Valeria Barresi

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Affiliation: University of Messina
Country: Italy

Publications

  1. ncbi Colorectal carcinoma grading by quantifying poorly differentiated cell clusters is more reproducible and provides more robust prognostic information than conventional grading
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Virchows Arch 461:621-8. 2012
  2. ncbi Intradural chordoma of the Meckel's cave: a challenging differential diagnosis
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Neuropathology 32:577-82. 2012
  3. ncbi Meningeal tumors histologically mimicking meningioma
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, Section of Pathological Anatomy, University of Messina, Italy
    Pathol Res Pract 208:567-77. 2012
  4. ncbi Expression of brachyury in hemangioblastoma: potential use in differential diagnosis
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Am J Surg Pathol 36:1052-7. 2012
  5. ncbi Clinicopathological characteristics, hormone receptor status and matrix metallo-proteinase-9 (MMP-9) immunohistochemical expression in spinal meningiomas
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Pathol Res Pract 208:350-5. 2012
  6. ncbi Diagnostic value of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) immunoexpression in follicular-patterned lesions of the thyroid gland
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Virchows Arch 460:319-25. 2012
  7. ncbi Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin immunoexpression in renal tumors: correlation with histotype and histological grade
    Valeria Barresi
    Departments of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Oncol Rep 24:305-10. 2010
  8. ncbi Stage I colorectal carcinoma: VEGF immunohistochemical expression, microvessel density, and their correlation with clinical outcome
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Virchows Arch 457:11-9. 2010
  9. ncbi Lymphatic vessel density and its prognostic value in stage I colorectal carcinoma
    V Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    J Clin Pathol 64:6-12. 2011
  10. ncbi Adiponectin immunohistochemical expression in colorectal cancer and its correlation with histological grade and tumour microvessel density
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Pathology 41:533-8. 2009

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  1. ncbi Colorectal carcinoma grading by quantifying poorly differentiated cell clusters is more reproducible and provides more robust prognostic information than conventional grading
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Virchows Arch 461:621-8. 2012
    ....
  2. ncbi Intradural chordoma of the Meckel's cave: a challenging differential diagnosis
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Neuropathology 32:577-82. 2012
    ..We also show that, different from conventional chordoma, intradural chordoma does not express the metallo-proteinases (MMPs) -2 and -9, which may account for its indolent biological behavior...
  3. ncbi Meningeal tumors histologically mimicking meningioma
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, Section of Pathological Anatomy, University of Messina, Italy
    Pathol Res Pract 208:567-77. 2012
    ..Histological and immunohistochemical clues for the differential diagnosis are discussed...
  4. ncbi Expression of brachyury in hemangioblastoma: potential use in differential diagnosis
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Am J Surg Pathol 36:1052-7. 2012
    ..On the basis of our findings we propose the use of brachyury as an additional helpful immunohistochemical marker to resolve the differential diagnosis of HBL toward histologic mimics...
  5. ncbi Clinicopathological characteristics, hormone receptor status and matrix metallo-proteinase-9 (MMP-9) immunohistochemical expression in spinal meningiomas
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Pathol Res Pract 208:350-5. 2012
    ..Thus, the evaluation of both MMP-9 and PR expression might be of use in the identification of spinal meningiomas at higher risk of relapse...
  6. ncbi Diagnostic value of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) immunoexpression in follicular-patterned lesions of the thyroid gland
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Virchows Arch 460:319-25. 2012
    ..The use of biotin free system or the preliminary biotin inhibition is warranted for the detection of NGAL in thyroid samples, especially when dealing with Hürthle cell tumors...
  7. ncbi Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin immunoexpression in renal tumors: correlation with histotype and histological grade
    Valeria Barresi
    Departments of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Oncol Rep 24:305-10. 2010
    ..Further studies are required to investigate the potential diagnostic utility of NGAL in the early diagnosis of metastatic progression of RCC...
