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Diagnostic Pathology

Ausgabe 1/2012

Inhalt (183 Artikel)

Open Access Research

Diagnostic value of progesterone receptor and p53 expression in uterine smooth muscle tumors

Iman H Hewedi, Nehal A Radwan, Lobna S Shash

Open Access Case Report

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis associated with risperidone-induced hyperprolactinemia

Chih-Hsun Lin, Chih-Wei Hsu, Tang-Yi Tsao, Jason Chou

Open Access Short report

Adult gaucher disease in southern Tunisia: report of three cases

Faten Ben Rhouma, Faten Kallel, Rym Kefi, Wafa Cherif, Majdi Nagara, Hela Azaiez, Ines Jedidi, Moez Elloumi, Sonia Abdelhak, Sondes Mseddi

Open Access Commentary

Worldwide variations in EGFR somatic mutations: a challenge for personalized medicine

Pierre-Jean Lamy, William Jacot

Open Access Research

CD163 versus CD68 in tumor associated macrophages of classical hodgkin lymphoma

Jonathan A Harris, Salvia Jain, Qinghu Ren, Alirezah Zarineh, Cynthia Liu, Sherif Ibrahim

Open Access Research

Concurrent hypermethylation of DNMT1, MGMT and EGFR genes in progression of gliomas

Éva Gömöri, József Pál, Bernadett Kovács, Tamás Dóczi

Open Access Research

Brain MRI and biological diagnosis in five Tunisians MLD patients

Ilhem Barboura, Samir Hadded, Saber Chebel, Rachida Ben Mansour, Hinda Chahed, Mohamed-Néji Gueddiche, Mahbouba Frih-Ayed, Salima Ferchichi, Abdelhédi Miled

Open Access Case Report

Pleural malakoplakia caused by Rhodoccocus equi infection in a patient after stem cell transplantation

Carl Ludwig Behnes, Silke Neumann, Stefan Schweyer, Heinz-Joachim Radzun

Open Access Research

Efficacy of ImageJ in the assessment of apoptosis

Iman M Helmy, Adel M Abdel Azim

Open Access Case Report

Concurrent acute myeloid leukemia and T lymphoblastic lymphoma in a patient with rearranged PDGFRB genes

Hung Chang, Wen-Yu Chuang, Chien-Feng Sun, Marc R Barnard

Open Access Methodology

Automatic assessment of the motor state of the Parkinson's disease patient--a case study

Bozena Kostek, Katarzyna Kaszuba, Pawel Zwan, Piotr Robowski, Jaroslaw Slawek

Open Access Case Report

Synchronous clear cell renal cell carcinoma and tubulocystic carcinoma: genetic evidence of independent ontogenesis and implications of chromosomal imbalances in tumor progression

Gabriela Quiroga-Garza, Sergio Piña-Oviedo, Karime Cuevas-Ocampo, Richard Goldfarb, Mary R Schwartz, Alberto G Ayala, Federico A Monzon

Open Access Research

Effects of robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy on surgical pathology specimens

Heng Hong, Lin Mel, Jonathan Taylor, Qiang Wu, Hugh Reeves

Open Access Research

Identification of tumor epithelium and stroma in tissue microarrays using texture analysis

Nina Linder, Juho Konsti, Riku Turkki, Esa Rahtu, Mikael Lundin, Stig Nordling, Caj Haglund, Timo Ahonen, Matti Pietikäinen, Johan Lundin

Open Access Research

Expression of GSK-3β in renal allograft tissue and its significance in pathogenesis of chronic allograft dysfunction

Qiang Yan, Baoyao Wang, Weiguo Sui, Guimian Zou, Huaizhou Chen, Shenping Xie, Hequn Zou

Open Access Research

Immunohistochemistry profiles of breast ductal carcinoma: factor analysis of digital image analysis data

Arvydas Laurinavicius, Aida Laurinaviciene, Valerijus Ostapenko, Darius Dasevicius, Sonata Jarmalaite, Juozas Lazutka

Open Access Research

Stromal micropapillary component as a novel unfavorable prognostic factor of lung adenocarcinoma

Miki Ohe, Tomoyuki Yokose, Yuji Sakuma, Yohei Miyagi, Naoyuki Okamoto, Sachie Osanai, Chikako Hasegawa, Haruhiko Nakayama, Yoichi Kameda, Kouzo Yamada, Takeshi Isobe

Open Access Research

Hypoxia-inducible factor-2a is associated with ABCG2 expression, histology-grade and Ki67 expression in breast invasive ductal carcinoma

Lei Xiang, Zhi-Heng Liu, Qin Huan, Peng Su, Guang-Jun Du, Yan Wang, Peng Gao, Geng-Yin Zhou

Open Access Research

Validation of diagnostic accuracy using digital slides in routine histopathology

László Fónyad, Tibor Krenács, Péter Nagy, Attila Zalatnai, Judit Csomor, Zoltán Sápi, Judit Pápay, Júlia Schönléber, Csaba Diczházi, Béla Molnár

Open Access Research

Histological spectrum of pulmonary manifestations in kidney transplant recipients on sirolimus inclusive immunosuppressive regimens

Sean Kirby, Anjali Satoskar, Sergey Brodsky, Amy Pope-Harman, David Nunley, Charles Hitchcock, Ronald Pelletier, Patrick Ross, Tibor Nadasdy, Konstantin Shilo

Open Access Case Report

Talcum induced pneumoconiosis following inhalation of adulterated marijuana, a case report

