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  1. Making the distinction between primary mucinous and metastatic ovarian tumors is often difficult, especially in tumors with a primary source from the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas and biliary tree. The aim ...

    Authors: Pavel Dundr, Naveena Singh, Barbora Nožičková, Kristýna Němejcová, Michaela Bártů and Ivana Stružinská
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:20
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  2. Metastases are common in non-cirrhotic livers but are considered unlikely in the setting of cirrhosis. However, the degree of fibrosis in cirrhosis may vary; thus metastases may still access the liver vasculat...

    Authors: Zaid Mahdi, Mark G. Ettel, Raul S. Gonzalez, John Hart, Lindsay Alpert, Jiayun Fang, Natalia Liu, Suntrea T. Hammer, Nicole Panarelli, Jerome Cheng, Joel K. Greenson, Paul E. Swanson and Maria Westerhoff
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:18
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  3. Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) can develop lung squamous cell carcinoma (LuSCC), which could be the second primary tumor or HNSCC metastasis. Morphologically it is difficult to dis...

    Authors: Maja Šutić, Jurica Baranašić, Lana Kovač Bilić, Mario Bilić, Antonija Jakovčević, Luka Brčić, Sven Seiwerth, Marko Jakopović, Miroslav Samaržija, Ulrich Zechner and Jelena Knežević
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:17
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  4. To date, very few studies on clinical-histopathological correlations of cutaneous disorders associated with COVID-19 have been conducted.

    Authors: Angela Patrì, Maria Vargas, Pasquale Buonanno, Maria Carmela Annunziata, Daniela Russo, Stefania Staibano, Giuseppe Servillo and Gabriella Fabbrocini
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:16
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  5. A 52-year-old woman presented with shortness of breath and cough. An endobronchial sialolipoma was found at the left entrance of the main bronchus. Sialolipoma is an exceedingly rare type of lipoma reported of...

    Authors: Severino Rey Nodar, Verónica García Yllán, Nohelia Rojas Ferrer, Onay Solis and Hugo D. Boccara
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:15
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  6. Succinate dehydrogenase deficient gastrointestinal stromal tumors (SDH-deficient GISTs), which lack KIT or PDGFRA mutations demonstrate unique clinical and pathological features, and they respond poorly to sta...

    Authors: Bei-Bei Lv, Jia-Mei Li, Zhi-Gang Yao, Xian-Kui Cheng, Fu-Xin Ren, Wen-Jing Su, Ye-Jun Qin, Zhou Wang and Zhi-xin Cao
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:14
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  7. The consistency of pathologists in the diagnosis of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CINs) is not ideal, especially between low- and high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSIL and HSIL). This study w...

    Authors: Chang Hui, Huimin Bai, Jun Liu, Xuerong Lu, Shuzhen Wang, Zhenyu Zhang, Mulan Jin, Yue Wang and Yuzhen Liu
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:13
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  8. Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) is the second subtype of ovarian epithelial carcinoma reported to be closely related to Lynch syndrome (LS). ARID1A mutation is an important pathogenetic mechanism in OCCC t...

    Authors: Huijuan Ge, Yaoxin Xiao, Guangqi Qin, Yanzi Gu, Xu Cai, Wenhua Jiang, Xiaoyu Tu, Wentao Yang and Rui Bi
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:12
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  9. The majority of gastrointestinal tumors are adenocarcinomas. Rarely, there are other types of tumors, such as acinar cell carcinoma, and these are often called pancreatic-type acinar cell carcinomas. Among the...

    Authors: Yuka Ooe, Kishichiro Watanabe, Isaya Hashimoto, Satoshi Takenaka, Toshihiko Ojima, Seiichi Yamamoto and Hisatake Fujii
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:11
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  10. Glutathione S-transferase mu 3 (GSTM3) plays a crucial role in tumor progression in various cancers. However, the relationship between GSTM3 expression and the clinical prognosis of esophageal squamous cell ca...

    Authors: Fu Yang, Jing Wen, Kongjia Luo and Jianhua Fu
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:10
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  12. To explore the clinical characteristics and placental pathological changes of pregnant women with 2019 novel coronavirus (CoV) disease (COVID-19) in the third trimester, and to assess the possibility of vertic...

