PAX--FKHR fusion genes and AChR-gamma in Chinese patients with rhabdomyosarcoma: diagnosis using formalin-fixed archival tissues.

abstract：:Epithelioid sarcoma is a rare malignant mesenchymal neoplasm (less than 1% of all sarcomas) with epithelioid morphology. Among the 2 subtypes, proximal represents only one-third of cases and commonly involves deep tissues of pelvic region, including the perineum, genital area, and groin, and occurs more frequently in ...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Suárez-Zamora DA,Barrera-Herrera LE,Rodríguez-Urrego PA,Palau-Lázaro MA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the pathologic characteristics and prognostic significance of periprostatic lymph node (LN) metastasis of prostate cancer. The latter was performed by comparing biochemical recurrence (BCR)-free survival in cases of periprostatic LN metastasis versus matched patients showing pelvic LN metastasis. M...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： González-Roibón N,Han JS,Lee S,Feng Z,Arslankoz S,Smith N,Pierorazio PM,Humphreys E,Deweese TL,Partin AW,Bivalacqua TJ,Han M,Trock B,Netto GJ

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD138 (syndecan-1) immunoexpression has been reported to be specific for the plasmacytoid variant of urothelial carcinomas (UCs). The aim of this study was to examine the utility of CD138 immunohistochemistry for diagnosing the plasmacytoid variant of UCs. The extent and intensity of CD138 immunostaining were evaluate...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Goto K

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinonasal adenocarcinoma is a rare tumor of the head and neck accounting for 10% to 20% of all primary malignancies of the nose and paranasal sinuses. There tumors are classified as salivary, intestinal and nonintestinal, nonsalivary. Low-grade nonintestinal nonsalivary are rare tumors whose diagnosis is essentially t...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Blumberg JM,Escobar-Stein J,Vining EM,Prasad ML

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 38-year-old immunocompetent man with occupational exposure to Aspergillus presented with dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, and hemoptysis. Chest roentgenograms and computed tomography scans demonstrated multiple pulmonary nodules bilaterally. An initial set of bronchial washing cultures grew Aspergillus fumigatus, sero...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Pinckard JK,Rosenbluth DB,Patel K,Dehner LP,Pfeifer JD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-year-old female received a matched related donor stem cell transplant for chronic myelogenous leukemia. After being successfully treated with prednisone for chronic graft versus host disease that initially started 50 days posttransplant, she developed hepatic dysfunction during the steroid taper on day 531, as ev...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Baniak NM,Kanthan R

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ewing sarcoma (ES) and primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) are round-cell sarcomas with varying degrees of neuroectodermal differentiation; they are considered members of the same family of tumors based on their common genetic profile. ES/PNET are very infrequent in the female genital tract, the vagina being the ra...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Bancalari E,de Álava E,Tardío JC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction mammoplasty is a frequently performed procedure for the treatment of macromastia and for the achievement of symmetry in breast cancer patients following lumpectomy. Slides from 516 consecutive bilateral reduction mammoplasties performed for macromastia over 15 years were reviewed. Among these, 92 (18%) low-r...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Dotto J,Kluk M,Geramizadeh B,Tavassoli FA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The true incidence of light chain deposition disease (LCDD) restricted to the central nervous system (CNS) is unknown. To our knowledge only 7 cases of LCDD restricted to the brain have been previously reported. We herein describe an unusual example. A 44-year-old man presented with a history of ischemic retinopathy i...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Mercado JJ,Markert JM,Meador W,Chapman P,Perry A,Hackney JR

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the expression of beta-catenin (beta-ct) in gastric carcinoma have provided conflicting results, and the role played by beta-ct mutations in gastric carcinogenesis remains unclear. In an attempt to clarify the aforementioned issues we undertook the retrospective study of 157 gastric carcinomas by using immu...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Nabais S,Machado JC,Lopes C,Seruca R,Carneiro F,Sobrinho-Simões M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonic perineurioma has been depicted as characterized by a mucosal proliferation of monomorphic spindle perineurial cells leading to an evident separation, distortion, and entrapment of colonic crypts. The authors, however, believe that a sizable subset of the cases differ in that they display only a limited perineu...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Groisman G,Amar M,Alona M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of metaplastic columnar epithelium in the mid-esophagus in a patient with history of caustic ingestion. A cardiac-type gastric phenotype, with early signs of intestinalization, was confirmed by immunohistochemistry studies (MUC5AC, MUC6, SOX2, and CDX2). Nonmetaplastic mucosa had histologic evidence o...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Rolim I,Rodrigues RV,Bettencourt A,Barros R,Camilo V,Dias Pereira A,Almeida R,Chaves P

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high level of serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is typically indicative of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with liver lesions. In this article, we describe an exceptional case of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma that occurred in a 36-year-old man with a markedly elevated serum AFP level (12310.7 ng/mL). Histopatholo...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Vij K,Wang HL

