Virchows Archiv

In this issue

Unlocking the lockdown of science and demystifying COVID-19: how autopsies contribute to our understanding of a deadly pandemic

Alexandar Tzankov, Danny Jonigk

Germany’s first COVID-19 deceased: a 59-year-old man presenting with diffuse alveolar damage due to SARS-CoV-2 infection

Fabian Heinrich, Jan-Peter Sperhake, Axel Heinemann, Herbert Mushumba, Maximilian Lennartz, Dominik Nörz, Markus Glatzel, Marc Lütgehetmann, Klaus Püschel

Feasibility of postmortem examination in the era of COVID-19 pandemic: the experience of a Northeast Italy University Hospital

Cristina Basso, Fiorella Calabrese, Marta Sbaraglia, Claudia Del Vecchio, Giovanni Carretta, Annamaria Saieva, Daniele Donato, Luciano Flor, Andrea Crisanti, Angelo Paolo Dei Tos

The evolution of pulmonary pathology in fatal COVID-19 disease: an autopsy study with clinical correlation

Hans Bösmüller, Selina Traxler, Michael Bitzer, Helene Häberle, Wolfgang Raiser, Dominik Nann, Leonie Frauenfeld, Antonio Vogelsberg, Karin Klingel, Falko Fend

Pulmonary pathology and COVID-19: lessons from autopsy. The experience of European Pulmonary Pathologists

Fiorella Calabrese, Federica Pezzuto, Francesco Fortarezza, Paul Hofman, Izidor Kern, Angel Panizo, Jan von der Thüsen, Sergei Timofeev, Gregor Gorkiewicz, Francesca Lunardi

Pleuropulmonary blastoma type I and congenital pulmonary airway malformation type 4: distinct entities or sides of the same coin?

Giulio Rossi

Pleuropulmonary blastoma type I might arise in congenital pulmonary airway malformation type 4 by acquiring a Dicer 1 mutation

Luka Brcic, Fabian Fakler, Sylvia Eidenhammer, Andrea Thueringer, Karl Kashofer, Janina Kulka, Helmut Popper

Got nerve? Autonomic innervation of the human liver

Romil Saxena

Innervation of the proximal human biliary tree

Antonela Zanchi, Jason Reidy, Henry J. Feldman, John Qualter, Annette S. Gouw, Jon Osbeck, Alex Kofman, Charles Balabaud, Paulette Bioulac-Sage, Dina G. Tiniakos, Neil D. Theise

MAML2 rearrangement as a useful diagnostic marker discriminating between Warthin tumour and Warthin-like mucoepidermoid carcinoma

Michał Bieńkowski, Michał Kunc, Mariola Iliszko, Alina Kuźniacka, Michał Studniarek, Wojciech Biernat

Tumor infiltrative growth pattern correlates with the immune microenvironment and is an independent factor for lymph node metastasis and prognosis in stage T1 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Yuanyuan Zhao, Enwei Xu, Xuanqin Yang, Yong Zhang, Hong Chen, Ying Wang, Mulan Jin

Prognostic significance of mesothelin expression in colorectal cancer disclosed by area-specific four-point tissue microarrays

Takehiro Shiraishi, Eiji Shinto, Ines P. Nearchou, Hitoshi Tsuda, Yoshiki Kajiwara, Takahiro Einama, Peter D. Caie, Yoji Kishi, Hideki Ueno

Correlation of high LAT1 expression with the prognosis of endometrioid carcinoma of the uterine corpus

Kimiya Sato, Morikazu Miyamoto, Masashi Takano, Hitoshi Tsuda

Chemotherapy-associated foam cell aggregates as a prognostic factor in patients with pelvic high-grade serous carcinoma receiving neo-adjuvant chemotherapy

Naoki Kojima, Ikumi Kuno, Takeshi Ushigusa, Tomoyasu Kato, Hiroshi Yoshida

Classic Hodgkin lymphoma and Castleman disease: an entity appears to be emerging

Kirill A. Lyapichev, M. James You, Francisco Vega, Luisa M. Solis, L. Jeffrey Medeiros

Comparative genomic profiling of glandular bladder tumours

Angela Maurer, Nadina Ortiz-Bruechle, Karolina Guricova, Michael Rose, Ronja Morsch, Stefan Garczyk, Robert Stöhr, Simone Bertz, Reinhard Golz, Henning Reis, Felix Bremmer, Annette Zimpfer, Sabine Siegert, Glen Kristiansen, Kristina Schwamborn, Nikolaus Gassler, Ruth Knuechel, Nadine T. Gaisa

Novel CTNNB1-USP6 fusion in intravascular fasciitis of the large vein identified by next-generation sequencing

Ya Lu, Xin He, Yan Qiu, Huijiao Chen, Hua Zhuang, Jin Yao, Hongying Zhang

Primary biliary adenosarcoma of the liver—a special and new entity

Rui Caetano Oliveira, Luigi Terracciano, Maria Augusta Cipriano

Pulmonary arterial thrombosis as an important complication of COVID-19 pulmonary disease: letter to the editor

Sigurd F. Lax, Kristijan Skok, Michael Trauner

Correction to: Novel CTNNB1-USP6 fusion in intravascular fasciitis of the large vein identified by next-generation sequencing

Ya Lu, Xin He, Yan Qiu, Huijiao Chen, Hua Zhuang, Jin Yao, Hongying Zhang

Memorial tribute Juan Rosai (1940–2020)