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  1. Histologic grade of ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast (DCIS) may become the single biomarker that decides whether patients will be treated. Yet, evidence shows that grading variation in daily practice is ...

    Authors: Carmen van Dooijeweert, Paul J. van Diest, Inge O. Baas, Elsken van der Wall and Ivette A. G. Deckers

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:52

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  2. Immunotherapy has demonstrated encouraging clinical benefits in patients with advanced breast carcinomas and Programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression has been proposed as an immunotherapy biomarker. Challe...

    Authors: Ping Mei, C. Eric Freitag, Lai Wei, Yunxiang Zhang, Anil V. Parwani and Zaibo Li

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:50

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  3. The objective of this study was to investigate genetic variations and the relationships between these genetic variations and clinicopathological features of high-recurrence risk papillary thyroid carcinoma in ...

    Authors: Min Li, Haitao Jia, Qiuqin Qian, Peng Wen, Chuan Chen, Yaqiong Hua, Kai Wang, Wenyong Zhang and Feng Shi

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:49

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  4. Alveolar capillary dysplasia with misalignment of pulmonary veins (ACD/MPV) is a rare disorder of pulmonary vascular abnormality with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn. The symptom usually prese...

    Authors: Akiko Kitano, Masato Nakaguro, Seiichi Tomotaki, Shintaro Hanaoka, Masahiko Kawai, Akiko Saito, Masahiro Hayakawa, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Hidenori Kawasaki, Takahiro Yamada, Masahiko Ikeda, Tetsuo Onda, Kazutoshi Cho, Hironori Haga, Atsuko Nakazawa and Sachiko Minamiguchi

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:48

    Content type: Case Report

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  5. Among cancers affecting the oral cavity, adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is a relatively common malignant neoplasm. It has high rates of metastasis and recurrence and is associated with significant morbidity. D...

    Authors: Raíssa Pinheiro de Mendonça, Giordanna Pereira Chemelo, Geovanni Pereira Mitre, Dimitra Castelo Branco, Natacha Malu Miranda da Costa, Fabrício Mesquita Tuji, Maria Sueli da Silva Kataoka, Ricardo Alves Mesquita, Sérgio de Melo Alves Júnior and João de Jesus Viana Pinheiro

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:47

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  6. Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common type of epilepsy, usually starting in childhood. The dysregulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) has been identified in neurological disorders. The current study investi...

    Authors: Na Li, Jingmei Pan, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Li, Feng Li and Min Liu

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:46

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  7. Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing has been employed by several European countries to augment cytology-based cervical screening programs. A number of research groups have demonstrated potential utility of next...

    Authors: Wai Sing Chan, Tsun Leung Chan, Chun Hang Au, Chin Pang Leung, Man Yan To, Man Kin Ng, Sau Man Leung, May Kwok Mei Chan, Edmond Shiu Kwan Ma and Bone Siu Fai Tang

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:45

    Content type: Short report

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  8. Blood malignancies are among the leading causes of cancer related deaths in the world. Different environmental and genetic risk factors are involved in progression of blood malignancies. It has been shown that...

    Authors: Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan, Amir Sadra Zangouei, Seyed Mohammad Hosseinirad, Majid Mojarrad and Meysam Moghbeli

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:44

    Content type: Review

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  9. Liver is one of the most common organs involved by metastatic neoplasms. In addition, a number of primary tumors can arise in the liver. Fine needle biopsy (FNB) is the most commonly used method for diagnosis ...

    Authors: Lin Zhang, Zhenjian Cai, Joe Rodriguez, Songlin Zhang, Jaiyeola Thomas and Hui Zhu

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:43

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  10. The prevalence of EGFR/ALK co-alterations in patients with NSCLC was low. The several previous studies focused on the simultaneous occurrence of EGFR mutations and ALK rearrangements in a unifocal lung cancer....

    Authors: Jun Fan, Junhua Wu, Bo Huang, Yili Zhu, Heshui Shi, Xiaofang Dai and Xiu Nie

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:42

    Content type: Case Report

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  11. Diversified etiology of lower respiratory tract infection renders diagnosis challenging. The mainstay microbial culture is time-consuming and constrained by variable growth requirements. In this study, we expl...

