OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of Diagnostic Pathology is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Association of ZEB1 and Vimentin with poor prognosis in metaplastic breast cancer	45
Reliability of negative cone specimens of the cervix: A review	24
Small cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder: Distinctive cytological characteristics and Cyto-histologic correlation	21
Editorial Board	18
The prognostic significance of growth pattern, tumor budding, poorly differentiated clusters, desmoplastic reaction pattern and tumor-stroma ratio in colorectal cancer and an evaluation of their relat	17
Corrigendum to “Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and intestinal disorders: An observational study” [Ann Diagn Pathol 62 (2023) 152072]	17
Role of histopathology in severity assessments of post-COVID-19 rhino-orbital cerebral mucormycosis - A case-control study	16
Clinicopathological evaluation of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis patients: A retrospective analysis from a tertiary care hospital in Turkey	15
Evaluation of the recently established Dutch nationwide Archipelago of Ovarian Cancer Research biobank	14
Histology and clinical correlations in autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, and autoimmune hepatitis-primary biliary cholangitis overlap syndrome	14
The differential expression of toll like receptors and RIG-1 correlates to the severity of infectious diseases	14
study: A retrospective analysis of 111 livary gland tumors of ung and racheobronchial ree	13
Florid cemento-osseous dysplasia-related osteonecrosis: A series of cases	13
German pathology professor Philipp Schwartz: His enduring life from Frankfurt to Istanbul during the Second World War era: A “forgotten savior”	13
Differential diagnosis of gastric low- and high grade dysplasia using C6orf15 protein	13
Epstein-Barr virus latency patterns in polymorphic lymphoproliferative disorders and lymphomas in immunodeficiency settings: Diagnostic implications	13
Is mediastinal fine needle aspiration cytology required or redundant? A single institution-based correlation study with core needle biopsy	11
Paraganglioma of the cauda equina: A clinicopathologic study of 12 cases with demonstration of cytokeratin positivity	11
Prognostic implications of synaptophysin, CD56, thyroid transcription factor-1, and Ki-67 in pulmonary high-grade neuroendocrine carcinomas	11
Primary intraosseous Rosai-Dorfman disease: Clinicopathological features and an assessment of a possible relationship with IgG4-related disease	11
Evaluation of the diagnostic utility of NCOA3, Maspin and VHL protein expression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: An immunohistochemical study	11
Immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence utilization audit by subspecialty in an academic setting: A step toward stewardship	11
Orbital masses as a rare presentation of Rosai-Dorfman disease: Clinicopathologic characterization of five cases	11
MALT lymphoma of the tongue: An unusual site that may present a diagnostic challenge	11
Primary thymic neuroblastomas in adults: A clinicopathological and immunohistochemical study of three cases	11

Score system for cytological evaluation of fine-needle aspiration specimens to predict the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinomas	10
Infantile fibrosarcoma with an EGFR kinase domain duplication: Underlining a close relationship with congenital mesoblastic nephroma and highlighting a similar morphological spectrum	10
Histopathologic evaluation of gastric intestinal metaplasia in non-neoplastic biopsy specimens: Accuracy and interobserver reliability among general pathologists and pathology residents	10
Nivolumab induced pulmonary sarcoid-like granulomas with a concurrent pleural schwannoma: A pathologic-radiologic correlation of a rare condition mimicking metastatic melanoma	10
Diagnostic immunohistochemistry use in Belgian laboratories	10
Retrospective study of the clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic factors of gastrointestinal stromal tumors in Chinese patients	10
Clinicopathological characteristics and outcomes in embryonal tumor with multilayered rosettes: A decade long experience from a tertiary care centre in North India	10
The “toxic” personality in pathology: An opinion	10
GPNMB expression differentiates subependymal giant cell astrocytoma from other mimickers	10
Response to letter to the editor	10
INSM1 is a useful neuroendocrine marker to differentiate pancreatic serous cystadenoma from pancreatic well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors in cytology and surgical specimens	9
