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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Osteosarcoma: A comprehensive review of management and treatment strategies	132
Endothelial cell damage is the central part of COVID-19 and a mouse model induced by injection of the S1 subunit of the spike protein	111
Severe COVID-19: A multifaceted viral vasculopathy syndrome	73
Remote pathology education during the COVID-19 era: Crisis converted to opportunity	39
Biomarkers of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma: a review	29
Prognostic impact of neutrophils-to-lymphocytes ratio (NLR), PD-L1 expression, and tumor immune microenvironment in laryngeal cancer	23
Pathological characterization of intracholecystic papillary neoplasm: A recently proposed preinvasive neoplasm of gallbladder	21
LncRNA PCAT6: A potential biomarker for diagnosis and prognosis of bladder cancer	21
Poorly differentiated chordoma showing loss of SMARCB1/INI1: Clinicopathological and radiological spectrum of nine cases, including uncommon features of a relatively under-recognized entity	20
NKX3.1 a useful marker for mesenchymal chondrosarcoma: An immunohistochemical study	16
Clinicopathologic and molecular features of denosumab-treated giant cell tumour of bone (GCTB): Analysis of 21 cases	16
Predictive markers for pathological complete response after neo-adjuvant chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer	16
An immunohistochemical analysis of fibroblasts in giant cell arteritis	15
The amplification of CNS damage in Alzheimer's disease due to SARS-CoV2 infection	15
Nasal meningoencephalocele: A retrospective study of clinicopathological features and diagnosis of 16 patients	14
Clinico-pathologic findings in patients with median arcuate ligament syndrome (celiac artery compression syndrome)	14
High-grade sinonasal carcinomas and surveillance of differential expression in immune related transcriptome	14
Clinicopathologic, immunohistochemical, molecular cytogenetic profile with treatment and outcomes of 34 cases of Ewing sarcoma with epithelial differentiation, including 6 cases with “Adamantinoma-lik	13
Solid variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma: An analysis of 28 cases with current literature	13
High-grade transformation of low-grade biphenotypic sinonasal sarcoma: Radiological, morphophenotypic variation and confirmatory molecular analysis	13
Clinical and pathologic predictors of lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid microcarcinomas	13
Clinicopathological significance of the immunologic signature (PDL1, FOXP3+ Tregs, TILs) in early stage triple-negative breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy	13
Tumor Budding is a reliable predictor for death and metastasis in invasive ductal breast cancer and correlates with other prognostic clinicopathological parameters	13
Immunohistochemically detectable thyroglobulin expression in extrathyroidal cancer is 100% specific for thyroidal tumor origin	12
Juvenile granulosa cell tumor of the ovary: A comprehensive clinicopathologic analysis of 15 cases	12

Remote Pathology teaching under the COVID-19 pandemic: Medical students' perceptions	12
Atypical fibroxanthoma and pleomorphic dermal sarcoma: Is superficial infiltration in subcutaneous tissue acceptable in AFX?	11
The utility of digital pathology in improving the diagnostic skills of pathology trainees in commonly encountered pigmented cutaneous lesions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A single academic institutio	11
Encapsulated papillary carcinoma of breast; a clinicopathological study of 25 cases and literature review with emphasis on high grade variant	11
Histologic, viral, and molecular correlates of heart disease in fatal COVID-19	11
Novel fusion sarcomas including targetable NTRK and ALK	11
Clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of breast angiosarcoma	11
Predictors of Human papillomavirus (HPV) persistence after treatment of high grade cervical lesions; does cervical cytology have any prognostic value in primary HPV screening?	11
Superficial CD34-positive fibroblastic tumor (SCPFT): A review of pathological and clinical features	10
Pathological findings of the retrospective diagnosis of NIFTP (non-invasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features) in 84 cases from Turkey and systematic review	10
Relationship of Oncotype Dx score with tumor grade, size, nodal status, proliferative marker Ki67 and Nottingham Prognostic Index in early breast cancer tumors in Saudi Population	10
Juvenile and adult xanthogranuloma: A 30-year single-center experience and review of the disorder and its relationship to other histiocytoses	10
