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  1. Muscle-invasive bladder carcinomas (MIBCs) exhibit significant heterogeneity, with diverse histopathological features associated with varied prognosis and therapeutic response. Although genomic profiling studi...

    Authors: R. Vaithegi, Kanthilatha Pai, Anuradha Calicut Kini Rao, Vidya Monappa, Swathi Prabhu and Nischitha Suvarna
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2025 20:10
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  2. Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the sixth leading cause of cancer death globally, with newly diagnosed oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) cases rising to 54,000 in the US alone in t...

    Authors: Selvam Thavaraj, Max Robinson, Shubham Dayal and Claire Bowen
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2025 20:9
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  3. Globally, breast cancer ranks among the most common malignancies and has a high mortality rate. Invasive breast carcinoma of no special type (IBC-NST) presents a heterogeneous group with variable prognosis. Id...

    Authors: Menna Allah Gamil Ali Shalaby, Marwa Mohammed Dawoud, Marwa Salah Gadallah and Asmaa Gaber Abdou
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2025 20:8
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  4. Perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComas) rarely appear in the head and neck region. This case report describes two transcription factor E3 (TFE3)-rearranged PEComa cases, consisting of one in the orbit and ...

    Authors: Yuka Takahashi, Akihiko Yoshida, Seiichi Yoshimoto, Shigenobu Suzuki, Satsuki Kishikawa, Ayaka Mitsui, Eijitsu Ryo, Yuki Kojima, Kan Yonemori, Yasushi Yatabe and Taisuke Mori
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2025 20:7
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  5. Synchronous malignant histiocytoses are rare conditions that occur concurrently with another hematologic neoplasm. Most reported cases are associated with B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders, while associatio...

    Authors: Mirvate Harb, Tom Abrassart, Laurent Dewispeleare, Pierre Sidon, Natacha Dirckx, Anne-laure Trepant, Julie Castiaux, Pierre Heimann, Jean-Francois Emile and Hussein Farhat
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2025 20:6
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  6. Fasciolopsis buski is a large fluke that parasitises the human small intestine, with its infection in the biliary tract being even rarer. Given its relatively rare occurrence in recent years, the clinical diagnos...

    Authors: Shuai Luo, Xiaoxue Tian, Ting Xu and Jinjing Wang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2025 20:5
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  7. Breast cancer became the most prevalent malignancy among women, and HER2 expression status is critical for treatment decisions. With the emergence of ADC drugs, HER2 low-expressing patients who previously did ...

    Authors: Jingmin Zhong, Beibei Gao, Qingjie Wang, Jun He, Danjv Luo, Chen Zhang, Jun Fan and Xiu Nie
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2025 20:4
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  8. Juvenile granulosa cell tumor (JGCT) of the ovary is a rare tumor with distinct clinicopathological and hormonal features primarily affecting young women and children. We conducted a complex clinicopathologica...

    Authors: Adam Šafanda, Nikola Hájková, Michaela Kendall Bártů, Marián Švajdler, Radoslav Matěj, Jitka Hausnerová, Tomáš Zima, Pavel Dundr and Kristýna Němejcová
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2025 20:3
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  9. Hepatoblastoma (HB) is the most common malignant solid tumor of the liver in children and is a fatal disease with a poor prognosis. Therefore, indicators that can be used for the early prediction of the HB pro...

    Authors: Yao Liu, Jia Han, Akihiro Shioya, Yang-Xian Zhang, Vu Anh Dung, Takeru Oyama, Xin Guo, Qian Yang, Tohru Ito and Sohsuke Yamada
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2025 20:2
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  10. Considering the significant participation of the microenvironment in the local aggressiveness of odontogenic keratocysts, this study aims to evaluate the expression of ADAMTS-1 and its substrates, versican, ag...

    Authors: Osvaldo Rodrigues de Souza Neto, Antonia Taiane Lopes de Moraes, Hellen Thais Fuzii, Antonio Guilherme Maneschy Faria, Vanessa Morais Freitas, Maria Sueli da Silva Kataoka, Sérgio de Melo Alves Jr and João de Jesus Viana Pinheiro
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2025 20:1
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  11. Hormographiella aspergillata is a rare hyaline mold causing invasive fungal infection in humans, until the frequent use of antifungal prophylaxis in immunocompromised hosts. Due to the high mortality of H. asperg...