  8. ncbi Stage I colorectal carcinoma: VEGF immunohistochemical expression, microvessel density, and their correlation with clinical outcome
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Virchows Arch 457:11-9. 2010
    ..VEGF assessment might be used in order to select those patients with a higher progression risk and to submit them to adjuvant therapies useful to prevent adverse outcome...
  9. ncbi Lymphatic vessel density and its prognostic value in stage I colorectal carcinoma
    V Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    J Clin Pathol 64:6-12. 2011
    ..The authors also evaluated and correlated vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-A expression with LVD revealed in the same cases in order to investigate its potential lymphangiogenic role in the early stage colorectal cancer...
  10. ncbi Adiponectin immunohistochemical expression in colorectal cancer and its correlation with histological grade and tumour microvessel density
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Pathology 41:533-8. 2009
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  11. ncbi MMP-9 expression in meningiomas: a prognostic marker for recurrence risk?
    V Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    J Neurooncol 102:189-96. 2011
    ..Inhibition of MMP-9 may be a new therapeutic strategy to prevent recurrences of meningiomas, particularly the high-grade type...
  12. ncbi NGAL immunohistochemical expression in brain primary and metastatic tumors
    V Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Italy
    Clin Neuropathol 29:317-22. 2010
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  13. ncbi Angiogenesis in meningiomas
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Brain Tumor Pathol 28:99-106. 2011
    ..Herein the methods for quantification of angiogenesis as well as its regulating factors in meningiomas are reviewed...
  14. ncbi Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin: a new prognostic marker in stage I colorectal carcinoma?
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, 98125 Messina, Italy
    Hum Pathol 42:1720-6. 2011
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  15. ncbi Osteoblastic meningiomas: clinico-pathological and immunohistochemical features of an uncommon variant
    V Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Polyclinic G Martino, Via Consolare Valeria, 98125, Messina, Italy
    J Neurooncol 105:225-32. 2011
    ..e., as the final step of calcification or through a metaplastic mechanism in cases with absent calcification or psammoma bodies...
  16. ncbi Immunohistochemical assessment of lymphovascular invasion in stage I colorectal carcinoma: prognostic relevance and correlation with nodal micrometastases
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Am J Surg Pathol 36:66-72. 2012
    ..Furthermore, the assessment of LVI may be applied to establish the likelihood of nodal involvement from carcinomas treated with conservative local excision techniques, which provide no regional nodes for histologic examination...
  17. ncbi Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) immunohistochemical expression in follicular cell-derived thyroid tumors: a novel diagnostic tool?
    V Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Italy
    Histol Histopathol 27:329-36. 2012
    ..Hence assessment of its expression might be of use with respect to differential diagnosis from follicular benign neoplasias...
  18. ncbi The cell growth inhibitory transcription factor C/EBPdelta is expressed in human meningiomas in association with low histological grade and proliferation index
    V Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    J Neurooncol 97:233-40. 2010
    ..If further studies confirm its induction by inflammatory mediators, this might be exploited in novel therapies to prevent recurrences in meningiomas...
  19. ncbi Caveolin-1 expression in diffuse gliomas: correlation with the proliferation index, epidermal growth factor receptor, p53, and 1p/19q status
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Hum Pathol 40:1738-46. 2009
    ..In conclusion, the present study indicates that caveolin-1 is not useful as diagnostic marker to differentiate grade II astrocytomas from oligodendrogliomas...
  20. ncbi High-grade urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder showing acquisition of microcystic histology in the penile metastasis: histogenetic considerations
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Italy
    Pathol Res Pract 205:568-71. 2009
    ..Future studies investigating mucin expression in microcystic urothelial carcinoma may help to define the histogenesis of this tumor...
  21. ncbi Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) prognostic value in stage I colorectal carcinoma
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Italy
    Pathol Res Pract 207:479-86. 2011
    ..If our findings are confirmed in further analyses, NGAL assessment might be used in order to select those patients with a higher progression risk and to submit them to adjuvant therapies useful to prevent adverse outcome...
  22. ncbi Semaphorin3A immunohistochemical expression in human meningiomas: correlation with the microvessel density
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Virchows Arch 454:563-71. 2009
    ..The supplementation of SEMA3A might be used in novel therapeutic antiangiogenic strategies to prevent the recurrence of highly vascularized meningiomas...