Andreas Hans Scheel, Daniel Krause, Helmut Haars, Inge Schmitz, Klaus Junker

Open Access Short report

MiR-34b is associated with clinical outcome in triple-negative breast cancer patients

Marek Svoboda, Jiri Sana, Martina Redova, Jiri Navratil, Marketa Palacova, Pavel Fabian, Ondrej Slaby, Rostislav Vyzula

Open Access Research

The expression patterns and correlations of claudin-6, methy-CpG binding protein 2, DNA methyltransferase 1, histone deacetylase 1, acetyl-histone H3 and acetyl-histone H4 and their clinicopathological significance in breast invasive ductal carcinomas

Xiaoming Xu, Huiying Jin, Yafang Liu, Li Liu, Qiong Wu, Yaxiong Guo, Lina Yu, Zhijing Liu, Ting Zhang, Xiaowei Zhang, Xueyan Dong, Chengshi Quan

Open Access Case Report

Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation of lung in adults: 2 rare cases report and review of the literature

Anning Feng, Hourong Cai, Qi Sun, Yifen Zhang, Lulu Chen, Fanqing Meng

Open Access Research

Clinicopathological significance of SOX4 expression in primary gallbladder carcinoma

Chengguo Wang, Huadong Zhao, Jianguo Lu, Jikai Yin, Li Zang, Nuan Song, Rui Dong, Tao Wu, Xilin Du

Open Access Research

How echinoccocosis affects potential cancer markers in plasma: galectin-3, sN-cadherin and sE-cadherin? a preliminary report

Joanna Giebultowicz, Malgorzata Polanska-Plachta, Piotr Wroczynski, Piotr Zaborowski, Jerzy A Polanski

Open Access Case Report

Renal cell carcinoma associated with peritumoral sarcoid-like reaction without intratumoral granuloma

Simon Ouellet, Roula Albadine, Robert Sabbagh

Open Access Case Report

Case report: a unique pediatric case of a primary CD8 expressing ALK-1 positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma of skeletal muscle

Timo Gaiser, Eva Geissinger, Torsten Schattenberg, Hanns-Peter Scharf, Matthias Dürken, Dietmar Dinter, Andreas Rosenwald, Alexander Marx

Open Access Case Report

Endolymphatic sac tumor: case report and review of the literature

Yan-Hua Sun, Wen Wen, Jun-Hui Wu, Jian-Ming Song, Hong Guan, Kai-Xin Wang, Mei-Quan Xu

Open Access Research

Effect of image compression and scaling on automated scoring of immunohistochemical stainings and segmentation of tumor epithelium

Juho Konsti, Mikael Lundin, Nina Linder, Caj Haglund, Carl Blomqvist, Heli Nevanlinna, Kirsimari Aaltonen, Stig Nordling, Johan Lundin

Open Access Research

Quantitative comparison of immunohistochemical staining measured by digital image analysis versus pathologist visual scoring

Anthony E Rizzardi, Arthur T Johnson, Rachel Isaksson Vogel, Stefan E Pambuccian, Jonathan Henriksen, Amy PN Skubitz, Gregory J Metzger, Stephen C Schmechel

Open Access Research

Pathological and immunohistochemical study of lethal primary brain stem injuries

Sun Rongchao, Yang Shudong, Zhou Zhiyi

Open Access Research

The clinicopathologic association of c-MET overexpression in Iranian gastric carcinomas; an immunohistochemical study of tissue microarrays

Kambiz Sotoudeh, Forough Hashemi, Zahra Madjd, Alireza Sadeghipour, Saadat Molanaei, Elham Kalantary

Open Access Research

HLA-G and HLA-E specific mRNAs connote opposite prognostic significance in renal cell carcinoma

Leos Kren, Ivo Valkovsky, Jan Dolezel, Ivo Capak, Dalibor Pacik, Alexandr Poprach, Radek Lakomy, Martina Redova, Pavel Fabian, Zdenka Krenova, Ondrej Slaby

Open Access Research

An assessment of the diagnostic criteria for sessile serrated adenoma/polyps: SSA/Ps using image processing software analysis for Ki67 immunohistochemistry

Yukari Fujimori, Takahiro Fujimori, Johji Imura, Tamotsu Sugai, Takashi Yao, Ryo Wada, Yoichi Ajioka, Yasuo Ohkura

Open Access Research

Clinicopathological significance of fascin and CD44v6 expression in endometrioid carcinoma

Banu Dogan Gun, Burak Bahadir, Sibel Bektas, Figen Barut, Gamze Yurdakan, Nilufer Onak Kandemir, Sukru Oguz Ozdamar

Open Access Research

Sporadic Burkitt lymphomas of children and adolescents in Chinese: a clinicopathological study of 43 cases

Cheng-Feng Bi, Yuan Tang, Wen-Yan Zhang, Sha Zhao, Xiao-Qing Wang, Qun-Pei Yang, Gan-Di Li, Wei-ping Liu

Open Access Research

Expression features of SOX9 associate with tumor progression and poor prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma

Xiaodong Guo, Lu Xiong, Ting Sun, Ruiyun Peng, Lin Zou, Haiyan Zhu, Jing Zhang, Hanwei Li, Jingmin Zhao

Open Access Case Report

Unusual primary osseous Hodgkin lymphoma in rib with associated soft tissue mass: a case report and review of literature

