW, Summers BK, Jones DA, Leachman SA. Preservation of RNA for functional genomic studies: a multidisciplinary tumor bank protocol. Mod Pathol 2001;14:116-128
  • Sawada S, Florell S, Purandare S, Ota M, Stephens K, Viskochil D. Identification of NF1 mutations in both alleles of a dermal neurofibroma. Nat Genet 1996;14:110-112

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