OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pathology International is 2. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

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Intestinal‐type adenocarcinoma in the bilateral renal pelvis and right ureter synchronously arising in a patient with an ileal conduit	360
A case of lung carcinoma with a unique biphasic feature: Implications for histogenesis of “fake mucoepidermoid carcinoma” developing in the peripheral lung	38
Abstracts of A Presentation by the winners of The Japanese Society of Pathology, Pathology Research Award in 2024 (in program order)	27
Is the endomyocardial biopsy in giant cell myocarditis of some help for the rapid indication for heart transplantation?	20
Colostomy‐site carcinoma with primitive phenotype in a rectal cancer patient after achieving pathological complete response with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy	20
Primary Pulmonary Epithelial–Myoepithelial Carcinoma With Prominent Reactive Pneumocytes: Clinicopathological Insights Into a Rare Case and Literature Review	15
An autopsy case report of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with unusual basophilic inclusions exhibiting immunopositivity for optineurin	14
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Tumor‐suppressive miR‐323a inhibits pancreatic cancer cell proliferation and glycolysis through targeting HK‐2	13
Autopsy Case of Severe Right Heart Failure Accompanied by Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension With Suspected Osler's Disease	13
Papillary thyroid carcinoma with aggressive fused follicular and solid growth pattern: A unique histological subtype with high‐grade malignancy?	13
Nicotinamide N‐methyltransferase (NNMT): A potential biomarker for differential diagnosis of anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL)	12
Prominent CD8‐positive lymphocyte‐associated insulitis immediately after onset of childbirth‐related fulminant type 1 diabetes mellitus observed at autopsy	12
An autopsy case of hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome with coronary fibrinoid necrotizing arteritis and an aneurysm	11
Non‐calcifying Langerhans cell‐rich myxoid squamous odontogenic neoplasm without amyloid: A seemingly amyloid‐negative calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumor	11
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Co‐occurrence of Epstein–Barr virus‐positive nodal T/NK‐cell lymphoma and nodal T‐follicular helper cell lymphoma of different clonal origins: An autopsy case report	10
The Landscape of Cancer Metabolism as a Therapeutic Target	10
The association between histopathological growth patterns with tumor budding and poorly differentiated clusters in colorectal liver metastasis treated with preoperative systemic therapy	9
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Expression of Heart Development Protein With EGF‐Like Domains 1 (HEG1) Decorated With Low‐Sulfated Keratan Sulfate in Human Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma	9
A Proposal for a Modified Evaluation System of Tumor‐Infiltrating Lymphocytes Using HE‐Stained Sections in Breast Cancer	9
Therapeutic Strategies Targeting CD163 and CD169 in Macrophages for Cancer	8
Clinicopathological significance of CBX3 in colorectal cancer: An intensive expression study based on formalin‐fixed and paraffin‐embedded tissues	8

A Case of Primary Cutaneous T‐Follicular Helper Cell Lymphoma, Follicular‐Type	8
Enterocolic granulomatous phlebitis associated with epidermal growth factor‐containing fibulin‐like extracellular matrix protein 1 deposition and focal amyloid properties: A case report	7
Identification of uromodulin deposition in the stroma of perinephric fibromyxoid nephrogenic adenoma by mass spectrometry	7
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Salt‐like transcription factor 4 promotes laryngeal cancer progression through transcriptional activation of ubiquitin‐specific protease 21 to stabilize Yin Yang 1	7
Vimentin‐positive invasive breast carcinoma of no special type: A breast carcinoma with lethal biological characteristics	7
The specific shapes of capillaries are associated with worse prognosis in patients with invasive breast cancer	7
Primary osteosarcoma of the small intestine	7
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Early onset Congo red‐positive fibrillary glomerulonephritis associated with glomerular DNAJB9 deposits mimicking renal amyloidosis	7
An autopsy case report of adult‐onset Krabbe disease: Comparison with an infantile‐onset case	7
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Significance of biopsy in SARS‐CoV‐2 mRNA vaccine‐associated myocarditis: Paving the way toward precision vaccinology	7
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Sporadic gastric foveolar‐type adenoma with morular metaplasia	6
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A case of diffuse goblet cell adenocarcinoma of the appendix showing carcinoid‐like expansion	6
Gastric juvenile polyposis syndrome with inflammatory changes in the intervening mucosa	6
A novel FET‐ETS family fusion (FUS::FLI1) in a case of Ewing sarcoma	6
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Extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa‐associated lymphoid tissue of pleural origin	6
Adult T‐cell leukemia/lymphoma with angioimmunoblastic T‐cell lymphoma‐like feature and molecularly confirmed RHOA Gly 17 Val (G17V) mutation: A case report	6
Class IV semaphorins in disease pathogenesis	6
Evaluation of NANOG/HDAC1 Expression in Predicting Outcomes of BCG Therapy in Non‐Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer	6
Metachronous occurrence of Epstein–Barr virus‐associated primary ovarian Burkitt lymphoma and second primary nasopharyngeal carcinoma	6
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CSF3R‐, ASXL1‐, and SETBP1‐mutated chronic neutrophilic leukemia with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance in a patient who developed severe ascites due to sinusoida	5
Performance of PRAME immunohistochemistry compared with that of c‐Kit, c‐Myc, or cyclin D1 for the diagnosis of acral melanocytic tumors	5
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Standardization of CD30 immunohistochemistry staining among three automated immunostaining platforms	5
MYCBP2 Expression Correlates With Poor Prognosis in Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma Patients	5
Impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on pathological autopsy practices in Japan	5
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Investigation of cancer‐induced myocardial damage in autopsy cases—A comparison of cases with and without chemotherapy	5
The role of Wnt, ARL4C, and Sema3A in developmental process and disease pathogenesis	5
Ultrastructural and Immunohistochemical Study of a Gastric Bizarre Leiomyoma: Bizarre Nuclei and Prominent Cytoplasmic Processes Extending Into and Displacing the Stroma	5
Uterine Mesenchymal Neoplasm With a Novel CDC42::PLAG1 Fusion	5
Ewing and Ewing‐like sarcomas: A morphological guide through genetically‐defined entities	5
Editorial comment to “Autopsy report of a sudden infant death that was strongly suspicious of Kawasaki disease”	4
Widespread benign HNF1β‐positive solid nests from the urethral diverticulum to the bladder neck: Is it a mesonephric remnant?	4
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Digital whole‐slide imaging of changes in amyloid after peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in patients with amyloid light‐chain amyloidosis	4
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Mutational landscape of primary breast angiosarcoma with repeated resection and recurrence over a 15‐year period: A case report	4
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Atypical choroid plexus papilloma arising in a mature ovarian teratoma, a case report	4
Ciliated muconodular papillary tumor‐like neoplasm of the nasal cavity with concurrent BRAF V600E and AKT1 E17K mutations	4
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Impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) association on the prognosis of pyriform sinus carcinoma: A retrospective cohort study	4

