Virchows Archiv

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Recommendations for diagnosing STIC: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Joep M. A. Bogaerts, Miranda P. Steenbeek, Majke H. D. van Bommel, Johan Bulten, Jeroen A. W. M. van der Laak, Joanne A. de Hullu, Michiel Simons

Predictive value of ductal carcinoma in situ with invasive breast cancer in core needle biopsies for final pathologic size of intraductal elements

Hirofumi Matsumoto, Akiko Ishii, Norihiro Nakada, Ayako Koki, Mikiko Unesoko, Norie Abe, Hisamitsu Zaha

Histologic analysis according to HER2 gene status in HER2 2 + invasive breast cancer: a study of 280 cases comparing ASCO/CAP 2013 and 2018 guideline recommendations

Hye Won Hwang, Soon Auck Hong, Seok Jin Nam, Seok Won Kim, Jeong Eon Lee, Jong-Han Yu, Se Kyung Lee, Soo Youn Cho, Eun Yoon Cho

The OLGA-OLGIM staging and the interobserver agreement for gastritis and preneoplastic lesion screening: a cross-sectional study

Beatriz E. Salazar, Tania Pérez-Cala, Sara Isabel Gomez-Villegas, Laura Cardona-Zapata, Sebastián Pazos-Bastidas, Alejandra Cardona-Estepa, Diego Enrique Vélez-Gómez, José Armando Justinico-Castro, Andrés Bernal-Cobo, Harold Adrián Dávila-Giraldo, Juan Carlos Benítez-Guerra, Joaquín Tiberio Valencia-Cárdenas, Edgar de Jesús Ospina, Rodrigo Castaño-Llano, María Mercedes Bravo, Juan Carlos Cataño-Correa, Jovanny Zabaleta, Alba Alicia Trespalacios-Rangel, Ana María Cock-Botero, Miguel Ignacio Roldán-Pérez, Alonso Martínez

Dedifferentiation-like tubular and solid carcinoma of the stomach shows phenotypic divergence and association with deficient SWI/SNF complex

Shih-Chiang Huang, Kuang-Hua Chen, Kwai-Fong Ng, I-Chieh Lin, Yi-Chun Chao, Ta-Sen Yeh, Huei-Chieh Chuang, Tse-Ching Chen

Intestinal-type gastric dysplasia in Helicobacter pylori-naïve patients

Kotaro Shibagaki, Ayako Itawaki, Yoichi Miyaoka, Kenichi Kishimoto, Yusuke Takahashi, Satoshi Kotani, Tsuyoshi Mishiro, Naoki Oshima, Kousaku Kawashima, Norihisa Ishimura, Hideyuki Onuma, Makoto Nagasaki, Mamiko Nagase, Asuka Araki, Kyuichi Kadota, Ryoji Kushima, Shunji Ishihara

Desmoplastic reactions and epithelial-mesenchymal transition proteins in stages II and III colorectal cancer: association with and prognostic value for disease-free survival

Mai Hashimoto, Noriyuki Uesugi, Mayu Sugai, Kazuhiro Ito, Naoki Yanagawa, Koki Otsuka, Yoshiki Kajiwara, Hideki Ueno, Akira Sasaki, Tamotsu Sugai

Gene fusions and oncogenic mutations in MLH1 deficient and BRAFV600E wild-type colorectal cancers

Iiris Ukkola, Pirjo Nummela, Mia Kero, Hanna Tammio, Jenni Tuominen, Veli Kairisto, Markku Kallajoki, Caj Haglund, Päivi Peltomäki, Soili Kytölä, Ari Ristimäki

CD109 expression in tumor cells and stroma correlates with progression and prognosis in pancreatic cancer

Kai Adachi, Yasutaka Sakurai, Masaaki Ichinoe, Masayoshi Tadehara, Akihiro Tamaki, Yurika Kesen, Takuya Kato, Shinji Mii, Atsushi Enomoto, Masahide Takahashi, Wasaburo Koizumi, Yoshiki Murakumo

