abstract：:Crohn's disease is one of the causes of secondary amyloidosis, which can lead to amyloid infiltration of the thyroid gland. It is essential to follow strict controls to prevent the appearance of a large amyloid goiter. Two patients with amyloid goiter secondary to Crohn's disease, with a large adipose tissue component...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Febrero B,Ríos A,Rodríguez JM,Ferri B,Polo L,Parrilla P

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deregulation of the Wnt pathway has been implicated in oncogenesis of numerous tissues including the pituitary gland. Immunohistochemical localization and quantification of β-catenin, Cyclin D1, c-MYC and Survivin expression in 47 pituitary adenomas (35 non-functioning, seven GH-secreting, three prolactinomas, two ACT...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Formosa R,Gruppetta M,Falzon S,Santillo G,DeGaetano J,Xuereb-Anastasi A,Vassallo J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BRAF(V600E) mutation is specific for thyroid papillary cancer (PTC) and correlates with PTCs invasiveness. This study investigated whether detection of BRAF(V600E) mutation can be performed on routinely stained FNABs. We also examined if establishment of the BRAF(V600E) mutation could help in identification of pat...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Patel A,Klubo-Gwiezdzinska J,Hoperia V,Larin A,Jensen K,Bauer A,Vasko V

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroendocrine secretory protein-55 (NESP-55) is a recently described member of the chromogranin family and appears to be a marker of the constitutive secretory pathway in certain neural, neuroendocrine, and endocrine cell types. It has been shown to be selectively expressed in tumors differentiating towards the adren...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Gupta M,Lloyd RV,Fischer-Colbrie R,Tischler AS,Dayal Y

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric adrenocortical carcinoma is extremely rare with a prevalence of 0.3 per million. Adrenocortical neoplasms in children usually present with one of the endocrine abnormalities. Adrenocortical neoplasms cannot be easily diagnosed on cytopathology; hence, the cytomorphological features posing diagnostic dilemmas...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Agarwal S,Agarwal K

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granular cell tumours of the thyroid gland are rare, with only six previously reported cases in the English literature. Current histological, immunohistochemical and electron microscopic evidence favours a neural/Schwannian relationship. A case of a granular cell tumour of the thyroid gland in a healthy 36-year-old wo...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Bowry M,Almeida B,Jeannon JP

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activating mutations of GNAq protein in a hotspot at codon 209 have been recently described in uveal melanomas. Since these neoplasms share with thyroid carcinomas a high frequency of MAP kinase pathway-activating mutations, we hypothesized whether GNAq mutations could also play a role in the development of thyroid ca...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Cassol CA,Guo M,Ezzat S,Asa SL

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary fibrous tumor was initially thought to be a pleura-based tumor. However, over the last two decades, its involvement in a variety of extrapleural sites gained recognition. Nonetheless, a primary involvement of the endocrine organs is rare, and in this report, we detail an instance where the tumor affected the ...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Ho YH,Yap WM,Chuah KL

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor II mRNA-binding protein 3 (IMP3) is an oncofetal protein highly expressed in fetal tissue and malignant tumors but rarely found in adult benign tissues. In various tumors, IMP3 expression is correlated with increased tumor aggressiveness and reduced overall survival. To our knowledge, IMP3 e...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Righi A,Zhang S,Jin L,Scheithauer BW,Kovacs K,Kovacs G,Goth MI,Korbonits M,Lloyd RV

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor mRNA binding protein 3 (IMP3) is an mRNA-binding protein that regulates transcription of insulin-like growth factor II affecting cell proliferation during embryogenesis. It is highly expressed in carcinomas of the pancreas, stomach, colon, rectum, kidneys, uterine cervix, lung, and ovary. Th...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Slosar M,Vohra P,Prasad M,Fischer A,Quinlan R,Khan A

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA) consisting of pure zona glomerulosa (ZG)-type cells is extremely rare, and primary aldosteronism complicated by pregnancy is also rare. We report a case of APA discovered in a 32-year-old pregnant woman who visited our hospital for hypertension and hypokalemia at 26 weeks gestation....

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Shigematsu K,Nishida N,Sakai H,Igawa T,Suzuki S,Kawai K,Takahara O

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas (PDNECs) of the kidney are extremely rare high-grade cancers accounting for only 42 cases reported in the literature. In this paper, we describe the morphological, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, and for the first time, cytogenetic features of a renal PDNEC. In add...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： La Rosa S,Bernasconi B,Micello D,Finzi G,Capella C

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Collision tumors of the sella turcica are rare and consist mainly of more than one type of pituitary adenoma, usually a corticotropin- and a prolactin-producing adenoma. The association of a craniopharyngioma and a pituitary adenoma is rare. Herein, we report the first case of an association between craniopharyngioma ...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Moshkin O,Scheithauer BW,Syro LV,Velasquez A,Horvath E,Kovacs K

