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Original articles

• Combination of tumour markers CEA and CA19-9 improves the prognostic prediction in patients with pancreatic cancer (10 March, 2015)

  Daniel Reitz, Armin Gerger, Julia Seidel, Peter Kornprat, Hellmut Samonigg, Michael Stotz, Joanna Szkandera, Martin Pichler
• Expression of CD133 in differentiated thyroid cancer of young patients (13 March, 2015)

  Myriam Decaussin-Petrucci, Johnny Deladoëy, Zakia Hafdi-Nejjari, Geneviève Sassolas, Françoise Borson-Chazot, Rasha Abu-Khudir, Alfredo Fusco, Francoise Descotes, Sonia Cournoyer, Hervé Sartelet, and the group of Pathologists of the Rhône Alpes Region
• A comparison of the pathological, clinical and radiographical, features of cryptogenic organising pneumonia, acute fibrinous and organising pneumonia and granulomatous organising pneumonia (5 March, 2015)

  Marc B Feinstein, Shilpa A DeSouza, Andre L Moreira, Diane E Stover, Robert T Heelan, Tunç A Iyriboz, Ying Taur, William D Travis
• Genetic variations in the SOCS3 gene in patients with Graves’ ophthalmopathy (13 March, 2015)

  Ruijia Yan, Junjie Yang, Ping Jiang, Ling Jin, Jing Ma, Rong Huang, Nan Ma, Fagang Jiang
• Prostate biopsy concordance in a large population-based sample: a Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results study (11 March, 2015)

  David Schreiber, Andrew T Wong, Justin Rineer, Jeremy Weedon, David Schwartz
• Comprehensive lymph node morphometry in rectal cancer using acetone compression (16 March, 2015)

  Andreas H Scheel, Rebecca A Reineke, Thilo Sprenger, Suvi Lokka, Julia Kitz, B Michael Ghadimi, Josef Rüschoff, Torsten Liersch, Peter Middel
• Variation between specialist uropatholgists in reporting extraprostatic extension after radical prostatectomy (19 March, 2015)

  Richard J Bryant, Anne J Schmitt, Ian S D Roberts, Pelvender S Gill, Lisa Browning, Simon F Brewster, Freddie C Hamdy, Clare Verrill
• LEF1: a highly specific marker for the diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic B cell leukaemia/small lymphocytic B cell lymphoma (24 February, 2015)

  Thomas Menter, Stephan Dirnhofer, Alexandar Tzankov
• Does transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) alleviate the pain experienced during bone marrow sampling in addition to standard techniques? A randomised, double-blinded, controlled trial (10 March, 2015)

  David L Tucker, Mark Rockett, Mehedi Hasan, Sarah Poplar, Simon A Rule