Yang Li, Xiao-bing Wang, Xiao-ying Tian, Bin Li, Zhi Li

Open Access Case Report

Epididymis rhabdomyoma: A case report and literature review

Yang Han, Xue-shan Qiu, Qing-chang Li, Yu-chen Han, Xu-yong Lin, Qing-fu Zhang, Jian Wang, En-hua Wang, Ze-liang Li

Open Access Research

Analysis of aberrant methylation on promoter sequences of tumor suppressor genes and total DNA in sputum samples: a promising tool for early detection of COPD and lung cancer in smokers

Leda Guzmán, María Soledad Depix, Ana María Salinas, Rosa Roldán, Francisco Aguayo, Alejandra Silva, Raul Vinet

Open Access Research

Serum peptidome patterns of breast cancer based on magnetic bead separation and mass spectrometry analysis

Nai-Jun Fan, Chun-Fang Gao, Guang Zhao, Xiu-Li Wang, Qing-Yin Liu

Open Access Research

High MCM3 expression is an independent biomarker of poor prognosis and correlates with reduced RBM3 expression in a prospective cohort of malignant melanoma

Björn Nodin, Marie Fridberg, Liv Jonsson, Julia Bergman, Mathias Uhlén, Karin Jirström

Open Access Research

Enhancer of zeste homologue 2 (EZH2) is a reliable immunohistochemical marker to differentiate malignant and benign hepatic tumors

Szofia Hajósi-Kalcakosz, Katalin Dezső, Edina Bugyik, Csaba Bödör, Sándor Paku, Zoltán Pávai, Judit Halász, Krisztina Schlachter, Zsuzsa Schaff, Péter Nagy

Open Access Case Report

A rare case of malignant triton tumor in the cerebellopontine angle

Li Gong, Xiao-Yan Liu, Wen-Dong Zhang, Xiu-Juan Han, Li Yao, Shao-Jun Zhu, Miao Lan, Yan-Hong Li, Wei Zhang

Open Access Case Report

Genetic alterations in a primary medullary thyroid carcinoma and its lymph node metastasis in a patient with 15 years follow-up

Beatriz González-Yebra, Raúl Peralta, Ana Lilia González, Marco Antonio Ayala-Garcia, María E Medrano Ortiz de Zarate, Mauricio Salcedo

Open Access Case Report

Isolated cutaneous metastasis of uterine leiomyosarcoma: case report and review of literature

Shane Corcoran, Aisling M Hogan, Tamas Nemeth, Fadel Bennani, Francis J Sullivan, Waqar Khan, Kevin Barry

Open Access Research

Prediction of pathological and oncological outcomes based on extended prostate biopsy results in patients with prostate cancer receiving radical prostatectomy: a single institution study

Fumio Ishizaki, Noboru Hara, Hiroshi Koike, Makoto Kawaguchi, Akira Tadokoro, Itsuhiro Takizawa, Tsutomu Nishiyama, Kota Takahashi, Rudolf Hohenfellner

Open Access Case Report

Primary Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma of lung: a report of one case and review

Hui Yu, Gang Chen, Rongxuan Zhang, Xiaolong Jin

Open Access Case Report

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma presenting with neurolymphomatosis and intravascular lymphoma: a unique autopsy case with diverse neurological symptoms

Sohsuke Yamada, Akihide Tanimoto, Atsunori Nabeshima, Takashi Tasaki, Ke-Yong Wang, Shohei Kitada, Hirotsugu Noguchi, Yasuyuki Sasaguri

Open Access Case Report

Malignant transformation of Madelung’s disease in a patient with a coincidental diagnosis of breast cancer: a case report

Maddalena Borriello, Alessandro Lucidi, Arnaldo Carbone, Vito Iannone, Gabriella Ferrandina

Open Access Case Report

Is there a link between diabetic glomerular injury and crescent formation? A case report and literature review

Naoko Otani, Tetsu Akimoto, Wako Yumura, Daisuke Matsubara, Yoshitaka Iwazu, Akihiko Numata, Takuya Miki, Fumi Takemoto, Noriyoshi Fukushima, Shigeaki Muto, Eiji Kusano

Open Access Research

Oncogenic reg IV is a novel prognostic marker for glioma patient survival

Qi Wang, Jianping Deng, Jun Yuan, Liang Wang, Zhenwei Zhao, Shiming He, Yongsheng Zhang, Yanyang Tu

Open Access Case Report

Pigmented paraganglioma of the kidney: a case report

Ling Zhao, Jie Luo, Honglei Zhang, Jiping Da

Open Access Research

Immunohistochemical characterization of neoplastic cells of breast origin

Maria de las Mercedes Noriega, Fernando Paesani, Florencia Perazzo, Néstor Lago, Hugo Krupitzki, Silvana Nieto, Alejandro Garcia, Alejandra Avagnina, Boris Elsner, Valeria Cecilia Denninghoff

Open Access Research

Ex vivo localization and immunohistochemical detection of sentinel lymph node micrometastasis in patients with colorectal cancer can upgrade tumor staging

Fu-Long Wang, Fang Shen, De-Sen Wan, Zhen-Hai Lu, Li-Ren Li, Gong Chen, Xiao-Jun Wu, Pei-Rong Ding, Ling-Heng Kong, Zhi-Zhong Pan

Open Access Case Report

Primary malignant melanoma of the duodenum without visible melanin pigment: a mimicker of lymphoma or carcinoma

Hongxia Li, Qinhe Fan, Zhen Wang, Hai Xu, Xiao Li, Weiming Zhang, Zhihong Zhang

Open Access Case Report

Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma with Cyclin D1 overexpression: a case report