    Authors: Likun Gao, Jiacai Ren, Li Xu, Xiaokang Ke, Lin Xiong, Xiaoli Tian, Cuifang Fan, Honglin Yan and Jingping Yuan
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:8
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  14. Histiocytic sarcoma (HS) is a rare neoplasm showing morphological and immunophenotypic features of mature tissue histiocytes. We report a patient with nodal HS exhibiting prominent reactive eosinophilic infilt...

    Authors: Rintaro Ohe, Takanobu Kabasawa, Aya Utsunomiya, Yuka Urano, Takumi Kitaoka, Kazushi Suzuki, Naing Ye Aung, Ichiro Kawamura, Katsushi Tajima, Tomoharu Ishiyama and Mitsunori Yamakawa
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:6
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  15. Gastric cancer (GCa) is one of the six major malignancies in the world with low survival rate. Although there are advances in therapeutic approaches, the prognosis of patients with GCa remains not optimistic. ...

    Authors: Zhong Zheng, Jun Li, Junyan An, Yikuan Feng and Lirong Wang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:5
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  18. IL4Rα and IL13Rα1 are constituents of the type II IL4 receptor. Recently, IL4Rα and IL13Rα1 were reported to have roles in cancer progression and suggested as potential prognostic markers. However, studies on ...

    Authors: Kyoung Min Kim, Usama Khamis Hussein, See-Hyoung Park, Young Jae Moon, Zhongkai Zhang, Asmaa Gamal Ahmed, Ae-Ri Ahn, Ho Sung Park, Jung Ryul Kim and Kyu Yun Jang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:2
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  19. Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) with uniform CD56 expression is a rare condition, that has been described in limited literature, and its clinicopathological features have not yet been well illustrated. T...

    Authors: Bao-Hua Yu, Yan Zhang, Tian Xue, Ruo-Hong Shui, Hong-Fen Lu, Xiao-Yan Zhou, Xiong-Zeng Zhu and Xiao-Qiu Li
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2021 16:1
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  20. Identification of somatic mutations in key oncogenes in melanoma is important to lead the effective and efficient use of personalized anticancer treatment. Conventional methods focus on few genes per run and, ...

    Authors: Irene Vanni, Milena Casula, Lorenza Pastorino, Antonella Manca, Bruna Dalmasso, Virginia Andreotti, Marina Pisano, Maria Colombino, Ulrich Pfeffer, Enrica Teresa Tanda, Carla Rozzo, Panagiotis Paliogiannis, Antonio Cossu, Paola Ghiorzo and Giuseppe Palmieri
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:143
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  22. The involvement of circular RNAs (circRNAs) in chemoresistance of tumors has been identified. Herein, this study aims to investigate the role and the underlying mechanism of circ_0003998 in doxorubicin (DOX) r...

    Authors: Xiaomin Li, Jiefeng He, Xiaojing Ren, Haichao Zhao and Haoliang Zhao
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:141
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. Pancreatic Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasms (SPNs) are rare low-grade malignant tumors with a marked preponderance for young females. Objective was to describe the morphology, differential diagnosis, and progno...

    Authors: Nasir Ud Din, Shabina Rahim, Jamshid Abdul-Ghafar, Arsalan Ahmed and Zubair Ahmad
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:139
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  26. High grade basal-like breast carcinomas are triple negative, express basal cytokeratins, and are known for the overall poor prognosis and aggressive behavior. HPV related multiphenotypic sino-nasal carcinoma h...

    Authors: Diana M. Oramas, Diana Bell and Lavinia P. Middleton
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:137
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  28. Karyopherin α2 (KPNA2), a member of the karyopherin α family, has been studied in several cancers but has not yet been substantially investigated in malignant bone tumors. The purpose of the current study was ...

    Authors: Lucen Jiang, Jianghuan Liu, Qingzhu Wei and Yiyang Wang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:135
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  29. Pulmonary NUT carcinoma is rare, but lethal, thus, must not be overlooked. The definitive diagnosis is made by a NUT monoclonal antibody or gene analysis, but these are not always routinely available. Therefor...

    Authors: Satoe Numakura, Koji Saito, Noriko Motoi, Taisuke Mori, Yuichi Saito, Fumi Yokote, Yasuyuki Kanamoto, Momoko Asami, Takashi Sakai, Yoshikane Yamauchi, Yukinori Sakao, Hiroshi Uozaki and Masafumi Kawamura
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:134
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  30. Lung cancer (LC) is a malignant tumor originating in the bronchial mucosa or gland of the lung. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are proved to be key regulators of tumor progression. However, the regulatory effect of ...

