Aggressive progression of breast cancer with microscopic pulmonary emboli possessing a stem cell-like phenotype independent of its origin.

abstract：:Hydatid cysts of the liver are known to occasionally rupture into the bile ducts and cause cholangitis. The histological features of this complication have not been adequately described in the literature. Herein is reported a case of severe eosinophilic cholangitis of the left hepatic lobe, occurring in a 24-year-old ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Raptou G,Pliakos I,Hytiroglou P,Papavramidis S,Karkavelas G

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymidine phosphorylase (dThdPase)/platelet-derived endothelial cell growth factor, is expressed at higher levels in tumor tissues compared to the adjacent normal tissues in a variety of human carcinomas. The higher expression is associated with an increase of intratumoral microvessel density (IMVD) and an unfavorable...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Okamoto E,Osaki M,Kase S,Adachi H,Kaibara N,Ito H

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric lipomas are uncommon lesions, usually single and located in the antrum. Common symptoms include upper digestive bleeding, anemia, and intestinal obstruction. Alternatively, they may remain asymptomatic, and detectable only at autopsy. A case of a 72-year-old man, who died of myocardial infarction, was found at...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Ventura L,Leocata P,Guadagni S,Ventura T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions of preserving DNA, RNA and protein in pathological specimens are of great importance as degradation of such macromolecules would critically affect results of molecular biological analysis. The feasibility of freeze-drying as a means of preserving pathological tissue samples for molecular analysis has previo...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Matsuo S,Sugiyama T,Okuyama T,Yoshikawa K,Honda K,Takahashi R,Maeda S

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present paper was to examine the level of apoptosis and the relationships among apoptosis, apoptosis-associated proteins, and proliferating potential in lymphoma tissues to clarify the characteristics of apoptosis in diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL) of the central nervous system (CNS). The for...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Arai M,Sasaki A,Saito N,Nakazato Y

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of squamous cell carcinoma arising within an acquired seminal vesicular cyst is described. A 61-year-old man was hospitalized because of hemospermia and dysuria. Under the diagnosis of a left seminal vesicular cyst, surgical resection was performed. Pathological examination revealed squamous cell carcinoma with...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Yanagisawa N,Saegusa M,Yoshida T,Okayasu I

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intrathoracic mass was discovered on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine in a 37-year-old Caucasian man with a 1 year history of progressively severe upper back pain. A subsequent chest CT scan indicated a 4 cm left hilar mass, extending to the apex and encasing a portion of the left bronchus and pulmonar...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Bahrami A,Allen TC,Cagle PT

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many new members of the S-100 genes are known to be associated with cell differentiation, malignant transformation, and cell cycle. Of the S-100 genes examined in the present study, calcyclin, calpactin I light chain and calvasculin were expressed in most human epithelial tumor cells, and their expression levels diffe...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Matsumoto T,Murao S,Kito K,Kihana T,Matsuura S,Ueda N

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CDKN2 gene encodes two structurally different proteins: a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, p16, which regulates retinoblastoma protein (pRb)-dependent G1 arrest, and a cell cycle inhibitor, p14ARF, which blocks MDM2-induced p53 degradation resulting in an increase in p53 levels that leads to cell cycle arrest. R...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Sano T,Masuda N,Oyama T,Nakajima T

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of traditional Chinese medicine (Sairei-to) on experimental glomerulonephritis induced in rats by monoclonal antibody (mAb) 1-22-3 injection was examined. The level of proteinuria in the Sairei-to-treated group was significantly lower than that in the PBS treated group. This suppressive effect was caused b...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Li P,Kawachi H,Morioka T,Orikasa M,Oite T,Shi ZS,Shimizu F

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinicopathological significance of colonic and small-intestinal phenotypes has hitherto remained unclear in gastric cancers. The purpose of the present study was therefore to examine 86 gastric carcinomas histologically and phenotypically using several phenotypic markers, including colon-specific carbonic anhydra...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Mizoshita T,Tsukamoto T,Tanaka H,Takenaka Y,Kato S,Cao X,Joh T,Tatematsu M

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents a case of neural fibrolipoma arising from the superficial peroneal nerve in the ankle. A 28-year-old woman was referred with a soft tissue mass in the anterior aspect of the right ankle, which had been gradually enlarging for the past 10 years. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a mass lesion, meas...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Akisue T,Matsumoto K,Yamamoto T,Kizaki T,Fujita I,Yoshiya S,Kurosaka M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare condition in which pulmonary macrophages fail to clear surfactant, resulting in the alveolar accumulation of lipoproteinaceous debris. The histopathology of PAP is typified by diffuse filling of terminal airways with eosinophilic, PAS/diastase (PAS/D)-positive acellular m...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Nishino M,Medoff BD,Mark EJ,Matsubara O,O'Donnell WJ,Currier PF,Kradin RL

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the mutation of the p53 gene and the expression of the p53 protein and the Ki-67 antigen has been investigated in 115 cases with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, using the immunohistochemical double staining technique, single-strand conformational polymorphism and DNA sequencing methods. Eighteen cases...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kuze T,Nakamura N,Hashimoto Y,Hojo H,Abe M,Wakasa H