Gabriella Aquino, Renato Franco, Fioravante Ronconi, Annamaria Anniciello, Luigi Russo, Annarosaria De Chiara, Luigi Panico

Open Access Methodology

Rapid Detection of high-level oncogene amplifications in ultrasonic surgical aspirations of brain tumors

Long N Truong, Shashikant Patil, Sherry S Martin, Jay F LeBlanc, Anil Nanda, Mary L Nordberg, Marie E Beckner

Open Access Case Report

Multifocal Langerhans cell sarcoma involving epidermis: a case report and review

Changsong Wang, Yanping Chen, Chunfang Gao, Jian Yin, Hong Li

Open Access Letter to the Editor

Bisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of jaw (BRONJ): an anti-angiogenic side-effect?

Eugen B Petcu, Saso Ivanovski, Robert G Wright, Mark Slevin, Rodica I Miroiu, Klara Brinzaniuc

Open Access Research

Molecular characteristics and chromatin texture features in acute promyelocytic leukemia

Mariana R. B. De Mello, Dulcineia M Albuquerque, Fernanda Gonçalves Pereira-Cunha, Krizzia B Albanez, Katia B. B. Pagnano, Fernando F Costa, Konradin Metze, Irene Lorand-Metze

Open Access Case Report

A rare tumor of the lung: inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor

Nawal Hammas, Laila Chbani, Mohammed Rami, Meryem Boubbou, Sara Benmiloud, Youssef Bouabdellah, Siham Tizniti, Mustapha Hida, Afaf Amarti

Open Access Case Report

Renal infarction due to polyarteritis nodosa in a patient with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma: a case report and a brief review of the literature

Maria Raffaella Ambrosio, Bruno Jim Rocca, Alessandro Ginori, Monica Onorati, Alberto Fabbri, Mario Carmellini, Stefano Lazzi, Sergio Tripodi

Open Access Research

Survivin regulates the expression of VEGF-C in lymphatic metastasis of breast cancer

Xiaopeng Cai, Shuai Ma, Ming Gu, Cong Zu, Wenzhi Qu, Xinyu Zheng

Open Access Methodology

A gene-protein assay for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2): brightfield tricolor visualization of HER2 protein, the HER2 gene, and chromosome 17 centromere (CEN17) in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded breast cancer tissue sections

Hiroaki Nitta, Brian D Kelly, Mary Padilla, Nikolaus Wick, Patrick Brunhoeber, Isaac Bai, Shalini Singh, Jim Ranger-Moore, Chris Bieniarz, Hitoshi Tsuda, Thomas M Grogan

Open Access Case Report

A case of Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy without arrhythmias

Jia Wei, Jiarong Tang, Liming Xia, Xinshan Chen, Dao Wen Wang

Open Access Research

Expression of Aurora Kinase A and B in chondrosarcoma and its relationship with the prognosis

Xiaohui Liang, Danying Wang, Yan Wang, Zhiqiang Zhou, Juan Zhang, Jinsong Li

Open Access Research

Translationally Controlled Tumour Protein (TCTP) is present in human cornea and increases in herpetic keratitis

Cinzia Batisti, Maria R Ambrosio, Bruno J Rocca, Gian M Tosi, Jean C Sanchez, Felice Arcuri, Marcella Cintorino, Sergio A Tripodi

Open Access Case Report

Invasive lobular carcinoma with extracellular mucin as a distinct variant of lobular carcinoma: a case report

Hacer Haltas, Reyhan Bayrak, Sibel Yenidunya, Dilek Kosehan, Meral Sen, Kayihan Akin

Open Access Research

First report of molecular diagnosis of Tunisian hemophiliacs A: Identification of 8 novel causative mutations

Hejer Elmahmoudi, Houssein Khodjet-el-khil, Edvard Wigren, Asma Jlizi, Kaouther Zahra, Dorothé Pellechia, Christine Vinciguerra, Balkis Meddeb, Amel Ben Ammar Elggaaied, Emna Gouider

Open Access Research

L1 cell adhesion molecule overexpression in hepatocellular carcinoma associates with advanced tumor progression and poor patient survival

Xiaodong Guo, Lu Xiong, Lin Zou, Ting Sun, Jing Zhang, Hanwei Li, Ruiyun Peng, Jingmin Zhao

Open Access Case Report

Neuroendocrine tumor in gastric adenoma: a diagnostic pitfall mimicking invasive adenocarcinoma

Sun-Mi Lee, Soomin Ahn, Yun Kyung Lee, Kee-Taek Jang, Cheol Keun Park, Kyoung-Mee Kim

Open Access Research

Apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 is associated with the effect of claudin-6 in breast cancer

Yaxiong Guo, Xiaoming Xu, Zhijing Liu, Ting Zhang, Xiaowei Zhang, Liping Wang, Min Wang, Yuanyuan Liu, Yan Lu, Yunpeng Liu, Chengshi Quan

Open Access Case Report

Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma in the lung: asymptomatic lung mass with severe anemia

Qianjun Zhou, Guangzhong Lu, Aiqun Liu, Tadasu Kohno

Open Access Case Report

NK/T-cell lymphoma of bilateral adrenal glands in a patient with pyothorax

Tomohide Tsukahara, Akira Takasawa, Masaki Murata, Kazuyoshi Okumura, Masato Nakayama, Noriyuki Sato, Tadashi Hasegawa