Gene expression profiling using targeted RNA-sequencing to elucidate the progression from histologically normal lung tissues to non-invasive lesions in invasive lung adenocarcinoma

Taichi Kadonaga, Tomohiko Sakabe, Yoshiteru Kidokoro, Tomohiro Haruki, Kanae Nosaka, Hiroshige Nakamura, Yoshihisa Umekita

POU2F3 beyond thymic carcinomas: expression across the spectrum of thymomas hints to medullary differentiation in type A thymoma

Yosuke Yamada, Akihiko Sugimoto, Masahito Hoki, Akihiko Yoshizawa, Masatsugu Hamaji, Hiroshi Date, Hironori Haga, Alexander Marx

Correction to: POU2F3 beyond thymic carcinomas: expression across the spectrum of thymomas hints to medullary differentiation in type A thymoma

Yosuke Yamada, Akihiko Sugimoto, Masahito Hoki, Akihiko Yoshizawa, Masatsugu Hamaji, Hiroshi Date, Hironori Haga, Alexander Marx

MCM3 is a novel proliferation marker associated with longer survival for patients with tubo-ovarian high-grade serous carcinoma

Eun Young Kang, Joshua Millstein, Gordana Popovic, Nicola S. Meagher, Adelyn Bolithon, Aline Talhouk, Derek S. Chiu, Michael S. Anglesio, Betty Leung, Katrina Tang, Neil Lambie, Marina Pavanello, Annalyn Da-anoy, Diether Lambrechts, Liselore Loverix, Siel Olbrecht, Christiani Bisinotto, Jesus Garcia-Donas, Sergio Ruiz-Llorente, Monica Yagüe-Fernandez, Robert P. Edwards, Esther Elishaev, Alexander Olawaiye, Sarah Taylor, Beyhan Ataseven, Andreas du Bois, Philipp Harter, Jenny Lester, Claus K. Høgdall, Sebastian M. Armasu, Yajue Huang, Robert A. Vierkant, Chen Wang, Stacey J. Winham, Sabine Heublein, Felix K. F. Kommoss, Daniel W. Cramer, Naoko Sasamoto, Lilian van-Wagensveld, Maria Lycke, Constantina Mateoiu, Janine Joseph, Malcolm C. Pike, Kunle Odunsi, Chiu-Chen Tseng, Celeste L. Pearce, Sanela Bilic, Thomas P. Conrads, Arndt Hartmann, Alexander Hein, Michael E. Jones, Yee Leung, Matthias W. Beckmann, Matthias Ruebner, Minouk J. Schoemaker, Kathryn L. Terry, Mona A. El-Bahrawy, Penny Coulson, John L. Etter, Katherine LaVigne-Mager, Juergen Andress, Marcel Grube, Anna Fischer, Nina Neudeck, Greg Robertson, Rhonda Farrell, Ellen Barlow, Carmel Quinn, Anusha Hettiaratchi, Yovanni Casablanca, Ramona Erber, Colin J. R. Stewart, Adeline Tan, Yu Yu, Jessica Boros, Alison H. Brand, Paul R. Harnett, Catherine J. Kennedy, Nikilyn Nevins, Terry Morgan, Peter A. Fasching, Ignace Vergote, Anthony J. Swerdlow, Francisco J. Candido dos Reis, G. Larry Maxwell, Susan L. Neuhausen, Arantzazu Barquin-Garcia, Francesmary Modugno, Kirsten B. Moysich, Philip J. Crowe, Akira Hirasawa, Florian Heitz, Beth Y. Karlan, Ellen L. Goode, Peter Sinn, Hugo M. Horlings, Estrid Høgdall, Karin Sundfeldt, Stefan Kommoss, Annette Staebler, Anna H. Wu, Paul A. Cohen, Anna DeFazio, Cheng-Han Lee, Helen Steed, Nhu D. Le, Simon A. Gayther, Kate Lawrenson, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Gottfried Konecny, Linda S. Cook, Susan J. Ramus, Linda E. Kelemen, Martin Köbel

