Publications by authors named "Antonia Carmen Lisievici"

Bone metastases represent about 70% of breast cancer metastases and are associated with worse prognosis as the tumor cells acquire more aggressive features. The selection and investigation of patients with a high risk of developing bone metastasis would have a significant impact on patients' management and survival. The patients were selected from the database of Carol Davila Clinical Nephrology Hospital of Bucharest.

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Gangliogliomas are extremely rare central nervous tumors composed of an admixture of glial and neuroepithelial elements. Gangliogliomas mainly affect the temporal lobe and occur in the pediatric population. There are several controversies in the scientific literature regarding these tumors, which debuted with the exclusion of grade II gangliogliomas in the 2006 edition of the current World Health Organization (WHO) classification.

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Primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs) of the ovary are extremely rare tumors composed of undifferentiated small cells with round nuclei and scant cytoplasm. They are rare in general and extremely rare in the female gynecological tract, where they most commonly affect the ovary, followed by the uterine corpus. The most common presenting symptoms are abdominal pain, bloating and the presence of a pelvic mass.

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Ganglioglioma represents a benign central nervous tumor, occurring predominantly in the pediatric population and affecting the temporal lobe. It is also renowned for its epileptogenic potential. However, to date, there are numerous uncertain features about this tumor, especially about its grading system.

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Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) are particularly rare in all sites of the gynecological tract and include a variety of neoplasms with variable prognosis, dependent on histologic subtype and site of origin. Following the expert consensus proposal of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the approach in the latest World Health Organization (WHO) Classification System of the Female Genital Tumours is to use the same terminology for NENs at all body sites. The main concept of this novel classification framework is to align it to all other body sites and make a clear distinction between well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) and poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs).

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Gangliogliomas are central nervous system tumors located in the temporal lobe of young patients, frequently associated with epilepsy. In this paper, we propose a grading system based solely on histopathological criteria. We reevaluated all cases of ganglioglioma, atypical ganglioglioma, and anaplastic ganglioglioma diagnosed between 2011 and 2020 in the Pathology Department of the Emergency Clinical Hospital Bagdasar-Arseni, based on the type of glial mitoses, the number of neuronal and glial mitoses, presence of necrosis, microvascular proliferation, eosinophilic granular bodies, hypercellularity, presence and disposition of inflammatory infiltrate and atypical pleomorphism.

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Systemic candidiasis is a frequent complication in neonatal units, but congenital systemic candidiasis is an unusual diagnosis, observed in both full-term and preterm infants, with less than 50 cases reported to date. Congenital candidiasis presents with a wide spectrum of symptoms, ranging from diffuse skin eruptions to severe systemic disease, resulting in fetal demise or early neonatal death. Although management guidelines have been published almost two decades ago, due to the rarity of this type of infection, conclusive recommendations are difficult to establish, since they are based on anecdotal experience.

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  • Invasive breast cancer is diverse, including various subtypes like glycogen-rich clear cell carcinoma, which is very rare and makes up about 3% of breast cancers.
  • Glycogen-rich clear cell carcinoma features distinct polygonal cells with clear cytoplasm full of glycogen and has an unclear prognosis, while the solid papillary pattern is a less common variant linked to less aggressive behavior if no invasion occurs.
  • This article discusses two new case studies of glycogen-rich clear cell carcinoma with solid papillary pattern, highlighting that these cases had a surprisingly good clinical outcome compared to typical cases, indicating a potentially better prognosis.
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Objectives: Ganglioglioma (GG) represents an extremely rare tumor of the central nervous system, which is composed of two different cellular populations: a glial cell population and a neuronal cell population, the former being the one which will establish the histologic grade of the tumor. The current World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System divides gangliogliomas into benign (WHO grade I) and malignant (WHO grade III). Several scientific studies acknowledge that some tumors are difficult to grade but, due to the scarcity of cases as well as the lack of multicentric epidemiological data, there are no extensive studies regarding this matter in the neuropathology literature.

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