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-to-tumor metastasis in thyroid neoplasms is exceedingly uncommon. Two unusual cases of breast carcinoma and renal cell carcinoma metastatic to follicular variant papillary carcinoma are reported. On histologic sections, the donor tumor cells infiltrated the substance of the recipient tumor and the angiolymphatic...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Yu J,Nikiforova MN,Hodak SP,Yim JH,Cai G,Walls A,Nikiforov YE,Seethala RR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small cell carcinomas may occur in the thyroid gland. Infrequently, they are primary tumors, and have been interpreted as variants of medullary thyroid carcinoma. However, the vast majority of small cell carcinomas involving the thyroid gland are metastatic tumors. In some cases, demonstration of the primary tumor is ...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Puente S,Velasco A,Gallel P,Pallares J,Perez-Ruiz L,Ros S,Maravall J,Matias-Guiu X

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional differentiation of pituitary cells and adenomas follows the combination of transcription factors and co-factors in three cell lineages [growth hormone-prolactin-thyroid-stimulating hormone lineage, adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH)/pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) lineage, and follicular stimulating hormon...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Suzuki M,Egashira N,Kajiya H,Minematsu T,Takekoshi S,Tahara S,Sanno N,Teramoto A,Osamura RY

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription factors play specific roles in the development and differentiation of normal pituitary tissues and pituitary adenoma. The transcription factor, muscle segment homeobox 1 (MSX1), which belongs to the homeobox gene family, binds the promoter region of the glycoprotein hormone alpha-subunit (SU) in TSH-prod...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Mizokami Y,Egashira N,Takekoshi S,Itoh J,Itoh Y,Osamura RY,Matsumae M

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyalinizing trabecular tumor (HTT) is a rare thyroid tumor of follicular cell origin with a trabecular pattern of growth and marked intratrabecular hyalinization. This tumor is known to share morphological and architectural similarities with paraganglioma and medullary thyroid carcinoma, as well as the nuclear feature...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Nosé V,Volante M,Papotti M

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors originate from the cells of the diffuse endocrine system. Their molecular genetic mechanism of development and progression is complex and remains largely unknown, and they are different in genetic composition from the gastrointestinal epithelial tumors. The current...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Lubensky IA,Zhuang Z

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of pancreatic acinar cell tumor (ACC) is presented in a 10-year-old boy. The tumor manifested clinically with Cushing's syndrome, high serum adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and cortisol concentrations. In addition, excessive serum levels of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) were detected. Surgical resection was not po...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Illyés G,Luczay A,Benyó G,Kálmán A,Borka K,Köves K,Rácz K,Tulassay T,Schaff Z

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the case of a 43-year-old woman with hyperparathyroidism, parathyroid chief cell adenoma, and massive chronic parathyroiditis. The patient was diagnosed with breast cancer and received chemotherapy 3 years before parathyroidectomy. The question can be raised whether chemotherapeutic agents may damage pa...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Kovacs K,Bell CD,Juco J,Rotondo F,Anderson J

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 31-year-old woman was incidentally found to have a large right adrenal mass by computed tomography imaging and underwent a workup that included endocrinological evaluation and positron emission tomography imaging. Laboratory results revealed the mass to be non-functioning. Imaging studies revealed a 9-cm heterogeneo...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Lin J,Wasco MJ,Korobkin M,Doherty G,Giordano TJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (CLT) has an epidemiological relationship to papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). The follicular epithelium in CLT can be markedly atypical, with cytologic changes ranging from oncocytic morphology to clearing and overlapping. At the molecular level, the association between CLT and PTC is...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Sargent R,LiVolsi V,Murphy J,Mantha G,Hunt JL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective. Information on angiogenesis in parathyroid pathology is scanty and in particular no data are available in parathyroid carcinomas. The aim of this study was to analyze angiogenesis as microvascular density (MVD) in parathyroid neoplastic progression from normal gland to adenoma and carcinoma. Methods. Sectio...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Viacava P,Bocci G,Fanelli G,Cetani F,Marcocci C,Bevilacqua G,Naccarato AG

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroperoxidase (TPO) is a thyroid-specific enzyme expressed by differentiated thyroid cells. Initial immunohistochemical studies claimed that TPO expression, detected by the monoclonal antibody mAb 47, may be a potentially important diagnostic tool in differentiating malignant from benign lesions. However, some recen...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Savin S,Cvejic D,Isic T,Petrovic I,Paunovic I,Tatic S,Havelka M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efforts to understand the pathobiology of pheochromocytomas and extra-adrenal paragangliomas have been spurred by genetic and gene expression profiling studies showing genotype-phenotype correlations in familial pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma syndromes and in some sporadic tumors. The current challenge is to relate ca...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Tischler AS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Folliculostellate (FS) cells are present in the anterior pituitary and have important regulatory functions including controlling hormone release from other anterior pituitary cells. FS cells do not usually express neuroendocrine genes such as chromogranin A (CgA). We analyzed transcriptional regulation and gene expres...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Stilling GA,Bayliss JM,Jin L,Zhang H,Lloyd RV

