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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Association of ZEB1 and Vimentin with poor prognosis in metaplastic breast cancer	46
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	19
Corrigendum to “Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and intestinal disorders: An observational study” [Ann Diagn Pathol 62 (2023) 152072]	18
Role of histopathology in severity assessments of post-COVID-19 rhino-orbital cerebral mucormycosis - A case-control study	17
The differential expression of toll like receptors and RIG-1 correlates to the severity of infectious diseases	16
Evaluation of the recently established Dutch nationwide Archipelago of Ovarian Cancer Research biobank	15
Florid cemento-osseous dysplasia-related osteonecrosis: A series of cases	14
Epstein-Barr virus latency patterns in polymorphic lymphoproliferative disorders and lymphomas in immunodeficiency settings: Diagnostic implications	14
Clinicopathological evaluation of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis patients: A retrospective analysis from a tertiary care hospital in Turkey	14
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	14
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
Histology and clinical correlations in autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, and autoimmune hepatitis-primary biliary cholangitis overlap syndrome	13
study: A retrospective analysis of 111 livary gland tumors of ung and racheobronchial ree	13
Prognostic implications of synaptophysin, CD56, thyroid transcription factor-1, and Ki-67 in pulmonary high-grade neuroendocrine carcinomas	11
Evaluation of the diagnostic utility of NCOA3, Maspin and VHL protein expression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: An immunohistochemical study	11
Primary thymic neuroblastomas in adults: A clinicopathological and immunohistochemical study of three cases	11
Paraganglioma of the cauda equina: A clinicopathologic study of 12 cases with demonstration of cytokeratin positivity	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
Primary intraosseous Rosai-Dorfman disease: Clinicopathological features and an assessment of a possible relationship with IgG4-related disease	11
Diagnostic immunohistochemistry use in Belgian laboratories	10

Nivolumab induced pulmonary sarcoid-like granulomas with a concurrent pleural schwannoma: A pathologic-radiologic correlation of a rare condition mimicking metastatic melanoma	10
Infantile fibrosarcoma with an EGFR kinase domain duplication: Underlining a close relationship with congenital mesoblastic nephroma and highlighting a similar morphological spectrum	10
GPNMB expression differentiates subependymal giant cell astrocytoma from other mimickers	10
Histopathologic evaluation of gastric intestinal metaplasia in non-neoplastic biopsy specimens: Accuracy and interobserver reliability among general pathologists and pathology residents	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
Retrospective study of the clinicopathological characteristics and prognostic factors of gastrointestinal stromal tumors in Chinese patients	10
The “toxic” personality in pathology: An opinion	10
Response to letter to the editor	9
Malignant gastrointestinal neuroectodermal tumor: Cytologic, histologic, immunohistochemical, and molecular pitfalls	9
The effect that pathologic and radiologic interpretation of invasive and non-invasive areas in lung adenocarcinoma has on T-stage and treatment	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
Challenges and limitation of MTAP immunohistochemistry in diagnosing desmoplastic mesothelioma/sarcomatoid pleural mesothelioma with desmoplastic features	9
Histological subtype is associated with PD-L1 expression and CD8+ T-cell infiltrates in triple-negative breast carcinoma	9
Prognostic role of the number of resected and negative lymph nodes in Spanish patients with gastric cancer	9
“Growing fibroadenoma”: Are there clinical and pathological features predicting a phyllodes tumor on surgical excision?	9
INSM1 is a useful neuroendocrine marker to differentiate pancreatic serous cystadenoma from pancreatic well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors in cytology and surgical specimens	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
Mammary analogue secretory carcinoma: A challenging case arising in a young man with radiation exposure	8
Brachyury expression is highly specific for chordoma: A tissue microarray study involving 14,976 cancers from 135 different tumor types and subtypes	8
The topographical distribution of lymph node metastases in colon cancer resections	8
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
Prognostic value of CD44 expression in oral squamous cell carcinoma: A meta-analysis	7
Pathological features of pyloric gland adenoma of the gallbladder in comparison with gastric subtype of intracholecystic papillary neoplasm	7
Influence of luminal and basal subtype in prognosis of high-grade non muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma	7
Cytomorphological changes in thyroid nodules induced by radiofrequency ablation therapy: Emphasis on recurrent papillary thyroid carcinoma	7
Intraoperative pathologic diagnosis of central nervous system lymphomas: A comparison of frozen and permanent section diagnoses, and the significance of preoperative imaging	7
Detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) in malignant melanoma	7
Pitfalls and considerations in the diagnosis of Hirschsprung's disease: A focus on pathological assessment	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
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
Evaluation of tubulin β-3 and 5 hydroxy-methyl cytosine as diagnostic and prognostic markers in malignant melanoma	7
PCR-based analysis of PD-L1 RNA expression in lung cancer: comparison with commonly used immunohistochemical assays	7
Morphological and immunohistochemical characteristics associated with metastatic and recurrent progression in pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma: A cohort study	7
Quantitative histology as a diagnostic tool for celiac disease in children and adolescents	7
Combined expression of HIF1α, VEGF and HER2 predicts metastasis, relapse and response to combination chemotherapy in colorectal cancer patients	7
Beethoven's triad: Diarrhoea, deafness and cirrhosis. A plausible solution to the 195-year-old controversy	7
Cyto-histologic correlation of crystal-storing histiocytosis: Rare presentation in breast, predating diagnosis of B-cell lymphoma by two years	7
The prognostic significance of non-lymphoid immune cells of the tumor microenvironment, including neutrophils, eosinophils, and mast cells in breast carcinomas	7