B-prolymphocytic leukemia: Is it time to retire this entity?	10
The histologic and molecular correlates of liver disease in fatal COVID-19 including with alcohol use disorder	10
Seminal vesicle invasion combined with extraprostatic extension is associated with higher frequency of biochemical recurrence and lymph node metastasis than seminal vesicle invasion alone: Proposal fo	9
Rising incidence of appendiceal neoplasms over time: Does pathological handling of appendectomy specimens play a role?	9
The role of ALDH1A1 in contributing to breast tumour aggressiveness: A study conducted in an African population	9
Clinical, morphological and immunohistochemical analysis of 13 cases of phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor - A holistic diagnostic approach	9
Pleomorphic giant cell carcinoma of prostate: Rare tumor with unique clinicopathological, immunohistochemical, and molecular features	9
Fumarate hydratase-deficient renal cell carcinoma: A clinicopathological study of seven cases including hereditary and sporadic forms	9
Value of serum tumor markers for predicting EGFR mutations in non-small cell lung cancer patients	8
Cribriform prostate cancer: Morphologic criteria enabling a diagnosis, based on survey of experts	8
Benign and borderline phyllodes tumors of the breast: Clinicopathologic analysis of 205 cases with emphasis on the surgical margin status and local recurrence rate	8
Renal cell carcinomas with tubulopapillary architecture and oncocytic cells: Molecular analysis of 39 difficult tumors to classify	8
Identification of potential prognostic biomarkers for breast cancer using WGCNA and PPI integrated techniques	8
Primary high-grade myoepithelial carcinoma of the lung: A study of three cases illustrating frequent SMARCB1-deficiency and review of the literature	8
Clinical utility of next generation sequencing to detect IGH/IL3 rearrangements [t(5;14)(q31.1;q32.1)] in B-lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma	8
American Registry of Pathology Expert Opinions: Recommendations for the diagnostic workup of mature T cell neoplasms	8
Infantile fibrosarcoma with an EGFR kinase domain duplication: Underlining a close relationship with congenital mesoblastic nephroma and highlighting a similar morphological spectrum	8
Sinonasal low-grade non-intestinal-type adenocarcinoma: A retrospective analysis and literature review	8
Discordance in receptor status between primary and metastatic breast cancer and overall survival: A single-center analysis	7
Diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration cytology and core needle biopsy in bone and soft tissue tumor: A comparative study of the image-guided and blindly performed procedure	7
GATA3 aids in distinguishing fumarate hydratase-deficient renal cell carcinoma from papillary renal cell carcinoma	7
Clinicopathological evaluation of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis patients: A retrospective analysis from a tertiary care hospital in Turkey	7
Adenoid cystic carcinoma with dedifferentiation/expansion of the luminal cell component and preserved biphasic morphology – Early high-grade transformation	7
IDH mutations in older patients with diffuse astrocytic gliomas	7
PCR-detection of Helicobacter pylori from oral mucosa: A feasible early diagnostic tool	7
Heterogeneity of liver fibrosis in patients with congestive hepatopathy: A biopsy and explant comparison series	7
The prognostic value of USP7 and p53 in advanced hypopharyngeal carcinoma	7
Immunohistochemical expression and significance of SATB2 protein in colorectal cancer	7
PCR-based analysis of PD-L1 RNA expression in lung cancer: comparison with commonly used immunohistochemical assays	6
Applying criteria for hepatocellular neoplasm of uncertain malignant potential reclassifies more than half of hepatocellular adenomas	6
Impact of minimal solid and micropapillary components on invasive lung adenocarcinoma recurrence	6
Loss of H3K27me3 occurs in a large subset of embryonal rhabdomyosarcomas: Immunohistochemical and molecular analysis of 25 cases	6
Validation of whole slide imaging for frozen section diagnosis of lymph node metastasis: A retrospective study from a tertiary care hospital in Thailand	6
A tree-based machine learning model to approach morphologic assessment of malignant salivary gland tumors	6
Analysis of 24 cases of epithelioid glioblastoma: Experience from a tertiary centre of North India	6
Expression of PD-L1 using SP142 CDx in triple negative breast cancer	6
Aryl hydrocarbon receptor interacting protein (AIP) significantly influences prognosis of pancreatic carcinoma	6
Inverse co-expression of EZH2 and acetylated H3K27 in prostatic tissue	6

