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Original articles

• Pathological diagnostic criterion of blood and lymphatic vessel invasion in colorectal cancer: a framework for developing an objective pathological diagnostic system using the Delphi method, from the Pathology Working Group of the Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum (21 June, 2013)

  Motohiro Kojima, Hideyuki Shimazaki, Keiichi Iwaya, Masayoshi Kage, Jun Akiba, Yasuo Ohkura, Shinichiro Horiguchi, Kohei Shomori, Ryoji Kushima, Yoichi Ajioka, Shogo Nomura, Atsushi Ochiai
• Urethral caruncle: a lesion related to IgG4-associated sclerosing disease? (21 June, 2013)

  Sean R Williamson, Marina Scarpelli, Antonio Lopez-Beltran, Rodolfo Montironi, Miriam R Conces, Liang Cheng
• Strong expression of the neuronal transcription factor FOXP2 is linked to an increased risk of early PSA recurrence in ERG fusion-negative cancers (21 June, 2013) Free

  Laura Stumm, Lia Burkhardt, Stefan Steurer, Ronald Simon, Meike Adam, Andreas Becker, Guido Sauter, Sarah Minner, Thorsten Schlomm, Hüseyin Sirma, Uwe Michl
• Intramuscular corpora amylacea adjacent to ileal low-grade neuroendocrine tumours (typical carcinoids): a light microscopic, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study (21 June, 2013)

  Jaclyn Frances Hechtman, Ronald E Gordon, Noam Harpaz
• IGFBP-5 overexpression as a poor prognostic factor in patients with urothelial carcinomas of upper urinary tracts and urinary bladder (21 June, 2013)

  Peir-In Liang, Yu-Hui Wang, Ting-Feng Wu, Wen-Ren Wu, Alex C Liao, Kun-Hung Shen, Chung-Hsi Hsing, Yow-Ling Shiue, Hsuan-Ying Huang, Han-Ping Hsu, Li-Tzon Chen, Ching-Yih Lin, Chein Tai, Jui-Yu Wu, Chien-Feng Li
• A simplified economic approach to thyroid FNA cytology and surgical intervention in thyroid nodules (21 June, 2013)

  David Nigel Poller, Prashanth Kandaswamy
• Frequent expression of follicular dendritic cell markers in Hodgkin lymphoma and anaplastic large cell lymphoma (21 June, 2013)

  Soo Hee Kim, Ji-young Choe, Yoonkyong Jeon, Jooryung Huh, Hye Ra Jung, Yoo-Duk Choi, Hyun-Jung Kim, Hee Jeong Cha, Weon Seo Park, Ji Eun Kim
• Mast cells in infantile haemangioma possess a primitive myeloid phenotype (21 June, 2013)

  Tinte Itinteang, Swee T Tan, Jun Jia, Ryan Steel, Emma L Laing, Helen D Brasch, Darren J Day
• Sarcomatoid carcinoma represents a complete phenotype with various pathways of epithelial mesenchymal transition (21 June, 2013)

  Chang Ohk Sung, Hannah Choi, Keun-Woo Lee, Seok-Hyung Kim
• PARP expression in germ cell tumours (21 June, 2013)

  Michal Mego, Zuzana Cierna, Daniela Svetlovska, Dusan Macak, Katarina Machalekova, Viera Miskovska, Michal Chovanec, Vanda Usakova, Jana Obertova, Pavel Babal, Jozef Mardiak
• Vasohibin-1 is a new predictor of disease-free survival in operated patients with renal cell carcinoma (21 June, 2013)

  Naoki Kanomata, Yasufumi Sato, Yoshiyuki Miyaji, Atsushi Nagai, Takuya Moriya