abstract：:CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP) is a recently described subset of colorectal cancers (CRC) with widespread methylation of multiple promoter CpG islands. But the prognostic implication of CIMP in CRC has not been clarified. Thus, the aim of the present study was to differentiate the unique characteristics of CIM...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Lee S,Cho NY,Choi M,Yoo EJ,Kim JH,Kang GH

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the prognostic significance of the methods used to determine the presence of metastasis in second-tier lymph nodes of patients with gastric cancer, the authors studied lymph nodes surgically removed from 100 patients with gastric cancer (55 with early cancer, 45 with progressive). The results of HE staini...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Ikeda S,Funakoshi N,Usui S,Takiguchi N,Hiranuma S,Shibata T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura (SFTP) is rare. A 73-year-old man, without past history of diabetes mellitus, was admitted to hospital with profound hypoglycemia, loss of consciousness and respiratory failure. CT indicated a huge heterogenous mass lesion (12 x 12 x 17 cm) at the right thoracic cavity with total a...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Chang JC,Su KY,Chao SF,Hsu YH,Yang GG,Chang BS

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An 80-year-old woman with a pleomorphic carcinoma (PC) producing hCG was admitted to Nippon Steel Hirohata Hospital because of an abnormal shadow on CT seen during a follow-up examination after surgery for breast cancer. A right upper lobectomy was performed due to rapid growth of the shadow 3 months later. Macroscopi...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Hirano H,Yoshida T,Sakamoto T,Yoshimura H,Fukuoka M,Tachibana S,Saito H,Ohkubo E,Nakasho K,Nishigami T

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to clarify the difference of expression of two stem cell markers, nestin and c-kit, among various pancreatic epithelial tumors and evaluate their utility. Immunohistochemistry was done for 99 surgically resected pancreatic tumor specimens, including 20 ductal adenocarcinoma (DAC), ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Ohike N,Sato M,Hisayuki T,Imataka H,Sato S,Wada Y,Saito K,Takahashi M,Tajiri T,Kunimura T,Morohoshi T

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobes, including humans, are consistently exposed to oxidative stress by consuming oxygen. The biological significance of oxidative stress via reactive oxygen and nitrogen species consists of two stages: reversible redox regulation and irreversible oxidative molecular damage, which are sometimes intermingled. During...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Toyokuni S,Akatsuka S

更新日期：2007-08-01 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：:The role of chemokines, especially CXCL10/interferon-gamma-inducible protein 10 kDa (IP-10), a chemokine to attract CXCR3(+) T-helper 1-type CD4(+) T cells, is largely unknown in the pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel disease; ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. The authors have earlier shown that IP-10 neutral...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Suzuki K,Kawauchi Y,Palaniyandi SS,Veeraveedu PT,Fujii M,Yamagiwa S,Yoneyama H,Han GD,Kawachi H,Okada Y,Ajioka Y,Watanabe K,Hosono M,Asakura H,Aoyagi Y,Narumi S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of malignant neoplasms increases with advancing age. Although aging and carcinogenesis are basically different processes, there are phenomena common to each such as accumulation of DNA damage and abnormal proteins. Gastric and colorectal carcinomas are representative tumors in which the prevalence and t...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Arai T,Takubo K

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy is an unusual malignancy-related respiratory complication characterized by multiple microthrombi and intimal myofibroblast proliferation. Its clinical manifestation is subacute respiratory failure with pulmonary hypertension. Herein is reported a case of pulmonary tumor throm...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Sakashita N,Yokose C,Fujii K,Matsumoto M,Ohnishi K,Takeya M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 2004, two groups reported somatic mutations in the gene for the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which were highly correlated with the clinical response to the anticancer drug, gefitinib. Since then, a tremendous amount of knowledge has accumulated, and sh...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Yatabe Y,Mitsudomi T

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:Tumor suppressor in lung cancer-1 (TSLC1) is an intercellular adhesion molecule of the immunoglobulin superfamily. There is little information regarding the developmental expression profiles. In an attempt to clarify the distribution of TSLC1 proteins in mouse embryos tissue by immunohistochemistry, it was found that ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Usami Y,Ito A,Ohnuma K,Fuku T,Komori T,Yokozaki H