Challenges and limitation of MTAP immunohistochemistry in diagnosing desmoplastic mesothelioma/sarcomatoid pleural mesothelioma with desmoplastic features	9
Brachyury expression is highly specific for chordoma: A tissue microarray study involving 14,976 cancers from 135 different tumor types and subtypes	9
Histological subtype is associated with PD-L1 expression and CD8+ T-cell infiltrates in triple-negative breast carcinoma	9
“Growing fibroadenoma”: Are there clinical and pathological features predicting a phyllodes tumor on surgical excision?	9
Prognostic role of the number of resected and negative lymph nodes in Spanish patients with gastric cancer	9
The effect that pathologic and radiologic interpretation of invasive and non-invasive areas in lung adenocarcinoma has on T-stage and treatment	9
Malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor: Cytologic, histologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular pitfalls	9
Clinicopathological analysis of a type of “low grade” poorly cohesive gastric adenocarcinoma not otherwise specified with a good prognosis	8
Pathologic patterns of invasive carcinoma associated with intraductal papillary neoplasms of bile duct (IPNB)	8
The topographical distribution of lymph node metastases in colon cancer resections	8
Invasive urothelial carcinoma with squamous differentiation and associated high-risk human papilloma virus infection: Clinical, cytologic, and histologic features of a rare entity	8
Pitfalls and considerations in the diagnosis of Hirschsprung's disease: A focus on pathological assessment	8
Validation of whole slide imaging for frozen section diagnosis of lymph node metastasis: A retrospective study from a tertiary care hospital in Thailand	8
Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma: A challenging case arising in a young man with radiation exposure	8
Morphological and immunohistochemical characteristics associated with metastatic and recurrent progression in pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma: A cohort study	8
Beethoven's triad: Diarrhoea, deafness and cirrhosis. A plausible solution to the 195-year-old controversy	7
Quantitative histology as a diagnostic tool for celiac disease in children and adolescents	7
Digital image analysis of Ki67 hotspot detection and index counting in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms	7
Prognostic value of CD44 expression in oral squamous cell carcinoma: A meta-analysis	7
A novel histologic index for polyomavirus nephropathy in comparison with the Banff scoring system: Clinical validation, prognostic implication, and correlation with plasma viral load	7
Influence of luminal and basal subtype in prognosis of high-grade non muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma	7
Pathological features of pyloric gland adenoma of the gallbladder in comparison with gastric subtype of intracholecystic papillary neoplasm	7
Transitional cell metaplasia of the uterine cervix: A histopathological and immunohistochemical analysis suggesting a possible role of androgenic conversion during urothelial-like differentiation in p	7
Next-generation sequencing has diagnostic utility in challenging small/flat urothelial lesions	7
PCR-based analysis of PD-L1 RNA expression in lung cancer: comparison with commonly used immunohistochemical assays	7
The expression of programmed death-ligand 1 and programmed death-ligand 2 in endometrial carcinosarcoma: Correlation with mismatch repair protein expression status, tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte infil	7
Clinicopathological characteristics of placental chorioangioma: A clinicopathological study of 77 cases	7
Combined expression of HIF1α, VEGF and HER2 predicts metastasis, relapse and response to combination chemotherapy in colorectal cancer patients	7
Detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) in malignant melanoma	7
Findings other than age that help identify possible cases of non-invasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with nuclear characteristics of the papillary carcinoma type	6
Cyto-histologic correlation of crystal-storing histiocytosis: Rare presentation in breast, predating diagnosis of B-cell lymphoma by two years	6
Appendiceal inflammation in colectomy is independently correlated with early pouchitis following ileal pouch anal anastomosis in ulcerative colitis and indeterminate colitis	6
Leiomyosarcoma of the urinary bladder: A SEER database study and comparison to leiomyosarcomas of the uterus and extremities/trunk	6
In-memoriam: Ondrej Hes, M.D. (1968–2022)	6
