abstract：:Our aim was to investigate the expression of micro-RNA-200b (miR-200b) and cAMP-responsive element-binding protein 1 (CREB-1) in astrocytoma and its efficacy for predicting outcome. Both miR-200b and CREB-1 messenger RNA expression was measured in 122 astrocytomas and 30 nonneoplastic brain specimens by quantitative r...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Zhang JQ,Yao QH,Kuang YQ,Ma Y,Yang LB,Huang HD,Cheng JM,Yang T,Liu EY,Liang L,Fan KX,Zhao K,Xia X,Gu JW

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine useful factors when selecting an appropriate procedure for noninvasive ampullary neoplasia, we investigated the relationship between the location and the histomorphological/immunohistochemical characteristics of 56 noninvasive ampullary neoplasms obtained by endoscopic papillectomy (EP). All subjects were...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Yamamoto Y,Nemoto T,Okubo Y,Nihonyanagi Y,Ishiwatari T,Takuma K,Tochigi N,Okano N,Wakayama M,Igarashi Y,Shibuya K

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inverted urothelial papilloma (IUP) is an uncommon neoplasm of the urinary bladder with distinct morphologic features. Studies regarding the role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the etiology of IUP have provided conflicting evidence of HPV infection. In addition, little is known regarding the molecular alterations pr...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： McDaniel AS,Zhai Y,Cho KR,Dhanasekaran SM,Montgomery JS,Palapattu G,Siddiqui J,Morgan T,Alva A,Weizer A,Lee CT,Chinnaiyan AM,Quist MJ,Grasso CS,Tomlins SA,Mehra R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-tumor necrosis factor α (anti-TNF-α) therapy can result in endoscopic healing, reduction of symptoms, and reduced need for surgery and hospitalization in many patients with Crohn's disease (CD). Earlier data suggested that anti-TNF-α therapy may be associated with fibrosis and stricturing. We sought to determine ...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Schaeffer DF,Walsh JC,Kirsch R,Waterman M,Silverberg MS,Riddell RH

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose transporter (GLUT)-1 is expressed in malignant tumors and correlated with poor outcome in several cancers. Biliary intraepithelial neoplasia (BilIN) is considered to be a precursor or a noninvasive lesion of invasive cholangiocarcinoma. We examined GLUT-1 and GLUT-2 expression in 149 intrahepatic cholangiocarc...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Kubo Y,Aishima S,Tanaka Y,Shindo K,Mizuuchi Y,Abe K,Shirabe K,Maehara Y,Honda H,Oda Y

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraductal carcinoma of the prostate (IDC-P) and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) are two distinct intraductal lesions; the former is usually associated with invasive carcinoma and has an aggressive course while the latter is considered a precancerous lesion. In addition, there are morphological...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Miyai K,Divatia MK,Shen SS,Miles BJ,Ayala AG,Ro JY

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone methyltransferase (HMT), which catalyzes a histone methylation, is frequently altered in cancers at mutation and expression levels. The aims of this study were to explore whether SETD1B, SETDB2, and SETD2, SET domain-containing HMT genes, are mutated and expressionally altered in gastric (GC) and colorectal ca...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Choi YJ,Oh HR,Choi MR,Gwak M,An CH,Chung YJ,Yoo NJ,Lee SH

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated small-vessel vasculitides cause multiple organ system disease including rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. Recently, Berden et al (J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010;21:1628-1636) proposed a new histopathologic classification scheme separating renal biopsies into 4 classes: foca...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Nohr E,Girard L,James M,Benediktsson H

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer-related axonogenesis and neurogenesis are recently described biologic phenomena. Our previously published data showed that nerve density and the number of neurons in the parasympathetic ganglia are increased in prostate cancer (PCa) and associated with aggressive disease. Tissue microarrays were constructed fro...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Olar A,He D,Florentin D,Ding Y,Ayala G

