OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Pathology International 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Atherosclerosis: Known and unknown	93
Guidance for diagnosing autoimmune pancreatitis with biopsy tissues	36
Multiplex gene‐panel testing for lung cancer patients	30
The Japanese Society of Pathology Practical Guidelines on the handling of pathological tissue samples for cancer genomic medicine	28
Stromal metalloproteinases: Crucial contributors to the tumor microenvironment	24
A Japanese case of COVID‐19: An autopsy report	21
Impact of DNA integrity on the success rate of tissue‐based next‐generation sequencing: Lessons from nationwide cancer genome screening project SCRUM‐Japan GI‐SCREEN	20
Evaluation of DNA and RNA quality from archival formalin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded tissue for next‐generation sequencing – Retrospective study in Japanese single institution	19
Distribution of amyloidosis subtypes based on tissue biopsy site − Consecutive analysis of 729 patients at a single amyloidosis center in Japan	19
RHOA mutation in follicular T‐cell lymphoma: Clinicopathological analysis of 16 cases	18
High B7‐H3 expression is linked to increased risk of prostate cancer progression	17
LncRNA‐MALAT1 regulates proliferation and apoptosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells via miR‐205‐PTK7 pathway	15
Microsecretory adenocarcinoma of the hard palate: A case report of a recently described entity	15
Development of mesothelioma in situ and its progression to invasive disease observed in a patient with uncontrolled pleural effusions for 15 years	15
KIFC1 regulates ZWINT to promote tumor progression and spheroid formation in colorectal cancer	14
Ewing and Ewing‐like sarcomas: A morphological guide through genetically‐defined entities	14
Expression of CA2 and CA9 carbonic anhydrases in ulcerative colitis and ulcerative colitis‐associated colorectal cancer	14
Investigation of IgG4‐positive cells in idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease and validation of the 2020 exclusion criteria for IgG4‐related disease	13
Significance of stratifin in early progression of lung adenocarcinoma and its potential therapeutic relevance	13
Expression status of PD‐L1 and B7‐H3 in mesothelioma	13
Comprehensive pathological assessment of histological subtypes, molecular subtypes based on immunohistochemistry, and tumor‐associated immune cell status in muscle‐invasive bladder cancer	12
ASMTL‐AS1 impedes the malignant progression of lung adenocarcinoma by regulating SAT1 to promote ferroptosis	12
Myocarditis after COVID‐19 mRNA vaccination in three young adult males: Significance of biopsy in vaccine‐associated myocarditis	12
B cell lymphoma with IRF4 rearrangement: A clinicopathological study of 13 cases	11
CD163‐positive cancer cells are a predictor of a worse clinical course in lung adenocarcinoma	11

Translational cell biology of highly malignant osteosarcoma	11
PCBP2 knockdown promotes ferroptosis in malignant mesothelioma	11
EWSR1‐CREM fusion in pulmonary mesenchymal neoplasm showing distinctive clear cell morphology	11
The circRNA circ_0000291 acts as a sponge of microRNA 326 to regulate E26 transformation‐specific sequence‐1 expression and promote breast cancer progression	10
Age‐related EBV‐associated B‐cell lymphoproliferative disorders and other EBV + lymphoproliferative diseases: New insights into immune escape and immunodeficiency through staining with anti‐PD‐L1 anti	10
Matrix remodeling‐associated protein 8 is a marker of a subset of cancer‐associated fibroblasts in pancreatic cancer	10
Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) promoter mutation correlated with intratumoral heterogeneity in hepatocellular carcinoma	9
In vitro three‐dimensional culture systems of salivary glands	9
Membranous HEG1 expression is a useful marker in the differential diagnosis of epithelioid and biphasic malignant mesothelioma versus carcinomas	9
Gastritis cystica profunda is associated with aberrant p53 and Epstein–Barr virus in gastric cancer: A clinicopathological, immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization study	9
High‐grade salivary gland carcinoma with the ETV6‐NTRK3 gene fusion: A case report and literature review of secretory carcinoma with high‐grade transformation	9
