Dr. Oshima is an Associate Professor of Pathology. She is a hepatobiliary and gastrointestinal pathologist and the director of the Johns Hopkins Liver Pathology Service. Her research focuses on the study of neoplastic and non-neoplastic processes of the hepatobiliary system. Her ongoing projects include 2D and 3D morphologic analysis of cholangiocarcinoma and 2D and 3D morphologic analysis of hepatocytes regeneration in acute and chronic liver failure.
Selected Publications
- Byrnes K, Oshima K. Liver transplantation pathology : a timeline based approach and review. Diagnostic Histopathology 2018 Dec: 24 (12):508-13.
- Pant M, Oshima K. Cholesteryl Ester Storage Disease: An underdiagnosed cause of cirrhosis in adults. Ann Diagn Pathol. 2017 Dec;31:66-70.
- Eskandari F, Rowan DJ, Hari P, Kapke J, Schneidewend R, E Hagen C, Oshima K. Liver biopsy findings in patients with hematopoietic cell transplantation. Hum Pathol. 2017 Aug;66:136-43.
- Chianchiano P,..., Voltaggio L, Oshima K, Anders RA, Wood LD. Distinction of Intrahepatic Metastasis from Multicentric Carcinogenesis in Multifocal Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Molecular Alterations. Hum Pathol 2018 Feb;72:127-34.
- Pan P, Skaer C, Yu J, Zhao H, Ren H, Oshima K, Wang LS. Berries and other natural products in the pancreatic cancer chemoprevention in human clinical trials. J Berry Res. 2017;7(3):147-161.
- Yoshizawa T, Hong SM, Jung D, Noe M, Kiemen A, Wu PH, Wirtz D, Hruban R, Wood LD, Oshima K. Three-dimensional analysis of extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and tumor budding. J Pathol 2020 Aug;251(4):400-10.
- Zhang Y, Byrnes K, Lam-Himlin D, Pittman M, …, Larman T, Miller JA, Matoso A, Oshima K, Epstein JI, Montgomery EA, Voltaggio L. Gastrointestinal Malakoplakia: Clinicopathologic Analysis of 26 Cases. Am J Surg Pathol 2020 Sept;44(9):1251-8.
- Argani P, ..., Anders RA, ..., Kwon R, Voltaggio L,..., Oshima K, Rooper L, Matoso A, ..., Antonescu CR. A Novel NIPBL-NACC1 Gene Fusion is Chrctristc of Cholangioblastic Variant of Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma. Am J Surg Pathol 2021 Nov;45(11):1550-60
- Hong SM, Jung D, …, Oshima K, Thompson ED, …, Wirtz D, Hruban RH, Wood LD. 3-D visualization of cleared human pancreas cancer reveals that sustained epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition is not required for venous invasion. Mod Pathol 2020;33:639