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Original articles

• Relationship between pathological features, HER2 protein expression and HER2 and CEP17 copy number in breast cancer: biological and methodological considerations

  (22 December, 2010)

  Kathleen Lambein, Marleen Praet, Ramses Forsyth, Rudy Van den Broecke, Geert Braems, Bart Matthys, Veronique Cocquyt, Hannelore Denys, Patrick Pauwels, Louis Libbrecht
• A comparative study of quantitative immunohistochemistry and quantum dot immunohistochemistry for mutation carrier identification in Lynch syndrome (22 December, 2010) Free

  Emma Barrow, D Gareth Evans, Ray McMahon, James Hill, Richard Byers
• Digital mammography in a screening programme and its implications for pathology: a comparative study (22 December, 2010)

  Linda Feeley, Donal Kiernan, Therese Mooney, Fidelma Flanagan, Gormlaith Hargaden, Malcolm Kell, Maurice Stokes, Margaret Kennedy
• Inappropriate calibration and optimisation of pan-keratin (pan-CK) and low molecular weight keratin (LMWCK) immunohistochemistry tests: Canadian Immunohistochemistry Quality Control (CIQC) experience (22 January, 2011)

  Maria Copete, John Garratt, Blake Gilks, Dragana Pilavdzic, Richard Berendt, Gilbert Bigras, Sarah Mitchell, Leslie Ann Lining, Carol Cheung, Emina E Torlakovic
• Increased expression of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 correlates with VEGF and microvessel density in Philadelphia chromosome-negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (8 January, 2011)

  Leonardo Boiocchi, Claudia Vener, Federica Savi, Emanuela Bonoldi, Alessia Moro, Nicola Stefano Fracchiolla, Alessandra Iurlo, Giorgio Lambertenghi Deliliers, Guido Coggi, Silvano Bosari, Umberto Gianelli
• Mesenchymal stem cells in infantile haemangioma (17 January, 2011)

  Tinte Itinteang, Anasuya Vishvanath, Darren J Day, Swee T Tan
• Numerous IgG4-positive plasma cells are ubiquitous in diverse localised non-specific chronic inflammatory conditions and need to be distinguished from IgG4-related systemic disorders (12 January, 2011)

  Johanna D Strehl, Arndt Hartmann, Abbas Agaimy
• Mature fat cells in the myocardium of patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (7 January, 2011)

  Miraude E A P M Adriaensen, Matthijs F M van Oosterhout, Harm H H Feringa, Cornelia M Schaefer-Prokop, Bernard A Zonnenberg, Mathias Prokop
• CpG island methylator phenotype of cell-cycle regulators associated with TNM stage and poor prognosis in patients with oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (17 December, 2010)

  Yang Ling, Guoliang Huang, Lieying Fan, Lixin Wei, Jing Zhu, Yongping Liu, Changtai Zhu, Changsong Zhang
• KRAS mutation analysis in genomic DNA isolated from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded ovarian tissue: evaluation of a strip-based reverse-hybridisation assay

  (22 January, 2011)

  Gernot Kriegshäuser, Veronika Auner, Eva Schuster, Barbara Holzer, Christian Oberkanins, Reinhard Horvat, Paul Speiser, Robert Zeillinger
• A practical application of analysing weighted kappa for panels of experts and EQA schemes in pathology (7 January, 2011)

  Karen C Wright, Patricia Harnden, Sue Moss, Dan M Berney, Jane Melia
• Airborne bacteria concentrations and related factors at university laboratories, hospital diagnostic laboratories and a biowaste site (5 January, 2011)

  Sung Ho Hwang, Dong Uk Park, Kwon Chul Ha, Hyun Woo Cho, Chung Sik Yoon