The pathogenesis of abnormal uterine bleeding in myopathic uteri	6
Association between carbonic anhydrase 9 expression and poor prognosis in sinonasal squamous cell carcinoma	6
Histological subtype is associated with PD-L1 expression and CD8+ T-cell infiltrates in triple-negative breast carcinoma	6
Impact of RASSF1A gene methylation on clinico-pathological features of tumor and non-tumor tissue of breast cancer	6
PD-L1 expression in sarcomas: An immunohistochemical study and review of the literature	6
The presence of retraction clefts correlates with lymphovascular invasion and lymph node metastasis and predicts poor outcome: Analysis of 2497 breast cancer patients	6
Leiomyosarcoma of the urinary bladder: A SEER database study and comparison to leiomyosarcomas of the uterus and extremities/trunk	6
Specialized pro-resolving receptors are expressed in salivary glands with Sjögren's syndrome	6
Role of SIX1, EYA2, and E-cadherin in ovarian carcinoma. Evidence on epithelial-mesenchymal transition from an immunohistochemical study	6
Aberrant keratin expression is common in primary hepatic malignant vascular tumors: A potential diagnostic pitfall	6
Idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome, a unique complement and interferon mediated endotheliopathy syndrome: The role of the normal skin biopsy in establishing the diagnosis and elucidating path	6
Inverse correlation between PD-L1 expression and LGR5 expression in tumor budding of stage II/III colorectal cancer	6
Association of ZEB1 and Vimentin with poor prognosis in metaplastic breast cancer	6
Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs)/volume and prognosis: The value of TILs for survival in HER2 and TN breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy	6
Patterns of brachyury expression in chordomas	6
Hyalinizing trabecular tumor: Cytologic, histologic and molecular features and diagnostic considerations	5
Clinicopathological significance of the expression of PD-L1 in non-small cell lung cancer	5
Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) and other DICER1-associated high-grade malignancies are morphologically, genetically and epigenetically related – A comparative study of 4 PPBs and 6 sarcomas	5
Diagnostic application of cyclin D1 fluorescent in situ hybridization for histologically undetermined early lesions of acral melanoma in situ: A case series	5
Pathological complete response and prognosis after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with HER2-low breast cancer	5
Increased PD-L1 expression in high-grade bladder cancer with squamous cell differentiation in Bulgarian and French patients' samples	5
Pathological features of Brucella spondylitis: A single-center study	5
CD56 expression in basaloid anal squamous cell carcinoma – A potential diagnostic pitfall	5
TROP-2 and 5hmC expression in follicular-patterned thyroid neoplasm emphasizing tiny well-formed papillae	5
Wolf in sheep's clothing - Oral proliferative verrucous leukoplakia: Progression with longitudinal molecular insights	5
Could trop-2 overexpression indicate tumor aggressiveness among prostatic adenocarcinomas?	5
Carbon footprint evaluation of routine anatomic pathology practices using eco-audit: Current status and mitigation strategies	5
Polyclonal PAX8 expression in carcinomas of the biliary tract — Frequent non-specific staining represents a potential diagnostic pitfall	5
PD-L1 expression in 117 sinonasal mucosal melanomas and its association with clinical outcome	5
Clinicopathological analysis of invasive cribriform carcinoma of the breast, with review of the literature	5
Mast cell infiltration and activation in the gallbladder wall: Implications for the pathogenesis of functional gallbladder disorder in adult patients	5
Association of precursors with invasive adenocarcinoma of the gallbladder: A clinicopathological study	5
Lichen sclerosus: A C5B-9 mediated chronic microvascular injury syndrome potentially reflective of common adult comorbidities	5
Non-functional water clear cell parathyroid carcinoma masquerading as medullary thyroid carcinoma	5
Histologic diversity in chromophobe renal cell carcinoma does not impact survival outcome: A comparative international multi-institutional study	5
Prognostic significance of tumor budding in muscle invasive urothelial carcinomas of the urinary bladder	4
Desmoid fibromatosis involving the pancreas: A retrospective case series with clinical, cytopathologic and radiologic correlation	4
Lack of uniformity in reporting autoimmune gastritis among a diverse group of pathologists	4
Primary De novo ductal adenocarcinoma of the lacrimal gland	4