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of renal adenomatosis of the left kidney associated with a carcinoma of the ipsilateral ureter in a 49-year-old man is examined. One hundred and eight adenomas, which were smaller than 15 mm in diameter, and a single microcarcinoma, which measured 1 mm in diameter, were found in the kidney. Further, there were ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kizaki T,Ugai K,Hirano H,Gohji K,Fujii A

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nestin is an intermediate filament that was first identified in neural progenitor cells. It is expressed in various cell types in the nervous system as well as in other systems. In the present study, we investigated nestin expression in non-neoplastic salivary gland tissue and in salivary gland tumors. In non-neoplast...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Yanai H,Sato Y,Nagatsuka H,Yoshino T

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of histiocyte-like cells in malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) remains controversial. To determine whether histiocyte-like cells and multinucleated giant cells show reactive or neoplastic proliferation, we transplanted human storiform-pleomorphic MFH to nude mice and investigated the origin of histiocyte-...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Hatano H,Tokunaga K,Ogose A,Imaizumi S,Hayami T,Yamagiwa H,Hotta T,Endo N,Takahashi HE,Naito M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 70-year-old man with metastatic liver tumors showed carcinoid syndrome with clinical symptoms of facial flushing, palpitation, dyspnea, and an itching sensation. Regurgitation of the tricuspid and aortic valves was observed by echocardiography. An elevated serum level of serotonin and a high urine excretion of serot...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Sakai D,Murakami M,Kawazoe K,Tsutsumi Y

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigates whether lymphatic vessel invasion (LVI) detected by D2-40 staining is a prognostic factor for stage I adenocarcinoma of the lung. We retrospectively reviewed 124 patients who underwent complete resection for stage I adenocarcinoma of the lung from January 1983 to June 2003. LVI was micro...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Shimizu K,Funai K,Sugimura H,Sekihara K,Kawase A,Shiiya N

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary papillary adenoma is a rare tumor. We analyzed a tumor which appeared in a 16-year-old Japanese woman. The tumor histologically showed papillary proliferation of one-layered tumor cells coating inflammatory fibrovascular cores. At the periphery of the tumor, the tumor cells grew in a lepidic fashion. The tum...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Masunaga A,Nagashio R,Iwamoto S,Takeyama N,Sato Y,Miyazaki A,Mitsuya T

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies imply that cancer cells possess the ability to reversibly change their properties between a drug sensitive state and a drug resistant state accompanied by epigenetic changes. This evidence indicates that better understanding of cancer epigenetics is important for efficient cancer therapies. Nevertheless...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Matsuda Y,Semi K,Yamada Y

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease is an autosomal dominant inherited cancer predisposition syndrome, characterized by development of a variety of neoplasms in multiple organs. Central nervous system hemangioblastoma (CHB) is the most common manifestation of VHL disease. The germline mutations in the VHL tumor suppressor...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Zhou J,Wang J,Li N,Zhang X,Zhou H,Zhang R,Ma H,Zhou X

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and fifteen patients with chronic hepatitis C were administered interferon (IFN) and classed into two groups: (i) complete responders (CR), HCV-RNA continuously negative 1 year after treatment; and (ii) non-responders (NR), positive 1 year after treatment. Multivariate analysis comprised eight variables: a...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kim SR,Hayashi Y,Yoon S,Taniguchi M,Yang MK,Kim KI,Kim MM,Saeki K,Nukata I,Imoto S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extraskeletal osteosarcoma histologically mimicking parosteal osteosarcoma arising in a 63-year-old female is described. The intramuscular lesion in the left lower thigh was a 7 x 4 cm, well-defined mass with marked central calcification and ossification. The tumor was composed predominately of a centrally located ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Fukunaga M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mixed tumor with apocrine differentiation seen in the external auditory canal of a 39 year old male is reported. The well demarcated polypoid tumor showed proliferation of elongated gland-like or duct-like structures lined by two rows of epithelial cells, occasionally accompanied by foci of keratinization. There wer...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Tang X,Tamura Y,Tsutsumi Y

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phyllodes tumor is a very rare neoplasm which accounts for 2.5% of all fibroepithelial lesions of the breast. The mesenchymal component of a malignant phyllodes tumor frequently contains heterologous components. We report a case of malignant phyllodes tumor. The patient was a 40-year-old woman with a lump on the left ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kuroda N,Sugimoto T,Ueda S,Takahashi T,Moriki T,Sonobe H,Miyazaki E,Hayashi Y,Toi M,Hiroi M,Enzan H

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa) is a rare mesenchymal neoplasm, and malignant cases are extremely rare. A case of malignant PEComa arising in the colon is described herein. The patient was a 43-year-old Japanese woman without a history of tuberous sclerosis complex. The tumor occurred in the abdominal cav...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Yamamoto H,Oda Y,Yao T,Oiwa T,Kobayashi C,Tamiya S,Kawaguchi K,Hino O,Tsuneyoshi M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An electron microscopic study of peripheral leukocytes obtained from a 39 year old woman with Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome was performed. Ceroid pigment granules were found within the lysosomes in 3.5% of monocytes and 5.4% of lymphocytes. Infrequently, pigment granules were also found in the parallel tubular arrays of l...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Sakuma T,Monma N,Satodate R,Satoh T,Takeda R,Kuriya S

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：: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