    Authors: Wai Sing Chan, Chun Hang Au, Sau Man Leung, Dona N. Ho, Elaine Yue Ling Wong, Man Yan To, Man Kin Ng, Tsun Leung Chan, Edmond Shiu Kwan Ma and Bone Siu Fai Tang

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:41

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  12. Inverted urothelial papilloma (IUP) of the upper urinary tract is an uncommon benign tumour that occasionally presents as a polypoid mass causing urinary obstruction. Histologically, IUP is characterised by a ...

    Authors: R. Santi, I. C. Galli, V. Canzonieri, J. I. Lopez and G. Nesi

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:40

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  13. Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) is a rare group of autosomal recessive hereditary hepatic diseases. There are three types of PFIC, classified according to the mutated gene. For example, PF...

    Authors: Zhenping Wu, Siying Zhang, Lunli Zhang and Ming Li

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:39

    Content type: Case Report

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  14. Exosomes represent an important subset of extracellular vesicles involved in inter-cellular communications in health and diseases. Exosomes secreted from cancer and immune cells travel to the specific tissues ...

    Authors: Phyoe Kyawe Myint, Eun Jeong Park, Arong Gaowa, Eiji Kawamoto and Motomu Shimaoka

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:38

    Content type: Commentary

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  15. Numerous studies indicate that higher tumour programmed cell death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression is associated with greater response to anti-programmed cell death-1 (PD-1)/PD-L1 immunotherapy in non-small cell l...

    Authors: Bharat Jasani, Gudrun Bänfer, Rebecca Fish, Wim Waelput, Yves Sucaet, Craig Barker, Jessica L. Whiteley, Jill Walker, Rudy Hovelinck and Rolf Diezko

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:37

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  16. Transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) is a minimally invasive procedure performed to diagnose lymph node (LN) adenopathy. TBNA with and without endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) guidance has a high diagnostic ...

    Authors: Hui Shen, Lingyun Lou, Ting Chen, Yi Zou, Bin Wang, Zhihao Xu, Qin Ye, Huahao Shen, Wen Li and Yang Xia

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:36

    Content type: Research

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  18. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is one of the major types of inflammatory bowel diseases and is associated with a significantly increased risk of not only lymphoproliferative disorders but also lymphomas, of which mos...

    Authors: Kazushi Suzuki, Rintaro Ohe, Takanobu Kabasawa, Naing Ye Aung, Mitsuhiro Yano, Shuichiro Katsumi, Ryo Yanagiya, Masakazu Yamamoto, Tomomi Toubai, Kenichi Ishizawa and Mitsunori Yamakawa

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:34

    Content type: Case Report

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  19. Bladder cancer (BC) is one of the most common malignancies in Egypt, representing about 8.7% of cancers in both sexes with more predominance in males, making identification of valuable predictive and prognosti...

    Authors: Dalia Rifaat Al-Sharaky, Mona Abd El-Halim Kandil, Hayam Abdel Samie Aiad, Enas Megahed El-hosary, Hagar Abdelmagied Alagizy, Mahmoud Abdel-Sattar Elshenawy and Hala Said El-Rebey

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:33

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  20. Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) can secrete bioactive amines in the bloodstream, resulting in the carcinoid syndrome characterized by diarrhea and flushing. The frequency of occurrence of primary cardiac neuroend...

    Authors: Chengfang Li, Jiajia Huang, Xiaorong Yang, Jinhua Xia, Gaoqiang Xu and Hong Zheng

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:32

    Content type: Case Report

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  22. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) primarily derived from the base of the tongue, is rare. Human papillomavirus (HPV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) are important aetiological risk factors for tumours of the head and ...

    Authors: Xinyu Ren, Yin Cheng, Shafei Wu, Xuan Zeng, Xiaohua Shi, Qing Ling, Zongzhu Li, Zhiyong Liang and Beverly Wang

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:30

    Content type: Research

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  24. To investigate the expression and function of RSK4, MMP-9 and CD44 in primary clear cell renal cell carcinoma (primary ccRCC) and metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (metastatic ccRCC), as well as the c...

    Authors: Jing Ma, Mingyang Li, Jia Chai, Kaijing Wang, Peifeng Li, Yixiong Liu, Danhui Zhao, Junpeng Xu, Kangjie Yu, Qingguo Yan, Shuangping Guo, Zhe Wang and Linni Fan

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:28

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  25. Despite great progress in surgery and other treatments, the prognosis of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is still very poor. HER2 has strong therapeutic implications in certain cancers,...