The prognostic significance of non-lymphoid immune cells of the tumor microenvironment, including neutrophils, eosinophils, and mast cells in breast carcinomas	4
Pathological features of pyloric gland adenoma of the gallbladder in comparison with gastric subtype of intracholecystic papillary neoplasm	4
Pathologic patterns of invasive carcinoma associated with intraductal papillary neoplasms of bile duct (IPNB)	4
Impact of multidisciplinary radiologic-pathologic correlation conference for benign image-guided breast biopsies on discordance rates and patient outcomes in a community teaching hospital	4
FISH analyses for 1p and 19q status on gliomas: Reporting an 8 years' experience from a tertiary care center in the Middle East	4
MALT lymphoma of the tongue: An unusual site that may present a diagnostic challenge	4
Diffuse interstitial pneumonia-like/macrophage activation syndrome-like changes in patients with COVID-19 correlate with length of illness	4
The effects of preconception and early gestation SARS-CoV-2 infection on pregnancy outcomes and placental pathology	4
MYC amplification in angiosarcoma depends on etiological/clinical subgroups – Diagnostic and prognostic value	4
Fumarate hydratase-deficient renal cell carcinoma: A tumor with diverse morphology including cannibalism, lymphocytic emperipolesis, and defective autophagy	4
Prognostic significance of E-cadherin and Cox 2 expression in Tunisian patients with colorectal mucinous adenocarcinoma	4
Utility of NKX3.1 immunohistochemistry in the differential diagnosis of seminal vesicles versus prostatic tissue in needle biopsy	4
Liver involvement in patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria: retrospective analysis of clinicopathological features of 5 cases	4
Florid cemento-osseous dysplasia-related osteonecrosis: A series of cases	4
Merkel cell carcinoma in the setting of hematologic disease is associated with unique features and potential pitfalls	4
Prognostic significance of architectural subtypes of Gleason grade 4 prostate cancer in radical prostatectomy: A semiquantitative method of evaluation	4
Hyalinized stroma is a characteristic feature of pancreatic intraductal oncocytic papillary neoplasm: An immunohistochemical study	4
Dominant cell type analysis predicts head and neck adenoid cystic carcinoma outcomes	4
Loss of dimethylated H3K27 (H3K27me2) expression is not a specific marker of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST): An immunohistochemical study of 137 cases, with emphasis on MPNST and mela	4
Diagnostic utility of combining PRAME and HMB-45 stains in primary melanocytic tumors	4
Extrauterine endometrial stromal sarcoma: A systematic review and outcome analysis	4
Focal cortical dysplasia is a frequent coexistent pathology in patients with Rasmussen's encephalitis	4
Papillary glioneuronal tumors: Distinctive cytological characteristics and cyto-histologic correlation	4
Gross mucinous multinodular appearance aids in the identification of ovarian metastases in low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasms during intraoperative consultation	4
Exploring the pathophysiologic basis of constrictive pericarditis of Kohlmeier Degos disease: A case series and review of the literature	4
Improving the prediction of biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy with the addition of detailed pathology of the positive surgical margin and cribriform growth	4
TRKB acts as a prognostic predictive marker in Her-2 positive breast cancer	4
Diagnostic and therapeutic ERβ, HER2, BRCA biomakers in the histological subtypes of lung adenocarcinoma according to the IASLC/ATS/ERS classification	4
Lymphoid enhancer binding factor 1 (LEF1) expression is significantly higher in Hodgkin lymphoma associated with Richter syndrome relative to de novo classic Hodgkin lymphoma	4
Expression of CXCR7 in colorectal adenoma and adenocarcinoma: Correlation with clinicopathological parameters	4
Malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor: Cytologic, histologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular pitfalls	4
Localized cutaneous argyria: Review of a rare clinical mimicker of melanocytic lesions	4
De Novo CD5-positive diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: A genomic profiling study and prognostic analysis of 46 patients	4
Bronchiolar adenomas (BA) - A detailed radio-pathologic analysis of six cases and review of literature	4
Calcifying aponeurotic fibroma: Radiologic-pathologic analysis of ten cases and review of the literature	4
The utility of intraoperative retroareolar margin frozen section assessment and the management of atypical epithelial proliferative lesions at the retroareolar margin in nipple-sparing mastectomies	4