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 59-yr old female presented with Cushing's syndrome due to ectopic ACTH production. At the time of initial diagnosis an obvious source for the Cushing's syndrome was not found and the patient was treated with bilateral adrenalectomy. Three years later she presented with hyperpigmentation and evidence of ACTH overprod...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Chetty R,Serra S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in molecular pathology have shed light not only on the cellular composition and derivation of various tumors, but also on their growth potential, likelihood of recurrence, and prognosis. The development of reliable and prognostically informative methods of assessing tumor behavior is particularly impor...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Suhardja A,Kovacs K,Greenberg O,Scheithauer BW,Lloyd RV

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleomorphic leiomyosarcoma (PLMS) of the adrenal gland is a rare tumor in an unusual location. A primary PLMS of the left adrenal gland is reported in a 59-yr-old Mexican woman who presented progressive flank pain and weight loss. The tumor measured 16 cm in diameter, showed markedly pleomorphic and osteoclast-like gi...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Candanedo-González FA,Vela Chávez T,Cérbulo-Vázquez A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The diffuse sclerosing variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (DSV-PTC) is an uncommon tumor making up about 2% of all papillary thyroid carcinomas. Previous studies have not comprehensively evaluated these tumors in a large series of patients. DESIGN:Twenty-two cases of DSV-PTC diagnosed between 1970 and 2...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Thompson LD,Wieneke JA,Heffess CS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital hyperinsulinism is clinically characterized by an inappropriate insulin secretion resulting in recurrent severe hypoglycemia. Nesidioblastosis, the proliferation of islets cells budding off from pancreatic ducts, has been considered for years as the histological lesion responsible for the syndrome. In our m...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Sempoux C,Guiot Y,Jaubert F,Rahier J

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 41-yr-old patient with a history of von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease with previously removed bilateral pheochromocytomas and renal cell carcinoma presented with progressive obstructive jaundice due to multiple lesions in the pancreas. The pancreatectomy specimen showed a range of endocrine lesions including islet hyp...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Chetty R,Kennedy M,Ezzat S,Asa SL

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchronous occurrence of medullary and papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland is very rare. We describe two cases of synchronous medullary and papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. In both cases, medullary carcinoma and papillary carcinoma were separate in the thyroid but mixed in some of the lymph node metastases. A...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Seki T,Kameyama K,Hayashi H,Nagahama M,Masudo K,Fukunari N,Tanaka K,Sugino K,Ito K,Takami H

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypophysitis is an inflammatory disease of the pituitary gland that clinically and radiologically mimics pituitary tumors. We report here a case of xanthogranulomatous hypophysitis mimicking a pituitary neoplasm.A 65-yr-old woman presented with weight loss, fatigue, and visual disturbance. Computed tomography demonstr...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Yokoyama S,Sano T,Tajitsu K,Kusumoto K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies have established that calcitonin (CT) and the calcitonin generelated peptide (CGRP) are synthesized and stored in subsets of hyperplastic parathyroid cells that also contain chromogranin B (Schmid, KW, et al. Lab Invest 73:90, 1995). The purpose of the current study was to determine whether ...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Khan A,Tischler AS,Patwardhan NA,DeLellis RA

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomewide profiling of gene expression, made possible by the development of DNA microarray technology and more powerful by the sequencing of the human genome, has led to advances in tumor classification and biomarker discovery for the common types of human neoplasia. Application of this approach to the field of endoc...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Giordano TJ

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adrenal gland is the body's primary source for epinephrine production and release, and the chromaffin cells that comprise the adrenal medulla possess all of the catecholamine biosynthetic machinery, including phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PNMT), the enzyme synthesizing epinephrine from norepinephrine. In...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Wong DL

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas are neuroendocrine neoplasias of neural crest origin. Genetic mutations that are characterized in other human neoplasms are rarely seen in these tumors. About 10% of the patients with pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas present with a family history of von Hippel-Lindau disease (V...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Dannenberg H,Komminoth P,Dinjens WN,Speel EJ,de Krijger RR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hurthle cell carcinoma of the thyroid is generally considered to be a subtype of follicular carcinoma. We report a case of a small solitary usual-type papillary carcinoma of the thyroid, with metastatic tumor in cervical lymph nodes. The lymph node tumor consisted of both tall-cell papillary carcinoma and Hurthle cell...

journal_title：Endocrine pathology

authors： Zwi LJ,LiVolsi VA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00