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  1. Primary mesenchymal chondrosarcoma of the kidney is rare, and it shows distinct undifferentiated tumor cells and well differentiated cartilagenous components. Also assident infiltrating urothelial carcinoma of...

    Authors: Hua Xu, MuMin Shao, HuiLi Sun and ShunMin Li
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:125
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  3. Perivascular epithelioid cell (PEC) tumors (PEComas) are a family of related mesenchymal tumors composed of PECs which co-express melanocytic and smooth muscle markers. Although their distinctive histologic, i...

    Authors: Chia-Lang Fang, Yun-Ho Lin and Wei-Yu Chen
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:117
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  4. Giant cell angioblastoma (GCAB) is an extremely rare soft tissue tumor of early childhood and only five cases have been described to date. As such the clinical, pathological, and prognostic features are poorly...

    Authors: Rong-Jun Mao, Zhi-Ming Jiang, Hui-Zhen Zhang, Xiong-Zeng Zhu and Qing-Ling Zhang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:113
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  5. Pathologic diagnosis of stage I idiopathic membranous nephropathy (MN-I) requires electron microscopy or immunohistochemistry that shows a glomerular capillary staining pattern of IgG and C3. However, it is no...

    Authors: Rui Zhang, Zhi-yong Zheng, Jian-song Lin, Li-juan Qu and Feng Zheng
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:109
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  6. We present a case of a 62-year-old man who underwent total hip arthroplasty for treatment of pathologic femoral neck fracture associated with adefovir dipivoxil-induced osteomalacia. He had a 13-month history ...

    Authors: Motoyuki Tanaka, Takao Setoguchi, Yasuhiro Ishidou, Yoshiya Arishima, Masataka Hirotsu, Yoshinobu Saitoh, Shunsuke Nakamura, Hironori Kakoi, Satoshi Nagano, Masahiro Yokouchi, Junichi Kamizono and Setsuro Komiya
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:108
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  7. Neuroendocrine tumor (NET) in adenoma of the gastrointestinal tract is a rare mixed glandular-endocrine neoplasm and has uncommonly been described mostly in the colon. Histologically, this tumor is composed of...

    Authors: Sun-Mi Lee, Soomin Ahn, Yun Kyung Lee, Kee-Taek Jang, Cheol Keun Park and Kyoung-Mee Kim
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:102
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  9. The differences between invasive lobular and ductal carcinomas affect the diagnostic and therapeutic management for patients with breast cancer. In most cases, this can be accomplished because of distinct hist...

    Authors: Hacer Haltas, Reyhan Bayrak, Sibel Yenidunya, Dilek Kosehan, Meral Sen and Kayihan Akin
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:91
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  10. A 54 year old lady presented for routine excision of a scalp lesion thought clinically to represent a sebaceous cyst of the right occiput. 4 years earlier she underwent total abdominal hysterectomy and right s...

    Authors: Shane Corcoran, Aisling M Hogan, Tamas Nemeth, Fadel Bennani, Francis J Sullivan, Waqar Khan and Kevin Barry
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:85
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  11. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a rare benign lesion whose tumor origin is now proven. It represents 0.7% of all lung tumors. We report the case of a three-year-old child who suffered from a chronic coug...

    Authors: Nawal Hammas, Laila Chbani, Mohammed Rami, Meryem Boubbou, Sara Benmiloud, Youssef Bouabdellah, Siham Tizniti, Mustapha Hida and Afaf Amarti
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:83
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  12. Peripheral T-cell lymphomas not otherwise specified are generally considered aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphomas, because of poor natural outcome and response to therapy. They show a complex karyotype without any...

    Authors: Gabriella Aquino, Renato Franco, Fioravante Ronconi, Annamaria Anniciello, Luigi Russo, Annarosaria De Chiara and Luigi Panico
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:79
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  13. Primary malignant melanoma of the duodenum is an unusual oncologic entity. Patients usually present the similar clinical symptoms like other common tumors in this site. And there are no specific radiological f...

    Authors: Hongxia Li, Qinhe Fan, Zhen Wang, Hai Xu, Xiao Li, Weiming Zhang and Zhihong Zhang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:74
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  14. Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) typically presents as nodal lesion and may involve extranodal sites during the progression of the disease. Primary osseous HL without any lymph node association is extremely rare and only...

    Authors: Yang Li, Xiao-bing Wang, Xiao-ying Tian, Bin Li and Zhi Li
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:64
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  15. The eligibility of breast cancer patients for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-directed therapies is determined by the HER2 gene amplification and/or HER2 protein overexpression status of the breas...

    Authors: Hiroaki Nitta, Brian D Kelly, Mary Padilla, Nikolaus Wick, Patrick Brunhoeber, Isaac Bai, Shalini Singh, Jim Ranger-Moore, Chris Bieniarz, Hitoshi Tsuda and Thomas M Grogan
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:60
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  16. We present here an intriguing case of sporadic renal haemangioblastoma occurring in a 61-year-old male. The tumor consisted of nests of polygonal cells and abundant capillary networks. The neoplastic cells gen...

