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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Association of ZEB1 and Vimentin with poor prognosis in metaplastic breast cancer	38
Reliability of negative cone specimens of the cervix: A review	22
The differential expression of toll like receptors and RIG-1 correlates to the severity of infectious diseases	21
Small cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder: Distinctive cytological characteristics and Cyto-histologic correlation	20
Evaluation of the recently established Dutch nationwide Archipelago of Ovarian Cancer Research biobank	20
Florid cemento-osseous dysplasia-related osteonecrosis: A series of cases	20
Corrigendum to “Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and intestinal disorders: An observational study” [Ann Diagn Pathol 62 (2023) 152072]	17
Editorial Board	17
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	16
Epstein-Barr virus latency patterns in polymorphic lymphoproliferative disorders and lymphomas in immunodeficiency settings: Diagnostic implications	14
Histology and clinical correlations in autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, and autoimmune hepatitis-primary biliary cholangitis overlap syndrome	14
Role of histopathology in severity assessments of post-COVID-19 rhino-orbital cerebral mucormycosis - A case-control study	14
Clinicopathological evaluation of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis patients: A retrospective analysis from a tertiary care hospital in Turkey	14
study: A retrospective analysis of 111 livary gland tumors of ung and racheobronchial ree	13
Immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence utilization audit by subspecialty in an academic setting: A step toward stewardship	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
Retrospective study of the clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic factors of gastrointestinal stromal tumors in Chinese patients	12
Primary thymic neuroblastomas in adults: A clinicopathological and immunohistochemical study of three cases	12
Prognostic implications of synaptophysin, CD56, thyroid transcription factor-1, and Ki-67 in pulmonary high-grade neuroendocrine carcinomas	12
Evaluation of the diagnostic utility of NCOA3, Maspin and VHL protein expression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: An immunohistochemical study	11
Primary intraosseous Rosai-Dorfman disease: Clinicopathological features and an assessment of a possible relationship with IgG4-related disease	11
Is mediastinal fine needle aspiration cytology required or redundant? A single institution-based correlation study with core needle biopsy	11
Orbital masses as a rare presentation of Rosai-Dorfman disease: Clinicopathologic characterization of five cases	11
GPNMB expression differentiates subependymal giant cell astrocytoma from other mimickers	11

Infantile fibrosarcoma with an EGFR kinase domain duplication: Underlining a close relationship with congenital mesoblastic nephroma and highlighting a similar morphological spectrum	11
Nivolumab induced pulmonary sarcoid-like granulomas with a concurrent pleural schwannoma: A pathologic-radiologic correlation of a rare condition mimicking metastatic melanoma	10
The “toxic” personality in pathology: An opinion	10
Paraganglioma of the cauda equina: A clinicopathologic study of 12 cases with demonstration of cytokeratin positivity	10
Diagnostic immunohistochemistry use in Belgian laboratories	10
MALT lymphoma of the tongue: An unusual site that may present a diagnostic challenge	10
Score system for cytological evaluation of fine-needle aspiration specimens to predict the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinomas	10
“Growing fibroadenoma”: Are there clinical and pathological features predicting a phyllodes tumor on surgical excision?	9
Clinicopathological characteristics and outcomes in embryonal tumor with multilayered rosettes: A decade long experience from a tertiary care centre in North India	9
Loss of H3K27me3 occurs in a large subset of embryonal rhabdomyosarcomas: Immunohistochemical and molecular analysis of 25 cases	9
Challenges and limitation of MTAP immunohistochemistry in diagnosing desmoplastic mesothelioma/sarcomatoid pleural mesothelioma with desmoplastic features	9
Malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor: Cytologic, histologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular pitfalls	9
Response to letter to the editor	9
Validation of whole slide imaging for frozen section diagnosis of lymph node metastasis: A retrospective study from a tertiary care hospital in Thailand	9
Prognostic role of the number of resected and negative lymph nodes in Spanish patients with gastric cancer	9
Additional characterization of LEF1 expression in nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma and classic Hodgkin lymphoma	9
Invasive urothelial carcinoma with squamous differentiation and associated high-risk human papilloma virus infection: Clinical, cytologic, and histologic features of a rare entity	8
INSM1 is a useful neuroendocrine marker to differentiate pancreatic serous cystadenoma from pancreatic well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors in cytology and surgical specimens	8