    Authors: Haiyan Ye, Jinhui He, Jing Huang, Patrick Chu, Junru Liu, Rosana Wing-Shan Poon, Fanfan Xing, Simon Kam-Fai Lo, Ricky Wing-Tong Lau, Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan, Susanna Kar-Pui Lau and Kelvin Hei-Yeung Chiu
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:168
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  12. Isolated immunohistochemical indicators are limited to diagnose melanocytic neoplasms. This retrospective study is to assess the diagnostic value of combined immunohistochemical analysis targeting preferential...

    Authors: Jingwei Zheng, Jie Zang, Qiuju Miao, Xuebao Shao, Hao Song, Xiaopo Wang, Ying Zhang and Hao Chen
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:167
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  13. Mixed adenoneuroendocrine carcinoma (MANEC) of the cervix is a rare malignant tumor with high malignancy and poor prognosis, of which large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma and HPV-independent adenocarcinoma are ...

    Authors: Kang-Na Wei, Xiao-Dan Fu, Min-Yuan Wang and Li-Xia Wang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:166
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  14. Extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (EMZL) is an indolent B-cell lymphoma that can involve various anatomic sites. EMZL is derived from post-germinal center marginal zone B c...

    Authors: Ming Zhang, Jianli Qu, Weiwei Guo, Yi Liu and Wei Zhang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:165
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  15. While many studies have reported renal involvement in sarcoidosis, there is limited description of the pathological manifestations of renal sarcoidosis (RS). This study aimed to explore the standardized pathol...

    Authors: Aichun Liu, Yina Wang, Yu Yan, Bao Dong, Meishun Cai and Li Zuo
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:164
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  17. The study aimed to identify distinct molecular subtypes of endometrial cancer (EC) by immunohistochemistry and to analyze their pathological characteristics, independent prognostic factors, and patient surviva...

    Authors: Xiaohui Wang, Aziz ur Rehman Aziz, Dandan Wang, Yaping Wang, Ming Liu, Xiaohui Yu and Daqing Wang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:162
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  18. Accurate detection of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) gene amplification via fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is necessary to determine HER2 status. Although many attempts have been made ...

    Authors: Rongxue Peng, Kuo Zhang, Guigao Lin and Jinming Li
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:161
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  19. Anogenital mammary-like glands (AGMLGs) are present in the anogenital region that bear striking morphologic and protein-expression similarities to mammary glands in the breast. AGMLGs can give rise to both ben...

    Authors: Margaret L. Axelrod, Xiuli Liu and Pooja Navale
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:160
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  20. Fumarate hydratase-deficient renal cell carcinoma (FH-deficient RCC) is a clinically aggressive tumor with high rates of progression and mortality. A wide range of morphological variations has been observed in...

    Authors: Yin Lu, Chunfang Hu, Jiedong Jia, Ye Liu, Yanlin Wen, Huijuan Zhang, Xiaoliang Wang, Haitao Li, Guihua Shen and Wenting Huang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:159
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  21. Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, which can infect various animals and humans. Cutaneous anthrax primarily presents as infiltrative, edematous erythema, surface vesicles, hem...

    Authors: Yongjun Du, Jizhou Ma, Guozhen Liu, Zhi Chai, Hang Han, Tairen Chen, Lan Yang, Li Jing, Fangjing Xu and Yucheng Fan
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:158
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  22. We reported a case of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALK + ALCL) involving the bladder. The patient was a 27-year-old female, whose main clinical symptoms included fe...

    Authors: Ying Zhao, Wenqiang Qiu, Xiangtao Weng, Chiming Gu and Siyi Li
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:157
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  23. We present the case of a 73-year-old female with an acromioclavicular joint cyst associated with atypical, exquisite, progressive pain, and imaging findings concerning for neoplastic etiology. She underwent en...

    Authors: John F. Schutz, Christopher D. Hamad, Michael D. Russell, Mahmuod Abdeljaber, Scott D. Nelson and Fritz Eilber
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:156
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  24. Recently, screening of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients for mismatch repair/microsatellite instability (MMR/MSI) status is widely practiced due to its potential predictive and prognostic roles and a screening ...

