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Case Report
Ewing’s sarcoma (ES) and primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) are closely related tumors. Although soft tissue ES/PNET are common in clinical practice, they are rare in the small intestine. Because of the a...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:37
Published on: 4 May 2017
Case Report
Endometrial stromal sarcomas arising in extrauterine and extraovarian sites, in the absence of a primary uterine lesion are quite rare, especially in the absence of endometriosis. They usually present as an ab...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:36
Published on: 2 May 2017
Case Report
Extranodal follicular dendritic cell sarcoma (FDCS) is a very rare malignancy with a variable clinical course. It is often not considered and has the potential to result in a misdiagnosis of other common sarco...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:35
Published on: 24 April 2017
Case Report
Pituitary carcinoma is a rare entity requiring the presence of metastasis to confirm its malignant potential. We report a case of pituitary carcinoma and discuss the diagnosis and management of this lesion in ...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:34
Published on: 18 April 2017
Research
Pituitary adenoma (PA) is a benign primary tumor that arises from the pituitary gland and is associated with ophthalmological, neurological and endocrinological abnormalities. However, causes that increase tum...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:33
Published on: 8 April 2017
Review
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) accounts over 90% of malignant neoplasms of the oral cavity. This pathological entity is associated to a high mortality rate that has remained unchanged over the past decade...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:32
Published on: 5 April 2017
Research
Histopathological diagnosis is important for prognostication and choice of treatment in patients with cancer in the lung. Metastases to the lungs are common and need to be distinguished from primary lung cance...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:31
Published on: 27 March 2017
Case Report
Eruptive collagenoma is a rare disease. All of the previously reported cases were located on the skin. Here we report such a case occurring in esophagus and intestine.
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:30
Published on: 20 March 2017
Case Report
Imaging and histology of clear-cell ependymoma and cerebellum-based hemangioblastoma are similar; distinguishing between them is a diagnostic challenge.
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:28
Published on: 20 March 2017
Case Report
Malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor (GNET) is an extremely rare entity that was first described by Zambrano et al. in 2003 as “Clear cell sarcoma-like tumor of the gastrointestinal tract”. It shar...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:29
Published on: 20 March 2017
Research
Recently, cytology has been applied to the diagnosis of oral lesions. We aimed to explore the diagnostic accuracy of oral cytology based on the histological diagnosis.
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:27
Published on: 16 March 2017
Research
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) is a rare, fatal disease of unknown pathogenesis. Evidence from our recent study suggests that IPAH pathogenesis is related to upregulation of the Wnt/planar c...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:25
Published on: 14 March 2017
Case Report
Uterine sarcoma is a rare tumor that is often difficult to classify based on morphological and immunohistochemical analysis alone. Limited access to molecular biological analysis in routine practice would hind...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:26
Published on: 14 March 2017
Review
Microsatellite-unstable colorectal cancers (CRC) that are due to deficient DNA mismatch repair (dMMR) represent approximately 15% of all CRCs in the United States. These microsatellite-unstable CRCs represent ...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:24
Published on: 4 March 2017
Research
Recurrence and metastasis are the usual manifestations of treatment failure of epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC). Vasculogenic mimicry (VM; blood supply development often seen in highly aggressive cancers), a...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:23
Published on: 2 March 2017
Erratum
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:22
Published on: 27 February 2017
The original article was published in Diagnostic Pathology 2016 11:103
Research
A tracheobronchial lesion observed during an endoscopic examination is usually sampled by the pulmonologist and sent to the pathologist for microscopic examination. Adipocytes may be observed in the lamina pro...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:21
Published on: 23 February 2017
Research
Studies have partly demonstrated the clinical validity of Ki-67 as a predictive marker in the neoadjuvant setting, but the question of the best cut-off points as well as the importance of this marker as a prog...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:20
Published on: 21 February 2017
Research
The analysis of fresh frozen muscle specimens is standard following routine muscle biopsy, but this service is not widely available in countries with limited medical facilities, such as Thailand. Nevertheless,...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:19
Published on: 20 February 2017
Research
High risk human papillomavirus (HR HPV) infects cells at the squamocolumnar junction (SCJ) of the cervix, causing cancer. Cytokeratin (CK)7 is an SCJ marker, and stains cervical neoplasia. CK19 is a binding pa...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:18
Published on: 17 February 2017
The Erratum to this article has been published in Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:40
Research
Cellular angiofibroma is a rare benign mesenchymal neoplasm with morphological and immunohistochemical similarities to spindle cell lipoma. Karyotypic information on cellular angiofibroma is restricted to one ...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:17
Published on: 13 February 2017
Research
Genomic instability caused by mutation of the checkpoint molecule TP53 may endow cancer cells with the ability to undergo genomic evolution to survive stress and treatment. We attempted to gain insight into the p...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:16
Published on: 2 February 2017
Case Report
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with B-cell lymphoma in various conditions, such as immunodeficiency and chronic inflammation. We report an unusual case of EBV-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DL...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:15
Published on: 31 January 2017
Research
SESN2 plays important roles in the regulation of cell survival, cell protection, and tumor suppression. However, the relationship between SESN2 expression and the clinicopathological attributes of hepatocellul...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:13
Published on: 24 January 2017
Case Report
Anastomosing hemangioma (AH) is a very rare vascular tumor mimicking angiosarcoma, predominately observed in kidney and less frequently in other organs. We present two new renal cases of AH at opposite ends of...
Diagnostic Pathology 2017 12:14
Published on: 24 January 2017
