PHOTOPROBER® Biotin: An Alternative Method for Labeling Archival DNA for Comparative Genomic Hybridization by Dirk Korinth, Konrad Donhuijsen, Ulrike Bockmühl, Iver Petersen

“…Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) represents a powerful method for screening the entire genome of solid tumors for chromosomal imbalances. Particularly it enabled the molecular cytogenetic analysis of archival, formalin‐fixed, paraffin‐embedded (FFPE) tissue. …”
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SPECT and PET Imaging of Meningiomas by Varvara Valotassiou, Anastasia Leondi, George Angelidis, Dimitrios Psimadas, Panagiotis Georgoulias

“…They are the most common primary intracranial neoplasms and represent about 20% of all intracranial tumors. They are usually diagnosed after the third decade of life and they are more frequent in women than in men. …”
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Spontaneous Subcapsular Renal Hematoma: Strange Case in an Anticoagulated Patient with HWMH after Aortic and Iliac Endovascular Stenting Procedure by Michele Greco, Salvatore Butticè, Filippo Benedetto, Francesco Spinelli, Olivier Traxer, Tzevat Tefik, Rosa Pappalardo, Carlo Magno

“…It is caused by renal cysts, benign and malignant renal tumors, vascular lesions, and antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy. …”
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Development of Cerebral Metastasis after Medical and Surgical Treatment of Anal Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Andrew Austin Gassman, Emil Fernando, Casey Jacob Holmes, Umesh Kapur, Joshua M. Eberhardt

“…We report the case of a 67 year old male who was diagnosed on presentation with a poorly differentiated anal squamous cell carcinoma that already had a solitary metastasis to the liver. While the tumors were initially responsive to chemoradiotherapy, the patient’s primary and liver lesions recurred. …”
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Thyroid-Like Follicular Carcinoma of the Kidney in a Young Patient with History of Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia by William W. Wu, Julia T. Chu, Ali Nael, Sherif A. Rezk, Stephen G. Romansky, Lisa Shane

“…Thyroid-like follicular carcinoma of the kidney (TLFCK) is a rare histological variant of renal cell carcinoma not currently included in the World Health Organization classification of renal tumors. Only 24 previous cases of TLFCK have been reported to date. …”
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Rescue ALPPS: Intraoperative Conversion to ALPPS during Synchronous Resection of Rectal Cancer and Liver Metastasis by Terence Jackson, Kelly A. Siegel, Christopher T. Siegel

“…Portal vein embolization (PVE) was first introduced in the 1980s to induce liver hypertrophy, enabling removal of multiple/bilobar tumors. PVE was later combined with sequential hepatectomies with the aim of allowing the liver remnant to hypertrophy (15–20%) between procedures. …”
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Comparative Study between Plastic and Metallic Stents for Biliary Decompression in Patients with Distal Biliary Obstruction by João Guilherme G. Cabral, Eloy Taglieri, Adriane Pelosof, Daniel Rosendo, José Celso Ardengh

“…Diagnoses were 44 pancreatic adenocarcinoma (74.6%), 9 metastasis (15.5%), 3 pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (5.1%), and 2 adenocarcinoma in the major papilla (3.4%). …”
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Lung cancer classification with Convolutional Neural Network Architectures by Shivan H. M. Mohammed, Ahmet Çinar

“… One of the most common malignant tumors in the world today is lung cancer, and it is the primary cause of death from cancer. …”
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Low-grade sarcoma of the cervix: an unusual diagnosis by Maurice José González Basulto, Gustavo de Jesús Crespo Campo, Dayan Cervantes Peláez

“…Introduction: Low-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma is a tumor that represents less than one percent of all uterine malignancies. …”
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Solitary Encapsulated Neurofibroma Not Associated with Neurofibromatosis-1 Affecting Tongue in a 73-Year-Old Female by Sk. Abdul Mahmud, Neha Shah, Moumita Chattaraj, Swagata Gayen

“…Neurofibromas are benign tumors of nerve cell origin arising due to proliferation of Schwann cells and fibroblasts. …”
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Magnetic Resonance Enterography: The Test of Choice in Diagnosing Intestinal “Zebras” by Anjali S. Kumar, Jasna Coralic, Reid Vegeler, Kirthi Kolli, John Liang, Allison Estep, Allen P. Chudzinski, James D. McFadden