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preeclampsia is a leading cause for maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Microarray-based transcriptional profiling has been widely used for identifying genes responsible for preeclampsia. These studies deliver multiple pictures of gene signatures, implying the complicated pathophysiology. In the present wo...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Louwen F,Muschol-Steinmetz C,Friemel A,Kämpf AK,Töttel E,Reinhard J,Yuan J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRABP-II, a retinoic acid binding protein, shuffles retinoic acid from cytoplasm into nucleus and forms a complex with nuclear retinoic acid receptor to facilitate transcriptional activities of retinoic acid. In this study, we studied the expression patterns of CRABP-II in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) compa...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Xiao W,Hong H,Awadallah A,Yu S,Zhou L,Xin W

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear cell papillary renal cell carcinoma (CCPRCC) is a low-grade renal neoplasm with morphological characteristics mimicking both clear cell renal cell carcinoma (CCRCC) and papillary renal cell carcinoma (PRCC). However, despite some overlapping features, their morphological, immunohistochemical, and molecular profi...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Munari E,Marchionni L,Chitre A,Hayashi M,Martignoni G,Brunelli M,Gobbo S,Argani P,Allaf M,Hoque MO,Netto GJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillary renal cell carcinoma (P-RCC) is the second most common type of malignant renal epithelial tumor and can be subclassified into type 1, which demonstrates simple cuboidal low-grade epithelium and type 2, which demonstrates pseudostratified high-grade epithelium with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm. Despite thi...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Warrick JI,Tsodikov A,Kunju LP,Chinnaiyan AM,Palapattu GS,Morgan TM,Alva A,Tomlins S,Wu A,Montgomery JS,Hafez KS,Wolf JS Jr,Weizer AZ,Mehra R

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) rarely demonstrate long-term survival. We previously reported that gene expression profiling identified a subset of SCLC with good prognosis in surgical cases. To find an easier way to routinely identify SCLC belonging to this subset, we conducted the present study with a...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Hamanaka W,Motoi N,Ishikawa S,Ushijima M,Inamura K,Hatano S,Uehara H,Okumura S,Nakagawa K,Nishio M,Horai T,Aburatani H,Matsuura M,Iwasaki A,Ishikawa Y

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence has invoked immunohistochemical expression of p63 in Merkel cell carcinoma as an adverse prognostic factor. Conflicting data led us to evaluate this. An Eastern Canadian cohort diagnosed between 1990 and 2012 was studied. Demographic and clinical data were obtained from pathology records and Provincial...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Fleming KE,Ly TY,Pasternak S,Godlewski M,Doucette S,Walsh NM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we assessed the changes and prognostic relevance of syndecan-1 (SDC1) tissue and serum levels in bladder cancer (BC). SDC1 levels were analyzed in 213 samples (119 paraffin-embedded and 79 serum samples of BC patients and 15 controls) using immunohistochemistry and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Res...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Szarvas T,Reis H,Kramer G,Shariat SF,Vom Dorp F,Tschirdewahn S,Schmid KW,Kovalszky I,Rübben H

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophilic dermatoses are an uncommon manifestation of lupus. We describe the clinical and histopathologic features of 14 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and neutrophilic dermatoses, 2 of whom had no prior history of SLE. Thirteen patients were female, ranging in age from 27 to 62 years (mean age, 4...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Larson AR,Granter SR

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular crescents are typically inflammatory and associated with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. Their pathogenesis involves glomerular basement membrane rupture due to circulating or intrinsic factors. Crescents associated with diabetic glomerulosclerosis are rarely reported. Furthermore, the nature of cells...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Gaut JP,Hoshi M,Jain S,Liapis H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucin core proteins (MUCs) are expressed in tissue-specific patterns in the gastrointestinal tract and expression is deregulated in Barrett's metaplasia. Based on differential expression, MUCs have been used to classify adenocarcinomas into distinct phenotypes (eg, intestinal, gastric, pancreaticobiliary, etc). Becaus...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Davison JM,Ellis ST,Foxwell TJ,Luketich JD,Gibson MK,Kuan SF,Nason KS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) is historically viewed as a progressive biologic continuum leading to cervical cancer. However, it has been questioned whether CIN1 lesions ever progress. To this end, we evaluated the number of patients with a CIN3 and a previous CIN1 diagnosis. Subsequently, metachronous CIN1...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Litjens RJ,Van de Vijver KK,Hopman AH,Ummelen MI,Speel EJ,Sastrowijoto SH,Van Gorp T,Slangen BF,Kruitwagen RF,Krüse AJ

