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We report an unusual choroid plexus carcinoma with extensive oncocytic transformation. A 13-month-old girl presented with acute lethargy which quickly progressed to coma. A CT scan of the head revealed impending herniation due to hemorrhage within an intracranial tumor. An MRI scan showed a large, p...
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PMID: 20040328
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We designed, synthesized, and tested a novel molecular probe, in which the antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (ASODN) was labeled with superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO), and its efficiency was examined by in vitro MR imaging after SK-Br-3 mammary carcinoma cell lines (oncocytes) transfection. The SPIO...
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PMID: 19337837
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Sialolipoma and lipoadenoma with or without oncocytosis and/or sebaceous differentiation should be considered organ-specific tumors with a distinct histological appearance and specific terminology....
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PMID: 19679967
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A 42-year-old patient had a stage III ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinoma with areas of hepatoid carcinoma (HC) of clear cell and eosinophilic pseudoglandular type that was difficult to differentiate from endometrioid carcinoma of oxyphilic type and sex cord-stromal tumor. Immunohist...
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PMID: 18753970
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We prepared the SPIO-labeled ASODN probe successfully. It can effectively transfect SK-Br3 oncocyte and enter SK-Br3 oncocyte, and thus reduce the signal intension in MRI....
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PMID: 19024385
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Oncocytic cytology is seen in a variety of thyroid conditions that are associated with a broad differential diagnosis and care must be used for accurate diagnosis. Newer molecular-based techniques may be useful for further classification of thyroid neoplasms with oncocytic pathology....
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PMID: 18684023
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We report 2 cases of this rare entity with emphasis on the diagnostic histomorphological features. The cases are also distinctive, in that they have an epithelial lining, which is oncocytic throughout. One of our cases was detected in an 8-year-old male child, which is itself a rarity....
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PMID: 18573791
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An oncocyte is a cell containing an abundant amount of deeply eosinophilic finely granular cytoplasm, rounded nuclei, and variable presence of nucleoli in conventional hematoxylin-eosin-stained sections. In the head and neck, a small number of lesions are constructed overwhelmingly of oncocytes; a l...
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PMID: 18486901
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An association was found between calcitriol and/or cinacalcet therapy and a high prevalence of nodular hyperplasia, and between cinacalcet therapy and high oxyphil/chief cell ratio. The meaning of the observed associations remains uncertain....
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PMID: 18322048
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Both adenoma weight and oxyphil cell content were found to significantly correlate with positive sestamibi scan results. In patients with high-weight adenomas, adenoma weight was the most significant factor in obtaining positive MIBI scan results, whereas in patients with low adenoma weights, high o...
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PMID: 18082541
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AFM is ideal for morphological observation and for analyzing the molecular structure of synthesized c-erbB2 oncogene antisense probes....
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PMID: 18253092
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There is a statistically significant difference in the expression of p16, p21, cyclin D1, and cyclin E between DTCs and benign thyroid lesions, and p16 expression correlates with clinicopathologic variables predicting poor outcomes for DTC. These results suggest that evaluation of cell cycle derange...
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PMID: 17882495
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We investigated the expression of RET, RAS, and ERK proteins in oxyphil cells in the vicinity of large lymphoid HT infiltrates and in malignant PTC cells. BRAF and N-RAS missense mutations were also examined in oxyphil cells of the HT. We used 47 PTC samples with no HT diagnosis, 28 PTC with HT, 39...
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PMID: 17900235
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Giuseppe Gasparre,
Anna Maria Porcelli,
Elena Bonora,
Lucia Fiammetta Pennisi,
Matteo Toller,
Luisa Iommarini,
Anna Ghelli,
Massimo Moretti,
Christine M Betts,
Giuseppe Nicola Martinelli,
Alberto Rinaldi Ceroni,
Francesco Curcio,
Valerio Carelli,
Michela Rugolo,
Giovanni Tallini and
Giovanni Romeo
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We sequenced the entire mtDNA in 50 oncocytic lesions (45 thyroid tumors of epithelial cell derivation and 5 mitochondrion-rich breast tumors) and 52 control cases (21 nononcocytic thyroid tumors, 15 breast carcinomas, and 16 gliomas) by using recently developed technology that allows specific and r...
