OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Endocrine Pathology is 3. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Focal Tall Cell Change in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Lessons Learned from Practices Adopting Rigid Criteria (Height to Width Ratio of 3)	660
Evaluating CK20 and MCPyV Antibody Clones in Diagnosing Merkel Cell Carcinoma	485
Deep Learning Enabled Scoring of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Based on Cancer Infiltration Patterns	311
Amphicrine Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma — a Case-Based Review Expanding on Its MUC Expression Profile	221
The Presence of Typical “BRAFV600E-Like” Atypia in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma is Highly Specific for the Presence of the BRAFV600E Mutation	166
Recipient of the 2021 Endocrine Pathology Society Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Ronald A. DeLellis	150
“Strumal Carcinoid”: A Well-Described but Unexplained Intratumoral Tumor	40
In Memory of Kalman Kovacs and Eva Horvath	37
External Validation of Three Available Grading Systems for Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma in a Single Institution Cohort	35
The Spectrum of Familial Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumors	31
Next-Generation Immunohistochemistry in Thyroid Neoplasm: A Practical Review on the Applications in Diagnosis and Molecular Classification	24
Primary Multiglandular Parathyroid Disease in the Setting of Pompe Disease	21
Pathogenic ATM Variant-Harbouring Well-Differentiated Aggressive Type 1 Gastric Neuroendocrine Tumour with High-grade Features (G3 NET): a New Addition to the Clinical and Pathological Spectrum of Gas	18
Insights into Biologic Evolution of Grade 3 Neuroendocrine Tumors Reflect Classification Challenges	18
Pendred Syndrome with C Cell Hyperplasia	17
Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma in the IARC/WHO Neuroendocrine Schema	16
Intron 4–5 hTERT DNA Hypermethylation in Merkel Cell Carcinoma: Frequency, Association with Other Clinico-pathological Features and Prognostic Relevance	16
High-Grade Non-Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinomas of Follicular Cell Origin: A Review of Poorly Differentiated and High-Grade Differentiated Carcinomas	15
Ampullary Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Identification of Prognostic Factors in a Multicentric Series of 119 Cases	14
Progress in Adrenal Cortical Neoplasms: From Predictive Histomorphology to FLCN-Driven Germline Pathogenesis and the Prognostic Performance of Multiparameter Scoring Systems in Pediatric Adrenal Corti	14
Impact of Morphology in the Genotype and Phenotype Correlation of Bilateral Macronodular Adrenocortical Disease (BMAD): A Series of Clinicopathologically Well-Characterized 35 Cases	14
RAS-Mutant Follicular Thyroid Tumors: A Continuous Challenge for Pathologists	13
Molecular Classification of Gastrointestinal and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: Are We Ready for That?	13
Multifocal Fibrosing Thyroiditis: an Under-recognized Mimicker of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma	13
The Potential Utility of RAS Q61R Immunohistochemistry as a Screening Tool in Pre-operative Fine Needle Aspirates of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma	13

Thyroid Nodules with Indeterminate FNAC According to the Italian Classification System: Prevalence, Rate of Operation, and Impact on Risk of Malignancy. An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	12
Obstacles to Tumor Capsule Assessment in Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-Like Nuclear Features (NIFTP)	12
Identification of NIFTP-Specific mRNA Markers for Reliable Molecular Diagnosis of Thyroid Tumors	12
Diagnostic Pitfall: a Low-Grade EC-Cell Neuroendocrine Tumor Arising in a Rectal Duplication Cyst	11
Unexpected Widespread Bone Metastases from a BRAF K601N Mutated Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma within a Previously Resected Multinodular Goiter	11
The 3rd Edition of Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology: Highlights and Comments	11
Sclerosing Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma with Eosinophilia of the Thyroid and Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma of the Thyroid: What’s in a Name?	10
Clinical-Pathological Evaluation and Prognostic Analysis of 228 Merkel Cell Carcinomas Focusing on Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes, MCPYV Infection and ALK Expression	10
Immunohistochemical Expression of Choline Acetyltransferase and Catecholamine-Synthesizing Enzymes in Head-and-Neck and Thoracoabdominal Paragangliomas and Pheochromocytomas	10
Fundamentals of Endocrine Pathology: Part I	10
Thyroid Carcinoma with NSD3::NUTM1 Fusion: a Case with Thyrocyte Differentiation and Colloid Production	9
Identification of Oncogenic Alterations in 124 Cases of Pediatric Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: BEND7::ALK, DLG5::RET, and CCDC30::ROS1 Fusions Induce MAPK Pathway Activation	9
Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma with Desmoid-Like Fibromatosis: Double Trouble?	8
Positive Correlation of Thyroid Nodule Cytology with Molecular Profiling—a Single-Center Experience	8
Hand2 Immunohistochemistry in the Diagnosis of Paragangliomas and Other Neuroendocrine Neoplasms	8
Adrenal Rests in the Uro-genital Tract of an Adult Population	8
Spindle Epithelial Tumor with Thymus-Like Elements (SETTLE)	8
Infiltrative Growth Predicts the Risk of Recurrence After Surgery in Well-Differentiated Non-Functioning Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors	7
Inflammatory and Infectious Disorders in Endocrine Pathology	7
