Choroid plexus papillomas (CPPs) are usually not malignant and occur in less than 1% of brain tumors in patients of all ages. They represent 3% of childhood intracranial neoplasms with a predilection in younger ages. ...

“Columnar cell lesions” is a general descriptive term referring to disparate lesions having in common cells with a columnar configuration but not necessarily identical histologic or biologic characteristics. Within this ...

The expression of sex hormone receptors in some tumors suggests a role for these receptors in tumor pathogenesis and therapy. Previous studies of the expression of estrogen and progesterone receptors in salivary gland ...

AIM: To investigate the influence of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) exposure on the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) gastritis and intestinal metaplasia. METHODS: Chronic PPI use is associated with masking ...

Lymphatic vessel endothelial hyaluronan receptor (LYVE)-1 is thought to be restricted to lymph vessels and has been used as such to show that tumor lymphangiogenesis occurs on overexpression of lymphangiogenic factors in ...

BACKGROUND Cervical cytologic specimens that show a low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL) occasionally contain a few cells that are suspicious for, but not diagnostic of, a high-grade squamous intraepithelial ...

• Gene expression profiling has been increasingly used to determine new cancer markers. This technology holds major promises for improving the management of patients with breast cancer in which traditional clinicopathologic ...