Open Access Case Report

The co-expression of cytokeratin and p63 in epithelioid angiosarcoma of the parotid gland: a diagnostic pitfall

Xu-Yong Lin, Yang Liu, Yong Zhang, Juan-Han Yu, En-Hua Wang

Open Access Research

Male median raphe cysts: serial retrospective analysis and histopathological classification

I-Hung Shao, Tai-Di Chen, Hsiang-Te Shao, Hsiao-Wen Chen

Open Access Case Report

Inflammatory angiomyolipoma of the liver: a rare hepatic tumor

Yang Liu, Jian Wang, Xu-Yong Lin, Hong-Tao Xu, Xue-shan Qiu, En-Hua Wang

Open Access Research

Expression of c-Jun, p73, Casp9, and N-ras in thymic epithelial tumors: relationship with the current WHO classification systems

Yuqing Ma, Qiaoxin Li, Wenli Cui, Na Miao, Xia Liu, Wei Zhang, Chen Zhang, Jian Wang

Open Access Case Report

Incidental intraoperative discovery of a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor associated with chronic pancreatitis

Valeriu Surlin, Sandu Ramboiu, Mirela Ghilusi, Iancu Emil Plesea

Open Access Case Report

Sporadic Hemangioblastoma of the Kidney: a rare renal tumor

Yang Liu, Xue-shan Qiu, En-Hua Wang

Open Access Research

Delayed apoptosis by neutrophils from COPD patients is associated with altered bak, bcl-xl, and mcl-1 mRNA expression

Jisong Zhang, Jian He, Jingwen Xia, Zhen Chen, Xiaodong Chen

Open Access Research

Histopathological analysis of vesicular and bullous lesions in Kaposi sarcoma

Nilüfer Onak Kandemir, Figen Barut, Banu Doğan Gün, Nilgün Solak Tekin, Sevinç Hallaç Keser, Şükrü Oğuz Özdamar

Open Access Case Report

Pathological femoral fractures due to osteomalacia associated with adefovir dipivoxil treatment for hepatitis B: a case report

Motoyuki Tanaka, Takao Setoguchi, Yasuhiro Ishidou, Yoshiya Arishima, Masataka Hirotsu, Yoshinobu Saitoh, Shunsuke Nakamura, Hironori Kakoi, Satoshi Nagano, Masahiro Yokouchi, Junichi Kamizono, Setsuro Komiya

Open Access Research

Increased numbers of P63-positive/CD117-positive cells in advanced adenoid cystic carcinoma give a poorer prognosis

Quan Zhou, Hong Chang, Hongkai Zhang, Yiding Han, Honggang Liu

Open Access Research

Increased expression of Golgi phosphoprotein-3 is associated with tumor aggressiveness and poor prognosis of prostate cancer

Xing Hua, Lina Yu, Wenhai Pan, Xiaoxiao Huang, Zexiao Liao, Qi Xian, Li Fang, Hong Shen

Open Access Research

HIV-1 drug resistance genotyping from antiretroviral therapy (ART) naïve and first-line treatment failures in Djiboutian patients

Aden Elmi Abar, Asma Jlizi, Houssein Youssouf Darar, Mohamed Ali Ben Hadj Kacem, Amine Slim

Open Access Case Report

Leiomyoma of the tunica albuginea, a case report of a rare tumour of the testis and review of the literature

Felix Bremmer, Felix J Kessel, Carl L Behnes, Lutz Trojan, Elmar Heinrich

Open Access Research

The Intrahepatic Expression and Distribution of BTLA and its Ligand HVEM in patients with HBV-related acute-on-chronic liver failure

Huan Xu, Dayan Cao, Guoning Guo, Zhihua Ruan, Yuzhang Wu, Yongwen Chen

Open Access Case Report

Primary splenic histiocytic sarcoma complicated with prolonged idiopathic thrombocytopenia and secondary bone marrow involvement: a unique surgical case presenting with splenomegaly but non-nodular lesions

Sohsuke Yamada, Takashi Tasakil, Naoko Satoh, Atsunori Nabeshima, Shohei Kitada, Hirotsugu Noguchi, Kozue Yamada, Morishige Takeshita, Yasuyuki Sasaguri

Open Access Case Report

Invasive salivary duct carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma of the parotid gland: a teaching case giving rise to the genuine diagnostic difficulty on an inadequate cytology specimen

Sohsuke Yamada, Atsunori Nabeshima, Takahisa Tabata, Xin Guo, Takashi Tasaki, Ke-Yong Wang, Shohei Shimajiri, Yasuyuki Sasaguri

Open Access Case Report

Primary central nervous system plasmablastic lymphoma presenting in human immunodeficiency virus-negative but Epstein-Barr virus-positive patient: A case report

Li Ying Zhang, Hui Yun Lin, Lan Xiang Gao, Lin Li, Yu Wang Tian, Zhi Qin Liu, Xiao Hua Shi, Zhi Yong Liang

Open Access Research

Evaluation of inadequate, indeterminate, false-negative and false-positive cases in cytological examination for breast cancer according to histological type

Rin Yamaguchi, Shin-ichi Tsuchiya, Takashi Koshikawa, Toshiro Yokoyama, Kuniko Mibuchi, Yasuhide Nonaka, Sonoe Ito, Hidejiro Higuchi, Mariko Nagao, Koichi Higaki, Jiro Watanabe, Masayoshi Kage, Hirohisa Yano

