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Original articles

• Rsf-1 expression in rectal cancer: with special emphasis on the independent prognostic value after neoadjuvant chemoradiation (8 May, 2012)

  Ching-Yih Lin, Yu-Feng Tian, Li-Ching Wu, Li-Tzong Chen, Li-Ching Lin, Chung-Hsi Hsing, Sung-Wei Lee, Ming-Jen Sheu, Hao-Hsien Lee, Yu-Hui Wang, Yow-Ling Shiue, Wen-Ren Wu, Hsuan-Ying Huang, Han-Ping Hsu, Chien-Feng Li, Shang-Hung Chen
• PTEN deletion is rare but often homogeneous in gastric cancer (25 May, 2012)

  Sormeh Mina, Benjamin A Bohn, Ronald Simon, Antje Krohn, Matthias Reeh, Dirk Arnold, Carsten Bokemeyer, Guido Sauter, Jakob R Izbicki, Andreas Marx, Phillip R Stahl
• Neuroendocrine cells associated with neuroendocrine carcinoma of the breast: nature and significance (3 May, 2012)

  Tomonori Kawasaki, Kunio Mochizuki, Hideko Yamauchi, Shingo Inoue, Tetsuo Kondo, Naoki Oishi, Tadao Nakazawa, Tetsu Yamane, Yoshihito Koshimizu, Hiroko Tsunoda, Hiroshi Yagata, Masayuki Inoue, Ayako Inoue, Takanori Maruyama, Hideki Fujii, Ryohei Katoh
• Mucosal large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the head and neck regions in Japanese patients: a distinct clinicopathological entity (20 June, 2012)

  Kimihide Kusafuka, Masato Abe, Yoshiyuki Iida, Tetsuro Onitsuka, Tomohito Fuke, Rei Asano, Tomoyuki Kamijo, Takashi Nakajima
• Encapsulated papillary carcinoma of the breast: a study of invasion associated markers (3 May, 2012)

  Emad A Rakha, May Tun, Enaam Junainah, Ian O Ellis, Andrew Green
• Scoring the percentage of Ki67 positive nuclei is superior to mitotic count and the mitosis marker phosphohistone H3 (PHH3) in terms of differentiating flat lesions of the bladder mucosa (3 May, 2012)

  Sven Gunia, Christoph Kakies, Andreas Erbersdobler, Stefan Koch, Matthias May
• Trends of stage, grade, histology and tumour necrosis in renal cell carcinoma in a European centre surgical series from 1984 to 2010 (25 May, 2012)

  Martin Pichler, Georg C Hutterer, Thomas F Chromecki, Johanna Jesche, Karin Kampel-Kettner, Katharina Eberhard, Gerald Hoefler, Karl Pummer, Richard Zigeuner
• Fibrosing variant of Hashimoto thyroiditis is an IgG4 related disease (1 June, 2012)

  Vikram Deshpande, Amelia Huck, Esther Ooi, John H Stone, William C Faquin, G Petur Nielsen
• Prostatic needle biopsies following primary high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy for prostatic adenocarcinoma: histopathological features in tumour and non-tumour tissue (1 June, 2012)

  Paul Ryan, Antonio Finelli, Nathan Lawrentschuk, Neil Fleshner, Joan Sweet, Carol Cheung, Theodorus van der Kwast, Andrew Evans
• Loss of SIRT1 histone deacetylase expression associates with tumour progression in colorectal adenocarcinoma (3 May, 2012)

  Si-Hyong Jang, Kyeung-Whan Min, Seung Sam Paik, Ki-Seok Jang
• Effect of thrombin receptor expression on microvessel endothelial cells, and survival by coagulation state in oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (9 June, 2012)

  Ying Shao, Qin-Qin Xu, Chun Li, Ming-Yao Wu, Xiao-Yan Huang
• The molecular characterisation of unusual subcutaneous spindle cell lesion of breast (20 April, 2012)

  Elena A Takano, Toni-Maree Rogers, Richard J Young, Mukta Rayoo, Phillip Kostos, Ross Ferguson, Ian G Campbell, Maria Debiec-Rychter, Stephen B Fox
• HER2/neu testing for anti-HER2-based therapies in patients with unresectable and/or metastatic gastric cancer

  (8 May, 2012)

  Carlos Gómez-Martin, Elena Garralda, M José Echarri, Anabel Ballesteros, Alberto Arcediano, José Luis Rodríguez-Peralto, Manuel Hidalgo, Fernando López-Ríos