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Often the distinction of cutaneous apocrine carcinoma from metastatic mammary apocrine carcinoma to the skin can be a diagnostic dilemma because both tumors share similar histologic features and have overlapping immunohistochemical profile. We compared the expression of adipophilin, cytokeratin 5/6, p63, GATA3, mammag...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Piris A,Peng Y,Boussahmain C,Essary LR,Gudewicz TM,Hoang MP

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive bone marrow mast cells reliably lack the morphologic, immunophenotypic, and molecular features of systemic mastocytosis (SM). We report two unusual cases of acquired aplastic anemia (AA) in which multifocal aggregates of bone marrow mast cells fulfilled morphologic and immunophenotypic criteria for SM accordi...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Golardi N,Sramek JE,Myers JB,Saffer H,George TI,Czuchlewski DR

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary small bowel adenocarcinoma is rare. Although generally similar to colonic adenocarcinoma, some small bowel adenocarcinomas exhibit unique morphologic features, particularly those arising in association with Crohn disease. In this study, 15 sporadic small bowel adenocarcinomas and 11 Crohn enteritis-associated ...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Whitcomb E,Liu X,Xiao SY

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activating transcription factor 2 (ATF2) is a member of activator protein 1 superfamily, which can heterodimerize with other transcription factors regulating cell differentiation and survival. ATF2 assembles into a complex with the synovial sarcoma translocation, chromosome 18 (SS18)-synovial sarcoma, X breakpoint (SS...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Endo M,Su L,Nielsen TO

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a group of granulomatous disorders in which abnormal Langerhans cells proliferate as either a localized lesion in a single bone or disseminated disease involving two or more organs or systems. Because the different LCH forms exhibit significantly elevated levels of inflammatory m...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Murakami I,Matsushita M,Iwasaki T,Kuwamoto S,Kato M,Horie Y,Hayashi K,Imamura T,Morimoto A,Imashuku S,Gogusev J,Jaubert F,Takata K,Oka T,Yoshino T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After endoscopic resection of early gastric cancer (EGC), it is imperative to accurately determine whether follow-up surgery is indicated, since this technique is used as a first line of treatment. Herein, we developed a scoring system to indicate the risk of lymph node metastasis in submucosal EGC (smEGC), and presen...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Kim JY,Kim WG,Jeon TY,Kim GH,Jeong EH,Kim DH,Park DY,Lauwers GY

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most ovarian sex cord-stromal tumors (SCSTs) can be categorized on the basis of conventional histology, but approximately 10% of cases are unclassified because they present indeterminate or overlapping morphologic features. Immunohistochemical and molecular studies of unclassified ovarian SCST are very limited, but re...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Stewart CJ,Alexiadis M,Crook ML,Fuller PJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor is a malignant tumor showing nerve sheath differentiation. Approximately one-half of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors arise from a benign peripheral nerve sheath tumor, which is commonly a neurofibroma in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1. Malignant peripheral nerve...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Endo M,Yamamoto H,Harimaya K,Kohashi K,Ishii T,Setsu N,Iwamoto Y,Oda Y

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is known to play an important role in breast cancer invasion and metastatic progression. However, the pattern of expression of EMT markers in the progression from in situ to invasive breast carcinoma is not clear. To investigate this, we performed immunohistochemical analyses of...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Choi Y,Lee HJ,Jang MH,Gwak JM,Lee KS,Kim EJ,Kim HJ,Lee HE,Park SY

