Acute Kidney Injury Secondary to Necrotizing Sarcoid Granulomatosis by Varun Mamidi, Manikantan Shekar, Jaiju James Chakola, Vamsi Krishna Makkena, Jayakumar Matcha

“…Due to its rarity and diagnostic difficulty, treatment is challenging for clinicians, pathologists and radiologists. Treatment of choice for symptomatic patients is steroid therapy. …”
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Observer Performance in the Use of Digital and Optical Microscopy for the Interpretation of Tissue-Based Biomarkers by Marios A. Gavrielides, Catherine Conway, Neil O’Flaherty, Brandon D. Gallas, Stephen M. Hewitt

“…To examine observer agreement as a function of viewing modality (digital versus optical microscopy), whole slide versus tissue microarray (TMA) review, biomarker type (HER2 incorporating membranous staining and Ki-67 with nuclear staining), and data type (continuous and categorical). Methods. Eight pathologists reviewed 50 breast cancer whole slides (25 stained with HER2 and 25 with Ki-67) and 2 TMAs (1 stained with HER2, 1 with Ki-67, each containing 97 cores), using digital and optical microscopy. …”
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Gastric Carcinoma with Osteoclast-Like Giant Cells Coexisting with Gastrointestinal Spindle Cell Tumor by Christos Poulios, Triantafyllia Koletsa, Antonis Goulas, Georgia Karayannopoulou, Eleni Vrettou, Ioannis Kostopoulos

“…Due to the limited number of the reported cases, the prognostic value of OGCs is under discussion. Furthermore, pathologists should be aware that incidental GIST may accompany any tumor.…”
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Correlation between Histological Activity and Endoscopic, Clinical, and Serologic Activities in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis by Dae Bum Kim, Kang-Moon Lee, Ji Min Lee, Yoon Yung Chung, Hea Jung Sung, Chang Nyol Paik, Woo Chul Chung, Ji-Han Jung, Hyun Joo Choi

“…Biopsy specimens were reviewed by two blinded pathologists and scored using the Geboes scoring system. …”
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Adaptive genetic algorithm based deep feature selector for cancer detection in lung histopathological images by Avigyan Roy, Priyam Saha, Nandita Gautam, Friedhelm Schwenker, Ram Sarkar

“…Imaging tests on different image modalities such as Histopathology images, provide valuable insights into the cellular and architectural features of tissues, allowing pathologists to make diagnosis, determine disease stages, and guide treatment decisions. …”
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Rehabilitation of Speech and Swallowing Disorder in a Patient With Severe Brain Injury in the Subacute Phase: A Case Report by Morteza Farazi, Niyayesh Aali, Seyed Majid Akhvan Hejazi

“…The multiple professional team includes physicians, nurses, speech and language pathologists, and clinical dietitians. He also suffered a fracture in the left clavicle after the accident. …”
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Formalin Fixation as Tissue Preprocessing for Multimodal Optical Spectroscopy Using the Example of Human Brain Tumour Cross Sections by Mona Stefanakis, Anita Lorenz, Jörg W. Bartsch, Miriam C. Bassler, Alexandra Wagner, Marc Brecht, Axel Pagenstecher, Jens Schittenhelm, Barbara Boldrini, Sabrina Hakelberg, Susan Noell, Christopher Nimsky, Marcos Tatagiba, Rainer Ritz, Karsten Rebner, Edwin Ostertag

“…One emerging technique to assist pathologists in future tumour diagnostics is multimodal optical spectroscopy. …”
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Thrombospondin and VEGF-R: Is There a Correlation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease? by Jaroslaw Wejman, Michal Pyzlak, Dariusz Szukiewicz, Dorota Jarosz, Wieslaw Tarnowski, Grzegorz Szewczyk

“…Histological sections were immunostained with antibodies against CD-31, TSP-1, and VEGFR-1 and analyzed by pathologists with the use of computer-assisted morphometrics. …”
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Morphological and immunohistochemical analysis in encapsulated follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma, invasive follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma and a new ent... by Zeliha Çelik, Naile Kökbudak, Fahriye Kilinç, Pembe Oltulu

“…When evaluating whether the IHC expression patterns used in PTCs differ in NIFTP cases, it was found that CD44 could serve as an additional IHC stain that may guide pathologists during the diagnosis.…”
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Effects and Mechanisms of Silibinin on Influenza A/H1N1 Pathogenesis in a Mouse Model by Mohsen Keshavarz, Mohsen Ghorbani, Forough Shamsizadeh, Haideh Namdari, Vahid Salimi, Farhad Rezaei

“…Finally, pathological damage to lung tissue was assessed by pathologists. The results reveal that silibinin pretreatment exhibits a dose-dependent immunomodulatory effect on IFN-γ and IL-10 levels. …”
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Diagnosing Oncocytoma by Core Needle Biopsy: A Single-Center Experience by Chen Mayer, Yasmin Abu-Ghanem, Zohar A. Dotan, Iris Barshack, Eddie Fridman