Amendments in surgical pathology reports: An 8-year institutional experience	6
Cytomorphological changes in thyroid nodules induced by radiofrequency ablation therapy: Emphasis on recurrent papillary thyroid carcinoma	6
Intraoperative pathologic diagnosis of central nervous system lymphomas: A comparison of frozen and permanent section diagnoses, and the significance of preoperative imaging	6
Cyril Toker, M.D. (1930–2015): Master surgical pathologist	6
Clinicopathological analysis of recurrence and progression of low-grade papillary urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder: Predicting the outcome	6

Editorial Board	6
From the archives of MD Anderson Cancer Center: Plasmablastic lymphoma presenting as a kidney mass in an immunocompetent patient: Case report and literature review	6
Evaluation of tubulin β-3 and 5 hydroxy-methyl cytosine as diagnostic and prognostic markers in malignant melanoma	6
The prognostic significance of non-lymphoid immune cells of the tumor microenvironment, including neutrophils, eosinophils, and mast cells in breast carcinomas	6
Biphasic squamoid alveolar renal cell carcinoma: Cytologic features of a rare entity	6
The differential immune response in mild versus fatal SARS-CoV2 infection	6
Paravertebral fibrous pseudotumor: Four cases of a distinctive tumefactive lesion overlapping with eosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis and tumoral erythema elevatum diutinum	6
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1ɑ) in lacrimal gland Adenoid cystic carcinoma: Correlation with clinical outcome	5
Some concerns about the prognostic significance of non-lymphoid immune cells of the tumor microenvironment in breast carcinomas	5
Discordance in receptor status between primary and metastatic breast cancer and overall survival: A single-center analysis	5
Fibrous hamartoma of infancy. Radiologic-pathologic study of 21 cases: 8 with predominant pseudoangiomatous pattern	5
Primary Ewing sarcoma of the lung: A systematic review of the recent literature	5
Clinicopathological features of differentiated thyroid carcinoma as predictors of the effects of radioactive iodine therapy	5
Clinical and pathological characteristics of metastatic tumors to the urinary bladder	5
Atypical fibroxanthoma and pleomorphic dermal sarcoma: Is superficial infiltration in subcutaneous tissue acceptable in AFX?	5
Expression of CD25, mast cell markers and T-cell markers in eosinophilic esophagitis	5
Superficial myofibroblastoma of the lower female genital tract: A clinicopathological analysis of 15 cases	5
From the archives of MD Anderson Cancer Center Castleman disease involving the thymus gland: Case report and literature review	5
A retrospective analysis of the diagnostic accuracy and technical quality of frozen sections in detecting hepatobiliary lesions	5
The spectrum of cytological findings in patients with BCG lymphadenitis: A series of 13 cases	5
Annals of diagnostic pathology in 2023 and beyond: The next chapter. [Editorial]	5
From the archives of MD Anderson Cancer Center. Mesothelial/monocytic incidental cardiac excrescence with a review of the literature	5
Histologic, viral, and molecular correlates of heart disease in fatal COVID-19	5
Correlation of large cribriform carcinoma and “unfavorable histology” with other Gleason pattern 4 subtypes: A proof-of-principle study evaluating 485 radical prostatectomy specimens with proposal for	5
Castleman disease-type histopathological patterns of lymph nodes in patients with plasma cell neoplasia and POEMS syndrome	5
Immunoexpression of HSPA9 and CUL2 in prostatic tissue and adenocarcinoma	5
HER2 testing in metastatic breast cancer – Is reflex ISH testing necessary on HER2 IHC-equivocal (2+) cases?	5
Diagnostic accuracy of core biopsies of renal masses: Experience in a real-life setting from a tertiary center	5
The over diagnosis of diffuse mesothelioma: An analysis of 311 cases with recommendations for the avoidance of pitfalls	5
Xanthogranulomatous inflammation of the female genital tract: An 11-year single institutional study of 40 cases	5
Granulomatous lobular mastitis co-existing with ductal carcinoma in situ: Report of three cases and review of the literature	5
Reporting the neglected cases of temporomandibular joint ganglion cysts in the systematic review	5
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma with prominent microvascular hyperplasia: Morphologic, immunohistochemical and molecular-genetic analysis of 7 sporadic cases	5
Primary mucinous tumors of the renal pelvis: Clinical, histopathological, and molecular analysis of three cases	5