    Authors: Lulu Rong, Bingzhi Wang, Lei Guo, Xiuyun Liu, Bingning Wang, Jianming Ying, Liyan Xue and Ning Lu

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:27

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  26. Insulin-like growth factor-2 messenger RNA-binding protein 3 (IGF2BP3 or IMP3) is an oncofetal protein that is expressed in various cancer types, and its expression is often associated with poor prognosis. IGF...

    Authors: Misuzu Okabayshi, Tatsuki R. Kataoka, Marina Oji, Satoko Mibayashi, Kentaro Odani, Atsushi Otsuka and Hironori Haga

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:26

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  29. Low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma (LGFMS) is a rare fibroblastic tumor often involving deep tissue of trunk and lower extremities in young to middle-aged patients. Rarely, LGFMS can occur in other sites including ...

    Authors: Jialing Huang, Steven Cohen and Gerorge Jour

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:23

    Content type: Case Report

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  30. Extraovarian Brenner tumors (EOBTs) are extremely rare and can be observed incidentally in both female and male patients, raising concerns regarding the origin of Brenner tumors.

    Authors: Rui-Yue Hu, Yan-Juan Deng, Hao-Hao Zhu, Jing Zhou, Ming Hu, Xiao-Qing Liang, Qiu-Jin Xiao, Lv Zhou, Xiao-Yu Peng, Xing-Wei Zhang, Ning Ji and Huan Deng

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:22

    Content type: Case Report

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  31. There is minimal information regarding the prevalence of intratumoral adipose in renal cell carcinoma (RCC), and no study has assessed the impact of intratumoral adipose on the preoperative imaging diagnosis. ...

    Authors: Zhaoying Xian, Jason O. Orien, Geoffrey N. Box and Debra L. Zynger

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:21

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  32. We report an unusual case of low-grade fibromatosis-like metaplastic carcinoma (LG-FLMC) of the breast. This exceedingly rare epithelial breast malignancy has been reported only 68 times in the past 20 years, ...

    Authors: Jasper Victoor, Claire Bourgain, Sara Vander Borght, Isabelle Vanden Bempt, Carine De Rop and Giuseppe Floris

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:20

    Content type: Case Report

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  33. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been investigated in various cardiovascular diseases. As a fatal disease, acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a serious global health burden. The purpose of this study was to investiga...

    Authors: Yunxiang Dai, Tingguo Yan and Yuming Gao

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:19

    Content type: Research

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  34. Insulin resistance (IR) in obesity is associated with the occurrence of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. Dipepidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4) plays a pivotal role during the development of IR, and was found to b...

    Authors: Fangxiao Cheng, Geheng Yuan, Jiao He, Yimin Shao, Junqing Zhang and Xiaohui Guo

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:18

    Content type: Research

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  35. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) is a standard procedure used to obtain tissue samples for diagnosis of solid retroperitoneal tumours. However, this procedure demands high technica...

    Authors: Jian-Han Lai, Hsiang-Hung Lin and Ching-Chung Lin

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:17

    Content type: Research

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  36. Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is an indolent tumor that is exploding with increasing thyroid nodules (TN). Environmental carcinogens, lifestyle changes increased the incidence of thyroid carcinoma. With th...

    Authors: Hongsheng Lu, Lihong Zhang, Yuechu Dai, Yanyun Ruan, Xuequan Cao, Xiaobo Cai, Sihan Ruan and Qi Chen

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:16

    Content type: Research

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  37. Primary pulmonary myxoid sarcoma (PPMS) is an extremely rare lung sarcoma that is characterized in most cases by recurrent balanced chromosomal translocation t(2;22)(q33;q12) leading to the oncogenic fusion gene

    Authors: Zhenwei Chen, Yihui Yang, Rongming Chen, Chi Sing Ng and Hongqi Shi

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:15

    Content type: Case Report

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  38. To investigate the role of FOXM1, β-catenin and TCF4 in esophageal cancer (EC) and their relationship to VM (Vasculogenic Mimicry).

    Authors: Lili Cheng, Qi Wang, Xiaoying Tao, Yanzi Qin, Qiong Wu, Dafang Zheng, Damin Chai, Yong Zhang, Dongbing Lu, Hongfei Ci, Zhiwei Wang, Jia Ma, Danna Wang, Zenong Cheng, Shiwu Wu and Yisheng Tao

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:14

    Content type: Research

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  39. Primary thyroid Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL) is an extremely rare and highly aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; only isolated case reports are available for patients with this disease.