    Authors: Muhammad Ishaque Faizee, NorLelawati A. Talib, Asmah Hanim Bt. Hamdan, Nor Zamzila Bt. Abdullah, Bilal Ahmad Rahimi, Ahmed Maseh Haidary, Ramin Saadaat and Ahmed Nasir Hanifi
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:155
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  26. Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is one of the most common complications in patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), yet its prognosis is generally poor. The impact of surgery on DLBCL re...

    Authors: Qiaoqiao Zhang, Jingzhen Lai, Sufang Ai, Shulin Song, Junjun Jiang and Zhiman Xie
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:153
    Content type: Brief Report Published on:

  27. The main difficulty in the diagnosis of atypical in situ adenocarcinoma lies in the distinction between true and false stromal invasion. Moreover, how to identify local alveolar wall collapse in situ lung aden...

    Authors: Siping Xiong, Huan Fan, Yimin Guo, Ruixiang Sun, Hongmei Ma, Yali Xiang and Chao Zeng
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:152
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  28. Atypical cellular neurothekeoma is a rare benign soft-tissue tumour that usually arises in the head and neck region, shoulder girdles, and proximal extremities, predominantly in young women. This dermal neopla...

    Authors: Valli de la Guardia, Edgardo Castro-Pérez, Ana I. Porcell, Sara González de Tena-Dávila and Marina Pacheco
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:151
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  30. The positive expression of Cyclin D1 in immunohistochemical (IHC) staining serves as the cornerstone for diagnosing mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). However, existing literature does not conclusively establish whet...

    Authors: Yan Yang, Liling Song, Ying Yin, Yuan Gao, Yunjun Wang, Shishou Wu, Jun Wang, Yu Pan, Xiaolong Sui, Lei Jiang, Yunyun Zhang and Guohua Yu
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:149
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  31. Cancer diagnostic probe (CDP) as a newly entered tool in real-time breast cavity margin evaluation showed great improvement in smart margin shaving intra-operatively. This system increased the rate of involved...

    Authors: Fereshteh Abbasvandi, Zohreh Sadat Miripour, Mahdis Bayat, Seyed Mohamad Sadegh Mousavi-Kiasary, Samira Shayanfar, Fatemeh Shojaeian, Faeze Aghaei, Fahimeh Jahanbakhshi, Niloofar Abbasvandi, Maryam Omranihashemi, Atieh Akbari, Morteza Yousefi, Mohammad Hadizadeh, Naiemeh Shahrabi Farahani, Parisa Hosseinpoor, Mohammad Parniani…
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:148
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  32. Oral cancer, the most prevalent cancer worldwide, is far more likely to occur after the age of forty-five, according to the World Health Organization. Although many biomarkers have been discovered over the yea...

    Authors: Monisha Prasad, Ramya Sekar, Malarveni Damodaran Lakshmi Priya, Sudhir Rama Varma and Mohmed Isaqali Karobari
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:147
    Content type: Review Published on:

  33. To investigate the genetic mutations in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and their clinicopathological features by next generation sequencing (NGS).

    Authors: Dongliang Shi, Meihong Yao, Dan Wu, Meichen Jiang, Junkang Li, Yuhui Zheng and Yinghong Yang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:146
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  34. An atypical type A thymoma variant was recently added to the World Health Organization classification of type A thymoma in 2015. This novel form of type A thymoma presents with hypercellularity, increased mito...

    Authors: Liling Qin, Fanrong Wang, Liqiao Chen, Tao Li, Gang Wang and Ning Zhou
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:145
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  35. The traditional diagnostic markers for mixed neuroendocrine-non-neuroendocrine neoplasms (MiNENs) are synaptophysin (SYP), chromogranin A (CHGA) and CD56. However, there is still a lack of a large series of ar...

    Authors: Rui Gao, Xi Zhang, Xin Chen, Ying Lin, Long Jin, Huawei Zheng and Xunbin Yu
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:144
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. POT is a relatively newly described benign odontogenic tumor with very few cases registered to date. We present the 1st case of Primordial odontogenic tumor (POT) from Sub-Saharan Africa with unique clinicopat...