Clinicopathological analysis of recurrence and progression of low-grade papillary urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder: Predicting the outcome	6
Biphasic squamoid alveolar renal cell carcinoma: Cytologic features of a rare entity	6
Next-generation sequencing has diagnostic utility in challenging small/flat urothelial lesions	6
Digital image analysis of Ki67 hotspot detection and index counting in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms	6
Editorial Board	6
Appendiceal inflammation in colectomy is independently correlated with early pouchitis following ileal pouch anal anastomosis in ulcerative colitis and indeterminate colitis	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
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

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
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
In-memoriam: Ondrej Hes, M.D. (1968–2022)	6
Clinicopathological features of differentiated thyroid carcinoma as predictors of the effects of radioactive iodine therapy	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
Clinical and pathological characteristics of metastatic tumors to the urinary bladder	5
Immunoexpression of HSPA9 and CUL2 in prostatic tissue and adenocarcinoma	5
Diagnostic accuracy of core biopsies of renal masses: Experience in a real-life setting from a tertiary center	5
Xanthogranulomatous inflammation of the female genital tract: An 11-year single institutional study of 40 cases	5
The over diagnosis of diffuse mesothelioma: An analysis of 311 cases with recommendations for the avoidance of pitfalls	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
Fibrous hamartoma of infancy. Radiologic-pathologic study of 21 cases: 8 with predominant pseudoangiomatous pattern	5
Clear cell renal cell carcinoma with prominent microvascular hyperplasia: Morphologic, immunohistochemical and molecular-genetic analysis of 7 sporadic cases	5
Castleman disease-type histopathological patterns of lymph nodes in patients with plasma cell neoplasia and POEMS syndrome	5
Hyalinizing trabecular tumor: Cytologic, histologic and molecular features and diagnostic considerations	5
Annals of diagnostic pathology in 2023 and beyond: The next chapter. [Editorial]	5
Amendments in surgical pathology reports: An 8-year institutional experience	5
Gamna-Gandy bodies in renal neoplasms: A multi-institutional clinicopathologic study of 350 consecutive nephrectomies	5
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1ɑ) in lacrimal gland Adenoid cystic carcinoma: Correlation with clinical outcome	5
Granulomatous lobular mastitis co-existing with ductal carcinoma in situ: Report of three cases and review of the literature	5
The spectrum of cytological findings in patients with BCG lymphadenitis: A series of 13 cases	5
Reporting the neglected cases of temporomandibular joint ganglion cysts in the systematic review	5
Atypical fibroxanthoma and pleomorphic dermal sarcoma: Is superficial infiltration in subcutaneous tissue acceptable in AFX?	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
Histologic, viral, and molecular correlates of heart disease in fatal COVID-19	5
Discordance in receptor status between primary and metastatic breast cancer and overall survival: A single-center analysis	5
Expression of CD25, mast cell markers and T-cell markers in eosinophilic esophagitis	5
Some concerns about the prognostic significance of non-lymphoid immune cells of the tumor microenvironment in breast carcinomas	5
A retrospective analysis of the diagnostic accuracy and technical quality of frozen sections in detecting hepatobiliary lesions	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
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
Primary Ewing sarcoma of the lung: A systematic review of the recent literature	5
From the archives of MD Anderson Cancer Center. Mesothelial/monocytic incidental cardiac excrescence with a review of the literature	5
Primary mucinous tumors of the renal pelvis: Clinical, histopathological, and molecular analysis of three cases	5
FOXP3 expression in duodenal mucosa: Unique role in pathogenesis and differential diagnosis of celiac disease	4
Erdheim-Chester disease collides with myelodysplastic neoplasm in bone marrow	4
HER2 testing in metastatic breast cancer – Is reflex ISH testing necessary on HER2 IHC-equivocal (2+) cases?	4
Thoracic solitary fibrous tumors with small cell features: A clinicopathological and immunohistochemical analysis of 5 cases	4
Smooth muscular layer: A new helpful criterion to reclassify tumor deposits into metastatic lymph nodes in patients with colo-rectal adenocarcinoma	4
Utility of the manual hematology cell counter for Ki-67 assessment in gastrointestinal and pancreatobiliary well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors	4
Salivary gland-like low-grade clear cell carcinomas of the thoracic cavity: A clinical, immunohistochemical, and molecular analysis of three cases	4
Metastatic tumours to the parotid: A 20-year single institutional experience with an emphasis on 14 unusual presentations	4
A new histomorphological finding in the follow-up of celiac disease: Intraepithelial lymphocyte localization is a reliable indicator of dietary compliance	4
In-depth analysis of immunohistochemistry concordance in biopsy-resection pairs of bronchial carcinoids	4
Leptin and its receptor are overexpressed in breast cancer tissue of postmenopausal Mexican-Mestizo women with obesity	4
PD-L1 immunohistochemical expression in bladder urothelial cancer with SP263, SP142 and 22C3 antibodies: A comparative study	4
Performance and limitations of customized ChatGPT in histopathologic diagnosis	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
Pulmonary nodular elastosis: The intraparenchymal counterpart of pulmonary apical caps?	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
Editorial Board	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
Interobserver variability in inconclusive diagnostic categories of thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology: An urban-based tertiary hospital experience	4
Role of SIX1, EYA2, and E-cadherin in ovarian carcinoma. Evidence on epithelial-mesenchymal transition from an immunohistochemical study	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
Genomic profiling amplifies the utility of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle biopsy by identifying clinically applicable druggable mutations in pancreatic cancer	4
Carbon footprint evaluation of routine anatomic pathology practices using eco-audit: Current status and mitigation strategies	4