Publications by authors named "Dominique Pasquier"

Mixed epithelial and stromal tumour of the kidney (MESTK) is a rare kidney neoplasm that occurs almost exclusively in perimenopausal women. Long-term oestrogen replacement appears to play a major role in its pathogenesis. Around 70 cases have been described in the international literature, none of which involve male children.

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Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to evaluate the utility of HER2/neu ECD concentration as a marker of the efficacity of clinical response to Herceptin.

Patients And Methods: Iterative measurements of HER2/neu ECD (ELISA c-erbB2/c-neu Rapid Format Elisa kit QIA10 Calbiochem) concentrations in 45 patients treated with Herceptin between January 2001 and June 2005 at the Grenoble University Hospital.

Results: Changes in HER2/neu ECD concentrations were observed in 21 patients (47%).

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Purpose: Identification of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) for small mammary tumours (cT1N0) sometimes leads to detection of internal mammary chain (IMC) drainage. This information is often ignored by physicians. The present study sought to determine the frequency with which an internal mammary SLN was identified by peritumoral injection of radioactive tracer, and then to determine the patients in whom identification of an internal mammary SLN could have an impact on the radiation treatment plan.

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Hepatoblastoma, the most common pediatric liver cancer, is tightly linked to excessive Wnt/beta-catenin signaling. Here, we used microarray analysis to identify two tumor subclasses resembling distinct phases of liver development and a discriminating 16-gene signature. beta-catenin activated different transcriptional programs in the two tumor types, with distinctive expression of hepatic stem/progenitor markers in immature tumors.

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Background: Our aim was to conduct an analytical validation in a routine laboratory setting of the cerb-B2/c-neu ELISA assay kit from Calbiochem used to measure the extracellular domain (ECD) of HER2/neu in the serum of breast cancer patients.

Materials And Methods: The evaluation was based on three different production lots used in a routine laboratory setting. The reference value was based on a population of 217 patients with breast cancer not overexpressing HER2.

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Synovial sarcomas are aggressive malignant soft tissue tumors typically observed in adolescents and young adults. They are often characterized by the chromosomal translocation t(X;18)(p11.2;q11.

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Tubulocystic carcinoma is a tumor entity, which is not yet included in the WHO-classification of renal tumors. We report a series of 11 cases of this tumor, 6 of which were examined in by immunohistochemistry using a panel of five antibodies (CK7, CK34betaE12, CK19, CD10 and P504S). All patients were men.

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Many genomic abnormalities have been identified in various subsets of prostate cancer, but until now, few genes have been associated with the progression of this cancer. High activity of protein serine/threonine kinase CK2 has been observed in various solid tumours and this alteration has been linked both to growth-related functions and to suppression of cellular apoptosis. Here, we provide the first evidence for a strong association between a nuclear localization of CK2alpha, evaluated by immunohistochemistry, and poor prognostic factors in a retrospective cohort of 131 human prostate adenocarcinomas.

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The carcinogenic process is characterized, in part, by the dysfunction of cellular communication pathways, such as the one involving HER2. HER2 is a member of the EGF receptor family, which participates in cell growth and proliferation. HER2 may be overexpressed in 15 to 30% of breast cancer cases and is associated with poor prognosis, shortened overall survival and shorter time to disease progression.

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The carcinogenesis process is characterized, in part, by the dysfunction of cellular communication pathways, such as the one involving HER2. HER2 is a member of the EGF receptor family, which participates in cell growth and proliferation. HER2 may be overexpressed in 15 to 30% of breast cancer cases and is associated with poor prognosis, shortened overall survival and shorter time to disease progression.

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Neuroendocrine differentiation can be identified in a subset of human breast carcinomas, either as scattered cells or as a predominant neuroendocrine component. We report a case of an invasive breast carcinoma largely composed of neuroendocrine cells. Eight years after a left mammary lumpectomy for a pT2N1MO SBR III invasive ductal carcinoma, a 67-years-old woman presented with a metastastic neuroendocrine sternal mass.

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Fibrinogen (fg), present in tumor matrices, has been demonstrated to be determinant in metastatic potential. We have recently shown that fg/ICAM-1 interactions are involved in leukocyte migration across endothelial cell monolayers. Using bladder transitional cell carcinoma as a model, we will show in this study that bladder high grade tumor cell lines express ICAM-1, and that this expression induces an fg-mediated migration.

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Introduction: Leydig cell hyperplasia (LCH) of the testis is rarely described in children. The authors report a case of incidental discovery of LCH on ultrasound examination.

Case Report: The authors report the case of a 9-year-old boy presenting with isolated and painless increased volume of the left testis, with no clinically palpable mass.

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Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of primary sclerosing cholangitis and other histological liver abnormalities in patients operated on for ulcerative colitis and to discuss the advantages of performing a systematic liver biopsy during surgery.

Methods: From 1996 to 2001, 21 consecutive patients underwent a restorative proctocolectomy or a reoperation after proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis. These patients systematically underwent liver biopsy during the procedure.

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The term chordoid glioma of the third ventricle was first used to describe a rare and slowly growing neoplasm of uncertain histogenesis, with chordoid appearance, occurring preferentially in middle-aged women. Herein we report two additional examples of this novel entity together with a literature review based on the 25 cases previously published. Our review fully confirms the strikingly stereotyped clinical, neuroradiologic, and pathologic features of this unique tumor.

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N-myc amplification is a major prognostic factor in neuroblastomas and is systematically investigated by Southern blot or polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A retrospective study of N -myc amplification has been carried out using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in 97 fixed neuroblastomas. For each tumour, FISH was performed on the area that contained the most immature neuroblasts.

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Herein we reviewed the histopathological findings in 327 consecutive surgical specimens from patients with pharmaco-resistant epilepsy (PRE). Three major pathological groups (78.3% of all cases) were identified: Ammon's horn sclerosis (85 cases as an isolated lesion plus 18 as one part of a dual pathology), tumors (94 cases), and malformations (77 cases).

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