B Terris

..By contrast, the DNA-ploidy pattern and the immunohistochemical detection of p53 and CD44H expression are not predictors of outcome of patients with HCC...

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..Our findings raise the difficult issue of clinical management of IPMT of the branch type as a distinctive group...

..Etiologic factors are often unidentified, although presence of HBV infection in 21% suggests a direct oncogenic role of this virus...

..This risk should be balanced with the risk of deciding an aggressive treatment in a patient without malignancy. Patients with negative biopsy should undergo a second biopsy and/or repeated investigations by imaging techniques...

..Although the prognosis in malignant resectable intraductal papillary mucinous tumours of the pancreas (IPMT) is often considered more favourable than for ordinary pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the long term outcome remains ill defined...

..The change in adhesion molecule expression with loss of E-cadherin expression may be associated with the acquisition of spindle cell morphology by the squamous tumour cells...

..Because the value of this treatment is still debated in Western countries, the aim of this paper was to report a European experience of resection for hepatocellular carcinoma...

..This association has not been described previously, and gives new insights into the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis associated with choledochal cyst...

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..To report a new series of medial pancreatectomy (MP), with analysis of early and long-term results...

..The close association between increased beta-catenin protein stability and mutation indicates that immunohistochemistry may be a powerful method for the detection of the mutated protein in future clinical practice...

..IPMT should be included in the extracolonic localisation of FAP...

..The hyperplasia of the myenteric plexus could be considered a risk factor for recurrent tumours...

..However, in other atypical cases, the diagnosis will remain uncertain at imaging, and these cases will require histopathologic examination...

..Thus, we report strong evidence that both genes are downstream targets of the Wnt pathway during liver tumorigenesis...

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..In conclusion, we propose that GS immunostaining and a cholestatic pattern are relevant criteria for the identification of HCC with beta-catenin mutations...

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..The simultaneous onset of three hemorrhagic complications of a pseudocyst is exceptional and has never been described to our knowledge...

..To assess retrospectively pancreatic changes in non-alcoholic duct-destructive chronic pancreatitis and to investigate the role of apoptosis in duct destruction...

..Endoscopy revealed a large BGH (6 cm x 4 cm). Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) revealed a submucosal duodenal tumor. In this paper, we report a case of large hyperplasia of BGH, successfully treated by endoscopic technique...

..The objective of this study was to assess the effects of preoperative systemic chemotherapy on the morphology of non-tumoral liver...

..Somatostatin receptor mRNA subtypes are widely expressed in endocrine GEP tumours, but their distribution is not correlated with tumour characteristics or scintigraphy positivity...

..The ultrastructural study showed no correlation with the immunohistochemical results.CONCLUSION: Digestive stromal tumors show an immunophenotypic and ultrastructural heterogeneity. CD117 expression is frequent, but not constant...

..To our knowledge, this is the first report of an intraductal acinar cell carcinoma of the pancreas involving branch ducts and sparing the main pancreatic duct...

..Immuno-histochemical analysis showed that expression was restricted to tumour cells. Thus, high-level expression of OZF is frequent in pancreatic carcinomas and may contribute to the development or progression of this tumour...