The utility of balloon enteroscopy in the diagnosis of histiocytic sarcoma of the small intestine: a case report.

abstract：:A small proportion of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) may progress to large cell lymphoma, or Richter syndrome (RS). The large cells of RS may arise through transformation of the original CLL clone (clonally related) or represent a new neoplasm (clonally unrelated), which might be Epstein-Barr virus (...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Chen YA,Wang RC,Yang Y,Chuang SS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 53-year-old woman presented with Cushing's syndrome resulting from an adrenocortical adenoma, 6.5 cm in diameter and 75 g in weight, which is larger than usual. Endocrinological data of this patient showed adrenocorticotropin (ACTH)-independent hypercortisolemia. A computed tomography scan of the adrenal glands reve...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Karasawa R,Hotta M,Aiba M,Takano K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test whether a subset of esophageal squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) develop through a deficiency in DNA mismatch repair, we examined microsatellite instability (MSI) using 11 microsatellite markers including BAT-26, hMLH1 protein expression by immunohistochemistry, and methylation status of the hMLH1 promoter by met...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Hayashi M,Tamura G,Jin Z,Kato I,Sato M,Shibuya Y,Yang S,Motoyama T

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homozygous deletion of 9p21, the locus harboring the p16 gene, has been reported as one of the most common genetic alterations in malignant mesotheliomas (MMs). Previous studies showed that this alteration might be useful for differentiating benign from malignant mesothelial tumors in cytology and surgical specimens. ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Takeda M,Kasai T,Enomoto Y,Takano M,Morita K,Kadota E,Nonomura A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presented is the first Japanese case of ossifying renal tumor of infancy (ORTI), which is an extremely rare tumor and of which only nine cases have been reported in the literature. The patient was a four-month-old Japanese boy presenting as hematuria. A small nodular tumor (approximately 1 cm in size) protruded into t...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Ito J,Shinohara N,Koyanagi T,Hanioka K

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：:Microscopic colitis (MC), encompassing collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis, is featured by chronic diarrhea, normal-looking endoscopic findings and unique microscopic appearance. After reviewing biopsied nonspecific colitis, we propose the third type of MC: colitis nucleomigrans (CN). Histopathological criteri...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Tachibana M,Hanaoka T,Watanabe S,Matsushita M,Isono T,Tsutsumi Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An autopsy case of an 18 month old male infant with measles infection is reported. An autopsy revealed generalized lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly and hyperplastic thymus. Histologically, there were many Warthin-Finkeldey cells (WFC) in hyperplastic lymphoid tissues. Although viral particles and inclusions were not dete...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Nozawa Y,Ono N,Abe M,Sakuma H,Wakasa H

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study attempted to clarify the significance of aberrant expression of beta-catenin protein and mutation of exon 3 of the beta-catenin gene in renal and urothelial carcinogenesis. beta-Catenin expression was examined immunohistochemically and mutation of the beta-catenin gene was analyzed by polymerase chai...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Zhu X,Kanai Y,Saito A,Kondo Y,Hirohashi S

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The localization of glutathione peroxidase (GSH-PO) in the human arteriosclerotic lesions was investigated by immunohistochemical methods. GSH-PO is an enzyme that effectively reduces lipid peroxides. It is also known that its synthesis is significantly increased by lipid peroxides, the substrate of the enzyme. Accord...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Mori I,Yoshimura S,Watanabe K

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection (CAEBV) is a syndrome that takes diverse clinical courses and is often associated with lymphoproliferative disorders of T/natural killer (NK)-cell lineage. We describe a patient with CAEBV associated with persistent pharyngeal ulcer, and with subsequent nasal T/NK-cell lymph...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Nagata H,Numata T,Konno A,Mikata I,Kurasawa K,Hara S,Nishimura M,Yamamoto K,Shimizu N

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular senescence is defined as irreversible cell arrest and could work as a safeguard against tumorigenesis. This mechanism was examined in chronic viral hepatitis-related hepatocarcinogenesis. By using surgical resected or wedge biopsied liver specimens from 87 chronic viral hepatitis patients in whom 35 neoplasti...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Ikeda H,Sasaki M,Sato Y,Harada K,Zen Y,Mitsui T,Nakanuma Y