    Authors: Koudong Zhang, Hang Hu, Juan Xu, Limin Qiu, Haitao Chen, Xingzhi Jiang and Yongqian Jiang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:133
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  31. Spitzoid melanocytic lesions represent a heterogeneous group of proliferations with ambiguous and overlapping terminology. The exact distinction of a Spitz nevus from a Spitzoid melanoma can be very difficult ...

    Authors: Jiri Vachtenheim Jr, Roman Kodet, Ondrej Fischer, Vitezslav Kolek, Zuzana Strizova, Andrej Ozaniak, Jan Simonek, Alan Stolz, Jiri Pozniak, Jan Kolarik, Monika Svorcova, Jiri Vachtenheim and Robert Lischke
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:132
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  32. Gastric adenocarcinoma of the fundic gland type (GA-FG) has been added to the 2019 edition of the World Health Organization’s list of digestive system-associated cancers. This lesion differentiates toward the ...

    Authors: Chengfang Li, Xinglong Wu, Shuang Yang, Xiaorong Yang, Jin Yao and Hong Zheng
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:131
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  33. The conventional method for the diagnosis of malaria parasites is the microscopic examination of stained blood films, which is time consuming and requires expertise. We introduce computer-based image segmentat...

    Authors: Syed Saiden Abbas and Tjeerd M. H. Dijkstra
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:130
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  34. Histologic features of idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension (INCPH) may overlap with those without INCPH. Recently, these features have been recognized as part of the larger spectrum of porto-sinusoida...

    Authors: Michel Kmeid, Chunlai Zuo, Stephen M. Lagana, Won-Tak Choi, Jingmei Lin, Zhaohai Yang, Xiuli Liu, Maria Westerhoff, M. Isabel Fiel, Kajsa Affolter, Eun-Young K. Choi and Hwajeong Lee
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:129
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  35. Colorectal T/natural killer (NK)-cell lymphomas (TNKCL) are very rare. Endoscopic and clinicopathological characteristics of colorectal TNKCL have not been clearly demonstrated. In this study, we demonstrated ...

    Authors: Hideki Ishibashi, Satoshi Nimura, Fumihito Hirai, Naohiko Harada, Hiromi Iwasaki, Sigeto Kawauchi, Yumi Oshiro, Atsuji Matsuyama, Shotaro Nakamura, Yasushi Takamatsu, Hirotoshi Yonemasu, Taturo Shimokama and Morishige Takeshita
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:128
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  36. Histologic distinction between well differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and benign hepatocellular mass lesions is a known challenge. Existing biomarkers are of limited diagnostic value. Our previous ...

    Authors: Yuan Li, Fangfang Liu, Wendi Zhou, Sharon Zhang, Peiguo Chu, Fan Lin and Hanlin L. Wang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:127
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  37. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) still remains intractable disease with few therapeutic options. Programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1), which is essential for immune evasion, is involved in the pathogenes...

    Authors: Hong Kyu Lee, Mi Jung Kwon, Yong Joon Ra, Hee Sung Lee, Hyoung Soo Kim, Eun Sook Nam, Seong Jin Cho, Hye-Rim Park, Soo Kee Min, Jinwon Seo, Ji-Young Choe, Kyueng-Whan Min and So Young Kang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:126
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  38. Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is associated with the pathogenesis of a variety of malignancies, most notably lymphomas. Especially in the background of immunodeficiency, such as primary immunodeficiency disorder (P...

    Authors: Yusuke Kajimoto, Yasuhiro Terasaki, Mika Terasaki, Shinobu Kunugi, Yugo Okabe, Satoshi Wakita, Koiti Inokuchi and Akira Shimizu
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:125
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  39. The tumor transformation mechanism of a plasmacytoid urothelial carcinoma remains unexplained. We describe the case of a plasmacytoid urothelial carcinoma of the renal pelvis in which the expression of zinc fi...

    Authors: Atsuko Takada-Owada, Yumi Nozawa, Masato Onozaki, Shuhei Noda, Tsengelmaa Jamiyan, Yuumi Tokura, Yoshimasa Nakazato, Takao Kamai and Kazuyuki Ishida
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:124
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  40. The presence of histologically different neoplasms in the same organ is rare in pathologic practice. We report the first case of synchronous clear cell renal cell carcinoma (clear cell RCC) and papillary renal...