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transformation of an ameloblastic fibroma to an ameloblastic fibrosarcoma has been reported rarely in the literature. The present case report describes such evolution in a patient under long-term follow-up. The patient was first treated in 2008, and he developed the malignant counterpart of the disease 2 years later. ...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Bertoni F,Del Corso G,Bacchini P,Marchetti C,Tarsitano A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) in children and adolescents are much rarer than in adults. In this age group, Xp11.2 translocation RCCs were the most common subtype of pediatric RCCs. Information regarding the clinical behavior of pediatric RCCs remains controversial because of their relatively rare incidence. ...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Qiu Rao,Bing Guan,Zhou XJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor, also known as Pindborg tumor, is a rare benign odontogenic tumor. This tumor predominantly involves the mandible, though the maxilla can also be involved in some cases. The involvement of maxillary sinuses, however, has been previously reported in only 8 case reports English li...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Mitra S,Kaur G,Nada R,Mohindra S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we report a very rare case of secondary angiosarcoma in a young woman with no prior history of breast cancer who had bilateral prophylactic mastectomies with autologous reconstruction due to a strong family history of breast cancer and BRCA1 gene variant of uncertain significance. The surgery was comp...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Webb C,Partain N,Koduru P,Hwang H,Sarode VR

更新日期：2020-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are the most common mesenchymal lesions of the gastrointestinal tract. Many are treated surgically with or without the use of adjuvant tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Metastases to lymph nodes are infrequent. In this article, we present a case of a perigastric nodule presenting 3 yea...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Moodley J,Cutz JC,Schell M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of endobronchial pagetoid spread of a breast carcinoma metastatic to the lung is described. A 73-year-old woman underwent wedge lung resection after the cytological diagnosis of lung metastasis from ductal invasive breast carcinoma. The breast carcinoma had been surgically removed 6 years previously; at the tim...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Monica MA,Baccarini P,Cucchi MC,Lacava N,Foschini MP

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PEComas are mesenchymal neoplasms composed of perivascular epithelioid cells (PEC) and include a spectrum of tumors. PEComas and malignant melanoma share common morphological, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural features, such as epithelioid cell morphology and melanocytic immunophenotype. Melanocytic markers com...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Ferenczi K,Lastra RR,Farkas T,Elenitsas R,Xu X,Roberts S,Brooks JS,Zhang PJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermatocytic tumor, formerly known as spermatocytic seminoma, is an uncommon testicular neoplasm which is a distinct clinicopathologic entity from classic seminoma. These tumors are not associated with germ cell neoplasia in situ, other germ cell tumors, or isochromosome 12p. Although typically, these tumors have an ...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Stueck AE,Grantmyre JE,Wood LA,Wang C,Merrimen J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In keeping with the stated goal of providing the surgical pathologist with tools to recognize abnormalities of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract due to drugs (AGIDS), in part II of this review we embark in a more organ-based description of AGIDS. Adequate space is given to the numerous adverse gastrointestinal effects o...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： De Petris G,Caldero SG,Chen L,Xiao SY,Dhungel BM,Spizcka AJ,Lam-Himlin D

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sclerosing spindle cell rhabdomyosarcoma (SSRMS) is a newly recognized entity in adults. The authors report a new case of SSRMS in a 31-year-old woman who presented with a large right leg mass. Biopsy revealed a malignant spindle cell neoplasm with focal sclerotic areas. A diagnosis of monophasic synovial sarcoma was ...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Gavino AC,Spears MD,Peng Y

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrasellar rhabdomyosarcoma is rare, and when arising in collusion with an unrelated entity, can present a diagnostic pitfall. We describe a case of a 56-year-old woman who presented with right eye ptosis and a pituitary mass, which was resected and diagnosed as atypical pituitary adenoma. Because of residual disease...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Duncan VE,Nabors LB,Warren PP,Conry RM,Willey CD,Perry A,Riley KO,Hackney JR

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dedifferentiated liposarcoma is typically a nonlipogenic high-grade sarcoma that arises from well-differentiated liposarcoma. It most commonly presents as a large mass in the retroperitoneum. Significant involvement of the gastrointestinal tract by dedifferentiated liposarcoma is uncommon. We present a unique case of ...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Hollowoa B,Lamps LW,Mizell JS,English GW 3rd,Bridge JA,Ram R,Gardner JM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, a case of metaplastic thymoma arising in a thymic cyst wall is discussed. The patient was a 61-year-old male whose chief complaint was sweating and chest pain. Imaging study revealed a mediastinal mass with right hemithoracic extension. He underwent surgical resection of the mass and remnants of the th...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Poorabdollah M,Mehdizadeh E,Mohammadi F,Sabeti S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male endometriosis and endomyometriosis (also termed "uterus-like mass") are 2 unusual manifestations of endometriosis. We report a case of male endomyometriosis with immunohistochemical and molecular confirmation. A 52-year-old man presented with stabbing pelvic pain. Computed tomography scan showed a mass in the rig...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： González RS,Vnencak-Jones CL,Shi C,Fadare O

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A completely infarcted lymph node should alert the pathologist to the high possibility of malignant lymphoma. The lymph node lesion of infectious mononucleosis (IM) shows marked histologic diversity and occasionally may be confused with malignant lymphoma. We report a rare case of IM showing extensive lymph node infar...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Kojima M,Nakamura S,Sugihara S,Sakata N,Masawa N

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear cell chondrosarcoma (CCCS) is a rare variant of conventional chondrosarcoma with low-grade malignant features that may be confused radiographically and histologically with chondroblastoma. We report a case of a 50-year-old female who presented with 6 months of left hip pain. Initial radiographs demonstrated an o...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Kiefer RM,Wojcik J,Cooper K,Weber KL,Sebro R

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant melanoma has a variety of morphologic patterns and can metastasize and mimic any type of neoplastic process creating significant diagnostic difficulty. When metastasis to the gastrointestinal system is identified, it is most commonly associated with widely metastatic disease. We report a rare case of isolate...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Lo AA,Peevey J,Lo EC,Guitart J,Rao MS,Yang GY

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00