Dr Alan William Hugh Bates

Job title

Consultant histopathologist

Qualifications

MD PhD FRCPath

GMC Number

3680454

Contact details

Phone number: 020 7830 2227

Email address: alan.bates@nhs.net

Related services

Pathology

Biography

Dr Bates taught anatomy and pathology at Queen Mary College London before joining the Royal Free in 2003. His interests include paediatric gastroenterology, teaching and training, and medical museums.

Publications

  • The Anatomy of Robert Knox: Murder, Mad Science and Medical Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Edinburgh. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010, ix+228pp, ISBN 978-1-84519-381-2
  • Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005, vi+334 pp, ISBN 9042018623 
  • Vivisection, virtue ethics, and the law in nineteenth-century Britain. J Anim Ethics, in press.
  • Retrogressive development: transcendental anatomy and teratology in nineteenth-century Britain. Med Secoli, in press
  • N Simmonds, M Furman, E Karanika, A Phillips, A W H Bates. Paneth cell metaplasia in newly diagnosed inflammatory bowel disease in children. BMC Gastroenterology 2014; 14: 93
  • M Mutalib, A Bates, M Furman, M Khan, D Woodman, A Kader. Oesophagitis dissecans in a child with vomiting. J Paediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2013; 57: e33
  • A W H Bates, M Ram. Fibro-osteochondroma of the uterus. Ind J Pathol Microbiol 2012; 55: 555–6
  • Diagnosing eosinophilic colitis: histopathological pattern or nosological entity? Scientifica (Cairo) 2012, ID682576
  • S Behjati, J E A K Bamfo, A W Bates, S Veerareddy. A near miss – lessons from a case of omental pregnancy. J Obstetr Gynaecol 2009; 29: 559–60
  • S Behjati, M Zilbauer, R Heuschkel, A Phillips, C Salvestrini, F Torrente, AW Bates. Defining eosinophilic colitis in children – insights from a retrospective case-series. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2009; 49: 208–15
  • A D Ramsay, A W Bates, S Williams, N J Sebire. Variable antigen expression in hepatoblastomas. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 2008; 16: 140–7
  • ‘Indecent and demoralising representations:’ public anatomy museums in mid-Victorian England. Med Hist 2008; 52: 1–22
  • L Cook, E Al-Hendawi, A W Bates, M Brennan, C Salvestrini, M Malik, F Torrente, O Ogunbiyi, A Lewis, R B Heuschkel. Limited ileo-caecal resection for localised Crohn’s disease in childhood: Clinical outcome and predictors of further surgery. Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis 2007; 1: 82–6
  • E Anastasakis, EG Zhang, AW Bates, MA Abdel-Aal, RA Kadir. Parapagus dicephalus dibrachius tripus: an unusual case of conjoined twins. Prenat Diagn 2007; 27: 1165–6
  • A Bates, AW Bates. Lãn Ông (Lê Hữu Trác, 1720–1791) and the Vietnamese medical tradition. J Med Biog 2007; 15: 158–64
  • Dr Kahn’s museum: obscene anatomy in Victorian London. J R Soc Med 2006; 99: 618–24
  • A Dzwonek, M Clapson, S Withey, A Bates, V Novelli. Severe gynecomastia in an African boy with perinatally acquired human immunodeficiency virus infection receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2006; 25: 183–4
  • A W Bates, K Nale. Segmentation defects of human axial skeleton without dysostoses or skeletal dysplasias. Fetal Pediatr Pathol 2005; 24: 121–7
  • Good, common, regular, and orderly: early modern classifications of monstrous births. Soc Hist Med 2005; 18: 141–58
  • The sooterkin doctor: the London career of John Maubray (1700–1732), andro-boethogynist. J Med Biog 2004; 12: 147–53
  • The sooterkin dissected: the theoretical basis of animal births to human mothers in early modern Europe. Vesalius 2003; 9: 6–14
