Bi-directional roles of bone morphogenetic proteins in cancer: another molecular Jekyll and Hyde?

abstract：:Herein is presented a case of carcinosarcoma of the pancreas in an 82-year-old woman, analyzed on immunohistochemistry and K-ras sequence. The tumor, which arose in the pancreas head, was removed on pancreaticoduodenectomy. The patient died, however, of disseminated intravascular coagulation syndrome from postoperativ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Nakano T,Sonobe H,Usui T,Yamanaka K,Ishizuka T,Nishimura E,Hanazaki K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aluminum (AI) and iron (Fe) chelate complexes of nitrilotriacetate (NTA) cause renal insufficiency when they are administered intraperitoneally to rats. Their effects on bone metabolism were studied in 4 week old Wistar rats. Daily intraperitoneal administration of AI-NTA (3mg AI/kg for 11 weeks) induced osteomala...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Yukihiro S,Okada S,Takeuchi K,Inoue H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant myoepithelioma of soft tissue is extremely rare. Presented herein is a case arising in a 17-year-old man. The tumor was initially noticed as a painless deep soft-tissue mass in the right forearm when the patient was aged 3 years. Thereafter, it grew without remarkable symptoms, such as pain or tenderness, un...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Harada O,Ota H,Nakayama J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodular fasciitis (NF) is a self-limiting benign disease that is characterized by rapid proliferation of fibroblastic and myofibroblastic cells. The characteristic gene fusion containing the USP6 gene is a genetic hallmark of NF and MYH9-USP6 is the most frequent fusion, suggesting that NF is not a reactive condition ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Teramura Y,Yamazaki Y,Tanaka M,Sugiura Y,Takazawa Y,Takeuchi K,Nakayama T,Kaneko T,Musha Y,Funauchi Y,Ae K,Matsumoto S,Nakamura T

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angioleiomyoma is a solitary subcutaneous tumor characterized by pain in about half of patients with this tumor, and the pathogenesis of this pain has been a cause of much debate. To clarify the mechanism of pain and cytoskeletal property of tumor cells, 50 angioleiomyomas were studied clinicopathologically and immuno...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Hasegawa T,Seki K,Yang P,Hirose T,Hizawa K

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Two cases of carcinosarcoma of the esophagus are reported. Both were polypoid tumors occurring in the middle of the intrathoracic esophagus. The tumors were predominantly composed of spindle-shaped sarcoma cells with some squamous cell carcinomas (SCC). One tumor showed many bizarre giant cells with filamentous materi...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Taniyama K,Sasaki N,Mukai T,Uemura N,Miyoshi N,Nakai H,Nakayama H,Tahara E

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of an inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver in a 75-year-old female with chronic hepatitis C whose radiologic features simulated that of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is presented. On imaging studies, hypervascularity by CO2 ultrasound (US) angiography, enhancement at an early phase and isodensity at a late ph...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kim SR,Hayashi Y,Kudo M,Matsuoka T,Imoto S,Sasaki K,Shintani S,Song KB,Park SY,Kim JH,Ando K,Koterazawa T,Kim KI,Ninomiya T

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:We report a very rare case of combined thymic carcinomas: undifferentiated thymic carcinoma coexisting with type AB thymoma. The precise mechanism underlying the coexistence of these tumors remains unknown. Therefore, we used clonality analysis to ascertain whether the two tumors were clonally related. A 63-year-old w...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Karino F,Yokose T,Matsukuma S,Miyagi Y,Murakami S,Ito H,Nakayama H,Yamada K

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:We herein describe a rare case of low-grade endobronchial tumor that exhibited two distinct features of typical carcinoid and acinic cell carcinoma (ACC) by immunohistochemical and ultrastructure study. ACC was suspected on transbronchial biopsy. The resected specimen showed that the tumor surface comprised an acinic ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Watanabe H,Miyagawa-Hayashino A,Imabayashi T,Kishimoto M,Shimomura M,Honda K,Omatsu I,Shimada E,Inoue M,Takayama K,Konishi E

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a seborrheic keratosis is not rare on the skin of the trunk, extremities, head and neck of an elderly person, it is uncommon to originate in the external ear canal. Even rarer, an irritated subtype may arise in this location. We report the case of a 63-year-old man with an irritated seborrheic keratosis arisi...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Konishi E,Nakashima Y,Manabe T,Mazaki T,Wada Y

