Origin of histiocyte-like cells and multinucleated giant cells in malignant fibrous histiocytoma: neoplastic or reactive?

abstract：:Reported herein is a case of benign clear cell tumor of the lung in a 60-year-old man. Chest X-ray and CT examination revealed an abnormal nodule with homogenous density and a clear margin in the lower lobe of the left lung. The resected tumor was 13 mm in size, well-circumscribed and was graysh-white on cut surface. ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Adachi Y,Kitamura Y,Nakamura H,Taniguchi Y,Miwa K,Horie Y,Hayashi K

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extremely rare autopsy case of primary pulmonary choriocarcinoma combined with adenocarcinomatous components in a 77-year-old Japanese man is described. The patient died of rapidly progressive respiratory dysfunction without ante-mortem diagnosis. Autopsy revealed necro-hemorrhagic areas of the primary lung tumor w...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Yamamoto S,Tanaka H,Takeo H,Yasuda K,Mastukuma S

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leiomyomatosis peritonealis disseminata (LPD) is a rare clinicopathological entity typically observed in women of reproductive age. We report a case of LPD with malignant change in a man. A 77-year-old man presented with a mass measuring 10 cm in diameter at the terminal ileum and numerous peritoneal small nodules tha...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Yamaguchi T,Imamura Y,Yamamoto T,Fukuda M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 18-year-old man who suffered from panniculitis involving the entire left lower limb after exertional rhabdomyolysis is reported. A high fever (>39 degrees C) and leukocytosis (>20,000/microL) persisted for 1 week, and his general status deteriorated rapidly into pre-disseminated intravascular coagulation, complicat...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kanai Y,Iwaya K,Kuroda M,Harada M,Hirata F,Mukai K

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitral annular calcification (MAC) is a generally asymptomatic abnormality found commonly in aged hearts. Some clinical studies have suggested that MAC should be considered an independent risk factor for stroke; however, whether the abnormality is indeed a risk factor remains controversial. We report a case in which d...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Matsuyama TA,Ishibashi-Ueda H,Ikeda Y,Nagatsuka K,Miyashita K,Amaki M,Kanzaki H,Kitakaze M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several reports of pleural adenomatoid (microcystic) mesothelioma, but peritoneal adenomatoid mesothelioma is extremely rare. A 64-year-old Japanese woman presented with no symptoms and no asbestos exposure history. An abdominal computed tomography scan revealed multiple hypervascular masses on the liver sur...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Mori D,Kido S,Hiraki M,Sumi K,Ureshino N,Masuda M,Nabeshima K,Akashi M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the protein expression of double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase (PKR), which was identified by using a previous cDNA microarray study, to discover PKR's correlations with several pathological parameters and to elucidate its role in neoplastic transformation and progression of lung adeno...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Roh MS,Kwak JY,Kim SJ,Lee HW,Kwon HC,Hwang TH,Choi PJ,Hong YS

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is a neurovisceral lipid-storage disease. Although NPC patients show lipid storage in anterior horn cells of the spinal cord, little information is available regarding the electron microscopic analyses of the morphologies of intra-endosomal lipid like-materials in the anterior horn ce...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kusunoki-Ii M,Kohama H,Kato K,Nomura Y,Nagashima K,Ninomiya H,Kato M,Kato S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis is rare outside Japan, including Brazil, despite the many Japanese immigrants and descendants who live there. The authors describe the case of a 32 year old white female, who presented with cervical lymph node enlargement and severe anemia. Histological findings of the lymph node ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Lorand-Metze I,Vassallo J,Mori S

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that detection of desmoplastic reaction (DR) in pretreatment biopsy specimens was useful for predicting the depth of submucosal invasion (SM depth) in nonpedunculated early colorectal cancers (ECRCs) in a retrospective study. Here, we performed a prospective multicenter study for verification of...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kimura R,Fujimori T,Ichikawa K,Ajioka Y,Ueno H,Ohkura Y,Kashida H,Togashi K,Yao T,Wada R,Watanabe T,Ochiai A,Sugai T,Sugihara K,Igarashi Y