Prognostic impact of 8‐hydroxy‐deoxyguanosine and its repair enzyme 8‐hydroxy‐deoxyguanosine DNA glycosylase in hepatocellular carcinoma	8
Clinicopathological significance of intelectin‐1 in colorectal cancer: Intelectin‐1 participates in tumor suppression and favorable progress	8
Liver pathology in pregnancy	8
High Transaldolase 1 expression predicts poor survival of patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma	8
Skeletal EWSR1‐NFATC2 sarcoma previously diagnosed as Ewing‐like adamantinoma: A case report and literature review emphasizing its unique radiological features	8
Primordial odontogenic tumor occurred in the maxilla with unique calcifications and its crucial points for differential diagnosis	8
AID is a poor prognostic marker of high‐grade B‐cell lymphoma with MYC and BCL2 and/or BCL6 rearrangements	8
Biological categories of neuroblastoma based on the international neuroblastoma pathology classification for treatment stratification	8
NTRK gene fusions are detected in both secretory and non‐secretory breast cancers	8
Underlying mechanisms of thrombus formation/growth in atherothrombosis and deep vein thrombosis	8
Tissue factor expression and tumor‐infiltrating T lymphocytes in ovarian carcinomas and their association with venous thromboembolism	8
An autopsy case study of lymphocytic hypophysitis induced by nivolumab treatment for esophageal malignant melanoma	8
Upregulation of REV7 correlates with progression of malignant melanoma	7
Idylla MSI test combined with immunohistochemistry is a valuable and cost effective strategy to search for microsatellite instable tumors of noncolorectal origin	7
The first case of gastric leiomyosarcoma developed through malignant transformation of leiomyoma	7
Role of immunoproteasomes and thymoproteasomes in health and disease	7
Genomic‐based ancillary assays offer improved diagnostic yield of effusion cytology with potential challenges in malignant pleural mesothelioma	7
Increased expression of REV7 in small cell lung carcinomas and its association with tumor cell survival and proliferation	7
Genomic profiling of multiple primary cancers including synchronous lung adenocarcinoma and bilateral malignant mesotheliomas: Identification of a novel BAP1 germline variant	7
Whole‐genome copy number and immunohistochemical analyses on surgically resected intracholecystic papillary neoplasms	7
Overexpression of aldolase, fructose‐bisphosphate C and its association with spheroid formation in colorectal cancer	7
Detection of synovial sarcoma with an atypical fusion transcript by using SS18‐SSX and SSX antibodies	6
Pathology of clear cell carcinoma of the ovary: A basic view based on cultured cells and modern view from comprehensive approaches	6
A clinicopathologic and molecular analysis of five cases of bronchiolar adenoma with rare mutations	6
Histological alterations following fine‐needle aspiration for parathyroid adenoma: Incidence and diagnostic problems	6
A comparison of the usefulness of nuclear beta‐catenin in the diagnosis of desmoid‐type fibromatosis among commonly used anti‐beta‐catenin antibodies	6
Crosstalk of tumor stromal cells orchestrates invasion and spreading of gastric cancer	6
Co‐occurrence of EBV‐positive classic Hodgkin lymphoma and B‐cell lymphomas of different clonal origins: A case report and literature review	6
Primary pulmonary choriocarcinoma with a genomic sequence	6
Mechanisms of development and progression of pancreatic neoplasms	6
Correlation between endothelial CXCR7 expression and clinicopathological factors in oral squamous cell carcinoma	6
Clinicopathological significance of the overexpression of MUC1 in upper tract urothelial carcinoma and possible application as a diagnostic marker	6
Homeobox transcription factor engrailed homeobox 1 is a possible diagnostic marker for adenoid cystic carcinoma and polymorphous adenocarcinoma	6
Clinicopathological analysis of follicular lymphoma with BCL2, BCL6, and MYC rearrangements	6
Intraoperative pathology consultation during urological surgery: Impact on final margin status and pitfalls of frozen section diagnosis	6
NTRK fusion‐positive colorectal cancer in Japanese population	6
Update of pathological diagnosis of pleural mesothelioma using genomic‐based morphological techniques, for both histological and cytological investigations	6
Involvement of the p53‐p16/RB pathway control mechanism in early‐stage carcinogenesis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma	6