    Authors: Hyun Jung Lee, Dong Hoon Shin, Joon Young Park, So Young Kim, Chung Su Hwang, Jung Hee Lee, Jee Yeon Kim, Mee Young Sol and Jong Kil Nam
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:123
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  41. Cutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCL) are a heterogeneous group of extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphomas for which diagnosis can be challenging given the potential for overlap with inflammatory dermatoses. Current diag...

    Authors: Rebecca Rojansky, Sebastian Fernandez-Pol, Erica Wang, Kerri E. Rieger, Roberto A. Novoa, James L. Zehnder, Christian A. Kunder, Youn H. Kim, Michael S. Khodadoust and Ryanne A. Brown
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:122
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  42. Cytokeratin-positive interstitial reticulum cells (CIRCs), which are a subgroup of fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs), are known to be present in the lymph nodes. There have been only a few cases of tumors de...

    Authors: Sachiko Kaji, Nobuyuki Hiruta, Daisuke Sasai, Makoto Nagashima, Rintaro Ohe and Mitsunori Yamakawa
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:121
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  43. Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is an extremely rare malignant vascular tumor which is often multifocal and, in many cases, discovered incidentally. Here, we describe the clinicopathological features ...

    Authors: Nasir Ud Din, Shabina Rahim, Tamana Asghari, Jamshid Abdul-Ghafar and Zubair Ahmad
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:120
    Content type: Research Published on:

  44. Uterine adenosarcoma, a rare uterine tumor subtype, is a biphasic tumor consisting of epithelial and mesenchymal elements. To date, there is no research comparing the histopathological features and immunohisto...

    Authors: Makiko Omi, Akiko Tonooka, Tomohiro Chiba, Yuji Tanaka, Atsushi Fusegi, Yoichi Aoki, Hidetaka Nomura, Hiroyuki Kanao and Yutaka Takazawa
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:119
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  45. Carcinosarcoma is a rare neoplasm with a poor prognosis that is most often discovered at an advanced stage; a gastric carcinosarcoma is even rarer than carcinosarcomas originating in other organs, such as the ...

    Authors: Akihiro Shioya, Nozomu Kurose, Kenichi Mizutani, Motona Kumagai, Ken Kawaura, Naohiko Nakamura, Takeo Kosaka, Nozomu Motono, Hidetaka Uramoto and Sohsuke Yamada
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:118
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  46. Primary cardiac lymphomas are extremely rare entities (< 2% of cardiac tumours) and the most frequent histologic type is diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Fibrin-associated DLBCL (FA-DLBCL) is a very unus...

    Authors: Esther Moreno Moreno, Ana Ferrer-Gómez, Héctor Pian Arias, Irene García García and Mónica García-Cosío
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:117
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  47. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Danielle J. Fassler, Shahira Abousamra, Rajarsi Gupta, Chao Chen, Maozheng Zhao, David Paredes, Syeda Areeha Batool, Beatrice S. Knudsen, Luisa Escobar-Hoyos, Kenneth R. Shroyer, Dimitris Samaras, Tahsin Kurc and Joel Saltz
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:116
    Content type: Publisher Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:100

  48. Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma is a rare distinctive variant of liver cancer with unique epidemiological and pathological characteristics, characterized by dense lymphocyte infiltration. It can be divided in...

    Authors: Kai Zhang, Changcheng Tao, Zonggui Tao, Fan Wu, Songlin An, Jianxiong Wu and Weiqi Rong
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:115
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  49. While ETV6- NTRK3 fusion is common in infantile fibrosarcoma, NTRK1/3 fusion in pediatric tumors is scarce and, consequently, not well known. Herein, we evaluated for the presence of NTRK1/3 fusion in pediatric m...

    Authors: Jeongwan Kang, Jin Woo Park, Jae-Kyung Won, Jeong Mo Bae, Jaemoon Koh, Jeemin Yim, Hongseok Yun, Seung-Ki Kim, Jung Yoon Choi, Hyoung Jin Kang, Woo Sun Kim, Joo Heon Shin and Sung-Hye Park
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:114
    Content type: Research Published on:

  50. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) with rapid on-site evaluation has a great potential for the diagnosis of fungal lesions and other opportunistic infections. Fungal infections have been in increasing tren...

    Authors: Santosh Tummidi, Bitan Naik, Arundhathi Shankaralingappa, Pavithra Balakrishna, Arati Ankushrao Bhadada and Navya Kosaraju
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2020 15:113
    Content type: Case Report Published on:
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