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report of segmental arterial mediolysis (SAM) accompanied with polyarteritis nodosa (PN), and manifesting aneurysms of the renal arteries. A 73-year-old woman was admitted to hospital because of a high fever. Laboratory tests showed leukocytosis with increased CRP level in the serum. Myeloperoxidase-...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Soga Y,Nose M,Arita N,Komori H,Miyazaki T,Maeda T,Furuya K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epstein-Barr (EB) virus-associated primary smooth muscle tumors have been reported in immunosuppressed young patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and young people who have undergone liver transplantation. An autopsy case of EB virus-associated smooth muscle cell tumor in a 21 year old female who rec...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Sadahira Y,Moriya T,Shirabe T,Matsuno T,Manabe T

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overexpression of p53 protein and the Ki67 proliferative index was evaluated in 96 hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC), 67 in cirrhotic livers and 29 in non-cirrhotic ones, and in 13 non-carcinomatous lesions, all surgically resected from Italian patients. Overexpression of p53 was detected only in carcinomatous lesio...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： D'Errico A,Grigioni WF,Fiorentino M,Baccarini P,Grazi GL,Mancini AM

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituicytoma is a rare low-grade glial neoplasm that originates in the neurohypophysis or infundibulum. Because of its rare occurrence, the morphology and differentiation of pituicytoma have not been fully clarified. Here, we report a case of pituicytoma with unusual histological features mimicking ependymoma, but exhi...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kwon MJ,Suh YL

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 79-year-old man presented with back pain. Chest CT scan showed elevated nodular lesions in the right parietal pleurae with pleural effusion. There were no intrapulmonary or mediastinal abnormalities. Under local anesthesia, right thoracoscopy and subsequent thoracoscopic pleural resection were performed using an ins...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kawahara K,Sasada S,Nagano T,Suzuki H,Kobayashi M,Matsui K,Takata K,Yoshino T,Michida T,Iwasaki T

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) from benign mesothelial proliferation remains problematic. Loss of nuclear staining of BRCA1-associated protein 1 (BAP1; detected using immunohistochemistry (IHC)) and homozygous deletion (HD) of p16 (detected using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)) are ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Hida T,Hamasaki M,Matsumoto S,Sato A,Tsujimura T,Kawahara K,Iwasaki A,Okamoto T,Oda Y,Honda H,Nabeshima K

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ameloblastoma is an odontogenic tumor of the jaw. It most frequently occurs in the mandible, and less often in the maxilla. Mandibular ameloblastoma harbors a BRAF mutation that causes a valine (V) to glutamic acid (E) substitution at codon 600 (BRAFV600E ). We examined specimens from 32 Japanese patients to detect th...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Seki-Soda M,Sano T,Ito K,Yokoo S,Oyama T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis is presented in a 40 year-old woman two years after bilateral lung transplantation for emphysema without any signs of Langerhans cells proliferation in the explanted lungs. A microsatellite molecular analysis showed the proliferating cells were generated in a recipient cellula...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Gómez-Román J,Zarrabeitia MT,Santurtún A,Parra JA,Azueta Etxebarría A,Cifrian JM,Freire Salinas J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven cases of primary amyloidosis (AL-type) were studied immunocytochemically for the possible involvement of pancreatic islets. The two cases with extensive organ involvement by AL-amyloidosis revealed amyloid deposits in pancreatic islets by routine HE and Congo red staining, which were positive for amyloid p and a...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Tomita T

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight junctions are intercellular junctions adjacent to the apical ends of paracellular spaces. They have two classical functions, the barrier function and the fence function. The former regulates the passage of ions, water and various molecules through paracellular spaces, and is thus related to edema, jaundice, diar...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Sawada N