  23. ncbi Evaluation of neo-angiogenesis in a case of chordoid meningioma
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    J Neurooncol 95:445-7. 2009
    ..We suggest that VEGF expression and MVD may represent significant prognostic factors in chordoid meningiomas...
  24. ncbi The expression of adiponectin receptors Adipo-R1 and Adipo-R2 is associated with an intestinal histotype and longer survival in gastric carcinoma
    V Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    J Clin Pathol 62:705-9. 2009
    ..The expression of these receptors has been documented in gastric cancer (GC) cell lines, but only a few data exist on their expression in GC neoplastic tissue...
  25. ncbi Correlative study of microvessel density and 5-lipoxygenase expression in human sporadic colorectal cancer
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Arch Pathol Lab Med 132:1807-12. 2008
    ..Its activity in promoting neoangiogenesis in colorectal malignancies has been also recently theorized on the basis of in vitro studies...
  26. ncbi Density of microvessels positive for CD105 (endoglin) is related to prognosis in meningiomas
    Valeria Barresi
    Dipartimento di Patologia Umana, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Acta Neuropathol 114:147-56. 2007
    ..CD105 might serve as a target for therapeutic approaches blocking blood supply in meningiomas...
  27. ncbi HER2 status in unusual histological variants of gastric adenocarcinomas
    Giuseppe Giuffre
    Department of Human Pathology, Section of Pathological Anatomy, A O U Polyclinic G Martino, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    J Clin Pathol 65:237-41. 2012
    ..To investigate HER2 status in a cohort of 109 gastric adenocarcinomas also including unusual variants, such as 14 hepatoid (HAS) and 9 mitochondrion-rich (MRC), characterised by an opposing clinical behaviour...
  28. ncbi Endoglin (CD105) immuno-expression in human foetal and neonatal lungs
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Italy
    Histol Histopathol 23:701-8. 2008
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  29. ncbi Does lactoferrin behave as an immunohistochemical oncofetal marker in bone and cartilage human neoplasms?
    Antonio Ieni
    Department of Human Pathology, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico G Martino, Pad D, Via Consolare Valeria, 98125 Messina, Italy
    Pathol Oncol Res 17:287-93. 2011
    ..Our findings indicate a role for LF as a bone growth regulator in the early phases of the human endochondral ossification, although the hypothesis of LF as oncofetal marker appears questionable in bone tumours...
  30. ncbi Correlative evidence that tumor cell-derived caveolin-1 mediates angiogenesis in meningiomas
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    Neuropathology 28:472-8. 2008
    ..The clarification of cav-1 role in the neoangiogensis of meningiomas may open new insights about the possibility of novel therapeutic strategies in these neoplasias...
  31. ncbi Immunolocalization of lactoferrin in cartilage-forming neoplasms
    Antonio Ieni
    Department of Human Pathology, Policlinico Universitario G Martino, Pad D, Via Consolare Valeria, 98125 Messina, Italy
    J Orthop Sci 14:732-7. 2009
    ..Lf immunoreactivity has been extensively investigated in many neoplastic tissues. Recently, Lf expression was documented in the osteoblastic lineage of bone-forming tumors as well as in osteoblasts of fetal bone...
  32. ncbi Immunohistochemical evidence of caveolin-1 expression in the human fetal and neonatal striated muscle and absence in the adult's
    Valeria Barresi
    Dipartimento di Patologia Umana, Policlinico Universitario G Martino, Messina, Italy
    Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol 16:267-73. 2008
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  33. ncbi 5-Lipoxygenase is coexpressed with Cox-2 in sporadic colorectal cancer: a correlation with advanced stage
    Valeria Barresi
    Dottorato di Ricerca in Oncologia Clinica, Sperimentale Applicata e Ricerca Translazionale sui Tumori, Universita di Messina, Messina, Italy
    Dis Colon Rectum 50:1576-84. 2007
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  34. ncbi Lactoferrin immuno-expression in human normal and neoplastic bone tissue
    Antonio Ieni
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    J Bone Miner Metab 27:364-71. 2009
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  35. ncbi Thyroid metastases from renal cell carcinoma: review of the literature
    Alessandro Sindoni
    University of Messina, Italy
    ScientificWorldJournal 10:590-602. 2010
    ..Finally, survival was longer for women. Thyroid metastases, even if rare in the clinical practice, must be considered in the differential diagnosis of a thyroid nodule, particularly in patients who have a history of malignancies...