Open Access Case Report

Prostate carcinoma metastatic to the skin as an extrammamary Paget’s disease

Eugen Bogdan Petcu, Aldo Gonzalez-Serva, Robert G Wright, Mark Slevin, Klara Brinzaniuc

Open Access Case Report

Primary pulmonary malignant melanoma: a clinicopathologic study of two cases

Li Gong, Xiao-Yan Liu, Wen-Dong Zhang, Shao-Jun Zhu, Li Yao, Xiu-Juan Han, Miao Lan, Yan-Hong Li, Wei Zhang

Open Access Case Report

Langerhans cell sarcoma with an aberrant cytoplasmic CD3 expression

Zhaodong Xu, Ruth Padmore, Carolyn Faught, Lisa Duffet, Bruce F Burns

Open Access Case Report

CD20-positive NK/T-cell lymphoma with indolent clinical course: report of case and review of literature

Qing-ping Jiang, Shao-yan Liu, Yue-xin Yang, Xue-xian Tan, Juan Peng, Zhong-tang Xiong, Zhi Li

Open Access Research

Ezrin overexpression predicts the poor prognosis of gastric adenocarcinoma

Jingchun Jin, Tiefeng Jin, Meiling Quan, Yingshi Piao, Zhenhua Lin

Open Access Case Report

Primary mucinous cystadenoma of the spermatic cord within the inguinal canal

Jee-Yeon Kim, Young-Taek Lee, Hyun-Jeong Kang, Chang-Hun Lee

Open Access Case Report

Colloid cyst of the third ventricle, hypothalamus, and heart: a dangerous link for sudden death

Emanuela Turillazzi, Stefania Bello, Margherita Neri, Irene Riezzo, Vittorio Fineschi

Open Access Research

Primary bladder adenocarcinoma versus metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma: a persisting diagnostic challenge

Somak Roy, Matthew A Smith, Kathy M Cieply, Marie B Acquafondata, Anil V Parwani

Open Access Case Report

Postoperative lumbar spinal stenosis after intertransverse fusion with granules of hydroxyapatite: a case report

Gen Inoue, Seiji Ohtori, Tomoyuki Ozawa, Toshinori Ito, Morihiro Higashi, Kazuyo Yamauchi, Sumihisa Orita, Junichi Nakamura, Tomoaki Toyone, Masashi Takaso, Kazuhisa Takahashi

Open Access Research

Laminin-5 is a biomarker of invasiveness in cervical adenocarcinoma

Johji Imura, Yoshiaki Uchida, Kazuhiro Nomoto, Kazuhito Ichikawa, Shigeki Tomita, Tatsuo Iijima, Takahiro Fujimori

Open Access Case Report

Sudden death as presenting symptom caused by cardiac primary multicentric left ventricle rhabdomyoma, in an 11-month-old baby. An immunohistochemical study

Margherita Neri, Sabina Di Donato, Rocco Maglietta, Cristoforo Pomara, Irene Riezzo, Emanuela Turillazzi, Vittorio Fineschi

Open Access Review

Expression of ck-19, galectin-3 and hbme-1 in the differentiation of thyroid lesions: systematic review and diagnostic meta-analysis

Leandro Luongo de Matos, Adriana Braz Del Giglio, Carolina Ogawa Matsubayashi, Michelle de Lima Farah, Auro Del Giglio, Maria Aparecida da Silva Pinhal

Open Access Research

Beta 1 integrin predicts survival in breast cancer: a clinicopathological and immunohistochemical study

Petra Barros dos Santos, Juliana S Zanetti, Alfredo Ribeiro-Silva, Eduardo IC Beltrão

Open Access Research

Molecular correlates and prognostic significance of SATB1 expression in colorectal cancer

Björn Nodin, Henrik Johannesson, Sakarias Wangefjord, Darran P O’Connor, Kajsa Ericson Lindquist, Mathias Uhlén, Karin Jirström, Jakob Eberhard

Open Access Short report

Molecular modeling and description of a newly characterized activating mutation of the EGFR gene in non-small cell lung cancer

Claudia Otto, Agnes Csanadi, Paul Fisch, Martin Werner, Gian Kayser

Open Access Research

Local distribution analysis of cytotoxic molecules in liver allograft is helpful for the diagnosis of acute cellular rejection after orthotopic liver transplantation

Long Cheng, Fuzhou Tian, Lijun Tang, Shuguang Wang, Geng Chen, Guangjie Duan, Xiaochu Yan

Open Access Case Report

Primary cervical hydatid cyst: a rare occurrence

Nuzhat Sultana, Tariq Khan Hashim, Shahida Yahya Jan, Zahidullah khan, Tahir Malik, Walayat Shah

Open Access Research

Pulmonary haptoglobin (pHp) is part of the surfactant system in the human lung

Mahdi Abdullah, Torsten Goldmann

Open Access Research

Identification of genetic defects underlying FVII deficiency in 10 patients belonging to eight unrelated families of the North provinces from Tunisia

Hejer Elmahmoudi, Fatma Ben-lakhal, Wijden Elborji, Asma Jlizi, Kaouther Zahra, Rim Sassi, Moez Zorgan, Balkis Meddeb, Amel Elgaaied Ben Ammar, Emna Gouider

Open Access Research

An approach for diagnosing plasma cell myeloma by three-color flow cytometry based on kappa/lambda ratios of CD38-gated CD138+ cells

