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Virchows Archiv

Issue 1/2016

Content (16 Articles)

Editorial

In this issue

Fred T. Bosman

Open Access Review and Perspectives

Lymph vessels: the forgotten second circulation in health and disease

Lukasz A. Adamczyk, Kristiana Gordon, Ivana Kholová, Lorine B. Meijer-Jorna, Niklas Telinius, Patrick J. Gallagher, Allard C. van der Wal, Ulrik Baandrup

Original Article

Telomere length shortening in gastric mucosa is a field effect associated with increased risk of gastric cancer

Tomomitsu Tahara, Tomoyuki Shibata, Tomohiko Kawamura, Noriyuki Horiguchi, Masaaki Okubo, Naoko Nakano, Takamitsu Ishizuka, Mitsuo Nagasaka, Yoshihito Nakagawa, Naoki Ohmiya

Original Article

Immunohistochemical demonstration of EphA2 processing by MT1-MMP in invasive cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Ryoko Tatsukawa, Kaori Koga, Mikiko Aoki, Naohiko Koshikawa, Shinichi Imafuku, Juichiro Nakayama, Kazuki Nabeshima

Original Article

Mutation of genes of the PI3K/AKT pathway in breast cancer supports their potential importance as biomarker for breast cancer aggressiveness

Aggeliki Tserga, Ilenia Chatziandreou, Nicolaos V. Michalopoulos, Efstratios Patsouris, Angelica A. Saetta

Original Article

In a cohort of breast cancer screened patients the proportion of HER2 positive cases is lower than that earlier reported and pathological characteristics differ between HER2 3+ and HER2 2+/Her2 amplified cases

Silvia Giuliani, Chiara Maura Ciniselli, Elena Leonardi, Enzo Polla, Nicola Decarli, Claudio Luchini, Chiara Cantaloni, Fabio Gasperetti, Daniela Cazzolli, Gabriella Berlanda, Daniela Bernardi, Marco Pellegrini, Renza Triolo, Antonella Ferro, Paolo Verderio, Mattia Barbareschi

Original Article

Gene promoter hypermethylation is found in sentinel lymph nodes of breast cancer patients, in samples identified as positive by one-step nucleic acid amplification of cytokeratin 19 mRNA

E. Martín-Sánchez, E. Pernaut-Leza, S. Mendaza, A. Cordoba, F. Vicente-Garcia, I. Monreal-Santesteban, J. Pérez Vizcaino, M. J. Díaz De Cerio, N. Perez-Janices, I. Blanco-Luquin, D. Escors, A. Ulazia-Garmendia, D. Guerrero-Setas

Original Article

Identical TP53 mutations in pelvic carcinosarcomas and associated serous tubal intraepithelial carcinomas provide evidence of their clonal relationship

Laura Ardighieri, Luigi Mori, Sara Conzadori, Mattia Bugatti, Marcella Falchetti, Carla Maria Donzelli, Antonella Ravaggi, Franco E. Odicino, Fabio Facchetti

Original Article

“Mucin”-secreting papillary renal cell carcinoma: clinicopathological, immunohistochemical, and molecular genetic analysis of seven cases

Kristyna Pivovarcikova, Kvetoslava Peckova, Petr Martinek, Delia Perez Montiel, Kristyna Kalusova, Tomas Pitra, Milan Hora, Faruk Skenderi, Monika Ulamec, Ondrej Daum, Pavla Rotterova, Ondrej Ondic, Magdalena Dubova, Romuald Curik, Ana Dunatov, Tomas Svoboda, Michal Michal, Ondrej Hes

Original Article

Unclassified renal cell carcinoma with tubulopapillary architecture, clear cell phenotype, and chromosome 8 monosomy: a new kid on the block

Thanh T. H. Lan, Jennifer Keller-Ramey, Carrie Fitzpatrick, Sabah Kadri, Jerome B. Taxy, Jeremy P. Segal, Larissa V. Furtado, Tatjana Antic

Original Article

Expression of miR-146a, miR-155, and miR-223 in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded synovial tissues of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis

Mark Kriegsmann, Thomas M. Randau, Sascha Gravius, Katharina Lisenko, Carolin Altmann, Norbert Arens, Jörg Kriegsmann

Open Access Original Article

Postmortem CT is more accurate than clinical diagnosis for identifying the immediate cause of death in hospitalized patients: a prospective autopsy-based study

Kunihiro Inai, Sakon Noriki, Kazuyuki Kinoshita, Toyohiko Sakai, Hirohiko Kimura, Akihiko Nishijima, Hiromichi Iwasaki, Hironobu Naiki

Brief Report

Primary pulmonary clear cell sarcoma—the first two reported cases

Giap Hean Goh, Ming Teh, Tomas Vanecek, Cesar Moran, Fredrik Petersson

Letter to the Editor

HOXB13 expression in metastatic prostate cancer

Valeria Barresi, Antonio Ieni, Luca Reggiani Bonetti, Giovanni Tuccari

Letter to the Editor

HOXB13 expression in metastatic prostate cancer

Justine Varinot, Eva Comperat