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Exp Ther Med
January 2025
Department of Dermatology, Military Institute of Medicine-National Research Institute, Central Clinical Hospital Ministry of Defense, 04-141 Warsaw, Poland.
Diagn Cytopathol
February 2025
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Background: Therapeutic modalities used in bladder lesions/neoplasms (electrocautery, fulguration, and laser) could produce morphologic alterations leading to diagnostic challenges. While often seen on histology, they can present in urine cytology as atypia or even raise the concern for malignancy. Herein, we present clinicopathologic findings of four patients with cautery artifact in urine cytology.
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November 2024
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Introduction And Importance: Ureteric stump syndrome [USS] is a series of febrile recurrent lower abdominal pain, urinary tract infections, and hematuria that sometimes present with empyema as a rare complication. The ureteric stump is left after ureteric re-implantation due to an impacted stone at the Vesical-ureteric junction [VUJ], or after nephrectomy of a non-functional kidney due to a distal stone; the ureteral stump forms a source of infection to the urinary bladder, in addition to long-term obstructive stones left at the ureteric stamp. This usually cause chronic irritation of the mucosa and potentially change to metaplasia, dysplasia and malignancy.
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September 2024
Department of Pathology, Mudanjiang Medical University Affiliated Hongqi Hospital, No.5 Tongxiang Road, Aimin District, Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, 157011, China.
Background: Submucosal pseudoinvasion and squamous metaplasia (SM) are incidental and special morphological findings in colorectal adenomas, and both can mimic invasive carcinoma. The coexistence of these two findings further increases the risk of misdiagnosis, posing a great diagnostic challenge to pathologists. From 1979 to 2022, only 8 cases have been reported, which was extremely rare.
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September 2024
Urology Service, Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
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