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is reported of intra-abdominal desmoplastic small cell tumor (IDSCT) with biphasic histologic features in a patient with proximal spinal muscular atrophy. The tumor was composed of small epithelial cell nests with spindle cell sarcomatous areas. Both areas were surrounded by a desmoplastic stroma. Immunohistoch...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Motoyama T,Maejima T,Aizawa K,Fukuda T,Watanabe H

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in human gastric adenocarcinoma cell lines (HPE-GAC-3 cells and HPE-GAC-2 cells) was determined immunohistochemically by indirect peroxidase-labeled antibody method at the light and electron microscopic levels. In GAC-3 cells that proliferated as non-adherent single c...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Ohiwa K,Harada T,Morikawa S,Nakamura T

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many reports have suggested a strong correlation between certain lectin-binding patterns and biological behavior in various tumors. To clarify a relationship between lectin-binding reactivity and survival of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (B-DLCL), 57 cases with B-DLCL were analyzed by lectin histochemist...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Suzuki O,Nozawa Y,Kawaguchi T,Abe M

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：:Pilomyxoid astrocytoma, first described by Tihan et al., was recently included as an established variant of pilocytic astrocytoma in the World Health Organization classification of CNS tumors. Histologically, it much resembles pilocytic astrocytoma, but monomorphic myxoid tumor of pilocytic cells with prominent angioc...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Amatya VJ,Akazawa R,Sumimoto Y,Takeshima Y,Inai K

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of primary leiomyosarcoma of a thoracic vertebra associated with a compression fracture in a 75-year-old woman was preoperatively thought to be granulation tissue. Surgical decompression was performed and the histological and immunohistochemical studies established the diagnosis of leiomyosarcoma. Based on the ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Sasaguri T,Tanimoto A,Kimura S,Kohno Y,Hirasawa M,Matsuki Y,Abe K,Hashimoto H,Hamada T,Sasaguri Y

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elastosis is the pathological finding of focal deposits of elastic fibers in abnormal amounts within tissue. It is well described in the case of infiltrating carcinoma of the breast, but elastosis in lung carcinoma has not been previously documented in detail. We investigated the characteristics of elastosis in lung c...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Fukushima M,Fukuda Y,Kawamoto M,Yamanaka N

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomerase activity is thought to contribute to the immortality of cancers. Recently, some investigators described a correlation between the activity of telomerase and the proliferative activity of cancer cells. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the expression of telomerase-associated prote...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Ikeda S,Shibata T,Eishi Y,Takizawa T,Koike M

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：: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：: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

abstract：:Solitary pulmonary capillary hemangiomas (SPCHs) are recently recognized, rare benign lesions that form solitary nodules owing to capillary proliferation. These lesions are usually detected incidentally as small ground-glass nodules (GGNs) on computed tomography (CT), and progressively enlarge over time. The radiologi...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Hashimoto H,Matsumoto J,Murakami M,Hiyama N,Yamaguchi H,Kusakabe M,Horiuchi H,Morikawa T

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：: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：:The chemokine receptor CXCR4 belongs to the large superfamily of G protein-coupled receptors and has been identified to play a crucial role in a number of biological processes, including the trafficking and homeostasis of immune cells such as T lymphocytes. CXCR4 has also been found to be a prognostic marker in variou...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Furusato B,Mohamed A,Uhlén M,Rhim JS

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The value of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) as an aid to deciding the prognosis for lung carcinoma patients, comparing quantitatively the signal from the p53 gene (17p13.1) on chromosome 17, was studied. A dual-labeling technique was used, using probes for the centromeric region of chromosome 17 and for the...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kawai T,Hiroi S,Nakanishi K,Sakurai Y,Torikata C

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BRN2 is a developmental neural cell-specific POU domain transcription factor and is crucial for cell lineage determination. We investigated the importance of BRN2 in the expression of the lineage-specific transcription factors (achaete-scute homolog-like 1 (ASCL1) and NeuroD1 (ND1)) and neural/neuroendocrine marker mo...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Ishii J,Sato H,Sakaeda M,Shishido-Hara Y,Hiramatsu C,Kamma H,Shimoyamada H,Fujiwara M,Endo T,Aoki I,Yazawa T

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anomalous pancreaticobiliary junction (APBJ) is a congenital anomaly in which the pancreatic duct joins the common bile duct proximal to the sphincter of Oddi. Anatomical and immunohistochemical examination of the pancreas with APBJ has rarely been performed. A 72-year-old woman with gallbladder cancer and APBJ died o...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Tadokoro H,Takase M,Nobukawa B

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00