Journal ArticleBMJ Case Rep · August 1, 2018
Adenoid cystic carcinomas (ACCs) are rare malignant neoplasms of exocrine glands, most commonly found in salivary glands. This report describes a 67-year-old woman with metastatic ACC to the breast, only the third reported case of its kind. The salivary gl ...
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Journal ArticleMol Carcinog · November 2013
Crk-Like (CRKL) is an adapter protein that has crucial roles in multiple biological processes, including cell proliferation, adhesion, and migration. Amplification of CRKL gene was found in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, the expression patter ...
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Journal ArticleBMC Cancer · August 2, 2013
BACKGROUND: We previously reported that Axin1 (Axin) is down-regulated in many cases of lung cancer, and X-ray irradiation increased Axin expression and inhibited lung cancer cells. The mechanisms, however, were not clear. METHODS: Four lung cancer cell li ...
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Journal ArticleArch Pathol Lab Med · June 2013
B-cell lymphomas, such as low-grade follicular lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma, can transform to histiocytic/dendritic cell sarcoma (H/DS) in rare cases. The diagnosis of this unconventional neoplastic evolution relies ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Forensic Med Pathol · December 2012
Undiagnosed neoplasms in childhood are rare causes of sudden and unexpected death. Deaths due to undiagnosed hematologic malignancies are limited to a small number of case reports. The following case of acute leukemia was diagnosed at forensic autopsy in a ...
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Journal ArticleHum Pathol · November 2012
Dutcher bodies have been described in lymphoid neoplasms with plasmacytic differentiation, including plasma cell myeloma, lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, and marginal zone lymphoma. We report a pathologic study of 3 cases of follicular lymphoma with extensive ...
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Journal ArticleTumour Biol · October 2012
Ezrin, one of the ezrin-radixin-moesin proteins, is involved in the formation of cell membrane processes such as lamellipodia and filopodia and acts as a membrane-cytoskeleton linker. Its aberrant expression correlates with development and progression of s ...
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Journal ArticleArch Pathol Lab Med · July 2012
Systemic mastocytosis (SM) is a heterogeneous disease with 6 subtypes, including systemic mastocytosis with associated clonal hematologic nonmast cell lineage disease (SM-AHNMD). Bone marrow biopsy specimens show multifocal aggregates of mast cells with pr ...
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Journal ArticleHum Pathol · July 2012
Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia and plasma cell myeloma are both mature B-cell neoplasms primarily involving bone marrow and frequently demonstrating paraproteinemia. Plasma cell myeloma has been described in association with other indolent B-cell lymphomas, ...
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Journal ArticleLeuk Lymphoma · May 2012
While the majority of patients with early-stage mycosis fungoides (MF) have an excellent prognosis, a few cases progress to secondary Sezary syndrome (sSS), which carries a dismal clinical outcome. We retrospectively analyzed 135 cases of MF/SS and correla ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2012
P120-catenin (p120ctn) exerts important roles in regulating E-cadherin and invasiveness in cancer cells. However, the mechanisms by which p120ctn isoforms 1 and 3 modulate E-cadherin expression are poorly understood. In the current study, HBE, H460, SPC an ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2012
BACKGROUND: The different mechanisms involved in p120-catenin (p120ctn) isoforms' 1/3 regulation of cell cycle progression are still not elucidated to date. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We found that both cyclin D1 and cyclin E could be effectively restored by re ...
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Journal ArticlePathol Res Pract · August 15, 2011
ALK-positive anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALK+ ALCL) is an uncommon non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of T-cell origin, the majority of which express CD4 and show frequent pan-T-cell antigen loss. While most cases of ALK+ ALCL have the common pattern characterized ...
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Journal ArticleGynecol Oncol Case Rep · 2011
► Patients diagnosed with granulosa cell tumor require long-term surveillance. ► Recurrent granulosa cell tumor may present as spontaneous retroperitoneal hemorrhage. ► We present an unusual case of recurrent granulosa cell tumor resulting in retroperitone ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Dermatopathol · July 2010
Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) is comprised of a spectrum of lymphoid diseases, ranging from early lesions, such as plasmacytic hyperplasia, to monomorphic neoplasms, including plasmacytoma-like lesions. Although PTLD may involve a vari ...
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Journal ArticleInt J Hematol · April 2010
We report the first case of primary mediastinal large B cell lymphoma (PMBL) with aberrant expression of CD3. PMBL is a subtype of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and usually presents with bulky mediastinal lesions. Lineage ambiguity/infidelity is un ...
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