OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pediatric and Developmental 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
PLAG1 Immunohistochemical Staining Is a Surrogate Marker for PLAG1 Fusions in Lipoblastomas	43
Pediatric Oral Pathology: Odontogenic Cysts	29
Severe Ciliopathy-Like Phenotype in an Infant With a Novel MPDU1 Missense Variant	17
2022 SPP Fall Meeting Abstracts	13
Correlations of Placental Histopathology, Neonatal Outcome, and Cardiotocogram Baseline Variability and Acceleration Patterns in the Growth Restricted Preterm Population	12
Triaging and Evaluation of Products of Conception in Abortions and Post-Partum Hemorrhage	12
Civatte Bodies in Pediatric Esophageal Biopsies: Does Lichen Esophagitis Pattern Occur in Children?	11
Is Conservative Management of Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm With Papillary-Like Nuclear Features (NIFTP) Possible in Children?	11
Intrahepatic Cholangiolitis in Cystic Fibrosis (ICCF): An Under-Appreciated Cause of Persistent Cholestasis in Infancy	10
Evaluating Intestinal Metaplasia in Pediatric Gallbladder Specimens: Clinicopathologic Significance and Sampling Thresholds	10
Clinicopathological and Molecular Characteristics of Intraosseous Rhabdomyosarcoma Involving Head and Neck Region: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	10
Pediatric Extra-Axial Chordoma: Case Report and Literature Review	9
Growing Coronary Aneurysm Secondary to Coronary Fistula Despite Decreased Pulmonary Blood Flow/Systemic Blood Flow Ratio in a Child: A Case Report	9
A Rare Case of Early T-Precursor Lymphoblastic Lymphoma (ETP-LBL) in a Child With Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome	8
Histopathological, Ultrastructural, and Immunohistochemical Findings in MYH11-Variant Visceral Myopathy	8
Automated Tumor Count for Mitosis-Karyorrhexis Index Determination in Neuroblastoma Using Whole Slide Image and Qupath, an Image Analytic Software	7
Urorectal Septum Malformation Sequence With Retroperitoneal Neuroblastoma: A Case Report of an Unusual Association	7
Artificial Intelligence in Pediatric Pathology: The Extinction of a Medical Profession or the Key to a Bright Future?	7
Biliary Atresia Remnants Revisited: Myogenesis, Hepatic Duct-Like Structures, and Fate of Peribiliary Glands	7
Primary Intraosseous Spindle Cell Rhabdomyosarcoma: A Case Report in an Unusual Location	7
Single Umbilical Artery Umbilical Cord Is Associated With High-Grade Distal Fetal Vascular Malperfusion	7
Cellular Fibroma of Tendon Sheath With Novel TNC-USP6 Gene Fusion Clinically Mimicking Arthritis in a 7-Year-Old Boy	6
Pediatric Odontogenic Tumors	6
Rhabdomyosarcoma: How Advanced Molecular Methods Are Shaping the Diagnostic and Therapeutic Paradigm	6
Gross and Histologic Placental Abnormalities Associated With Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy	6

Submucosal Nerve Diameter in the Rectum Increases With Age: An Important Consideration for the Diagnosis of Hirschsprung Disease	6
Enid Gilbert Barness: In Memoriam	6
Congenital Infantile Fibrosarcoma Involving Pelvic Wall and Thigh Soft Tissues and Placenta, Presenting with Coagulopathy	6
Ingested Foreign Bodies Can Cause Appendicitis and Perforation: A Multi-Institutional Case Series	6
Bacillus cereus Sepsis in Preterm Neonates Caused by Central Venous Catheter: A Case Report	5
Selective Immunoreactivity for WT1 Carboxy-Terminus Distinguishes Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor From its Histologic Mimics	5
Remote Placental Sign-Out: What Digital Pathology Can Offer for Pediatric Pathologists	5
Response to Letter to the Editor: “Remote Placental Sign-Out: What Digital Pathology Can Offer for Pediatric Pathologists”	5
Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders: A new Path	5
Thanks to Reviewers	5
Giant Multilocular Prostatic Cystadenoma in a 14-Year-Old Male: A Case Report of a Pediatric Pelvic Mass	5
Case Series of 6 Fetuses With Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type II: A Retrospective Study of Heart Pathology	5
Malignant Mesothelioma With EWSR1-ATF1 Fusion in Two Adolescent Male Patients	5
Clear Cell Sarcoma of the Kidney (CCSK) With BCOR-CCNB3 Fusion: A Rare Case Report With a Brief Review of the Literature	5
The Variable Definition of “Negative Appendicitis” Remains a Surgical Challenge	5
Placental Heterogeneity in Stillbirth and Its Relations to Maternal Exogenous Characteristics	5
CLPB Deficiency Associated Neonatal Cavitating Leukoencephalopathy: A Potential Pathomechanism Underlying Neurologic Disorder	5
George A. Bannayan, MD (1931–2021), the man behind Bannayan–Riley–Ruvalcaba syndrome	5