Shoko Nakayama, Taiji Yokote, Yuji Hirata, Kazuki Iwaki, Toshikazu Akioka, Takuji Miyoshi, Ayami Takayama, Uta Nishiwaki, Yuki Masuda, Toshiyuki Ikemoto, Hidema Tanaka, Yasuichiro Nishimura, Motomu Tsuji, Toshiaki Hanafusa

Open Access Case Report

Nipple adenoma arising from axillary accessory breast: a case report

Yoshihiro Shioi, Shin-ichi Nakamura, Shuji Kawamura, Masako Kasami

Open Access Case Report

Estrogen-producing endometrioid adenocarcinoma resembling sex cord-stromal tumor of the ovary: a review of four postmenopausal cases

Tomomi Katoh, Masanori Yasuda, Kosei Hasegawa, Eito Kozawa, Jun-ichi Maniwa, Hironobu Sasano

Open Access Research

Can p63 serve as a biomarker for giant cell tumor of bone? A Moroccan experience

Nawal Hammas, Chbani Laila, Alaoui Lamrani My Youssef, El Fatemi Hind, Taoufiq Harmouch, Tizniti Siham, Amarti Afaf

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Lower cyclooxygenase-2 expression is associated with recurrence of solitary non-muscle invasive bladder carcinoma

Tomislav Tadin, Kristian Krpina, Sanja Štifter, Emina Babarović, Željko Fučkar, Nives Jonjić

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Clinical and pathological characteristics of giant cell angioblastoma: a case report

Rong-Jun Mao, Zhi-Ming Jiang, Hui-Zhen Zhang, Xiong-Zeng Zhu, Qing-Ling Zhang

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Diagnostic approach to interstitial pneumonias in a single centre: report on 88 cases

Dirk Theegarten, Heike Maria Müller, Francesco Bonella, Jeremias Wohlschlaeger, Ulrich Costabel

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Immunohistochemical analysis of medullary breast carcinoma autoantigens in different histological types of breast carcinomas

Olga Kostianets, Stepan Antoniuk, Valeriy Filonenko, Ramziya Kiyamova

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IMP3 can predict aggressive behaviour of lung adenocarcinoma

Renata Beljan Perak, Merica Glavina Durdov, Vesna Capkun, Veljka Ivcevic, Antonia Pavlovic, Violeta Soljic, Mari Peric

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Ileocolic intussusception due to a cecal endometriosis: Case report and review of literature

Rivkine Emmanuel, Marciano Léa, Polliand Claude, Valenti Antonio, Ziol Marianne, Poncelet Christophe, Barrat Christophe

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Usual interstitial pneumonia coexisted with nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, What’s the diagnosis?

Xia Fang, Benfang Luo, Xianghua Yi, Yu Zeng, Fang Liu, Huiping Li, Pan Gu, Xuyou Zhu, Suxia Zhang, Gelin Jiang

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Gastrointestinal lymphomas in a North American population: clinicopathologic features from one major Central-Midwestern United States tertiary care medical center

Joshua Warrick, Jingqin Luo, Diane Robirds, Julie Branson, John L Frater, Friederike Kreisel, Anjum Hassan, TuDung T Nguyen

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Genomic amplification of the human telomerase gene (hTERC) associated with human papillomavirus is related to the progression of uterine cervical dysplasia to invasive cancer

Hongqian Liu, Shanling Liu, He Wang, Xiaoyan Xie, Xinlian Chen, Xuemei Zhang, Youcheng Zhang

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Association of COMT Val158Met polymorphism and breast cancer risk: an updated meta-analysis

Xue Qin, Qiliu Peng, Aiping Qin, Zhiping Chen, Liwen Lin, Yan Deng, Li Xie, Juanjuan Xu, Haiwei Li, Taijie Li, Shan Li, Jinmin Zhao

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N-cadherin is differentially expressed in histological subtypes of papillary renal cell carcinoma

Carl Ludwig Behnes, Bernhard Hemmerlein, Arne Strauss, Heinz-Joachim Radzun, Felix Bremmer

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Comparison of histopathology to gene expression profiling for the diagnosis of metastatic cancer

Anand Kulkarni, Raji Pillai, Ashley M Ezekiel, W David Henner, Charles R Handorf

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Expression of MMP-2 and TIMP-1 in Renal Tissue of Patients with Chronic Active Antibody-mediated Renal Graft Rejection

Qiang Yan, Weiguo Sui, Baoyao Wang, Hequn Zou, Guimian Zou, Hao Luo

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Pulmonary artery sarcoma with angiosarcoma phenotype mimicking pleomorphic malignant fibrous histiocytoma: a case report

Olga L Bohn, Eric Acosta-Ponce de León, Oscar Lezama, Nina P Rios-Luna, Sergio Sánchez-Sosa, Antonio Llombart-Bosch

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Reduced expression of microRNA-100 confers unfavorable prognosis in patients with bladder cancer

Sheng Wang, Sheng Xue, Yuanqing Dai, Jianfu Yang, Zhijun Chen, Xiwu Fang, Wensheng Zhou, Wei Wu, Qingwen Li

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Atrophic dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: report of a case demonstrated by detecting COL1A1-PDGFB rearrangement

Jianjun Qiao, Kayuri U Patel, Dolores López-Terrada, Hong Fang

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Red blood cell distribution width and iron deficiency anemia among pregnant Sudanese women

Esam G Abdelrahman, Gasim I Gasim, Imad R Musa, Leana M Elbashir, Ishag Adam

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Luminal B tumors are the most frequent molecular subtype in breast cancer of North African women: an immunohistochemical profile study from Morocco