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desminopathy is a familial or sporadic skeletal and cardiac muscular dystrophy caused by mutation in the desmin gene. Desmin-reactive deposits in the affected muscles are the morphological hallmarks of this disease. Herein is reported an autopsy case of a 57-year-old Japanese man with adult-onset skeletal muscle weakn...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Yuri T,Miki K,Tsukamoto R,Shinde A,Kusaka H,Tsubura A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study the significance of nuclear/cytoplasmic expression of beta-catenin (CTNNB1) and mutation of the CTNNB1 gene (CTNNB1) in odontogenic tumors was examined. Six ameloblastomas (five follicular ameloblastomas and one plexiform ameloblastoma) and three malignant odontogenic tumors (one metastasizing ame...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Miyake T,Tanaka Y,Kato K,Tanaka M,Sato Y,Ijiri R,Inayama Y,Ito Y,Aoki S,Kawabe R,Tohnai I

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported herein is a 57-year-old man infected by Sparganum mansoni, a kind of tapeworm, showing a solitary nodule of the middle lobe of the right lung. Because a transbronchial biopsy could not diagnose the nodule, a right middle lobectomy was performed on suspicion of malignant tumor. The lesion was diagnosed as spar...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Iwatani K,Kubota I,Hirotsu Y,Wakimoto J,Yoshioka M,Mori T,Ito T,Nomori H

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A surgical case of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor arising in the uterine corpus and exhibiting prominent myxoid change of the stroma is reported. The patient was a 63-year-old woman with a large tumor mass that filled the uterine cavity and measured 11 cm in maximal dimension. The tumor had a gelatinous appearance...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Shintaku M,Fukushima A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming acidic coiled-coil containing protein 3 (TACC3) is known to be involved in the control of normal cell growth and differentiation and in mechanisms of unregulated growth leading to tumorigenesis. The aim of the present paper was to determine the rate of TACC3 expression in a non-small cell lung cancer (NSC...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Jung CK,Jung JH,Park GS,Lee A,Kang CS,Lee KY

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported herein is a case of benign clear cell tumor of the lung in a 60-year-old man. Chest X-ray and CT examination revealed an abnormal nodule with homogenous density and a clear margin in the lower lobe of the left lung. The resected tumor was 13 mm in size, well-circumscribed and was graysh-white on cut surface. ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Adachi Y,Kitamura Y,Nakamura H,Taniguchi Y,Miwa K,Horie Y,Hayashi K

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extremely rare autopsy case of primary pulmonary choriocarcinoma combined with adenocarcinomatous components in a 77-year-old Japanese man is described. The patient died of rapidly progressive respiratory dysfunction without ante-mortem diagnosis. Autopsy revealed necro-hemorrhagic areas of the primary lung tumor w...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Yamamoto S,Tanaka H,Takeo H,Yasuda K,Mastukuma S

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 51-year-old woman with a history of eating raw fish over a period of 2 weeks developed a progressive abdominal pain and leukocytosis with signs of small bowel obstruction. Eosinophilia was not detected in the peripheral blood. The patient underwent surgery to clarify the possibility of ileus. Partial small bowel nea...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Masui N,Fujima N,Hasegawa T,Kigawa S,Kagei N,Nagashima K,Shimizu Y

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcifying fibrous tumor (CFT) is an uncommon lesion of uncertain cause and pathogenesis that has a unique histological appearance. These lesions are described mainly in the subcutaneous or deep soft tissues, followed by subserosal locations. Intrinsic visceral CFT is extremely rare. Herein is described a rare case of...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Elpek GO,Küpesiz GY,Ogüs M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported herein is an unusual case of prostatic phyllodes tumor with exuberant glandular hyperplasia that led to misdiagnosis of adenocarcinoma. The tumor was detected in a 52-year-old man who had a 1 year history of dysuria. Adenocarcinoma of the prostate was diagnosed from a needle biopsy specimen. The patient recei...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Morikawa T,Nagata M,Tomita K,Kitamura T,Goto A,Chong JM,Fukayama M