Clinicopathological analysis of a type of “low grade” poorly cohesive gastric adenocarcinoma not otherwise specified with a good prognosis	8
Histopathologic evaluation of gastric intestinal metaplasia in non-neoplastic biopsy specimens: Accuracy and interobserver reliability among general pathologists and pathology residents	8
Pathological features of pyloric gland adenoma of the gallbladder in comparison with gastric subtype of intracholecystic papillary neoplasm	8
Histological subtype is associated with PD-L1 expression and CD8+ T-cell infiltrates in triple-negative breast carcinoma	8
The effect that pathologic and radiologic interpretation of invasive and non-invasive areas in lung adenocarcinoma has on T-stage and treatment	8
The topographical distribution of lymph node metastases in colon cancer resections	7
Clinicopathological characteristics of placental chorioangioma: A clinicopathological study of 77 cases	7
Morphological and immunohistochemical characteristics associated with metastatic and recurrent progression in pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma: A cohort study	7
Digital image analysis of Ki67 hotspot detection and index counting in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms	7
Comparative influence of cribriform growth and percent Gleason 4 in prostatic biopsies with Gleason 3+4 cancer	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
Renal cell carcinomas with tubulopapillary architecture and oncocytic cells: Molecular analysis of 39 difficult tumors to classify	7
Rising incidence of appendiceal neoplasms over time: Does pathological handling of appendectomy specimens play a role?	7
Pathologic patterns of invasive carcinoma associated with intraductal papillary neoplasms of bile duct (IPNB)	7
Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma: A challenging case arising in a young man with radiation exposure	7
Quantitative histology as a diagnostic tool for celiac disease in children and adolescents	7
Prognostic value of CD44 expression in oral squamous cell carcinoma: A meta-analysis	7
The prognostic significance of non-lymphoid immune cells of the tumor microenvironment, including neutrophils, eosinophils, and mast cells in breast carcinomas	7
Influence of luminal and basal subtype in prognosis of high-grade non muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma	6
Cyto-histologic correlation of crystal-storing histiocytosis: Rare presentation in breast, predating diagnosis of B-cell lymphoma by two years	6
Detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) in malignant melanoma	6
Findings other than age that help identify possible cases of non-invasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with nuclear characteristics of the papillary carcinoma type	6
Primary mucinous tumors of the renal pelvis: Clinical, histopathological, and molecular analysis of three cases	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
Combined expression of HIF1α, VEGF and HER2 predicts metastasis, relapse and response to combination chemotherapy in colorectal cancer patients	6
Beethoven's triad: Diarrhoea, deafness and cirrhosis. A plausible solution to the 195-year-old controversy	6
Evaluation of tubulin β-3 and 5 hydroxy-methyl cytosine as diagnostic and prognostic markers in malignant melanoma	6
Solid variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma: An analysis of 28 cases with current literature	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
Next-generation sequencing has diagnostic utility in challenging small/flat urothelial lesions	6
Appendiceal inflammation in colectomy is independently correlated with early pouchitis following ileal pouch anal anastomosis in ulcerative colitis and indeterminate colitis	6

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	6
A novel histologic index for polyomavirus nephropathy in comparison with the Banff scoring system: Clinical validation, prognostic implication, and correlation with plasma viral load	6
Intraoperative pathologic diagnosis of central nervous system lymphomas: A comparison of frozen and permanent section diagnoses, and the significance of preoperative imaging	6
Biphasic squamoid alveolar renal cell carcinoma: Cytologic features of a rare entity	6
PCR-based analysis of PD-L1 RNA expression in lung cancer: comparison with commonly used immunohistochemical assays	6
Editorial Board	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
Discordance in receptor status between primary and metastatic breast cancer and overall survival: A single-center analysis	5
Superficial myofibroblastoma of the lower female genital tract: A clinicopathological analysis of 15 cases	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
Paravertebral fibrous pseudotumor: Four cases of a distinctive tumefactive lesion overlapping with eosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis and tumoral erythema elevatum diutinum	5
The differential immune response in mild versus fatal SARS-CoV2 infection	5
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma with prominent microvascular hyperplasia: Morphologic, immunohistochemical and molecular-genetic analysis of 7 sporadic cases	5
