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Volume 3;  2008
Case Reports
Melanotic medullary carcinoma of thyroid – report of a rare case with brief review of literature
Kamaljeet Singh, Mehar C Sharma, Deepali Jain, and Rajinder Kumar
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 2. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-2.
PMCID: PMC2253502
Does "ichthyosis uteri" have malignant potential? : A case report of squamous cell carcinoma of endometrium associated with extensive ichthyosis uteri
Kanchan Murhekar, Urmila Majhi, V Sridevi, and T Rajkumar
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 4. Published online 2008 January 31. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-4.
PMCID: PMC2259312
Infiltrating myoepithelial carcinoma of the breast, a case report and cytologic-histologic correlation
Daniel Lingamfelter, Yayan Chen, Kiyoe Kure, and Kamani Lankachandra
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 7. Published online 2008 February 8. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-7.
PMCID: PMC2257926
Sickle cell nephropathy with diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis: a case report
Kamal V Kanodia, Aruna V Vanikar, Kamal R Goplani, Sonia B Gupta, and Hargovind L Trivedi
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 9. Published online 2008 February 28. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-9.
PMCID: PMC2275218
Pseudosarcomatous myofibroblastic lesion of the urinary bladder: A rare entity posing a diagnostic challenge and therapeutic dilemma
Alexandros Lekas, Aikaterini Parasi, Thomas G Papathomas, Athanasios G Papatsoris, Maria Rozaria Mennonna, Michail Chrisofos, Charalambos Deliveliotis, and Andreas C Lazaris
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 11. Published online 2008 March 13. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-11.
PMCID: PMC2292680
Cardiac fibrosis in the elderly, normotensive athlete: case report and review of the literature
Shaheen E Lakhan and Lindsey Harle
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 12. Published online 2008 March 19. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-12.
PMCID: PMC2277381
A transient benign lymph node-based proliferation of T-cells simulating non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a patient with psoriasis treated with tumor necrosis factor alpha and CD11a antagonists
M Yadira Hurley, Mary Noel George, Craig L Leonardi, and John L Frater
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 13. Published online 2008 March 26. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-13.
PMCID: PMC2291032
Rare extracranial localization of primary intracranial neoplasm
Susan Arndt, Thorsten Wiech, Irina Mader, Antje Aschendorff, and Wolfgang Maier
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 14. Published online 2008 April 16. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-14.
PMCID: PMC2330022
Pleomorphic liposarcoma of the foot: a case report
Luka Brčić, Antonija Jakovčević, Lovorka Batelja Vuletić, Dubravko Orlić, and Sven Seiwerth
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 15. Published online 2008 April 16. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-15.
PMCID: PMC2358876
Fatal parvoviral myocarditis: A case report and review of literature
Fabio Tavora, Luis F Gonzalez-Cuyar, Jay S Dalal, Michael T O'Malley, Richard Zhao, Hong Q Peng, and Allen P Burke
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 21. Published online 2008 April 30. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-21.
PMCID: PMC2396599
Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia developing in a patient with history of peripheral T-cell lymphoma: evidence for multicentric T-cell lymphoproliferative process
Luis F Gonzalez-Cuyar, Fabio Tavora, X Frank Zhao, Guanghua Wang, Aaron Auerbach, Nadine Aguilera, and Allen P Burke
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 22. Published online 2008 May 29. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-22.
PMCID: PMC2427016
Sodium polystyrene sulfonate (Kayexalate) aspiration
Luis F Gonzalez-Cuyar, Nathaniel B Cresswell, and Allen P Burke
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 27. Published online 2008 June 17. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-27.
PMCID: PMC2441607
A diagnostic dilemma in breast pathology – benign fibroadenoma with multinucleated stromal giant cells
Helen M Heneghan, Sean T Martin, Mary Casey, Igdam Tobbia, Fadel Benani, and Kevin M Barry
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 33. Published online 2008 August 1. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-33.
PMCID: PMC2526983
Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (adenosis) of the prostate: a case report with review of the literature
Henry B Armah and Anil V Parwani
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 34. Published online 2008 August 12. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-34.
PMCID: PMC2526076
Multicystic urothelial carcinoma of the bladder with gland-like lumina and with signet-ring cells. A case report
Isabel Alvarado-Cabrero, Delia Pérez-Montiel, and Ondrej Hes
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 36. Published online 2008 September 3. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-36.
PMCID: PMC2546369
Cytokeratin positivity in myxopapillary ependymoma – a potential diagnostic pitfall
Sundus A Hussein and Monalisa Sur
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 40. Published online 2008 October 19. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-40.