Fetal Supraventricular Tachycardia: Histologic Evidence of Accessory Pathways Due to Incomplete Annulus Fibrosus Formation	5
Diagnostic Utility of BCL-1/Cyclin D1 Immunohistochemical Staining in the Evaluation of Hirschsprung Disease	4
Giant Cell Myocarditis in Children: Elusive Giant Cells Might Not Be the Only Clue	4
Anomalous Origin of the Right Coronary Artery From Pulmonary Trunk in a Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome With 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 Microdeletion: A Novel Association	4
Intraoperative Diagnosis for Pediatric Brain Tumors	4
Validation of a Recently Proposed Histologic Grading System (The Farooq Grade) for Colonic Graft-Versus-Host Disease in the Pediatric Population	4
Fetal and Neonatal Autopsy in the Molecular Age: Exploring Tissue Selection for Testing Success	4
Aortic Dissection and a Previously Unreported ACTA2 Missense Variant Mutation in a Young Patient: A Case Report	4
Validation of A Nationwide Digital Pediatric Pathology Consultation Network	4
Abstracts of the 2022 SPP Spring Meeting	4
Indian Childhood Cirrhosis: Report of 2 Cases With Review of Literature and Implication of Metallothionein Immunohistochemical Expression	4
Clinical, Pathological, and Molecular Findings in a Mexican Patient With Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis Type 2: Support for Pathogenicity of the c.1226 G>T Variant and for Presence of Cherry-Red Sp	4
A Malignant Mimicker: Features of Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease in the Pediatric Population	4
Anaplastic Sarcoma of Kidney and DICER1	4
Maternal Hemoglobin A1c in the Third-Trimester May Underestimate Maternal Hyperglycemia and Its Impact on Offspring in Perinatal Demise Associated With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: An Autopsy Case S	4
A Cardiocraniofacial Syndrome Associated With a Novel Missense Variant in GATA6 : A Fetal Case Report	4
Variant Pseudocystic Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor With Heterologous Mullerian Cysts	3
Expanding the Spectrum of EWSR1::CREM Fusion Tumors: An Unusual Pediatric Intranasal Myxoid Tumor	3
Undifferentiated Embryonal Sarcoma of the Liver With Rhabdoid Morphology Mimicking Carcinoma: Expanding the Morphologic Spectrum or a Distinct Variant?	3
The Placenta in Congenital Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis: A Case Report of Unusual Involvement of Chorionic Plate and Umbilical Vein	3
Programmed Death Ligand 1 Expression and Related Markers in Pleuropulmonary Blastoma	3
Bilateral Renal Fungal Bezoars and Perinephric Abscess in an Infant With Arthrogryposis-Renal Dysfunction-Cholestasis Syndrome: A Clinico-pathologic Case Report	3
A Review of Selected Dental Anomalies With Histologic Features in the Pediatric Patient	3
Clinicopathologic Characterization of Invasive Fungal Intestinal Infections in Pediatric Patients	3
Clinicopathologic Features of IDEDNIK (MEDNIK) Syndrome in a Term Infant: Histopathologic Features of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Report of a Novel AP1S1 Variant	3
Massive Perivillous Fibrin Deposition and Chronic Histiocytic Intervillositis a Complication of SARS-CoV-2 Infection	3
Renal Expression of CLC-5 and Megalin/Cubilin in Dent-1 Disease With Nonsense Mutations of CLCN5 Gene	3
Congenital Teratocarcinosarcoma With CTNNB1 Gene Mutation Presenting as an Ocular Mass	3
Fetal Vertebral Chondrostasis—Significance of Excessive Cartilage in Vertebral Bodies of Newborns	3
Pediatric Acute Liver Failure: A Clinicopathological Perspective	3
Measures of Fetal Growth and Cardiac Structure in Stillbirths With Placental Maternal Vascular Malperfusion: Evidence for Heart Weight Sparing and Structural Cardiac Alterations in Humans	3
Impact of Congenital Heart Defects on the Developing Brain	3

Gastric Antral Mucosal Changes in Children With Intestinal Metaplasia	3
Exploring the Impact and Prospects of Social Media in Advancing Pediatric Pathology	3
Society for Pediatric Pathologists Abstracts of the 2023 Fall Meeting October 6-8, 2023 Hybrid Meeting	3
A Reassessment of Chorionic Histiocytic Hyperplasia in Association With Other Inflammatory Lesions of the Placenta	3
Comparison of Clinical Diagnosis and Autopsy Findings of Early Neonatal Deaths: Diagnostic Challenges and the Value of Autopsy in Identifying Rare Pathologies	3
What Was Known About Childhood Diabetes Mellitus Before the Discovery of Insulin?	3
Childhood and Adolescent Relapsed/Refractory Aggressive B-Cell Lymphomas With t(8;14) and BCL2 Expression, Burkitt Lymphoma Versus Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma: A Diagnostic Challenge	3
High-Grade Fetal Vascular Malperfusion Is Associated With Diffuse Chorionic Hemosiderosis	3