Primary mesenchymal chondrosarcoma of the lung	4
P4HA1, transcriptionally activated by STAT1, promotes esophageal cancer progression	4
Brain biopsy and pathological diagnosis for drug‐associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) with inflammatory reactions	3
Aberrant OCIAD2 demethylation in lung adenocarcinoma is associated with outcome	3
Recurrence of gastric adenocarcinoma of fundic‐gland mucosa type with black spots after endoscopic submucosal dissection and oral proton pump inhibitor discontinuation	3
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High‐Grade Serous Carcinoma With Focal Mesonephric‐Like Morphology and Subclonal p53 Abnormal Expression: A Potential Diagnostic Pitfall	3
Crosstalk of tumor stromal cells orchestrates invasion and spreading of gastric cancer	3
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Histopathological findings of pericarditis in a patient with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children associated with COVID‐19: A case report	3
Constant small‐cell changes and variable LEF1 expression in DUSP22‐rearranged primary cutaneous anaplastic large‐cell lymphoma: Analysis of the repeated biopsies of three patients	3
Combined use of immunoreactivities of Efp and ZCCHC3 for predicting prognosis of patients with triple‐negative breast cancer	3
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Development of extrahepatic bile ducts and mechanisms of tumorigenesis: Lessons from mouse models	3
Endometrial carcinosarcoma with melanocytic differentiation	3
Soft tissue tumor with BRAF and NRAS mutations sharing features with NTRK‐rearranged spindle cell neoplasm: A case report expanding the spectrum of spindle cell tumor with kinase	3
ALK‐ Rearranged Mesenchymal Neoplasm With Hyaline‐Vascular Castleman Disease‐Like Features: A Case Report	3
Two cases of bronchiolar adenoma with their diagnostic difficulties and important clues	3
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Primary cellular schwannoma of the kidney	3
Regulatory T‐cells activated in metastatic draining lymph nodes possibly suppress cancer immunity in cancer tissues of head and neck squamous cell cancer	3
Histopathological study of the localization/distribution of Fusobacterium nucleatum in esophageal cancer	3
Prevalence and diagnostic significance of non‐invasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary‐like nuclear features in Japan—A multi‐institutional study	2
Myocarditis after COVID‐19 mRNA vaccination: Correspondence	2
Spatially and Clonally Multiple B‐/Plasma Cell Proliferations in T Follicular Helper Cell Lymphoma: A Case Report	2
Secondary Budd–Chiari syndrome caused by adult T‐cell leukemia/lymphoma	2
Laceration of umbilical cord artery by fetus nail—Rare but possible cause of sudden infantile death at birth	2
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Breast cancer during pregnancy of Luminal A type overexpressed CXCL13	2
Rare finding of mucorales sporangia and chlamydospores in tissue	2
Reactive Mesothelial Cells in the Lymphatic Network of the Serous Membrane in Prolonged Body Fluid Retention: An Autopsy Case Report	2
Epithelioid granulomas with proliferating T‐lymphocytes in bone marrow in a patient with infectious mononucleosis modified by secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis	2
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Neuroendocrine tumor G3 of bronchopulmonary origin and its classification	2
Does benign prostate hyperplasia histopathological variation impact disease‐specific clinical outcomes after transurethral resection?	2
Cystic primary squamous cell carcinoma of the thyroid	2
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Pulmonary Carcinosarcoma Imitating Teratocarcinosarcoma: A Case Report	2
Nemaline bodies are not always congenital: A case of sporadic late‐onset nemaline myopathy (SLONM) with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS)	2
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Kidney Injury Molecule‐1 Expression in Pathological T1b Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Putative Biomarker of High Immune‐Inflamed Status and Recurrence	2
Mucin distribution in bronchiolar adenoma/ciliated muconodular papillary tumor reveals organoid differentiation simulating the normal lung	2
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Mechanisms of development and progression of pancreatic neoplasms	2
Carcinogenesis caused by transcription‐coupled DNA damage through GANP and other components of the TREX‐2 complex	2
Abstracts of A Presentation by the winners of The Japanese Society of Pathology; Pathology Research Award in 2021 (in program order)	2
SMARCB1‐deficient renal medullary carcinoma with an EML4::ALK fusion gene in a Japanese woman	2
Keratin‐derived amyloid deposition associated with silicone granuloma in an older adult: Comprehensive analysis using immunohistochemistry, proteomics, and a literature review	2
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Underlying mechanisms of thrombus formation/growth in atherothrombosis and deep vein thrombosis	2