“…Our study demonstrates that with good patient selection and proficient cooperation between urologists, radiologists and dedicated uro-pathologists, correctly diagnosing oncocytomas using RCB is a viable task. …”
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A comparative study of breast lesions using the IAC Yokohama System for reporting breast cytopathology against histopathological biopsy by Chandrakala Joshi, Ruchi Varma, Shruti Tiwari Pande

“…Conclusion: Implementing the IAC Yokohama System for reporting breast cytopathology through structured reporting will enhance the quality, clarity, and reproducibility of reports among pathologists and clinicians, which would result in enhanced patient care and management.…”
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Corrosive induced esophageal and gastric injury: Histopathological evaluation of surgically resected specimens over a decade in a tertiary care center by Jimil Shah, Anuraag Jena, Shweta Shweta, Kim Vaiphei, Vikas Gupta, Naveen Kumar, Anupam K Singh, Rakesh Kochhar

“…Pathological examination was conducted by two independent gastro-pathologists to evaluate the extent and depth of the caustic injury, presence or absence of tissue necrosis, type and degree of inflammation, or presence of any dysplastic cells. …”
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Evaluation of the significance of tumor stromal patterns and peri-tumoral inflammation in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma with special reference to the Yamamoto–Kohama classi... by Geet Bhuyan, Prabir Hazarika, Anju M. Rabha

“…The hematoxylin and eosin (H and E)-stained sections from all cases were examined by two experienced pathologists for the grade, nature of stomal reaction (SR), peri-tumoral inflammatory infiltration, Yamamoto–Kohama classification grade, worst pattern of invasion (WPOI), depth of invasion (DOI), and other histopathological parameters. …”
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Assessment of endometrial carcinoma on biopsy as a predictor of final surgical pathology: Are we doing it right? A completed audit cycle and recommendations by Aneeta Jassar, Nour Hemali, Anjali Bhatnagar

“…Settings and Design: The audit was approved by the Clinical Effectiveness Team of the Royal College of Pathologists (UK) as meeting all the criteria and standards set out by the College. …”
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Evaluation of the histopathological spectrum of skin biopsies in patients with chronic kidney disease: A single-center experience by Amany A Fathaddin

“…The quality of life of CKD patients will be significantly improved by identifying and managing these conditions. Pathologists’ familiarity with this spectrum is important, as a correct histopathologic diagnosis will lead to a better outcome.…”
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PlantAIM: A new baseline model integrating global attention and local features for enhanced plant disease identification by Abel Yu Hao Chai, Sue Han Lee, Fei Siang Tay, Hervé Goëau, Pierre Bonnet, Alexis Joly

“…Conventionally, detection has relied on plant pathologists, but recent advances in deep learning, particularly the Vision Transformer (ViT) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), have made it feasible for automated plant disease identification. …”
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Impact of stain variation and color normalization for prognostic predictions in pathology by Siyu Lin, Haowen Zhou, Mark Watson, Ramaswamy Govindan, Richard J. Cote, Changhuei Yang

“…Abstract In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in pathology applications, potentially even outperforming expert pathologists due to their ability to learn subtle features from large datasets. …”
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A Study Comparing Immunohistochemistry, Fluorescence in situ hybridization, GeneXpert® Breast Cancer STRAT4 Assay for Determining Hormone Receptor, Human Epidermal Growth Factor Re... by Rajaa El Aje, Abdellah Naya, Ayoub Khoaja, Younes Zaid, Mounia Oudghiri, Jodi Weidler, Mehdi Karkouri

“…Immunohistochemistry, the most common method for evaluating these prognostic biomarkers, can be impacted by numerous variabilities due to pre-analytical/analytical factors and subjective interpretation by pathologists. The Xpert® Breast Cancer STRAT4, an RT-qPCR based system, can be used to classify invasive breast carcinomas based on the assessment of these four biomarkers; Methods: We evaluated ESR1, PGR, ERBB2, and MKi67 mRNA expression by Xpert Breast Cancer STRAT4 and ER, PR, HER2 and Ki67 by IHC (FISH for HER2 IHC 2+) in 200 formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue blocks with invasive breast cancer, collected from the Pathology Department of Casablanca Ibn Rochd University Hospital; Results: Concordance between Xpert ® Breast Cancer STRAT4 and IHC was 93.5% for ER, 83.51% for PR, 95% for HER2 (92% for IHC+FISH), and 81.20% for Ki67 (excluding intermediate IHC Staining 10 ≤ %IHC <20). …”
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Global challenges facing plant pathology: multidisciplinary approaches to meet the food security and environmental challenges in the mid-twenty-first century by Michael Jeger, Robert Beresford, Clive Bock, Nathan Brown, Adrian Fox, Adrian Newton, Antonio Vicent, Xiangming Xu, Jonathan Yuen

“…A challenge more readily met once plant pathologists again gather physically at international meetings and return to the professional and social encounters that are fertile grounds for developing new ideas and forging collaborative approaches both within plant pathology and with other disciplines. …”
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