    Authors: Toshitetsu Hayashi, Mitsuyoshi Hirokawa, Seiji Kuma, Miyoko Higuchi, Ayana Suzuki, Risa Kanematsu, Takumi Kudo, Naomi Katsuki, Reiji Haba and Akira Miyauchi

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:13

    Content type: Case Report

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  40. Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of the uterine cervix with a well-documented link to infection with human papillomaviruses (HPV). According to a recent classification, there are seve...

    Authors: Jan Hrudka, Blanka Rosová and Michael J. Halaška

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:12

    Content type: Case Report

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  41. Primary malignant melanoma of the lung (PML) is extremely rare. No precursor lesions of PML have been identified, and little is known about the genetic mutations associated with the disease. Typically, 15–20% ...

    Authors: Takashi Hibiya, Meiro Tanaka, Mai Matsumura, Ayako Aoki, Tadashi Ikegami, Koji Okudela, Naomi Kawano and Kenichi Ohashi

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:11

    Content type: Case Report

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  42. CD68+ tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) play an important role in the progression of classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL). We assessed the role of CD20 and CD68 + TAM in a cohort of cHL patients from Egypt and corre...

    Authors: Osama Mohamed, Ahmed El Bastawisy, Nasr Allahlobi, Mona S. Abdellateif, Abdel Rahman N. Zekri, Sabry Shaarawy, Zeinab Korany, Marwa Mohanad and Abeer A. Bahnassy

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:10

    Content type: Research

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  43. Non-surgical cytological specimens are adequate not only for accurate histological subtyping but also for molecular profiling. A modified amplification refractory mutation system polymerase chain reaction (ARM...

    Authors: Wei Wu, Ziyang Cao, Wei Zhang, Liping Zhang, Likun Hou and Chunyan Wu

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:9

    Content type: Research

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  44. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common type of adult mesenchymal neoplasms. The events that drive GIST oncogenesis are primarily KIT or PDGFRA mutations, which lead to the susceptibility of t...

    Authors: Jun Fan, Ming Yang, Bo Huang, Zhenkao Wang, Danju Luo, Jiwei Zhang, Peng Zhang, Heshui Shi, Yan Li and Xiu Nie

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:8

    Content type: Case Report

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  45. Cutaneous pilomatrical carcinosarcoma (CS) is a very rare biphasic tumor composed of admixed epithelial and mesenchymal malignant cells, with limited information on its pathogenesis. We report a case of piloma...

    Authors: Thi My Hanh Luong, Yuko Akazawa, Zhanna Mussazhanova, Katsuya Matsuda, Nozomi Ueki, Shiro Miura, Toshihide Hara, Hiroko Yokoyama and Masahiro Nakashima

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:7

    Content type: Case Report

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  46. To achieve optimal outcomes, an individual approach is needed in the treatment and care of patients. The potential value of tumor mutational burden (TMB) status and/or programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) ex...

    Authors: Tina Krieger, Isobel Pearson, Judith Bell, Jim Doherty and Paul Robbins

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:6

    Content type: Review

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  47. Precision medicine based on genomic analysis of germline or tumor tissue is attracting attention. However, there is no consensus on how to apply the results of genomic analysis to treatment.

    Authors: Hiroshi Hongo, Takeo Kosaka, Eriko Aimono, Hiroshi Nishihara and Mototsugu Oya

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:5

    Content type: Case Report

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  48. An intravenous leiomyomatosis is a special type of uterine leiomyoma characterized by the formation of benign leiomyomatous tissue within the vascular wall. Although histologically benign, intracardiac metasta...

    Authors: Mitsutake Yano, Tomomi Katoh, Yoshie Nakajima, Shiro Iwanaga, Rei Kin, Eito Kozawa and Masanori Yasuda

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:4

    Content type: Case Report

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  50. NUT midline carcinoma (NMC) is a poorly differentiated squamous cancer with a median survival at less than 7 months. NMC is resistant to conventional chemotherapies and characterized by rearrangement of the NUT g...

    Authors: Peiwei Chai, Chuandi Zhou, Renbing Jia and Yefei Wang

    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:2

    Content type: Case Report

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