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 7-year-old boy presented with midline swelling in the neck. On fine-needle aspiration cytology it was diagnosed as papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. The patient underwent total thyroidectomy. Histopathological examination, immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy revealed the presence of two intermingled compo...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Goyal R,Nada R,Rao KL,Radotra BD

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:The KIT, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and HER-2 oncoproteins have tyrosine kinase activity and are molecular targets in human cancer therapy. To clarify the significance of KIT, EGFR, and HER-2 in undifferentiated thyroid carcinoma (UTC), the expression of these receptors and tyrosine phosphorylation was ex...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Murakawa T,Tsuda H,Tanimoto T,Tanabe T,Kitahara S,Matsubara O

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：: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：:Mixed epithelial and stromal tumor of the kidney (MESTK) is a rare kidney neoplasm that almost exclusively occurs in perimenopausal women, and long-term estrogen replacement is relevant to its pathogenesis. Herein is described an atypical case of MESTK uncovered in a 12-year-old premenarcheal girl without a history of...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Hara N,Kawaguchi M,Murayama S,Maruyama R,Tanikawa T,Takahashi K

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many human colorectal adenocarcinoma cell lines have been developed. However, differentiated type colorectal cancer cell lines, particularly, the goblet-cell differentiated type, are scarce. In the present study a novel colorectal adenocarcinoma cell line (designated as COLM-6) with predominant goblet-cell differentia...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Yamachika T,Nakanishi H,Yasui K,Ikehara Y,Niwa T,Wanibuchi H,Tatematsu M,Fukushima S

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:A case of serous cystadenocarcinoma of the pancreas in an 85-year-old woman is reported. The tumor extensively involved the body and tail of the pancreas and contiguously invaded the spleen. The histopathology of the tumor was similar to that of serous cystadenoma, but mild nuclear hyperchromatism and atypism were not...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Shintaku M,Arimoto A,Sakita N

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cell systems (MINT1/2/3) derived from a melanotic neuroectodermal tumor of infancy (MNTI) arising in the mandible of a 1-month-old newborn boy have been established, and their cytological natures have been characterized. The cells had immunopositivities for pan-keratin, vimentin, neuron-specific enolase, S-100 p...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Metwaly H,Cheng J,Maruyama S,Ohshiro K,Suzuki I,Hoshina Y,Saku T

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary (metastatic) neoplasms to the ovary often cause diagnostic problems, especially those tumors that produce large, symptomatic ovarian tumors that masquerade clinically and pathologically as primary ovarian tumors of surface epithelial type. Most of these tumors arise from organs of the digestive system. Excep...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Hart WR

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：: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：:The etiological role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in esophageal carcinoma (EC) in relation to p53, mdm2, p21(waf), c-erbB2 and the overall survival (OS) rate was investigated. Tumor and normal tissues from 50 EC were evaluated by polymerase chain reaction and InnoLiPA for HPV. Single strand conformation polymorphism/...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Bahnassy AA,Zekri AR,Abdallah S,El-Shehaby AM,Sherif GM

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary tumor thrombotic microangiopathy (PTTM) is a rare clinicopathological entity causing severe pulmonary hypertension. Its histological features include widespread tumor emboli along with fibrocellular intimal proliferation and thrombus formation in the small arteries and arterioles of the lungs. The result is ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Chinen K,Kazumoto T,Ohkura Y,Matsubara O,Tsuchiya E

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p73 gene is a member of the p53 gene family and the structure and functions of p73 protein are similar to those of p53. However, these two proteins have different roles. In the present study, p73 protein was found immunohistochemically to be distributed in the basal cells of the epidermis, columnar basal cells in ...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Kamiya M,Takeuchi Y,Katho M,Yokoo H,Sasaki A,Nakazato Y

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with an unusual neuroendocrine component. During a follow-up study for chronic hepatitis C in a 71-year-old man, a nodular lesion showed rapid growth from 1 cm to 4 cm in diameter within 3 months. Histologically, the tumor was consistent with moderately different...

journal_title：Pathology international

authors： Yamaguchi R,Nakashima O,Ogata T,Hanada K,Kumabe T,Kojiro M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00