PMCID: PMC2584038
Mucinous breast carcinoma presenting as Paget's disease of the nipple in a man: A case report
Dimitrios Peschos, Elena Tsanou, Pavlos Dallas, Konstantinos Charalabopoulos, Christos Kanaris, and Anna Batistatou
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 42. Published online 2008 October 24. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-42.
PMCID: PMC2584629
Commentaries
Ectopic pancreatic islets in Splenic hilum and peripancreatic fat
Kirti Gupta and RK Vasishta
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 3. Published online 2008 January 29. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-3.
PMCID: PMC2248161
The modern histopathologist: in the changing face of time
Biman Saikia, Kirti Gupta, and Uma N Saikia
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 25. Published online 2008 June 6. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-25.
PMCID: PMC2427017
Editorials
Diagnostic Pathology – after two years
Klaus Kayser
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 1. Published online 2008 January 4. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-1.
PMCID: PMC2233613
Editorial: Diagnostic Pathology continues to rise
Klaus Kayser
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 48. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-48.
PMCID: PMC2615742
Methodology
The role of immunohistochemistry in medullomyoblastoma – a case series highlighting divergent differentiation
Man Updesh S Sachdeva, Mahesha Vankalakunti, Aruna Rangan, Bishan D Radotra, Rajesh Chhabra, and Rakesh K Vasishta
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 18. Published online 2008 April 25. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-18.
PMCID: PMC2391140
Development of automated brightfield double In Situ hybridization (BDISH) application for HER2 gene and chromosome 17 centromere (CEN 17) for breast carcinomas and an assay performance comparison to manual dual color HER2 fluorescence In Situ hybridization (FISH)
Hiroaki Nitta, Beatrice Hauss-Wegrzyniak, Megan Lehrkamp, Adrian E Murillo, Fabien Gaire, Michael Farrell, Eric Walk, Frederique Penault-Llorca, Masafumi Kurosumi, Manfred Dietel, Lin Wang, Margaret Loftus, James Pettay, Raymond R Tubbs, and Thomas M Grogan
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 41. Published online 2008 October 22. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-41.
PMCID: PMC2577627
Research
Application of CD56, P63 and CK19 immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid
Dina El Demellawy, Ahmed Nasr, and Salem Alowami
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 5. Published online 2008 February 6. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-5.
PMCID: PMC2267445
CD 56 staining in liver biopsies does not help in differentiating extrahepatic biliary atresia from other causes of neonatal cholestasis
Fatemeh E Mahjoub, Reza Hadizadeh Khairkhah, Mehri Najafi Sani, Guiti Irvanloo, and Maryam Monajemzadeh
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 10. Published online 2008 March 5. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-10.
PMCID: PMC2292149
Dysregulated angiogenesis in B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia: Morphologic, immunohistochemical, and flow cytometric evidence
John L Frater, Neil E Kay, Charles L Goolsby, Susan E Crawford, Gordon W Dewald, and LoAnn C Peterson
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 16. Published online 2008 April 18. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-16.
PMCID: PMC2362108
Image standards in Tissue-Based Diagnosis (Diagnostic Surgical Pathology)
Klaus Kayser, Jürgen Görtler, Torsten Goldmann, Ekkehard Vollmer, Peter Hufnagl, and Gian Kayser
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 17. Published online 2008 April 18. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-17.
PMCID: PMC2362107
Detection of Epstein Barr Virus by Chromogenic In Situ Hybridization in cases of extra-hepatic biliary atresia
Fatemeh Mahjoub, Reza Shahsiah, Farid Azmoudeh Ardalan, Guiti Iravanloo, Mehri Najafi Sani, Abdolmajid Zarei, Maryam Monajemzadeh, Fatemeh Farahmand, and Setareh Mamishi
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 19. Published online 2008 April 28. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-19.
PMCID: PMC2424033
Is collagenase-3 (MMP-13) expression in chondrosarcoma of the jaws a true marker for tumor aggressiveness?
Manal M Zyada and Ali A Shamaa
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 26. Published online 2008 June 13. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-26.
PMCID: PMC2442587
Expression of CD56 isoforms in primary and relapsed adult granulosa cell tumors of the ovary
Hans-Ullrich Völker, Sabine Engert, Andreas Cramer, Melanie Schmidt, Ulrike Kämmerer, Hans-Konrad Müller-Hermelink, and Stefan Gattenlöhner
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 29. Published online 2008 July 9. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-29.
PMCID: PMC2474830
How do surgical pathologists evaluate critical diagnoses (critical values)?
Masoud Mireskandari
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 30. Published online 2008 July 12. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-30.