  • Autopsy on a case of Roberts syndrome reported in 1672: the earliest description? Am J Med Genet 2003; 117A: 92–6
  • Conjoined twins in the sixteenth century. Twin Research 2002; 5: 521–8
  • A W Bates, S I Baithun. The significance of secondary neoplasms of the urinary and male genital tract. Virchows Arch 2002; 440: 640–7
  • A W Bates, S I Baithun. Secondary solid neoplasms of the prostate: a clinico-pathological series of 51 cases. Virchows Arch 2002; 440: 392–6 
  • A W Bates, C M Hall, H Morgan, E M Rosser, I Scheimberg. Lethal acrofacial dysostosis, pre- and post-axial defects of the hands, and bilateral renal agenesis. Clin Dysmorphol 2002; 11: 63–6
  • A case of Roberts syndrome described in 1737. J Med Genet 2001; 38: 565–7
  • A W Bates, V V Smith. Symptomatic diffuse colonic lipomatosis in Proteus syndrome. Histopathology 2001; 39: 103–4
  • The De Monstrorum of Fortunio Liceti: a landmark of descriptive teratology. J Med Biog 2001; 9: 49–54
  • N Dutt, A W Bates, S I Baithun.  Secondary neoplasms of the male genital tract with different patterns of involvement in adults and children. Histopathology 2000; 37: 323–31
  • Birth defects described in Elizabethan ballads. J R Soc Med 2000; 93: 202–7
  • A W Bates, R M Feakins, I Scheimberg. Congenital gastrointestinal stromal tumour is morphologically indistinguishable from the adult form, but does not express CD117 and carries a favourable prognosis. Histopathology 2000; 37: 316–22
  • A W Bates, A J Norton, S I Baithun. Malignant lymphoma of the urinary bladder: a clinicopathological study of 11 cases. J Clin Pathol 2000; 53: 458–61
  • A W Bates, S I Baithun. Secondary neoplasms of the bladder are histological mimics of nontransitional cell primary tumours: clinicopathological and histological features of 282 cases. Histopathology 2000; 36: 32–40
  • A W Bates, S M Dodd. Anomalies in cephalothoracopagus synotus twins and their implications for morphogenesis in conjoined twins. Pediatr Dev Pathol 1999; 2: 464–72  
  • A W Bates, S I Baithun. Renal cell carcinoma metastatic to bladder. Report of three cases. J Urol Pathol 1999; 10: 71–6  
  • Association between situs inversus and fluctuating asymmetry: an experimental study in larvae of the South African clawed toad, Xenopus laevis. Anim Biol 1998; 7: 131–9  
  • A W Bates, A W Fegan, S I Baithun. Xanthogranulomatous cystitis associated with malignant neoplasms of the bladder. Histopathology 1998; 33: 212–15
  • Variation in major pulmonary fissures: incidence in fetal post-mortem examinations and a review of significant extrapulmonary structural malformations in sixty cases. Pediatr Dev Pathol 1998; 1: 289–94  
  • A W Bates, S I Baithun. Atypical mixed tumor of the skin: histologic, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural features in three cases and a review of the criteria for malignancy. Am J Dermatopathol 1998; 20: 35–40
  • J M Barua, A W Bates, S I Baithun. Squamous-cell carcinoma arising in a para-urethral cyst. Br J Urol 1997; 80: 158–9  
  • A W Bates, S Dev, S I Baithun. Malakoplakia and colo-rectal adenocarcinoma. Postgrad Med J 1997; 73: 171–3
  • Thoracic renal ectopia with diaphragmatic eventration. Patologia 1996; 29: 269–71 
  • S Vohra, A W Bates, S I Baithun. A rare adnexal tumour of the hallux – malignant chondroid syringoma. The Foot 1996; 6: 175–7
  • A W Bates, A M C Burgess, C M Field, E Katchburian. Ultrastructural study of contacts between cells of the dorsal ectoderm and chordamesoderm during gastrulation in Xenopus laevis. Acta Anat 1988; 133: 5–9