{"title":"Post-infantile Giant Cell Hepatitis: A Literature Review and Meta-analysis.","authors":"Jingjing Jiao, Xuchen Zhang","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Post-infantile giant cell hepatitis (PIGCH) is a rare disease entity in adults with a multifactorial etiology and widely variable clinical courses and outcomes. The factors associated with the worse outcomes of this disease entity are still unclear. We identified 68 PIGCH patients by searching PubMed and performed meta-analysis. Among the 68 patients, 32% of the cases were associated with autoimmune disorders, followed by 21% associated with viral infections, 10% with medication, and 7% with malignancy. Twenty-four percent of the patients had more than one etiological factor, and 6% had other uncommon etiologies or an etiology that could not be identified. At the time of this report, 17 patients had died of the disease (poor outcome), and 51 patients remained alive with the disease (good outcome). Compared to the patients with a good outcome, the patients with a poor outcome were characterized by older age, lower levels of platelets and albumin, higher level of total bilirubin, and a diffuse distribution pattern of giant cells in the liver. There were no differences in gender distribution, aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, gamma-glutamyl transferase, etiological distribution, or other histological features, including interface hepatitis, necrosis, lobular inflammation, portal inflammation, cholestasis, or fibrosis. Further studies would be needed to better understand the disease mechanisms and unmask any additional etiological factors and targeted therapies.</p>","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":"2 3","pages":"100-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/98/c5/nihms-1880187.PMC10117396.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9388705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Histomorphology and Molecular Profiling of Well-Differentiated Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus Including its Unusual Variants","authors":"Feng Yin, Wei Zheng, Sam Amofa-Ho, Xiuli Liu","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49560006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practical Issues of Ki-67 Evaluation in Breast Cancer Clinical Practice","authors":"Sean M. Hacking, Yihong Wang","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48090003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Follicular Cell Derived Thyroid Carcinoma: Common Things Present in Uncommon Ways","authors":"J. Lai, F. Fang, L. Song, He Wang","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47352802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cystic Lung Diseases Causing Spontaneous Pneumothorax","authors":"Chen Zhang","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00011","url":null,"abstract":"Surgical specimens resulting from a spontaneous pneumo- thorax (SP) are commonly encountered in the general surgical pathology practice. Many of the SP cases are primary pneumothorax with no underlying lung diseases. Specimens with primary pneumothorax show nonspecific pneumotho- rax-related changes, which are important to recognize to exclude the true underlying lung diseases. A variety of dis- ease entities may lead to diffuse cystic changes in the lungs, causing secondary pneumothorax. Some of the diseases are progressive and can cause irreversible damage to the lungs if not treated timely. Diagnosis of cystic lung diseases caus- ing secondary pneumothorax is important for the treatment of the diseases and the prevention of future episodes of pneumothorax. Lymphangioleiomyomatosis and Langerhans cell histiocytosis are two common conditions causing diffuse cystic changes in the lungs. They are discussed in greater de-tail in this review, given their overlapping features in patient characteristics, radiological findings, and pathologic findings. a diagnosis of exclusion. Specimens from these patients will show a spectrum of pneumothorax-related changes, which are important to recognize to exclude the true underlying lung diseases. The pneumothorax-related changes include pleural fibrosis with or without blebs, thick-walled blood vessels, and eosinophilic-rich chronic inflammation. 6–8 The underlying lung parenchyma may show distal acinar em-physema and reactive pneumocyte hyperplasia.","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46681125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Challenges and Opportunities of Translational Pathology.","authors":"Lanjing Zhang","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Translational pathology has not caught up with the quality and quantity of translational medicine. Thus, challenges and opportunities related to translational pathology are discussed here. Pathologists should actively participate in reverse translational research that seeks mechanistic insights to explain clinical findings and/or solve clinical problems. Challenges in translational pathology include ambiguity in defining translational pathology, pathologists' mindsets about translational research, lack of sufficient workforce and immature publication outlets. However, with collective wisdom and support of various stakeholders, we can expand the pool of pathologist scientists, build a translational pathology community and drive innovations in medicine through computational, molecular genetic/genomic and digital pathology approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":"2 2","pages":"63-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/34/ca/nihms-1821291.PMC9302533.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40645312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Differential Diagnosis of High-grade Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in the Digestive System","authors":"Zhaohai Yang","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44261208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Morphologic Variants of Well-Differentiated Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytomorphology and Diagnostic Pitfalls","authors":"Dan Lu, Huihong Xu, G. Cai","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47000189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sub-specialty Updates on Diagnostic Anatomical and Clinical Pathology","authors":"Linsheng Zhang, He Wang","doi":"10.14218/jctp.2022.00006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14218/jctp.2022.00006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73661,"journal":{"name":"Journal of clinical and translational pathology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44012928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}