SATB2 is expressed in neuroendocrine carcinoma of the uterine cervix

Frediano Inzani, Giuseppe Angelico, Angela Santoro, Antonio Travaglino, Luigi Insabato, Antonio Raffone, Damiano Arciuolo, Giulia Scaglione, Nicoletta D’Alessandris, Michele Valente, Angela Carlino, Guido Rindi, Gian Franco Zannoni

Low level of interobserver concordance in assessing histological subtype and tumor grade in patients with penile cancer may impair patient care

Luiza Dorofte, Diane Grélaud, Michelangelo Fiorentino, Francesca Giunchi, Costantino Ricci, Tania Franceschini, Mattia Riefolo, Sabina Davidsson, Jessica Carlsson, Gabriella Lillsunde Larsson, Mats G. Karlsson

NUT carcinoma of the parotid gland: report of two cases, one with a rare ZNF532-NUTM1 fusion

Min Chen, Sha Zhao, Zuoyu Liang, Weiya Wang, Ping Zhou, Lili Jiang

Distinctive patterns of marrow involvement by classic Hodgkin lymphoma are clues for diagnosis and subtyping

Hsin-Ni Li, Ren Ching Wang, Chuan-Han Chen, Jun-Peng Chen, Sheau-Fang Yang, Shang-Wen Chen, Shih-Sung Chuang

Does PAX7 and NKX2.2 immunoreactivity in Ewing sarcoma have prognostic significance?

Isidro Machado, Gregory W. Charville, Akihiko Yoshida, Samuel Navarro, Alberto Righi, Marco Gambarotti, Katia Scotlandi, José A. López-Guerrero, Antonio Llombart-Bosch

Myxoid type and non-myxoid type of intimal sarcoma in large vessels and heart: review of histological and genetic profiles of 20 cases

Yuichi Yamada, Izumi Kinoshita, Yoshiko Miyazaki, Yuki Tateishi, Yusuke Kuboyama, Takeshi Iwasaki, Kenichi Kohashi, Hidetaka Yamamoto, Shin Ishihara, Yu Toda, Yoshihiro Ito, Yosuke Susuki, Kengo Kawaguchi, Mikiko Hashisako, Yui Yamada-Nozaki, Daisuke Kiyozawa, Taro Mori, Takeo Yamamoto, Kenji Tsuchihashi, Kazumi Kuriwaki, Munenori Mukai, Masataka Kawai, Keiko Suzuki, Hirotake Nishimura, Kenji Bando, Junya Masumoto, Mana Fukushima, Junichi Motoshita, Hiroki Mori, Akira Shiose, Yoshinao Oda

Spindle cell/sclerosing rhabdomyosarcoma with DCTN1::ALK fusion: broadening the molecular spectrum with potential therapeutic implications

C. K. Fung, Chit Chow, W. K. Chan, Eric W. K. Choi, K. F. To, John K. C. Chan, Wah Cheuk

Epithelioid leiomyosarcoma of broad ligament harboring PGR-NR4A3 and UBR5-PGR gene fusions: a unique case report

Huayan Ren, Yimin Li, Qianlan Yao, Hong Lv, Shaoxian Tang, Xiaoyan Zhou, Wentao Yang

Epstein-Barr virus associated gastric dysplasia: a new rare entity?

Valentina Angerilli, Francesca Galuppini, Gianmaria Pennelli, Giuseppe Nicolo’ Fanelli, Emanuele S. G. d’Amore, Mauro Michelotto, Pierluigi Pilati, Gaya Spolverato, Salvatore Pucciarelli, Marco Scarpa, Fabio Farinati, Edoardo Savarino, Stefano Realdon, Sara Lonardi, Francesca Bergamo, Fotios Loupakis, Angelo Paolo Dei Tos, Alessandro Vanoli, Matteo Fassan

Evolution of superficial spreading melanoma to resemble desmoplastic melanoma: case report

Martin G. Cook, Barry W. E. M. Powell, Megan E. Grant, Adele C. Green