Evaluation of clinical formalin‐fixed paraffin‐embedded tissue quality for targeted‐bisulfite sequencing	6

Mixed acinar‐neuroendocrine carcinoma with amphicrine features of the pancreas: Two rare cases with diffuse co‐expression of acinar and neuroendocrine markers	5
Combined A20 and tripartite motif‐containing 44 as poor prognostic factors for breast cancer patients of the Japanese population	5
An autopsy case of fulminant myocarditis after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 vaccine inoculation	5
Neural EGFL like 2 expressed in myoepithelial cells and suppressed breast cancer cell migration	5
Benign notochordal cell tumor of the lung: Report of a case	5
Asbestos‐induced mesothelial injury and carcinogenesis: Involvement of iron and reactive oxygen species	5
Antinuclear antibody pattern and autoantibody profiling of systemic sclerosis patients in a tertiary referral center in North India	5
Skene gland adenocarcinoma: Clinicopathologic features, comprehensive biomarker analysis, and review of the literature	5
Gastrointestinal tract metastasis of lung cancer: The PD‐L1 expression and correlated clinicopathological variables	5
Primary intramucosal synovial sarcoma of the sigmoid colon in a patient with a germline mutation in the MSH2 gene: A case report	5
Neuroendocrine tumor G3 of bronchopulmonary origin and its classification	5
Two autopsy cases of mitochondrial disease (MELAS and MERRF) with special reference to the histological and immunohistochemical findings of the pancreatic islets	5
INSM1 immunostaining in solid papillary carcinoma of the breast	5
Significance of tumor microenvironment in acquiring resistance to vascular endothelial growth factor‐tyrosine kinase inhibitor and recent advance of systemic treatment of clear cell renal cell carcino	5
Hepatoid carcinoma and related entities of the extrahepatic bile duct: A clinicopathological study of four cases	5
Peritoneal adenomatoid (microcystic) mesothelioma	5
Colitis nucleomigrans: The third type of microscopic colitis (part 2). An ultrastructural study	5
High phospho‐histone H3 expression uniquely predicts favorable survival among four markers of cellular proliferation in colorectal cancer	5
Utility of highly expressed EZH2 in pleural effusion cytology for the diagnosis of mesothelioma	5
Histiocytic and dendritic cell neoplasms: Reappraisal of a Japanese series based on t(14;18) and neoplastic PD‐L1 expression	5
Notch‐Hes1 signaling activation in Caroli disease and polycystic liver disease	5
A genome‐wide analysis of the molecular alterations occurring in the adenomatous and carcinomatous components of the same tumor based on the adenoma–carcinoma sequence	4
PD‐L1 expression on tumor or stromal cells of nodal cytotoxic T‐cell lymphoma: A clinicopathological study of 50 cases	4
IgG4 plasma cell myeloma: Clinicopathological characteristics and diagnosis	4
Elastin and collagen IV double staining: A refined method to detect blood vessel invasion in breast cancer	4
Non‐sebaceous lymphadenoma‐like mucoepidermoid carcinoma: A case report	4
Histological evaluation of tumor differentiation score and prognosis of extrahepatic bile duct cancer: A proposal for a new histological grading system	4
High expression of Ras‐specific guanine nucleotide‐releasing factor 2 (RasGRF2) in lung adenocarcinoma is associated with tumor invasion and poor prognosis	4
Maternal death analysis based on data from the nationwide registration system in Japan (2010–2018)	4
Juxtaglomerular cell tumor: Clinicopathologic evaluation in a large series emphasizing its broad histologic spectrum	4
High‐grade neuroepithelial tumor with BCL6 corepressor‐alteration presenting pathological and radiological calcification: A case report	4
Mucin distribution in bronchiolar adenoma/ciliated muconodular papillary tumor reveals organoid differentiation simulating the normal lung	4
Expression of cancer testis antigens in thymic epithelial tumors	4
Human herpesvirus 8‐positive multicentric Castleman disease with germinotropic plasmablastic aggregates: Overlapping spectrum of human herpesvirus 8‐associated lymphoproliferative disorder	4
Exploring the pitfalls of large language models: Inconsistency and inaccuracy in answering pathology board examination‐style questions	4