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PMID: 17517629
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PA cells showed the typical immunohistochemical profile, including positivity for Ck5/6, Ck8/18, Ck14, vimentin, ASMA, S100 protein, p63, epidermal growth factor receptor and beta-catenin, whereas oncocytic cells showed a luminal phenotype, expression of anti-mitochondria antibody and reduced beta-c...
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PMID: 16467165
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We describe a patient with simultaneous bilateral involvement of the parotid glands and neck by multiple Warthin's tumours, an occurrence not previously described....
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PMID: 16207506
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Galectin-3 expression was found in 29% follicular adenoma (FA), 26% Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT), and in 24% nodular goitre (NG). We found a statistically significant relationship between the presence of macrophages and galectin-3 positivity in NG and HT samples (P < 0.0001 and P = 0.0087 respectively...
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PMID: 17397496
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We report a 55-year-old man with oncocytic schneiderian papilloma confined to the sphenoid sinus, which was initially detected by positron emission tomography with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG-PET) at a very early stage. Based on CT and MRI findings, we suspected that the tumor was most likely benign...
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PMID: 17432078
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BACKGROUND: Multifocal nodular oncocytic hyperplasia (MNOH) is a rare lesion of the parotid gland. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in MNOH has not been described previously to the best of our knowledge. CASE: A 55-year-old woman presented with a lump at the left angle of her mouth for 2 month...
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PMID: 17718138
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We report a case of sclerosing polycystic adenosis in a 45-year-old white woman....
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PMID: 16054736
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We present a case of oncocytic adrenocortical carcinoma in a 25-year-old man who presented with persistent hypertension, hypokalemia, and a large right adrenal mass. Clinical workup revealed increased serum aldosterone level, suppressed serum ACTH level and high 24-h urine cortisol. Histologically t...
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PMID: 18058268
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The presence of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid in multiple generations of one kindred is a statistical impossibility as an occurrence of chance. However, traditional and molecular genetic analyses to date have failed to support the notion of a single gene mutation or identify one, in distinct con...
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PMID: 17131396
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Present study results suggest that MIBI scintigraphy was clearly superior to US as a diagnostic tool. However, P-gp expression, oxyphilic cell content, and tumoral volume may have not a main effect on MIBI parathyroid scintigraphy results in parathyroid adenoma....
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PMID: 17257073
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Data in the presented cases did not confirm a previously described propensity to aggressiveness in this meningioma subtype. In fact, the histological features as well as the long-term favorable clinical course may suggest benign behavior of such neoplasms, as in the common forms of meningiomas....
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PMID: 17121136
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We investigated whether pathologists consistently interpret FNA specimens from these lesions. In the present study, 22 FNA specimens that showed Hürthle cells as the predominant cell type were reviewed by 7 pathologists. Cytologic features were assessed semiquantitatively. IV was calculated, and in...
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PMID: 16938664
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The changes in these cells differ from those described previously in endocrine cells encountered in pretreated rectal cancers. Oncocytic change in this particular clinical context occurs as a reflection of cytotoxic damage or cellular hypoxia induced by chemoradiation resulting in degeneration of th...
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PMID: 16467161
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Oxyphil cell predominance within an adenoma augments technetium Tc 99m sestamibi scan sensitivity in a statistically significant manner. The use of technetium Tc 99m sestamibi preoperative localization may therefore be differentially greater in patients with these types of lesions....
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PMID: 16847189
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We report the clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, and interphase cytogenetic features of 12 papillary RCC composed by oncocytes. Ten patients were males and their median age was 67 years. The tumors were well demarcated and their median diameter was 7.1 cm. Solid oncocytoma-like...
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PMID: 16730306
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In the current study of 139 FNAB specimens of thyroid Hurthle cell nodules, 14 cytologic features were examined and 6 were found to be statistically significant in identifying HCN. The following four features, when found in combination, were found to be highly predictive of HCN: nonmacrofollicular a...
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PMID: 16453320
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This review aims to describe and assist in the categorization of most of the unusual non-neoplastic conditions, encountered in the surgical pathology of the thyroid. The conditions included are: normal intrathyroidal vestigial tissues/structures (i.e. rests of the ultimobranchial body and thyrogloss...
