Publications by authors named "Kıvılcım Eren Erdogan"

Soft tissue sarcomas are rare cancers and most cases are metastatic at the time of diagnosis. Although the chances of survival are good with surgical treatment in the early stages, systemic treatment in the advanced stages is only associated with a survival duration of ~12 months. Alterations in the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene are becoming increasingly recognized as pan-cancer indicators in solid tumors.

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Papillary microcarcinomas (PMCs) are papillary carcinomas ≤1 cm in size, with an increasing incidence. Although generally indolent, some cases exhibit aggressive behavior. Recently, active surveillance has been recommended to avoid surgical treatment.

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Purpose: To compare the outcomes of yttrium-90 transarterial radioembolization (TARE) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with and without macrotrabecular-massive (MTM) subtypes.

Materials And Methods: Forty-one consecutive patients with HCC (male, 90.3%; mean age, 65.

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Aim: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has been proposed as a comprehensive and efficient genomic profiling tool to guide personalized therapy for colorectal cancer. This study aimed to review the site-specific difference and the potential benefits of actionable mutation panel for colorectal cancer in relation to the clinicopathological features.

Material And Methods: One hundred and six patients who underwent colorectal surgery with curative or palliative intent for histopathologically confirmed carcinoma between June 2016 and June 2018 were identified from a prospectively maintained database.

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Background: In colorectal cancer, the investigation of cancer pathogenesis and the determination of the relevant gene and gene pathways is particularly important to provide a basis for treatment-oriented studies. miRNAs which affect gene regulation in the molecular pathogenesis of cancer, have an active role in carcinogenesis. In the literature, miRNA expression levels have been associated with metastasis and prognosis in different cancers.

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Nephrotic syndrome progresses with various metabolic disturbances, such as proteinuria over 3.5 grams in 24 hours, hypoalbuminemia, and hypercoagulability. Patients usually complain about diffuse edema throughout the body, which is secondary to hypoalbuminemia.

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Introduction: Retroperitoneal localization is an extremely rare presentation of interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS), the primary neoplasm of the antigen-presenting interdigitating dendritic cells.

Case Presentation: We report an incidentally found isolated retroperitoneal IDCS in a 59-year-old female patient with no prior symptoms. The patient was initially misdiagnosed since the tissue samples obtained by tru-cut biopsies were diffusely positive for S-100, and the radiological features were similar to neurogenic tumors.

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Background: The aim of the study was to determine the differences in terms of ghrelin presence in the colon between the patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) and control patients.

Methods: Sixty-one UC and 15 control patients were included in the study. Immunohistochemical staining for ghrelin was investigated in colonic biopsy samples of UC and control patients.

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This study aimed to evaluate CD73 and PD-L1 and determine their relationship with each other and with overall survival (OS) in sarcoma patients. The paraffin blocks of 101 patients were analysed. 56.

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between values obtained from whole tumor volumetric apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurements and histopathological grade in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Methods: Fifty-one naïve patients with HCC were included in the study. The tumors were classified according to the Edmondson-Steiner grade and separated as well-differentiated and non-well-differentiated (moderately and poorly differentiated).

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Purpose: There are no studies showing PRAME expression in stage II and III colon adenocarcinoma. In this study, we aimed to determine the frequency of PRAME expression and the relationship with survival and clinicopathological data in stage II and III colon adenocarcinoma that need adjuvant therapy.

Methods: Included were 81 patients with stage II and III colon cancer with adjuvant therapy without a second malignancy and systemic inflammatory diseases.

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Background: Cystinosis is a lysosomal storage disease that affects many tissues. Its prognosis depends predominantly on kidney involvement. Cystinosis has three clinical forms: nephropathic infantile, nephropathic juvenile and non-nephropathic adult.

