Publications by authors named "Kai-Yi Zhou"

Background: Eccrine porocarcinoma (EPC) is a rare cutaneous neoplasm, commonly arising from its benign counterpart, eccrine poroma (EP), but potential unrevealed clinicopathological differences between them are not well understood.

Objectives: This study aimed to identify clinicopathological features of EP and EPC and describe the factors that may be associated with the malignant transformation of EP by comparing the two groups.

Methods: A total of 37 cases of EP and 22 cases of EPC diagnosed between January 2017 and June 2023 were retrospectively reviewed, and the clinical and histopathological characteristics were compared using statistical methods.

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Epithelioid hemangioma (EH) is a rare angioproliferative disorder for which histopathology is the main approach to diagnosis. The tendency to recur is of concern to clinicians and patients. The factors associated with recurrence have been sporadically reported and a large-scale cohort study has been lacking.

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Background: Basaloid skin tumors include subtypes of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and the basaloid variant of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). Due to their similarity in pathology and clinical presentation, their diagnosis is not straightforward. The aim of this study was to analyze the immunohistochemical expression of HSP105 in basaloid skin tumors, which include BCC, basosquamous carcinoma (BSC), metatypical basal cell carcinoma (MBCC), basaloid squamous cell carcinoma (BSCC), BCC with squamous differentiation as well as conventional SCC.

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Background: Kimura's disease (KD) is a rare chronic inflammatory disorder characterised by painless, deep subcutaneous nodules that most commonly affect the head and neck region of Asian men. Due to high relapse rates and side effects of current therapies, the treatment of KD is challenging.

Objectives: To present a case of KD that was successfully treated with dupilumab and to review the literature with a focus on the evaluation of the efficacy and safety of dupilumab in KD.

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  • - The study aimed to evaluate the expression of EGR3 in normal skin and various skin tumors, including cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), basal cell carcinoma (BCC), melanoma (MM), and others, highlighting its potential role in tumor growth and differentiation.
  • - EGR3 was found to be present in the granular layer of normal skin and specific structures like sebaceous glands and hair follicles, while it was absent in sweat glands; in tumors, it was positively expressed in BCC, sebaceous carcinoma, and trichoepithelioma, but not in cSCC, melanoma, or clear cell hidradenoma.
  • - The results indicate that EGR3's distinct expression pattern could aid in differentiating
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  • The study investigates how to differentiate atypical plaque psoriasis from similar skin conditions, especially when typical diagnostic features are absent.
  • It analyzes clinical and pathological characteristics from 20 cases of atypical plaque psoriasis and 40 control cases, revealing significant differences in various features like parakeratosis and types of inflammatory cells.
  • The findings aim to provide clinicians with better diagnostic tools to accurately identify and treat atypical plaque psoriasis by highlighting distinguishing features from its mimics.
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Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is a common type of nonmelanoma skin cancer with a very high incidence. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are involved in abnormal proliferation, invasion and apoptosis of tumor cells. Whether HSP105 acts as a promoter or inhibitor of cSCC remains to be further explored.

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Gentiana delavayi Franch. (Gentianaceae) as an ethnomedicinal plant contains a variety of effective active ingredients and exhibits diverse pharmacological actions, such as hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory and central nervous system effects. In this study we investigated the influence of G.

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Although considerable energy and money have been spent trying to inhibit Aβ production and its related metabolic enzyme activities, there are still no drug treatments available to cure even slow for Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, tau protein has been focused recently as the new target for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The transfected human embryonic kidney 293 (HEK 293) cells with or without Tau 411 plasmid were used to evaluate the effect of tau protein on cell viability.

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China's EIA Law came into effect in 2003 and formally requires road transport infrastructure development actions to be subject to Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). EIAs (including project EIA and plan EIA, or strategic environmental impact assessment, SEA) have been being widely applied in the expressway infrastructure planning field. Among those applications, SEA is applied to provincial level expressway network (PLEI) plans, and project EIA is applied to expressway infrastructure development 'projects' under PLEI plans.

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