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to clarify protein profiling in small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) and pulmonary large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC). The proteomic approach was used, and involved cell lysate from two cell lines (N231 derived from SCLC and LCN1 derived from LCNEC), with 2-D gel electrophoresis (...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Nagashio R,Sato Y,Matsumoto T,Kageyama T,Satoh Y,Ryuge S,Masuda N,Jiang SX,Okayasu I

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura (SFTP) is rare. A 73-year-old man, without past history of diabetes mellitus, was admitted to hospital with profound hypoglycemia, loss of consciousness and respiratory failure. CT indicated a huge heterogenous mass lesion (12 x 12 x 17 cm) at the right thoracic cavity with total a...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Chang JC,Su KY,Chao SF,Hsu YH,Yang GG,Chang BS

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biologic behavior of gastrointestinal stromal tumors is difficult to predict, and they can be best studied in a site-specific fashion. The aims of this study are to analyze the clinicopathologic parameters and assess the prognostic value of p53 (DO-7) and Ki-67 (MIB-1) immunoreactivities in small intestinal stroma...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Chang MS,Choe G,Kim WH,Kim YI

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchiolitis obliterans (BO) is generally believed to be a marker of pulmonary manifestation of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in patients who have undergone bone marrow transplantation for hematological malignancy. Pulmonary manifestations reported as GVHD (other than BO) include lymphocytic bronchiolitis with cel...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Miyagawa-Hayashino A,Sonobe M,Kubo T,Yoshizawa A,Date H,Manabe T

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of chemokines, especially CXCL10/interferon-gamma-inducible protein 10 kDa (IP-10), a chemokine to attract CXCR3(+) T-helper 1-type CD4(+) T cells, is largely unknown in the pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease; ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. The authors have earlier shown that IP-10 neutral...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Suzuki K,Kawauchi Y,Palaniyandi SS,Veeraveedu PT,Fujii M,Yamagiwa S,Yoneyama H,Han GD,Kawachi H,Okada Y,Ajioka Y,Watanabe K,Hosono M,Asakura H,Aoyagi Y,Narumi S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucinous cystic neoplasm (MCN) of the pancreas is characterized by mucin-producing columnar epithelium and an ovarian-type stroma. It occurs almost exclusively in women and is almost always located in the pancreatic body or tail. Here, we report a case of large MCN located in the pancreatic head but not in the body no...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Naganuma S,Honda K,Noriki S,Kimura S,Murakami M,Koneri K,Katayama K,Yamaguchi A,Itoh H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelioid angiomyolipoma (eAMLoma) is an uncommon renal mesenchymal tumor with malignant potential and is frequently associated with tuberous sclerosis (TSC). It is composed of polygonal large-sized tumor cells arranged in an epithelioid manner. Differential diagnosis from renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is often challen...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kato I,Inayama Y,Yamanaka S,Ohshiro H,Gomi K,Shirai S,Aoki I,Uemura H,Miyoshi Y,Kubota Y,Yao M,Nagashima Y

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, 62 cases of ocular adnexal lymphoproliferative disorders were reviewed clinicopathologically. Of them, 51 were extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (MALT lymphoma), five were diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), one was peripheral T-cell lymphoma, one was NK/T cell lymphoma, nasal type, and...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Adachi A,Tamaru J,Kaneko K,Kuroda H,Miura I,Kojima T,Hoshino S,Ichinohasama R,Itoyama S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiomyolipoma (AML) is a mixed mesenchymal tumor belonging to the family of perivascular epithelioid cell tumors. Concurrent development of AML and adult renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is very rare. Herein is presented a unique case in which RCC arose within a previously detected AML tumor mass. A 40-year-old woman had b...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Inomoto C,Umemura S,Sasaki Y,Yasuda M,Terachi T,Osamura RY

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleomorphic hyalinizing angiectatic tumor (PHAT) is a rare, recently recognized neoplasm occurring predominantly in the subcutaneous tissue of the lower limbs of adults. We report a case of PHAT in an 83-year-old woman who presented with a 5.0 x 5.0 x 2.0 cm mass in the soft part of her left thigh. Histologically, the...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Matsumoto K,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00