    Authors: Wei-hua Yin, Jian Li and John KC Chan
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:39
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  17. Primary involvement of skeletal muscle is a very rare event in ALK-1 positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). We describe a case of a 10-year old boy presenting with a three week history of pain and a p...

    Authors: Timo Gaiser, Eva Geissinger, Torsten Schattenberg, Hanns-Peter Scharf, Matthias Dürken, Dietmar Dinter, Andreas Rosenwald and Alexander Marx
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:38
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  18. Talcosis, a granulomatous inflammation of the lungs caused by inhalation of talcum dust, is a rare form of pneumoconiosis. Besides inhalative occupational exposure, intravenous abuse of adulterated drugs is a ...

    Authors: Andreas Hans Scheel, Daniel Krause, Helmut Haars, Inge Schmitz and Klaus Junker
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:26
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  19. After the introduction of novel effective immunosuppressive therapies, kidney transplantation became the treatment of choice for end stage renal disease. While these new therapies lead to better graft survival...

    Authors: Sean Kirby, Anjali Satoskar, Sergey Brodsky, Amy Pope-Harman, David Nunley, Charles Hitchcock, Ronald Pelletier, Patrick Ross, Tibor Nadasdy and Konstantin Shilo
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:25
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  20. Metastatic adenocarcinoma from an unknown primary site is a common clinical problem. Determining the cytokeratin (CK) 7/CK20 pattern of tumors is one of the most helpful procedures for this purpose since the C...

    Authors: Reyhan Bayrak, Hacer Haltas and Sibel Yenidunya
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:9
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  21. Only a few cases of extranodal Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated B-cell lymphomas arising from patients with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL) have been described. We report a case of AITL of which s...

    Authors: Qing-Xu Yang, Xiao-Juan Pei, Xiao-Ying Tian, Yang Li and Zhi Li
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2012 7:7
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  23. Primary pleural angiosarcoma is a rare and clinically aggressive tumor. Patients usually present with chest pain, dyspnea, hemoptysis and/or cough. Radiologic studies reveal diffuse pleural thickening and pleu...

    Authors: Yu-Chien Kao, Jyh-Ming Chow, Kum-Min Wang, Chia-Lang Fang, Jan-Show Chu and Chi-Long Chen
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:130
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  24. Primary angiosarcoma of the breast is a rare tumour that account for fewer than 0.05% of all malignant mammary tumours. Angiosarcoma may have an perfidious clinical onset. Radiologic findings are often nonspec...

    Authors: Emina Babarović, Gordana Zamolo, Elvira Mustać and Miroslav Strčić
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:125
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  25. Low-grade cribriform cystadenocarcinoma (LGCCA) is a rare tumor of the salivary gland that exhibits clinically indolent behavior. In this paper, we present a case of invasive adenocarcinoma of the accessory pa...

    Authors: Shin-ichi Nakatsuka, Hiroshi Harada, Hiroshi Fujiyama, Koji Takeda, Koji Kitamura, Hayato Kimura, Teruaki Nagano, Mahito Ito and Yuji Asada
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:122
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  26. Here we report the first case of carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19-9-producing early gastric adenocarcinoma arising in polyp. A solitary pedunculated polyp lesion of the stomach, measuring 26 × 20 × 20 mm, was noti...

    Authors: Xin Guo, Sohsuke Yamada, Haruki Omori, Ke-Yong Wang, Takashi Tasaki, Atsunori Nabeshima, Kimitoshi Kohno and Yasuyuki Sasaguri
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:112
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  27. We present a 69-year-old woman with a chief complaint of postmenopausal bleeding. She was diagnosed as having an endometrioid adenocarcinoma by biopsy, and underwent a total abdominal hysterectomy. At the time...

    Authors: Keiichiro Uehara, Masanori Yasuda, Takaya Ichimura, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Koji Nagata, Hidekazu Kayano, Atsushi Sasaki, Shin-ichi Murata and Michio Shimizu
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:104
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  29. Kidney injury associated with lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is typically caused by direct tumor infiltration which occasionally results in acute renal failure. Glomerular involvement presenting as proteinuria or ...

    Authors: Xianrui Dou, Haitang Hu, Yongle Ju, Yongdong Liu, Kaifu Kang, Shufeng Zhou and Wenfang Chen
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:99
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  30. Recently, human germinal center-associated lymphoma (HGAL) gene protein has been proposed as an adjunctive follicular marker to CD10 and BCL6.