  36. ncbi Caveolin-1 immuno-expression in human fetal tissues during mid and late gestation
    Valeria Barresi
    Dipartimento di Patologia Umana, Policlinico Universitario, Messina, Italy
    Eur J Histochem 50:183-90. 2006
    ..This unexpected pattern of Cav-1 in human fetus may predict novel roles for Cav-1 during fetal development...
  37. ncbi Immunoexpression of lactoferrin in human sporadic renal cell carcinomas
    Giuseppe Giuffre
    Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico G Martino, I 98125 Messina, Italy
    Oncol Rep 17:1021-6. 2007
    ..The reduced Lf immunoexpression in some CCC may be because of the down-regulation of Lf gene due to the frequent deletion of 3p regions reported in this RCC variant...
  38. ncbi Tongue schwannoma: clinicopathological findings
    Luciano Catalfamo
    School and Unit of Maxillo Facial Surgery and Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy
    J Craniofac Surg 22:1158-61. 2011
    ..We report a case of a 28-year-old patient with a tongue schwannoma. Morphologic analysis and immunohistochemical findings strongly support the diagnosis. Surgical treatment is discussed...
  39. ncbi Acne inversa complicated by squamous cell carcinoma in association with diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma arising in the absence of predisposing factors: a case report
    Valeria Barresi
    Dipartimento di Patologia Umana, Policlinico Universitario G Martino, University of Messina, Italy
    J Cutan Pathol 35:70-3. 2008
    ..21-22 have been found in mesothelioma as well. It is thus tempting to speculate that genetic mutations involving chromosome 1p.21-22 may account for the development of both diseases...
  40. ncbi Innovative therapeutic strategies in the treatment of brain metastases
    Maria Caffo
    Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of Messina, A O U Policlinico G Martino, Via Consolare Valeria, 1, 98125 Messina, Italy
    Int J Mol Sci 14:2135-74. 2013
    ..In this review, we will report current data on targeted therapies. A brief review about brain metastatic process will be also presented...
  41. ncbi Optical coherence tomography evaluation of ulcerative colitis: the patterns and the comparison with histology
    Luigi Familiari
    Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University Hospital, Messina, Italy
    Am J Gastroenterol 101:2833-40. 2006
    ..CONCLUSIONS: The in vivo OCT correctly detected disease features in endoscopically affected colon segments, but even in apparently normal segments of UC patients...
  42. ncbi Gliosarcoma with features of osteoblastic osteosarcoma: a review
    Valeria Barresi
    Department of Human Pathology, Policlinico Universitario G Martino, Via ConsolareValeria, Messina, Italy
    Arch Pathol Lab Med 130:1208-11. 2006
    ..In most instances the sarcomatous component is represented by a fibrosarcoma, but other stromal malignancies have also been described. Osteosarcomatous differentiation in gliosarcoma has been rarely reported...
  43. ncbi An unusual presentation of secondary involvement of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. A case report
    Fausto Famà
    Division of General Surgery, Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Italy
    Tumori 94:617-20. 2008
    ..This occurrence must be considered in the differential diagnosis of a breast lump so that the primary hematological disease can be adequately treated and the correct type of breast surgery performed...
  44. ncbi Isolated endometriosis on the rectus abdominis muscle in women without a history of abdominal surgery: a rare and intriguing finding
    Roberta Granese
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospital Gaetano Martino, Messina, Italy
    J Minim Invasive Gynecol 16:798-801. 2009
    ..We suggest including endometriosis in the differential diagnosis of a symptomatic mass in the abdominal wall in women with and without a surgical history...