Hyalinizing trabecular tumor: Cytologic, histologic and molecular features and diagnostic considerations	5
T-cells are significantly reduced in the luminal gastrointestinal tract of patients with “complete” 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (DiGeorge syndrome): Utilization of chromogenic multiplex immunohistochemi	5
Diagnosis of autoimmune bullous dermatoses: Comparative analysis of immunohistochemical staining using C4d, C3d, IgG, and IgG4 in lesional tissues and perilesional frozen skin samples	5
Gamna-Gandy bodies in renal neoplasms: A multi-institutional clinicopathologic study of 350 consecutive nephrectomies	5
The concordance between wide-area transepithelial sampling with computer-assisted 3-dimensional analysis (WATS-3D) and standard endoscope biopsy in the detection of Barrett's esophagus and esophageal	5
Appendix-like morphology in primary ovarian mucinous tumors lacking a concurrent mature teratoma: A series of 4 cases illustrating the utility of STR analysis	5
Metastatic tumours to the parotid: A 20-year single institutional experience with an emphasis on 14 unusual presentations	4
Pulmonary nodular elastosis: The intraparenchymal counterpart of pulmonary apical caps?	4
In-depth analysis of immunohistochemistry concordance in biopsy-resection pairs of bronchial carcinoids	4
Bronchial cytology of pulmonary adenoid cystic carcinoma – A multi-institute series with emphasis on immunocytochemistry	4
From the archives of MD Anderson Cancer Center: EBV-positive fibrin-associated large B-cell lymphoma in an ovarian leiomyoma with cystic degeneration: A case report and discussion of differential diag	4
Carbon footprint evaluation of routine anatomic pathology practices using eco-audit: Current status and mitigation strategies	4
Leptin and its receptor are overexpressed in breast cancer tissue of postmenopausal Mexican-Mestizo women with obesity	4
Role of SIX1, EYA2, and E-cadherin in ovarian carcinoma. Evidence on epithelial-mesenchymal transition from an immunohistochemical study	4
Mixed epithelial and stromal tumor of the kidney: A retrospective clinicopathological evaluation	4
Primary mediastinal germ cell tumor and clonally related and unique hematologic neoplasms with i(12p) and TP53 mutation: A report of two cases	4
Validation of histopathological chronicity scores in native kidney biopsies using light microscopy and digital morphometry for predicting renal outcome	4
A new histomorphological finding in the follow-up of celiac disease: Intraepithelial lymphocyte localization is a reliable indicator of dietary compliance	4
PD-L1 immunohistochemical expression in bladder urothelial cancer with SP263, SP142 and 22C3 antibodies: A comparative study	4
Editorial Board	4
Smooth muscular layer: A new helpful criterion to reclassify tumor deposits into metastatic lymph nodes in patients with colo-rectal adenocarcinoma	4
Interobserver variability in inconclusive diagnostic categories of thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology: An urban-based tertiary hospital experience	4
Genomic profiling amplifies the utility of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle biopsy by identifying clinically applicable druggable mutations in pancreatic cancer	4
Molecular classification of medulloblastoma using immunohistochemistry: A single centre study	4
Salivary gland-like low-grade clear cell carcinomas of the thoracic cavity: A clinical, immunohistochemical, and molecular analysis of three cases	4
Immunoglobulin G deposition on proximal tubules and the tubular basement membrane in acute tubular injury complicated with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS): A possible prediction tool for sub	4
Utility of the manual hematology cell counter for Ki-67 assessment in gastrointestinal and pancreatobiliary well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors	4
FOXP3 expression in duodenal mucosa: Unique role in pathogenesis and differential diagnosis of celiac disease	4
De Novo CD5-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: A genomic profiling study and prognostic analysis of 46 patients	4
Thoracic solitary fibrous tumors with small cell features: A clinicopathological and immunohistochemical analysis of 5 cases	4
Erdheim-Chester disease collides with myelodysplastic neoplasm in bone marrow	4
Performance and limitations of customized ChatGPT in histopathologic diagnosis	4
Malignant germ cell tumors in men aged 50 years and over are associated with adverse pathologic features and higher stage at presentation	4
The association between variant histology and prognostic, histomorphological and clinical aspects of bladder urothelial carcinoma	4