    Authors: Gaia Goteri, Guendalina Lucarini, Antonio Zizzi, Antonello Costagliola, Federica Giantomassi, Daniela Stramazzotti, Corrado Rubini and Pietro Leoni
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:97
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  31. Dendritic cell tumors are extremely rare neoplasms arising from antigen-presenting cells of the immune system. We report a case of a 69-year-old man with an unremarkable medical history who presented with a 2-...

    Authors: Sebastian P Schraven, Stefan K Plontke, Roland Syha, Falko Fend, Hartwig Wolburg and Patrick Adam
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:94
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  32. The pathogenesis of salivary gland carcinomas is very complex and prognostic markers are difficult to find in these carcinomas of which the different subtypes have varying malignant potential. The study was co...

    Authors: Shaimaa E Ghazy, Iman M Helmy and Houry M Baghdadi
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:89
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  33. The human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is an established biomarker for management of patients with breast cancer. While conventional testing of HER2 protein expression is based on semi-quantitativ...

    Authors: Aida Laurinaviciene, Darius Dasevicius, Valerijus Ostapenko, Sonata Jarmalaite, Juozas Lazutka and Arvydas Laurinavicius
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:87
    Content type: Methodology Published on:

  34. We report a 41-year-old Chinese woman with intravascular large B-cell lymphoma diagnosed by percutaneous renal biopsy. The patient was admitted to Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Ch...

    Authors: Xiaoyan Bai, Xiao Li, Liyan Wan, Guobao Wang, Nan Jia and Jian Geng
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:86
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  36. Simple 46, XY gonadal dysgenesis syndrome, also called Swyer syndrome, is known as pure gonadal dysgenesis. Individuals with the syndrome are characterized by 46, XY karyotype and phenotypically female with fe...

    Authors: Yang Han, Yan Wang, Qingchang Li, Shundong Dai, Anguang He and Enhua Wang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:84
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  37. Ocular sebaceous carcinoma can masquerade as benign lesions resulting in delay of diagnosis. Early recognition is even more difficult in young patients where the disease rarely occurs. Here, we provide a clini...

    Authors: Dongjin Sung, Sara A Kaltreider and Federico Gonzalez-Fernandez
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:81
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  38. Mesothelioma of tunica vaginalis is a rare neoplasm, typically demonstrating frankly malignant morphology and aggressive behavior. Rare cases of well-differentiated papillary mesotheliomas have also been repor...

    Authors: Kiril Trpkov, Richard Barr, Andrew Kulaga and Asli Yilmaz
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:78
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  39. Ectopic liver is a very uncommon developmental anomaly that predisposes to the development of hepatocellular carcinoma. We describe the second documented case of a hepatocellular carcinoma developing in the pr...

    Authors: Matthias Dettmer, Peter Itin, Peter Miny, Manoj Gandhi, Gieri Cathomas and Niels Willi
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:75
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  41. Aortic valve replacement (AVR) is the gold standard for the treatment of severe symptomatic aortic stenosis. Complications directly related to surgical procedure are relatively infrequent. Coronary ostial sten...

    Authors: Emanuela Turillazzi, Gabriele Di Giammarco, Margherita Neri, Stefania Bello, Irene Riezzo and Vittorio Fineschi
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:72
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  42. Primary angiosarcoma of the ovary (AS) is a rare entity with only 31 reported cases. The majority are pure angiosarcomas, the remainder are associated either with teratomas or conventional epithelial tumors. M...

    Authors: Hans Bösmüller, Christine Gruber, Sophie Haitchi-Petnehazy, Dietmar Wagner, Gerald Webersinke and Steffen Hauptmann
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:65
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  44. We recently encountered an unusual case of Composite lymphoma (CL) in the anterior mediastinum arising in a 37-year-old woman who presented initially with continuous pain in the right shoulder and chest. The w...

    Authors: Guohua Yu, Lingling Kong, Guimei Qu, Qian Zhang, Wei Wang and Lei Jiang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:60
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  45. Breast cancers which demonstrate EGFR protein expression, gene amplification and/or gene mutations may benefit therapeutically from tyrosine kinase inhibitors. In Western studies, EGFR protein expression has b...

    Authors: Mohamed A Shawarby, Dalal M Al-Tamimi and Ayesha Ahmed
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:57
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  46. Endocervicosis in the urinary bladder is a rare benign condition. We present a case in a 37-year-old woman with classical clinical and pathological features of endocervicosis. The unusual observation of endoce...

    Authors: Phaik-Leng Cheah, Lai-Meng Looi, George Eng-Geap Lee, Kean-Hooi Teoh, Kein-Seong Mun and Abdul Rahman Nazarina
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:56
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  48. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most frequent mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract usually occurring in the 6th to 7th decade of life, while their occurrence in children is rare (1-2%)...

    Authors: Claudia Otto, Abbas Agaimy, Alexander Braun, Jochen Rädecke, Jens Hoeppner, Gerald Illerhaus, Martin Werner, Udo Kontny and Florian Haller
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2011 6:52
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