Novel Drop-off PCR Assay for USP8 Hotspot Variant Detection in Corticotroph Tumors	7
Overview of the 2022 WHO Classification of Thyroid Neoplasms	7
High Prevalence of DICER1 Mutations and Low Frequency of Gene Fusions in Pediatric Follicular-Patterned Tumors of the Thyroid	7
Spatial Transcriptomics in a Case of Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Reveals Clone-Specific Dysregulation of Genes Regulating Extracellular Matrix in the Invading Front	7
Preoperative Risk Stratification of Follicular-patterned Thyroid Lesions on Core Needle Biopsy by Histologic Subtyping and RAS Variant-specific Immunohistochemistry	7
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis to Identify the Immunocytochemical Markers Effective in Delineating Benign from Malignant Thyroid Lesions in FNAC Samples	7
Menin Loss in Pheochromocytoma of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1	6
Cribriform Morular Thyroid Carcinoma – Ultimobranchial Pouch-Related? Deep Molecular Insights of a Unique Case	6
The Spectrum of Endocrine Pathology	6
The Driver Role of Pathologists in Endocrine Oncology: What Clinicians Seek in Pathology Reports	6
Thyroblastoma—a Primitive Multilineage Thyroid Neoplasm with Somatic DICER1 Alteration	6
Recipient of the 2022 Endocrine Pathology Society Lifetime Achievement Award: Dr. Virginia Anne LiVolsi, M.D	6
Middle Ear “Adenoma”: a Neuroendocrine Tumor with Predominant L Cell Differentiation	5
Thyroid Nodules and Follicular Cell-Derived Thyroid Carcinomas in Children	5
The Significance of Unsampled Microscopic Thyroid Carcinomas in Multinodular Goiter	5
Neoplasms in Struma Ovarii: A Review	5
Morphometric Analysis of Lateral Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Using Digital Pathology	5
Morphological Harbingers of ARMC5-Pathogenic Variant-Related Bilateral Macronodular Adrenocortical Disease	5
Metastatic Risk Stratification of 2526 Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Patients: A Study Based on Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database	5
Transcription Factor Expression in Sinonasal Neuroendocrine Neoplasms and Olfactory Neuroblastoma (ONB): Hyams’ Grades 1–3 ONBs Expand the Spectrum of SATB2 and GATA3-Positive Neoplasms	5
The Atlas of Non-neoplastic Disorders of the Endocrine System by Anthony J. Gill, Lori A. Erickson and Talia L. Fuchs, Series 5, Fascicle 13	5
Primary Secretory Carcinoma of the Thyroid Gland with ETV6::NTRK3 Gene Fusion	5
Granulation Patterns of Functional Corticotroph Tumors Correlate with Tumor Size, Proliferative Activity, T2 Intensity-to-White Matter Ratio, and Postsurgical Early Biochemical Remission	5
Gastric Amphicrine Carcinoma Showing Neuroendocrine and Pancreatic Acinar Cell Differentiation. Lesson from a Challenging Case Opening New Perspectives in the Diagnostic Work-Up of Gastric Neuroendocr	5
Encyclopedia of Pathology Series: Endocrine Pathology by Stefano La Rosa and Silvia Uccella	4
SATB2 is an Emergent Biomarker of Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: A Series with Comprehensive Biomarker and Molecular Studies	4
Detection of RAS p.Q61R by Immunohistochemistry in Practice: A Clinicopathologic Study of 217 Thyroid Nodules with Molecular Correlates	4
Well-Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Gallbladder with Paraganglioma-Like Features: a Potential Mimicker of Gallbladder Paraganglioma	4
Clinical and Pathological Features and Gene Expression Profiles of Clinically Aggressive Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas	4
FLCN-Driven Functional Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma with High Mitotic Tumor Grade: Extending the Endocrine Manifestations of Birt-Hogg-Dubé Syndrome	4
Comprehensive Gene Expression Analysis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Reveals a Transcriptional Profile Associated with Reduced Radioiodine Avidity	4

Clinicopathological Features of Epstein-Barr Virus-Positive Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: Analysis of Twenty-Two Cases	4
Unravelling the Reasons Behind Limited Response to Anti-PD Therapy in ATC: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Tumor-Infiltrating Immune Cells and Checkpoints	4
DLL3 Expression in Neuroendocrine Carcinomas and Neuroendocrine Tumours: Insights From a Multicentric Cohort of 1294 Pulmonary and Extrapulmonary Neuroendocrine Neoplasms	3
Overview of the 2022 WHO Classification of Pituitary Tumors	3
Immunoreactivity of HOXB13 in Neuroendocrine Neoplasms Is a Sensitive and Specific Marker of Rectal Well-Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumors	3
PHOX2B is a Sensitive and Specific Marker for the Histopathological Diagnosis of Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma	3
Overview of the 2022 WHO Classification of Parathyroid Tumors	3
Consensus Statement: Recommendations on Actionable Biomarker Testing for Thyroid Cancer Management	3
Endocrine Pathology Society Hubert Wolfe Award for 2024: Call for Nominations	3
Immature PIT1-Lineage Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumor: a 17-Year-Old Male with Pathogenic AIP Mutation	3
DICER1 Mutations Occur in More Than One-Third of Follicular-Patterned Pediatric Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas and Correlate with a Low-Risk Disease and Female Gender Predilection	3
Clinical and Molecular Characteristics of Gonadotroph Pituitary Tumors According to the WHO Classification	3
Special Issue On the 2022 WHO Classification of Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Tumors: a New Primer for Endocrine Pathology Practice	3
Sarcomatous Transformation of a Medically Treated Lactotroph Pituitary Neuroendocrine Tumor?	3