Clinicopathological features of differentiated thyroid carcinoma as predictors of the effects of radioactive iodine therapy	5
Expression of CD25, mast cell markers and T-cell markers in eosinophilic esophagitis	5
Hyalinizing trabecular tumor: Cytologic, histologic and molecular features and diagnostic considerations	5
Castleman disease-type histopathological patterns of lymph nodes in patients with plasma cell neoplasia and POEMS syndrome	5
Leiomyosarcoma of the urinary bladder: A SEER database study and comparison to leiomyosarcomas of the uterus and extremities/trunk	5
In-memoriam: Ondrej Hes, M.D. (1968–2022)	5
Amendments in surgical pathology reports: An 8-year institutional experience	5
Granulomatous lobular mastitis co-existing with ductal carcinoma in situ: Report of three cases and review of the literature	5
Atypical fibroxanthoma and pleomorphic dermal sarcoma: Is superficial infiltration in subcutaneous tissue acceptable in AFX?	5
From the archives of MD Anderson Cancer Center. Mesothelial/monocytic incidental cardiac excrescence with a review of the literature	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
Reporting the neglected cases of temporomandibular joint ganglion cysts in the systematic review	4
From the archives of MD Anderson Cancer Center Castleman disease involving the thymus gland: Case report and literature review	4
The over diagnosis of diffuse mesothelioma: An analysis of 311 cases with recommendations for the avoidance of pitfalls	4
HER2 testing in metastatic breast cancer – Is reflex ISH testing necessary on HER2 IHC-equivocal (2+) cases?	4
Erdheim-Chester disease collides with myelodysplastic neoplasm in bone marrow	4
Metastatic tumours to the parotid: A 20-year single institutional experience with an emphasis on 14 unusual presentations	4
Interobserver variability in inconclusive diagnostic categories of thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology: An urban-based tertiary hospital experience	4
From the archives of MD Anderson Cancer Center: A case of concurrent follicular lymphoma and Langerhans cell sarcoma with a review of the literature	4
Xanthogranulomatous inflammation of the female genital tract: An 11-year single institutional study of 40 cases	4
De Novo CD5-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: A genomic profiling study and prognostic analysis of 46 patients	4
Bronchial cytology of pulmonary adenoid cystic carcinoma – A multi-institute series with emphasis on immunocytochemistry	4
PD-L1 immunohistochemical expression in bladder urothelial cancer with SP263, SP142 and 22C3 antibodies: A comparative study	4
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	4
Immunoexpression of HSPA9 and CUL2 in prostatic tissue and adenocarcinoma	4
Annals of diagnostic pathology in 2023 and beyond: The next chapter. [Editorial]	4
Thoracic solitary fibrous tumors with small cell features: A clinicopathological and immunohistochemical analysis of 5 cases	4
A retrospective analysis of the diagnostic accuracy and technical quality of frozen sections in detecting hepatobiliary lesions	4
Validation of histopathological chronicity scores in native kidney biopsies using light microscopy and digital morphometry for predicting renal outcome	4
Mixed epithelial and stromal tumor of the kidney: A retrospective clinicopathological evaluation	4
Carbon footprint evaluation of routine anatomic pathology practices using eco-audit: Current status and mitigation strategies	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
Gamna-Gandy bodies in renal neoplasms: A multi-institutional clinicopathologic study of 350 consecutive nephrectomies	4
Leptin and its receptor are overexpressed in breast cancer tissue of postmenopausal Mexican-Mestizo women with obesity	4
Some concerns about the prognostic significance of non-lymphoid immune cells of the tumor microenvironment in breast carcinomas	4
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1ɑ) in lacrimal gland Adenoid cystic carcinoma: Correlation with clinical outcome	4
Clinical and pathological characteristics of metastatic tumors to the urinary bladder	4
The spectrum of cytological findings in patients with BCG lymphadenitis: A series of 13 cases	4
Diagnosis of autoimmune bullous dermatoses: Comparative analysis of immunohistochemical staining using C4d, C3d, IgG, and IgG4 in lesional tissues and perilesional frozen skin samples	4
Smooth muscular layer: A new helpful criterion to reclassify tumor deposits into metastatic lymph nodes in patients with colo-rectal adenocarcinoma	4
Genomic profiling amplifies the utility of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle biopsy by identifying clinically applicable druggable mutations in pancreatic cancer	4
In-depth analysis of immunohistochemistry concordance in biopsy-resection pairs of bronchial carcinoids	4
Performance and limitations of customized ChatGPT in histopathologic diagnosis	4
FOXP3 expression in duodenal mucosa: Unique role in pathogenesis and differential diagnosis of celiac disease	4
A new histomorphological finding in the follow-up of celiac disease: Intraepithelial lymphocyte localization is a reliable indicator of dietary compliance	4
Editorial Board	4
Diagnostic accuracy of core biopsies of renal masses: Experience in a real-life setting from a tertiary center	4