Topic: College Of American Pathologists Provided

A New Liver Explant Fixation Technique

To the Editor.-Surgical intervention, including orthotopic liver transplantation, is a common modality used in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. Accurate pathologic information is important to clinicians for appropriate staging and prognosticatio
To the Editor.-I read with great interest the excellent article by Drs Toledo and Oliva1 in which the authors enumerated a practical diagnostic approach to smooth muscle neoplasms of the uterus, with an emphasis in the current context on the distinction ...

Poster Presentation: An Observation

To the Editor.-Preparing a poster, especially for the first time, can be quiet challenging. I thought my observations could serve as a guideline for the number of columns, figures, tables, and charts/algorithms that could be included in a poster. These ...

Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics: Principles, Perspectives, and Challenges

Mass spectrometry-based proteomics is an approach to studying protein expression, posttranslationalmodifications, and interactions that provides a wide range of possibilities for analyzing protein functions on a global level. Whereas mass spectrometry is

Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma Is Really Carcinoma In Situ

To the Editor.-After reading the article by Yousem and Beasley1 regarding bronchioloalveolar carcinoma in the lung, we came to realize that the so-called bronchioloalveolar carcinoma defined by the current strict criteria is really carcinoma in situ. The
Lipoblastomas are benign neoplasms of the soft tissue that occur primarily in boys younger than 3 years.1 Although lipoblastomas have been noted to occur all over the body, most occur in the extremities.1 The term lipoblastomatosis refers to the same ...
The diagnosis of breast cancer is devastating news for women of any age and immediately raises a number of pressing questions for the patient: Will the tumor return in the future? Will she survive, and what additional treatments beyond surgery are necessa

Urothelial Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder Presenting as Orbital Metastasis

To the Editor-Metastatic urothelial (transitional) cell carcinoma (TCC) with orbital involvement is extremely rare, with only 16 cases previously reported worldwide. In nearly every case described, the presentation includes a combination of diplopia, prop

Intranodal Palisaded Myofibroblastoma

To the Editor.-We read with interest the article "Intranodal Palisaded Myofibroblastoma" by Nguyen and Eltorky, 1 published in the ARCHIVES. We wish to complement their extensive review by reporting another case, diagnosed by incisional biopsy and confirm

CORRECTION

The last name of Mitsue Muraoka, MD, was incorrectly shown as Okamura in the byline and affiliation footnote of an article that appeared in the October 2005 issue (Fujibayashi M, Aiba M, Iizuka E, Igarashi A, Okamura M, Takagi K. Granulosa cell ...