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Cystic endocrine tumor of the pancreas with an atypical multilocular appearance
A 46-year-old woman with epigastric pain was found to have a cystic tumor in the pancreas head on radiological examinations. The tumor was hypervascular, and its multilocular appearance resembled the “honeycom...
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Primary gastric choriocarcinoma: two case reports and a pooled analysis of 53 cases
Primary gastric choriocarcinoma (PGC) is a rare tumor. In total, approximately 140 cases of PGC have been reported in the international medical literature. However, the clinical behavior, tumor characteristics...
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Hyaluronan synthase expression in pleural malignant mesotheliomas
Hyaluronan (HA) is thought to play several important roles in tumor growth, tumorigenicity, and tumor dissemination and metastasis. Recently, three isoforms of hyaluronan synthase (HAS) have been cloned. Our o...
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Long-Term Survival Achieved by Repeated Resections of Metachronous Pulmonary and Adrenal Metastases of α-Fetoprotein-Producing Gastric Cancer: Report of a Case
We report a case of long-term survival achieved by repeated resections of metastases from α-fetoprotein (AFP)-producing gastric cancer. A 59-year-old man initially underwent total gastrectomy with lymph node d...
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Prognostic significance of the intra-vessel tumor characteristics of invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast: a prospective study
Invasive ductal carcinomas (IDCs) of the breast are composed of stroma-invasive tumors and tumors in vessels. The purpose of this study was to prospectively investigate whether the histological characteristics...
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Proliferative activities of tumor stromal cells play important roles in tumor thickness and progression of T3 ulcerative-type colorectal cancer
The central depressed area thickness (tumor thickness) of colorectal cancers is an important prognostic parameter for colorectal cancer patients. We examined whether the proliferative activities of tumor and s...
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Invasive carcinoma derived from intraductal papillary-mucinous carcinoma of the pancreas: clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of eight cases
Most intraductal papillary-mucinous carcinomas (IPMCs) of the pancreas are resectable and curable, but some develop into frankly invasive carcinomas. We studied the clinicopathologic features of eight cases o...
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Macroscopic ty** with wall stricture sign may reflect tumor behaviors of advanced colorectal cancers
No appropriate macroscopic classification of advanced colorectal cancers (A-CRC) is available for assessing their tumor behavior. In the present study, A-CRC were classified macroscopically as either strictur...
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Signet ring cell carcinoma associated with invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast: A case report
A signet ring cell carcinoma (SRCC) associated with invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) of the breast occurred in a 52-year-old woman. She was admitted in December 1994 for investigation of a palpable right breast...
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The fibrotic focus in advanced colorectal carcinoma: a hitherto unrecognized histological predictor for liver metastasis
A fibrotic focus (FF) is a clearly defined area consisting of fibroblasts and/or collagen fibres arranged in irregular or storiform patterns within tumours. We looked to see whether FF in advanced colorectal ...
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Fibrotic focus in infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast: A significant histopathological prognostic parameter for predicting the long-term survival of the patients
The presence of fibratic fows (FF) in infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC) has been shown to be an important histological factor associated with high tumor aggressiveness, or early tumor recurrence or death. Ho...
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Malignant phyllodes tumour with a noninvasive ductal carcinoma component
A malignant phyllodes tumour with a noninvasive ductal carcinoma component is reported. The patient was an 80-year-old Japanese woman with a breast tumour detected by routine physical examination. A simple ma...
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Histological prognostic parameters for adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head. Proposal for a scoring system for prediction of outcome
To find new histopathological prognostic parameters for adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head, 27 of these carcinomas, at stage IV according to the Japan Pancreas Society, which had been curatively resected, w...
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Cholangiocarcinoma arising in bile duct adenoma with focal area of bile duct hamartoma
A 59-year-old male with history of sigmoid colon cancer had a high serum-CEA level and was referred for the evaluation of metastatic liver disease. Ultrasonography and computerized tomography showed two tumour...