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PMID: 16929786
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The purpose of the study is to highlight oncocytic modifications in rectal adenocarcinomas and evaluate a possible correlation with preoperative radiochemotherapy (RCT). Twenty-eight cases of advanced rectal carcinoma, treated preoperatively by 5-fluorouracil (200-225 mg/m(2)) and 44-46 Gy in 22-23...
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PMID: 16365727
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We present a case of laryngeal oncocytic cysts presenting as bilateral laryngoceles and surgical emphysema of the neck. Although there is a rare, but well-documented association of laryngoceles with laryngeal carcinoma, coexistence with another laryngeal pathology is less well reported.
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PMID: 16362263
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Neoplastic disease accounts for two thirds of the pathology in patients with a predominance of Hürthle cells on FNAB specimen and neither clinical nor cytologic features reliably exclude Hürthle cell adenoma or carcinoma. As a result, thyroidectomy is recommended for all patients with a thyroid no...
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PMID: 16269293
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The CIs were present in 36 (30.0%) of HT, 26 (34.2%) of neoplastic goitres, 3 (27.3%) of HN, and 4 (4.0%) colloid goitres. As compared to colloid goitres, CIs were present in a significant higher number of cases in HN (P = 0.0202), neoplastic goitres (P < 0.0001), and HT (P < 0.0001). Among neoplasm...
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PMID: 16181309
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We preferred a close follow-up to an elective neck dissection, and reserved the neck dissection for a recurrence. The prognosis of oncocytic carcinomas is not well known because of their low incidence. Further investigation of the prognosis of patients with oncocytic carcinoma of the parotid gland i...
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PMID: 15592856
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We present clinical, morphological, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural and molecular genetic features of 20 cases of a peculiar form of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (CRCC) with morphology differing from that of conventional CRCC. Microscopically, the typical features of the tumors were microcy...
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PMID: 15756595
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We report 2 previously undescribed morphological variants of pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN). The first variant with an intestinal phenotype was associated with mucinous carcinomas that occurred in the tail of the pancreas of 2 men (60 and 65 years old). The carcinomas lacked the charac...
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PMID: 15806512
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We have previously shown that the epitope H is present in more than one polypeptide and in various types of normal and pathological cells. In the present study, we focused on mitochondria-rich normal, metaplastic, and neoplastic cells, prompted by our recent immuno-electron microscopy findings that...
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PMID: 15991839
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A malignant melanoma was diagnosed in an axillary lymph node of a 49-year-old man. The tumor was examined by electron microscopy and was found to be composed of large oncocytic cells, filled with abundant mitochondria. No primary tumor could be identified on the skin or within internal organs. Appro...
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PMID: 16257866
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Hürthle cell papillary thyroid carcinoma is a variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Its pathologic and clinical significance has not been well documented. The authors studied the relative incidence of Hürthle cell PTC and the relationship of Hürthle cell PTC to other variants of thyroid c...
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PMID: 15536332
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A strong relationship between volume of the parathyroid gland, serum parathyroid hormone levels, and MIBI uptake exists in primary hyperparathyroidism. Gamma probe-guided localization of abnormal gland(s) can be more successful if surgery is undertaken at maximum uptake ratio. High Pgp expression in...
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PMID: 15545562
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We report a case of diffuse hyperplastic oncocytosis of the parotid gland in a 63-year-old male with a brief review of literature. To the best of our knowledge this is the first case from Indian subcontinent....
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PMID: 16295393
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Surgery is indicated for all nodular lesions with more than 50% Hürthle cells in FNAC....
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PMID: 15296995
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We suggest that most oncocytic adrenocortical carcinomas might be low-grade malignancies with less aggressive histological features compared with conventional carcinomas. However, they should be excised completely because of the likelihood of recurrence and metastasis during the follow-up period....
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PMID: 15260851
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We studied Ron protein expression by immunohistochemistry in a larger number of renal cell neoplasms with emphasis on chromophobe renal cell carcinomas. Tissue microarrays containing 141 renal cell neoplasms, including 55 oncocytomas and 52 chromophobe renal cell carcinomas, were constructed. In add...
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PMID: 15252311
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