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The aim of this study is to assess the usefulness of beta-catenin immunohistochemical expression in the differential diagnosis of osteoid-producing primary tumors of bone. Seventy cases of osteoid-producing tumors of bone (24 conventional osteosarcomas, 18 osteoblastomas, 13 osteoblastoma-like osteosarcomas, 10 chondroblastomas, and 5 chondroblastoma-like osteosarcomas) diagnosed at Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli were reviewed and evaluated for the intensity, extension, and subcellular distribution of immunohistochemical expression of beta-catenin. A majority of cases (73%, 51 cases) exhibited cytoplasmic and/or membranous positivity in varied degrees of intensity and proportion of positive cells, in the absence of nuclear staining.

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Background: Membranous nephropathy (MN) is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in nondiabetic adults. M-type phospholipase A2 receptor (PLA2R), thrombospondin type-1 domain-containing 7A (THSD7A) are known as target podocyte antigens in membranous nephropathy (MN). Antibodies against these podocyte antigens are used in the initiation of treatment and response monitoring.

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Background: Primary glomerulonephritis (PGN) has a significant part in non-diabetic kidney disease (NDKD) in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients. In our study, we compared the clinical, demographic and laboratory features of patients with biopsy-proven diabetic nephropathy (DN) and PGN with type 2 DM.

Methods: In our retrospective study, type 2 DM patients who underwent kidney biopsy between 2011 and 2019 were included.

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Unlabelled: İNTRODUCTION : Angiomyxoma is a rare slow-growing soft tissue myxoid cell tumor that usually arises in the pelvis and perineal regions and occurs predominantly in women in the fourth decade. Angiomyxomas usually present as often initially misdiagnosed asymptomatic masses. Most common clinical early diagnoses of aggressive angiomyxomas are in form Of Vulvar Masses, Vulvar Lipomas, Bartholin's Cysts, Levator Hernias, Inguinal Hernias Or Cervical Polyps.

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In this study, we investigated whether jervine (J) could prevent gastrointestinal (GI) side effects of abdominopelvic radiotherapy (RT) in Wistar-Albino female rats. Rats were divided into five groups: control (C), J only (J), J administered at 5 mg/kg/days for 7 days, RT only (RT), J before RT (J + RT), J administered for seven days before RT, J both before and after RT (J + RT + J), and J administered for 7 days before RT and after RT for 3 days. The weights of rats were measured on the 1st, 7th, and 10th days of the study.

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Aim: In this study, the relationship of liver tissue trace element concentrations with hepatitis B disease and the effects of several environmental factors were analysed.

Method: The liver tissue concentrations of Al, Fe, Cd, Mn, Cr, Cu, Pb, Ni, Zn, Ag, and Co were evaluated in 92 patients with hepatitis B using the Inductively Coupled Plasma - Mass Spectrometry (ICP/MS) method in the analyses. The patients were divided into the following two groups: low-high Ishak histologic activity index (HAI) (0-6: Low Histologic Activity, 7-18: High Histologic Activity) and low-high fibrosis (FS) (Fibrosis 1,1,2 and Fibrosis 3,4,5,6).

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Alpha-linolenic acid is one of the fatty acids known as omega 3. Previous studies have shown the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of alpha-linolenic acid, which prevented cell damage by inhibiting apoptotic pathway. Also, it is known that gentamicin activates apoptotic mediators and causes necrosis in the kidney.

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Ewing's sarcoma (ES) is a small round cell tumor of adolescents or young adults that usually arises in the deep soft tissues of the extremities. The tumor cells have uniform round nuclei, fine powdery chromatin and indistinct nucleoli. CD99 (O13) is a product of the MIC 2 gene that is highly sensitive to ES but not specific.

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Objective: There is no other screening program close to the success rate of PAP test. Cervical cytology constitutes a large workload so that quality control in cervical cytology is important for the quality assurance of pathology laboratories.

Material And Method: In this study, we collected the cervical cytology results from all over Turkey and discussed the parameters influencing the quality of the PAP test.

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