“…Small bowel tumors and other rare intestinal disorders are often exceedingly difficult to identify. …”
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Role of New Functional MRI Techniques in the Diagnosis, Staging, and Followup of Gynecological Cancer: Comparison with PET-CT by Elena Alvarez Moreno, Mar Jimenez de la Peña, Raquel Cano Alonso

“…Both techniques can be used as biomarkers of tumor response and present high accuracy in diagnosis of local recurrence and peritoneal dissemination, with complementary roles depending on histological type, anatomic location and tumoral volume.…”
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Abdominal Wall Desmoid during Pregnancy: Diagnostic Challenges by Johnny Awwad, Nadine Hammoud, Chantal Farra, Farah Fares, George Abi Saad, Ghina Ghazeeri

“…Background. Desmoids are benign tumors, with local invasive features and no metastatic potential, which have rarely been described to be pregnancy associated. …”
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Cold exposure reinstates NAD+ levels and attenuates hepatocellular carcinoma by Tatiana P Grazioso, Maria del Mar Rigual, Cristian Perna, Eduardo J Caleiras, Nabil Djouder

“…Mechanistically, exposure to cold temperatures reinstates NAD + levels in the HCC mouse model s that originally exhibited low NAD + levels , a contributing process to the development of liver tumors. These findings uncover the role of cold therapy to attenuate HCC development and potentially other existing malignancies involving NAD + modulation.…”
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Leiomyoma of the Cheek by Ricardo Roberto de Souza Fonseca, Mário Augusto Ramos Junior, Douglas Baruchi, Tabata Resque Beckmann Carvalho, Andresa Borges Soares, Silvio Augusto Fernandes de Menezes, João de Jesus Viana Pinheiro, Jorge Nazareno Ferreira Fadul

“…Leiomyomas are rare benign tumors that grow in the tunica media of smooth muscle cells. …”
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Endoscopic Resection of Sinonasal Hemangiopericytoma following Preoperative Embolisation: A Case Report and Literature Review by Georg J. Ledderose, Donata Gellrich, Markus Holtmannspötter, Andreas Leunig

“…Hemangiopericytoma is a rare tumor entity deriving from pericytes. Less than 5% of hemangiopericytoma occur in the nasal cavity and are characterised by a rather benign nature with low tendency of metastasis. …”
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Cell Transplantation for Spinal Cord Injury: Tumorigenicity of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Stem/Progenitor Cells by Junhao Deng, Yiling Zhang, Yong Xie, Licheng Zhang, Peifu Tang

“…This review discusses the tumorigenicity of iPSC-derived NS/PCs focusing on the two different routes of tumorigenicity (teratomas and true tumors) and underlying mechanisms behind them, as well as possible solutions to circumvent them.…”
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Association of PIK3CA somatic mutations with clinicopathological parameters in breast cancer by Gizem Teoman, Zeynep Turkmen Usta, Zeynep Sagnak Yilmaz, Sevdegul Aydin Mungan, Ismail Saygin

“…Pathogenic PIK3CA mutations were significantly correlated with tumor size ( p = 0.015) and tumor location ( p = 0.017). …”
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Th22 Cells/IL-22 Serves as a Protumor Regulator to Drive Poor Prognosis through the JAK-STAT3/MAPK/AKT Signaling Pathway in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer by Yinan Yao, Guangdie Yang, Guohua Lu, Jiani Ye, Luyun Cui, Zhu Zeng, Junjun Chen, Jianying Zhou

“…The interaction of immune cells and cytokines in the tumor microenvironment affects the development and prognosis of tumors with an unclear potential regulatory mechanism. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of the Combination of Transarterial Chemoembolization with Camrelizumab plus Apatinib for Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Retrospective Study of 38 Patient... by Jin-Xing Zhang, Yu-Xing Chen, Chun-Gao Zhou, Jin Liu, Sheng Liu, Hai-Bin Shi, Qing-Quan Zu

“…The objective response rate (ORR) and disease control rate (DCR) according to modified response evaluation criteria in solid tumors, progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), and adverse events (AEs) were evaluated. …”
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