PMCID: PMC2481247
Losses of expression of the antigens A, Lea and Lex and over-expression of Ley in carcinomas and HG-SIL of the uterine cervix
Ernesto Moro-Rodríguez and Emilio Álvarez-Fernández
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 38. Published online 2008 September 11. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-38.
PMCID: PMC2551588
Virtual karyotyping with SNP microarrays reduces uncertainty in the diagnosis of renal epithelial tumors
Jill M Hagenkord, Anil V Parwani, Maureen A Lyons-Weiler, Karla Alvarez, Robert Amato, Zoran Gatalica, Jose M Gonzalez-Berjon, Leif Peterson, Rajiv Dhir, and Federico A Monzon
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 44. Published online 2008 November 6. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-44.
PMCID: PMC2588560
The significance of Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) & DNA Topoisomerase II alpha (DNA-Topo II alpha) immunoreactivity in normal oral mucosa, Oral Epithelial Dysplasia (OED) and Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC)
Ali A Shamaa, Manal M Zyada, Mathias Wagner, Sally S Awad, Mohamed M Osman, and Ali A Abdel Azeem
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 45. Published online 2008 November 20. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-45.
PMCID: PMC2611966
Reviews
Endometrial Glandular Dysplasia (EmGD): morphologically and biologically distinctive putative precursor lesions of Type II endometrial cancers
Oluwole Fadare and Wenxin Zheng
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 6. Published online 2008 February 8. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-6.
PMCID: PMC2266702
Adamantinoma: A clinicopathological review and update
Deepali Jain, Vijay K Jain, Rakesh K Vasishta, Prabhat Ranjan, and Yashwant Kumar
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 8. Published online 2008 February 15. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-8.
PMCID: PMC2276480
Histological variants of cutaneous Kaposi sarcoma
Wayne Grayson and Liron Pantanowitz
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 31. Published online 2008 July 25. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-31.
PMCID: PMC2526984
Short Reports
Solitary colonic polypoid ganglioneuroma
Isabel Maria Mendez, Teresa Pereda, Francisco Javier Rodriguez, Rafael Funez, and Andres Sanchez
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 20. Published online 2008 April 29. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-20.
PMCID: PMC2390510
Expression of nm23 in the spectrum of pre-invasive, invasive and metastatic breast lesions
Amanjit Bal, Kusum Joshi, Rajesh Logasundaram, BD Radotra, and Rajinder Singh
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 23. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-23.
PMCID: PMC2423356
Intravascular lesions of the hand
Liron Pantanowitz and Wayne H Duke
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 24. Published online 2008 May 30. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-24.
PMCID: PMC2426672
Does the radiofrequency impedance-controlled endometrial ablation have any morphologic effects on uterine leiomyomata?: Report of 3 cases
Oluwole Fadare, Sa A Wang, and Idris L Renshaw
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 28. Published online 2008 July 1. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-28.
PMCID: PMC2491603
mtDNA sequence variants in subtypes of epithelial ovarian cancer stages in relation to ethnic and age difference
Felix O Aikhionbare, Sharifeh Mehrabi, Winston Thompson, Xuebiao Yao, William Grizzle, and Edward Partridge
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 32. Published online 2008 July 28. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-32.
PMCID: PMC2494992
TKTL1 is overexpressed in a large portion of non-small cell lung cancer specimens
Holger Schultz, Daniel Kähler, Detlev Branscheid, Ekkehard Vollmer, Peter Zabel, and Torsten Goldmann
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 35. Published online 2008 August 12. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-35.
PMCID: PMC2526982
The relative test performance characteristics of two commercial assays for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in paraffin-fixed human biopsy specimens
Steven J Drews, AliReza Eshaghi, Daria Pyskir, Pam Chedore, Ernesto Lombos, George Broukhanski, Rachel Higgins, David N Fisman, Joanne Blair, and Frances Jamieson
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 37. Published online 2008 September 8. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-37.
PMCID: PMC2546368
LED-FISH: Fluorescence microscopy based on light emitting diodes for the molecular analysis of Her-2/neu oncogene amplification
Dagmar S Lang, Tobias Zeiser, Holger Schultz, Florian Stellmacher, Ekkehard Vollmer, Peter Zabel, and Torsten Goldmann
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 49. Published online 2008 December 16. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-49.
PMCID: PMC2615417
Software
Clinicopathological features and the value of differential Cytokeratin 7 and 20 expression in resolving diagnostic dilemmas of ovarian involvement by colorectal adenocarcinoma and vice-versa
Bharat Rekhi, Sophia George, Bhulaxmi Madur, RF Chinoy, Rajesh Dikshit, and Amita Maheshwari
Diagn Pathol. 2008; 3: 39. Published online 2008 September 18. doi: 10.1186/1746-1596-3-39.
PMCID: PMC2556647
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