Myofibroblastoma of the breast showing rare palisaded morphology and uncommon desmin‐ and CD34‐negative immunophenotype: A case report	4
Autopsy case with concurrent transthyretin and immunoglobulin amyloidosis	4
Pathological aspects of mucinous cholangiocarcinoma: A single‐center experience and systematic review	4
A whole‐slide imaging based workflow reduces the reading time of pathologists	4
Primary IgG4‐producing extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa‐associated lymphoid tissue (MALT lymphoma) in the cavernous sinus: A mimicker of IgG4‐related disease/hypertrophic pachymeningitis	4
Nuclear staining of claudin‐18 is a new immunohistochemical marker for diagnosing intramucosal well‐differentiated gastric adenocarcinoma	3
The role of Wnt, ARL4C, and Sema3A in developmental process and disease pathogenesis	3
The decline of FANCM immunohistochemical expression in prostate cancer stroma correlates with the grade group	3
A case of Langerhans cell sarcoma on the scalp: Whole‐exome sequencing reveals a role of ultraviolet in the pathogenesis	3
An autopsy case of prostatic rhabdomyosarcoma with DICER1 hotspot mutation	3
Difference in the distribution of tumor‐infiltrating CD8+ T cells and FOXP3+ T cells between micronodular thymoma with lymphoid stroma and micronodular thymic carcinoma with lymphoid stroma	3
Activating HRAS mutation in a case of inverted ductal papilloma of the salivary gland	3
Dysregulation of microRNA expression during the progression of colorectal tumors	3
Development of extrahepatic bile ducts and mechanisms of tumorigenesis: Lessons from mouse models	3
The standard form of CD44 as a marker for invasion of encapsulated papillary carcinoma of the breast	3
Post‐mortem differential diagnosis from COVID‐19: A case of fulminant myocarditis HHV‐6 related	3
Identification of an EML4‐ALK rearrangement in an intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma	3
Paraneoplastic pemphigus and fatal bronchiolitis obliterans associated with Castleman disease: Report of an autopsy case	3
Pancreatic hamartoma mimicking neuroendocrine tumor	3
RB1 gene mutations are a distinct predictive factor in Merkel cell carcinoma	3
A collision tumor of solitary fibrous tumor/hemangiopericytoma and meningioma: A case report with literature review	3
Modeling fusion gene‐associated sarcoma: Advantages for understanding sarcoma biology and pathology	3
Quantitative assessment of HER2 gene amplification of breast cancer using droplet digital PCR	3
Two cases of mammary acinic cell carcinomas with microglandular structures mimicking microglandular adenosis	3
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor arising from soft tissues of extremities harboring a novel CLIP2‐ALK fusion	3
Nodal diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma with neoplastic PD‐L1 positivity, but without EBV association: Three cases highlighting an aspect of gray zone lymphoma	3
Clinicopathological and molecular characteristics of endometrial neuroendocrine carcinomas reveal preexisting endometrial carcinoma origin	3
Effects of sporadic transthyretin amyloidosis frequently on the gallbladder and the correlation between amyloid deposition in the gallbladder and heart: A forensic autopsy‐based histopathological eval	3
Giant cell tumor of bone – Analysis of 213 cases involving extra‐craniofacial bones	3
Sex‐dependent expression of prostatic markers and hormone receptors in cystic tumor of the atrioventricular node: A histopathological study of three cases	3
Lipofibroadenoma arising in hyperplastic thymic tissue: Possible perivascular origin of lipofibroadenoma	3
Mantle cell lymphoma with EBV‐positive Hodgkin and Reed–Sternberg‐like cells in a patient after autologous PBSCT: Phenotypically distinct but genetically related tumors	3
Deletion of BART miRNA‐encoding cluster in Epstein–Barr virus DNA in classic Hodgkin lymphoma	3
Metabolic and epigenetic reprogramming in the pathogenesis of glioblastoma: Toward the establishment of “metabolism‐based pathology”	3
Tumor‐suppressive miR‐323a inhibits pancreatic cancer cell proliferation and glycolysis through targeting HK‐2	3
The highest Fuhrman and WHO/ISUP grade influences the Ki‐67 labeling index of those of grades 1 and 2 in clear cell renal cell carcinoma	3
A case of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis complicated by interstitial nephritis related to streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin B	3