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Original articles

• Improved method for assessing iron stores in the bone marrow (28 July, 2009)

  K S Phiri, J C J Calis, D Kachala, E Borgstein, J Waluza, I Bates, B Brabin, M Boele van Hensbroek
• Cyclo-oxygenase-2 overexpression is a feature of early and well-differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma with a favourable prognosis (28 July, 2009)

  K J Schmitz, J Wohlschlaeger, H Lang, G C Sotiropoulos, G M Kaiser, K W Schmid, H A Baba
• An improved method for constructing tissue microarrays from prostate needle biopsy specimens (28 July, 2009)

  F McCarthy, A Fletcher, N Dennis, C Cummings, H O’Donnell, J Clark, P Flohr, R Vergis, S Jhavar, C Parker, C S Cooper
• Biotin-free systems provide stronger immunohistochemical signal in oestrogen receptor evaluation of breast cancer (28 July, 2009)

  R M Rocha, K Miller, F Soares, N Schenka, J Vassallo, H Gobbi
• The expression of adiponectin receptors Adipo-R1 and Adipo-R2 is associated with an intestinal histotype and longer survival in gastric carcinoma (28 July, 2009)

  V Barresi, M Grosso, G Giuffrè, G Tuccari, G Barresi
• Prognostic significance of neuron-associated protein expression in non-muscle-invasive urothelial bladder cancer (28 July, 2009)

  P Mhawech-Fauceglia, L Ali, R T Cheney, J Groth, F R Herrmann
• MGMT methylation in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: validation of quantitative methylation-specific PCR and comparison with MGMT protein expression (28 July, 2009)

  S Uccella, R Cerutti, C Placidi, S Marchet, I Carnevali, B Bernasconi, I Proserpio, G Pinotti, M G Tibiletti, D Furlan, C Capella
• Immunophenotype of neoplastic plasma cells in AL amyloidosis (28 July, 2009)

  M Deshmukh, K Elderfield, A Rahemtulla, K N Naresh
• Lupus anticoagulant: case-based external quality assessment (28 July, 2009)

  A M H P van den Besselaar, K M J Devreese, P G de Groot, A Castel
• Staphylococcal pyrogenic toxins in infant urine samples: a possible marker of transient bacteraemia (28 July, 2009)

  L M Harrison, J A Morris, R M Lauder, D R Telford
• Can we rely on one laboratory test in detection of extended-spectrum β-lactamases among Enterobacteriaceae? An evaluation of the Vitek 2 system and comparison with four other detection methods in Kuwait (28 July, 2009)

  A A Dashti, M M Jadaon, F M Habeeb