Lymph node ratio: a new feature for defining risk category of node-positive breast cancer patients.

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

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：:Anaplastic sarcoma of the kidney (ASK) is an extremely rare tumor, which usually presents as a large renal mass. Microscopically, the tumor is composed of pleomorphic mesenchymal spindle cells with marked atypia, associated with chondroid differentiation and focal round primitive mesenchymal cells. Herein, we present ...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Arabi H,Al-Maghraby H,Yamani A,Yousef Y,Huwait H

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric duplication cysts are rare congenital anomalies that are mostly discovered in children but can remain asymptomatic and undetected into adulthood. Malignant transformation in gastric duplications is extremely rare, with most reported cases being adenocarcinomas. Herein, the authors report the first case of a hi...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Horne G,Ming-Lum C,Kirkpatrick AW,Parker RL

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background. In this single-institution study, we applied the current (eighth edition) American Joint Committee on Cancer pathologic staging criteria to 64 low-grade mucinous neoplasms of the appendix (LAMNs), examined their histopathologic features, and studied the patients' clinical outcomes. Design. Sixty-four LAMNs...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Wong M,Barrows B,Gangi A,Kim S,Mertens RB,Dhall D

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cystic swelling in the parotid gland should lead to a differential diagnosis that includes benign cystic lesion of the gland, benign tumors that are frequently associated with cystic degeneration or entirely cystic de novo, or even a malignant neoplasm. The case presented is that of a cystic parotid swelling of 2 ye...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Qannam A,Bello IO,Al-Kindi M,Al-Hindi M

更新日期：2013-04-01 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：: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 small cell and lymphohistiocytic variants of anaplastic large cell lymphoma are commonly misdiagnosed as reactive lymphadenopathies. A helpful histologic clue is the presence of perivascular cuffs of large lymphoid cells, and the diagnosis can be readily confirmed by immunostaining for CD30 and ALK. Int J Surg Pat...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Chan JK

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomembranes in colonic biopsies are normally associated with antibiotic related pseudomembranous colitis. Although pseudomembranes have rarely been reported in other conditions, their presence in rectal prolapse has not been previously reported. ...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Coyne JD

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH) of the prostate is a microscopic proliferation of small acini that may be mistaken for adenocarcinoma. Although some data suggest that AAH is associated with adenocarcinoma arising in the transition zone, the clinical significance of this lesion is uncertain. Therefore we studied...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Lopez-Beltran A,Qian J,Montironi R,Luque RJ,Bostwick DG

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenomyoma and adenomyomatous hyperplasia are benign tumor-like lesions that rarely involve the major or minor duodenal papilla. We report the case of a 73-year-old patient who underwent a cephalic duodenopancreatectomy due to clinical and radiological evidence of underlying malignant neoplasm. The histopathology resu...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Gialamas E,Mormont M,Bagetakos I,Frossard JL,Morel P,Puppa G

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue contaminants in anatomical pathology are not uncommon. While issues related to the presence of extraneous tissue on glass slides are often easily resolved, this is not always the case and several factors may contribute to diagnostic difficulty. Because of this, familiarity with the different steps involved in h...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Hodgson AJ,Shang YM,Boulianne P,Downes MR,Hwang D,Slodkowska E

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous regression of malignant tumour is a rare phenomenon. This report describes such an occurrence in a gastric large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of a 77-year-old man. The patient presented with dyspepsia, and biopsy of the fungating mass in the cardia showed a high grade neuroendocrine carcinoma. The pre-ope...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Ip YT,Pong WM,Kao SS,Chan JK

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a well-differentiated chondrosarcoma of the proximal humerus in a 60-year-old man that featured a prominent component of granular cells, the granules being shown by electron microscopy to be lysosomal. Although secondary granular cell changes have been described in a large variety of tumor types,...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Cremonini A,Kuhn E,De Biase P,Franchi A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 37-year-old woman was found to have multiple peritoneal nodules, including on the uterine serosa, at Cesarean section. Histology showed yellow crystalline material surrounded by histiocytes and occasional multinucleate giant cells. Further enquiry revealed that the patient underwent a cholecystectomy for a perforate...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： McVeigh G,McComiskey M,McCluggage WG

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike their cutaneous counterparts, head and neck mucosal malignant melanomas (HNMM) behave much more aggressively and their prognostic markers have not been fully elucidated. Therefore, the aim of this study was to review the clinicopathologic features of a contemporary series of primary HNMM, retrieved from archiva...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Kerr EH,Hameed O,Lewis JS Jr,Bartolucci AA,Wang D,Said-Al-Naief N

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The phenomenon of vanishing carcinomas, first described in context of prostatic carcinomas, has been documented in endometrial carcinomas as well. METHODS:The archives of the department were searched for case files of endometrial carcinoma diagnosed on endometrial curetting/biopsy but which did not reveal a...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Bharani V,Rai B,Rajwanshi A,Gupta N,Dey P,Kalra J,Suri V,Srinivasan R

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：AIMS. GIARDIA:is sometimes missed by the pathologist, and we sought to determine how often this occurs at our institution-a large tertiary care center with a subspecialty gastrointestinal pathology service and what certain clinical and histologic clues can be used to flag cases with a higher likelihood of infection, ta...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Shen MJ,Voltaggio L,Robertson S

更新日期：2020-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenocarcinomas and noninvasive intraepithelial neoplasms (either polypoid or flat) are the most common gallbladder tumors; however, neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) can also occur. The majority of NENs are represented by neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs), while neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are extremely rare in this lo...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Kővári B,Turkevi-Nagy S,Lauwers GY,Jiang K

更新日期：2021-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the relationship between del(5q) and the clinical and histological features of small cell neuroendocrine lung carcinoma, 33 tissue samples from patients with this tumor were evaluated. By using fluorescence in situ hybridization, del(5q) was identified in almost 50% of cases (15/33, 45%). Clinically, pati...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Hartel PH,Shackelford AL,Hartel JV,Wenger SL

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a fourth case of papilliferous keratoameloblastoma, with a 6-year follow-up. A 62-year-old man underwent resection of a right mandibular neoplasm infiltrating bone and soft tissues. Microscopically, there were cysts lined by papillary projections and containing necrotic debris. Cribriform, solid, and tubular...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Collini P,Zucchini N,Vessecchia G,Guzzo M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of primary pleomorphic liposarcoma of the thigh with a myxoid component, in which divergent differentiation to a well-differentiated chondrosarcoma was focally present, is described. Presence of heterologous elements has mainly been recognized in the context of dedifferentiated liposarcomas. Few cases of b...

journal_title：International journal of surgical pathology

authors： Panoussopoulos D,Theodoropoulos G,Lazaris AC,Papadimitriou K

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：: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：: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