    Authors: Dhara Dwivedi, Nitin Prabhakar, Monal Yuwanati, Gunjan S. Aswal and Renu Rawat
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:143
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  37. Ectopic thyroid tissue along the line of descent of thyroid from foramen caecum along thyroglossal duct to the normal anatomic location in neck has been reported. Ectopic thyroid tissue in adrenal gland (ETTAG...

    Authors: Varadharajan Vijayakumar, Banu Mahender, Jagadesh Chandra Bose, SuhailDeen Kajamohideen and Shanmugasundaram Gouthaman
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:142
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  39. Solitary fibroous tumors (SFTs) are distinctive soft tissue tumors characterized by rearrangements of NAB2-STAT6 gene, which are associated with thin-walled, branching, “staghorn”-shaped vessels. SFTs are origina...

    Authors: Lina Zhao, Jiajing Ma, Jiacai Ren, Jingping Yuan, Huihua He, Yabing Huang and Honglin Yan
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:140
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  40. Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic intestinal inflammatory disorder, the etiology of which remains unknown, and is characterized by symptoms such as chronic abdominal pain, diarrhea, obstruction, and perianal l...

    Authors: Siqi Tao, Yan Chen, Wen Hu, Keren Shen and Jinghong Xu
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:139
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  41. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major ocular complication of diabetes mellitus, and a significant cause of visual impairment and blindness in adults. Phosphoserine aminotransferase 1 (PSAT1) is an enzyme partic...

    Authors: Xiaofeng Du, Yanting Wang and Fan Gao
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:138
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  42. This study aims to broaden the morphological scope of SDH-deficient renal cell carcinoma and to assist clinicians and pathologists in better understanding this entity to prevent misdiagnosis. This study used immu...

    Authors: Shuang-Shuang Dong, Zong-Yue Wang, Xiu-Chun Tian, Cui-Mei Wang, Qing Xu, Chen Xu, Wei Yang, Xue-Wen Gu and Qin Xiao
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:137
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  44. Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) is a highly aggressive form of soft-tissue sarcoma that predominantly affects children. Due to limited benefits and resistance to therapy, there is an unmet need to explore al...

    Authors: Bo Ding, Biwei Mai, Tingyan Liu, Cuicui Liu, Hairong Bao, Jingzhou Hu, Xiaowen Qian, Song Wang, Qiuxiang Ou, Xiujuan Dong, Zhixian Lei and Gangfeng Yan
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:135
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  45. Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is a major tumor that seriously threatens the health of the head and neck or mucosal system. It is manifested as a malignant phenotype of high metastasis and invas...

    Authors: Jianmin Liu, Yongkuan Wang, Xi Chen, Xiaofang Chen and Meng Zhang
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:134
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  47. Brain metastasis from prostate adenocarcinoma (PCa) is rare, often leading to death within a year. Its infrequent occurrence and atypical histopathologic features contribute to lower consideration in the diffe...

    Authors: Namra Ajmal, Yutao Deng, Lawrence C. Kenyon, Mark T. Curtis, Mauro Dispagna, Joseph Izes and Li Li
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:132
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  48. This study aims to analyze potential differences in clinicopathology, efficacy of neoadjuvant therapy (NAT), and clinical outcome among HER2-null, HER2-ultralow and HER2-low breast cancers.

    Authors: Feng Guan, Xianli Ju, Lixia Chen, Jiacai Ren, Xiaokang Ke, Bin Luo, Aoling Huang and Jingping Yuan
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:131
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  49. Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare, aggressive primary cutaneous neuroendocrine carcinoma, frequently associated with clonal Merkel cell polyomavirus integration. MCC can pose significant diagnostic challen...

    Authors: Viola Katharina Vetter, Martina Haberecker, Florian Alexander Huber and Chantal Pauli
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:130
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  50. With the advent of targeted therapies, the survival prognosis for metastatic tumors has extended, and it has become necessary to diagnose and consider treatment that takes into account Quality of Life for meta...

    Authors: Shun Konno, Sayaka Yuzawa and Reiko Kinouchi
    Citation: Diagnostic Pathology 2024 19:128
    Content type: Case Report Published on:
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