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to determine the correlations of 7 histopathologic prognostic indicators of follicular lymphoma (follicular lymphoma grade, CD10 expression, Bcl-2 expression, IGH/BCL2 fusion, diffuse area, fibrosis, and marginal zone differentiation) with progression-free survival, overall survival, and follicular ly...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Maeshima AM,Taniguchi H,Nomoto J,Miyamoto K,Fukuhara S,Munakata W,Maruyama D,Kim SW,Watanabe T,Kobayashi Y,Tobinai K,Tsuda H

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma (MASC) is a recently described salivary gland tumor that has morphologic features similar to secretory carcinoma of the breast and that also harbors the same ETV6 translocation. Diffuse mammaglobin and S-100 immunoreactivity are used to differentiate MASC from its morphologic mimic...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Patel KR,Solomon IH,El-Mofty SK,Lewis JS Jr,Chernock RD

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) status is useful for predicting response to trastuzumab. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for HER2 gene amplification is accurate but limited because of cost, the need for fluorescence microscopy, the limited assessment of histology, and the fading of its signal...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Lim SJ,Cantillep A,Carpenter PM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GATA-3 and estrogen receptor (ER) are involved in a positive cross-regulatory loop and are frequently coexpressed in breast cancers. GATA-3 expression was shown to be an independent predictor of overall and disease-free survival in some studies, whereas others showed no difference. However, the studies used different ...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Gulbahce HE,Sweeney C,Surowiecka M,Knapp D,Varghese L,Blair CK

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma is a recently described salivary gland neoplasm defined by ETV6-NTRK3 gene fusion. Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma's morphology is not entirely specific and overlaps with other salivary gland tumors. Documenting ETV6 rearrangement is confirmatory, but most laboratories are not...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Bishop JA,Yonescu R,Batista D,Begum S,Eisele DW,Westra WH

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Thalassemia/mental retardation syndrome X-linked protein (ATRX) and death domain-associated protein (DAXX) genes are tumor suppressors whose mutations have been identified in sporadic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors as well as in patients with MEN1. However, it is unknown whether ATRX and DAXX alterations are speci...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Chen SF,Kasajima A,Yazdani S,Chan MS,Wang L,He YY,Gao HW,Sasano H

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytoma grade IV (glioblastoma multiforme) is the most common and most malignant tumor of the central nervous system and is currently noncurable. Here, we have examined a population-based cohort of 47 patients with grade IV astrocytoma, who underwent tumor surgery at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Sweden and w...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Skalli O,Wilhelmsson U,Orndahl C,Fekete B,Malmgren K,Rydenhag B,Pekny M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) promotes growth of blood or lymphatic vessels. The aim of the current study is to identify relationships between VEGF-A and VEGF-C, and their impact in angiogenesis and metastases in thyroid cancers. VEGF-A and VEGF-C mRNA and protein expression was investigated in 136 thyroid...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Salajegheh A,Pakneshan S,Rahman A,Dolan-Evans E,Zhang S,Kwong E,Gopalan V,Lo CY,Smith RA,Lam AK

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many have wondered what might have become of the totalitarian state Lenin founded on merciless terror, had he not died so young. He was 52 and at the height of his power when he had his first stroke. Six months later he had another and then a third stroke three months after that. He died 3 months shy of his 54th birth...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Vinters H,Lurie L,Mackowiak PA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ewing sarcoma (ES) is an aggressive malignant small round cell tumor that arises in bone or soft tissue of adolescents and young adults. A characteristic molecular finding in ES is EWSR1 gene fusion with ETS (erythroblast transformation-specific) family genes including FLI1 (~90%) and ERG (>5%). Here we report our exp...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Warren M,Weindel M,Ringrose J,Venable C,Reyes A,Terashima K,Rao P,Chintagumpala M,Hicks MJ,Lopez-Terrada D,Lu XY

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin (FN), a large heterodimeric glycoprotein, can be found in soluble form in plasma or in insoluble form as an extracellular matrix protein. Cellular FN is produced by various types of benign and malignant epithelial and mesenchymal cells and is widely distributed in malignant tumors. We evaluated FN expressi...

journal_title：Human pathology

authors： Bae YK,Kim A,Kim MK,Choi JE,Kang SH,Lee SJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00