• Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
• Cytopathology
• Hematopathology

Specialty Areas of Expertise

• Immunohistochemistry and Special Stains
• Gynecologic Pathology

Dr. Liu received her Bachelor of Science in Zoology and Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies from Duke University.  Continuing on with her education at Duke, she earned her Medical Degree and completed residency programs at the University of California, San Diego and Duke University Medical Center.  She completed fellowships in Hematopathlogy and Cytopathology – both at Duke University Medical Center.

Before joining Wilmington Pathology Associates, she practiced for six years at University Hospital in Augusta, Georgia.  Prior to that she served as Assistant Professor of Pathology at Duke University Medical Center and has published extensively in various peer reviewed journals.

Dr. Liu’s husband is a general surgeon at a practice in Jacksonville, NC and they have a three year old son. 

Selected publications of interest:

Liu K, Mann KP, Vitellas KM, Paulson EK, Nelson RC, Gockerman JP, Dodd LG.  Fine needle aspiration with flow cytometric immunophenotyping for primary diagnosis of intra-abdominal lymphomas.  Diagn Cytopathol 1999;21:98-104.

Liu K, Marshall J, Shaw HS, Dodge RK, Layfield LJ.  Effects of chemotherapy and Tamoxifen on cervical and vaginal smears in bone marrow transplant recipients.  Acta Cytol 1999;43:1027-1033.

Nuckols JD, Liu K, Burchette JL, McLendon RE, Traweek ST.  Primary central nervous system lymphomas:  a 30 year retrospective clinicopathological study using the REAL classification system.  Mod Pathol 1999;12:1167-1173.

Liu K, Dodd LG, Powers JA, Bigner SH.  Detection of trisomy 12 by fluorescence in situ hybridization on archival cytopathologic material in small lymphocytic lymphoma/chronic lmphocytic leukemia.  Acta Cytol 2000;44:368-374.

Liu K, Stern RC, Rogers RT, Dodd LG, Mann KP.  Diagnosis of hematopoietic processes by fine needle aspiration in conjunction with flow cytometry:  a review of 127 cases.  Diagn Cytopathol 2001;24:1-10.

Jones C, Liu K, Hirschositz S, Klipfel N, Layfield LJ.  Concordance of histopathologic and cytologic grading in musculoskeletal sarcomas.  Cancer 2002;96:83-91.

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