Hinde El Fatemi, Sanae Chahbouni, Sofia Jayi, Kaoutar Moumna, My Abdelilah Melhouf, Abdelaziz Bannani, Omar Mesbahi, Afaf Amarti

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A case of enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma (Type I) arising in stomach without refractory celiac disease

Liang Wang, Yang Liu, Xu-Yong Lin, Juan-Han Yu, Yuan Miao, Xue-shan Qiu, En-Hua Wang

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Prostatic stromal sarcoma with neuroectodermal differentiation

Hitoshi Yamazaki, Teppei Ohyama, Toshiki Tsuboi, Yoshinori Taoka, Dai Kohguchi, Hiroyoshi Iguchi, Teruaki Ao

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Pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma presenting with dense spindle stroma cells: a potential diagnostic pitfall

Xu-Yong Lin, Yan Wang, Chui-Feng Fan, Yang Liu, Juan-Han Yu, Shun-Dong Dai, Liang Wang, En-Hua Wang

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LMP1 and LMP2A are potential prognostic markers of extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, nasal type (ENKTL)

Yuan Mao, Da-Wei Zhang, Huijun Zhu, Hong Lin, Lin Xiong, Qing Cao, Ying Liu, Qing-Dong Li, Jia-Ren Xu, Lin-Feng Xu, Ren-Jie Chen

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Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the esophagus: report of two cases and review of the Chinese literature

Xu-feng Guo, Ten Mao, Zhi-tao Gu, Wen-tao Fang, Wen-hu Chen, Jin-chen Shao

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ABCG2/V-ATPase was associated with the drug resistance and tumor metastasis of esophageal squamous cancer cells

Lijun Huang, Qiang Lu, Yong Han, Zhe Li, Zhipei Zhang, Xiaofei Li

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Relationship of red splenic arteriolar hyaline with rapid death: a clinicopathological study of 82 autopsy cases

Hirokazu Kotani, Masashi Miyao, Sho Manabe, Tokiko Ishida, Chihiro Kawai, Hitoshi Abiru, Keiji Tamaki

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Perivascular epithelioid cell neoplasm of the urinary bladder in an adolescent: a case report and review of the literature

Lijuan Yin, Hong Bu, Min Chen, Jianqun Yu, Hua Zhuang, Jie Chen, Hongying Zhang

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Linear quantification of lymphoid infiltration of the tumor margin: a reproducible method, developed with colorectal cancer tissues, for assessing a highly variable prognostic factor

Marc-Antoine Allard, Jean Baptiste Bachet, Alain Beauchet, Catherine Julie, Robert Malafosse, Christophe Penna, Bernard Nordlinger, Jean-François Emile

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Basaloid carcinoma of the lung associated with central cavitation: a unique surgical case focusing on cytological and immunohistochemical findings

Sohsuke Yamada, Hirotsugu Noguchi, Atsunori Nabeshima, Takashi Tasaki, Shohei Kitada, Tetsuro Baba, Hidetaka Uramoto, Takeshi Hanagiri, Yasuyuki Sasaguri

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Determining similarity in histological images using graph-theoretic description and matching methods for content-based image retrieval in medical diagnostics

Harshita Sharma, Alexander Alekseychuk, Peter Leskovsky, Olaf Hellwich, RS Anand, Norman Zerbe, Peter Hufnagl

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Development of a teledermatopathology consultation system using virtual slides

Ikunori Nakayama, Tsubasa Matsumura, Akihisa Kamataki, Miwa Uzuki, Kenji Saito, James Hobbs, Toshihide Akasaka, Takashi Sawai

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Hsp70-2 gene polymorphism: susceptibility implication in Tunisian patients with coronary artery disease

Mohamed Yahia Hrira, Latifa Chkioua, Afef Slimani, Henda Chahed, Habib Mosbah, Hamda Ben Khaldoun, Salima Ferchichi, Faouzi Addad, Abdelhedi Miled

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Collision tumour involving a rectal gastrointestinal stromal tumour with invasion of the prostate and a prostatic adenocarcinoma

Laura Macías-García, Haydee De la Hoz-Herazo, Antonio Robles-Frías, María J Pareja-Megía, Juan López-Garrido, José I López

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Ultrasound-guided percutaneous renal biopsy-induced accessory renal artery bleeding in an amyloidosis patient

Qing Zhang, Yongqiang Ji, Tianwei He, Jianping Wang

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Pleomorphic lipoma lacking mature fat component in extensive myxoid stroma: a great diagnostic challenge

Xu-Yong Lin, Yan Wang, Yang Liu, Ying Sun, Yuan Miao, Yong Zhang, Juan-Han Yu, En-Hua Wang

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Successful treatment of gallbladder mixed adenoneuroendocrine carcinoma with neo-adjuvant chemotherapy

Wu Song, Wenfang Chen, Sheng Zhang, Jianjun Peng, Yulong He

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Gastrointestinale Stromatumoren (GIST) stellen seit über 20 Jahren ein Paradigma für die zielgerichtete Therapie mit Tyrosinkinaseinhibitoren dar. Eine elementare Voraussetzung für eine mögliche neoadjuvante oder adjuvante Behandlung bei …

Personalisierte Medizin in der Onkologie

Aufgrund des erheblichen technologischen Fortschritts in der molekularen und genetischen Diagnostik sowie zunehmender Erkenntnisse über die molekulare Pathogenese von Krankheiten hat in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten ein grundlegender …