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Original articles

• Breast cancer stem cell markers CD44, CD24 and ALDH1: expression distribution within intrinsic molecular subtype (16 June, 2011) Free

  Sara Ricardo, André Filipe Vieira, Renê Gerhard, Dina Leitão, Regina Pinto, Jorge F Cameselle-Teijeiro, Fernanda Milanezi, Fernando Schmitt, Joana Paredes
• Comparison of clinical outcome of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer harbouring epidermal growth factor receptor exon 19 or exon 21 mutations (1 July, 2011)

  Young-Woong Won, Ji-Youn Han, Geon Kook Lee, Seog-Yun Park, Kun Young Lim, Kyong-Ah Yoon, Tak Yun, Heung Tae Kim, Jin Soo Lee
• Expression and prognostic significance of survivin splice variants in diffusely infiltrating astrocytoma (5 July, 2011)

  Ying Huang, Xueqin Chen, Ni Chen, Ling Nie, Miao Xu, Qiao Zhou
• Formaldehyde substitute fixatives: effects on nucleic acid preservation (29 June, 2011)

  Cathy B Moelans, Daphne Oostenrijk, Michiel J Moons, Paul J van Diest
• Infliximab therapy downregulation of basic fibroblast growth factor/syndecan 1 link: a possible molecular pathway of mucosal healing in ulcerative colitis (22 September, 2011)

  Enzo Ierardi, Floriana Giorgio, Mariangela Zotti, Rosa Rosania, Mariabeatrice Principi, Stefania Marangi, Nicola Della Valle, Vincenzo De Francesco, Alfredo Di Leo, Marcello Ingrosso, Carmine Panella
• Malignant ovarian germ cell tumours in gonadal Y chromosome mosaicism (12 July, 2011)

  Reza Shahsiah, Behnaz Jahanbin, Reza Rabiei, Farid Azmoudeh Ardalan, Behnaz Sarhadi, Narges Izadi-Mood
• Collagen triple helix repeat containing 1 protein, periostin and versican in primary and metastatic breast cancer: an immunohistochemical study (8 July, 2011)

  Gvantsa Kharaishvili, Magdalena Cizkova, Katerina Bouchalova, Giorgi Mgebrishvili, Zdenek Kolar, Jan Bouchal
• Current practice patterns among pathologists in the assessment of venous invasion in colorectal cancer (22 June, 2011)

  David E Messenger, David K Driman, Robin S McLeod, Robert H Riddell, Richard Kirsch
• Reduced expression of desmocollin 2 is an independent prognostic biomarker for shorter patients survival in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (1 July, 2011)

  Zaur Hamidov, Annelore Altendorf-Hofmann, Yuan Chen, Utz Settmacher, Iver Petersen, Thomas Knösel
• Lymph-node metastases in invasive lobular carcinoma are different from those in ductal carcinoma of the breast (28 June, 2011)

  Beatriz Fernández, E Claire Paish, Andrew R Green, Andrew H S Lee, R Douglas Macmillan, Ian O Ellis, Emad A Rakha
• What is the significance of flat epithelial atypia and what are the management implications? (1 July, 2011)

  Sabrina Rajan, Nisha Sharma, Barbara J G Dall, Abeer M Shaaban
• Tandem mass spectrometry findings at autopsy for detection of metabolic disease in infant deaths: postmortem changes and confounding factors (6 September, 2011)

  J W Pryce, M A Weber, S Heales, M Malone, N J Sebire
• Epigenomic profiling in polycythaemia vera and essential thrombocythaemia shows low levels of aberrant DNA methylation (6 August, 2011)

  S Barrio, M Gallardo, E Albizua, A Jimenez, I Rapado, R Ayala, F Gilsanz, J I Martin-Subero, J Martinez-Lopez
• Retrospective case series analysis of penicillin allergy testing in a UK specialist regional allergy clinic (8 July, 2011)

  A G Richter, G Wong, S Goddard, J Heslegrave, C Derbridge, S Srivastava, L Diwakar, A P Huissoon, M T Krishna