更新日期：2003-09-01 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：: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：:We report 17 cases of the classic type of Kaposi's sarcoma in Xinjiang, which is located in the north-western area of China surrounded by Mongolia in the east, Russia in the north and Kazakhstan in the west. Fifteen of the patients were of the Uygur people. All patients were male and did not have acquired immunodefici...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Dilnur P,Katano H,Wang ZH,Osakabe Y,Kudo M,Sata T,Ebihara Y

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of intrarenal teratoma in a 6-year-old boy. Two years before his operation, multicystic masses had been found in the left side of his abdomen. In the operation, three main cystic masses were located in the upper and lower poles of the left kidney, which were removed in pieces. Histologically, the cyst...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Otani M,Tsujimoto S,Miura M,Nagashima Y

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of small intestinal extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT lymphoma) with monoclonal cryoglobulinemia is described. The patient was a woman in her mid-sixties with purpura of the bilateral lower legs and abdominal pain. An immunoserological investigation showed expre...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Saito T,Tamaru J,Kishi H,Kayao J,Kuzuu Y,Wakita H,Adachi A,Itoyama S,Mikata I

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant cell tumor (GCT) of bone is a primary osteolytic tumor that is characterized by the formation of osteoclast-like giant cells. In addition to GCT of bone, extraskeletal GCT are known to be formed in several soft tissues. Giant cells in GCT of bone were suggested to be identical to osteoclasts, but the characteriz...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Ikeda T,Seki S,Maki M,Noguchi N,Kawamura T,Arii S,Igari T,Koike M,Hirokawa K

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A complete spontaneous regression of diffuse large B cell lymphoma involving the right breast, confirmed by aspiration cytology, is reported. The patient visited a hospital due to the rapid growth of a tumor in the right breast. Five years previously she underwent a craniotomy for a brain tumor, diagnosed as B-cell ma...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Iihara K,Yamaguchi K,Nishimura Y,Iwasaki T,Suzuki K,Hirabayashi Y

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 58-year-old man with a 1 year history of progressive abdominal distension underwent a laparotomy for pseudomyxoma peritonei. The mucin was identified and characterized in the present study. Approximately 6 L of crude mucus in the sol (highly viscous) and gel (semisolid) phases was obtained from the patient's periton...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Mall AS,Chirwa N,Govender D,Lotz Z,Tyler M,Rodrigues J,Kahn D,Goldberg P

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:An 18-year-old woman with abdominal pain was diagnosed as having splenic cysts by computed tomography scan. She had high serum levels of CA19-9 (2886.8 U/mL; normal value, <35 U/mL), CA125 (131.1 U/mL; normal value, <35 U/mL) and soluble IL-2 receptor (1490 U/mL; normal range, 220-530 U/mL). The resected spleen weighe...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Hashimoto T,Sugino T,Fukuda T,Hoshi N,Ogura G,Watanabe K,Satoh Y,Hasegawa T,Ohishi A,Haga J,Miyata M,Suzuki T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphologic features and neoplastic potentials of bile duct adenoma (BDA) and von Meyenburg complex (VMC)-like duct arising in chronic liver disease were unknown. Thirty-five BDAs and 12 VMC-like duct lesions were observed in 39 cases with chronic liver disease. BDAs were divided into the EMA-cytoplasmic type (n = 14)...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Aishima S,Tanaka Y,Kubo Y,Shirabe K,Maehara Y,Oda Y

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:We report on a rare distinctive variant of infiltrating ductal carcinoma characterized by sebaceous differentiation of tumor cells. The neoplasm was identified in a lumpectomy specimen from a 45-year-old woman with extensive metastatic disease. In addition to conventional in situ and invasive ductal components, approx...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Varga Z,Kolb SA,Flury R,Burkhard R,Caduff R

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：: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：:Macrophage polarization is divided into M1 and M2 type based on membrane receptors, cytokines, and chemokines. M1 expresses CD80, interleukin (IL)-6, IL-12, and chemokine receptor (CCR)7, while M2 expresses CD163, IL10, and chemokine ligand (CCL)22. The aim of the present study was to identify the properties of infilt...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Nomura Y,Takeuchi M,Yoshida S,Sugita Y,Niino D,Kimura Y,Shimizu K,Aoki R,Suefuji N,Hirose S,Kikuchi M,Ohshima K

更新日期：2009-09-01 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