Vol. 114: Issue 2 - April 2022 | Pathologica - Journal of the Italian Society of Anatomic Pathology and Diagnostic Cytopathology

Guidelines

Pathological examination of breast cancer samples before and after neoadjuvant therapy: recommendations from the Italian Group for the Study of Breast Pathology - Italian Society of Pathology (GIPaM-SIAPeC)

Nicola Fusco, Antonio Rizzo, Leopoldo Costarelli, Alfredo Santinelli, Bruna Cerbelli, Cristian Scatena, Ettore Macrì, Francesca Pietribiasi, Giulia d'Amati, Anna Sapino, Isabella Castellano

104-110 | published: 2022-04-28

Review

Malignant phyllodes tumor of the breast: a systematic review

Germana Lissidini, Antonino Mulè, Angela Santoro, Giovanni Papa, Luca Nicosia, Enrico Cassano, Arwa Ahmed Ashoor, Paolo Veronesi, Liron Pantanowitz, Jason L. Hornick, Esther Diana Rossi

111-120 | published: 2022-04-13

A comprehensive review of the “tigroid” background cytological concept: what, when, where and why?

José A. Jiménez-Heffernan, Ana M. Rodríguez-García, Luca Cima, Carlos H. Gordillo, Pilar López-Ferrer, Blanca Vicandi

121-127 | published: 2022-04-28

Original articles

Immunohistochemical assessment of cannabinoid type-1 receptor (CB1R) and its correlation with clinicopathological parameters in glioma

Nader Choucair*, Zahraa Saker*, Hassane Kheir Eddine*, Hisham F. Bahmad*, Youssef Fares, Mariana Zaarour, Hayat Harati, Sanaa Nabha

128-137 | published: 2022-04-28

Descriptive analysis of incidental and operable gallbladder carcinoma cases: a UK centre experience

Sanwadana Karunaratne, Amila Gamage, Izhar Nisar Bagwan

138-145 | published: 2022-04-28

Mortality due to respiratory infections: an alert study before COVID-19 pandemic

Andreia Gi, Rosa H. Gouveia, Francisco Corte Real, Lina Carvalho

146-151 | published: 2022-04-28

Case reports

The “Queen of the Moors”. Paleopathological investigation of a natural mummy from Scicli, South-Eastern Sicily

Luca Ventura, Guido Romeo, Bettina Grimaldi, Alessandro Causarano, Claudio Caruso, Giuseppe Voi, Valentina Pensiero

152-158 | published: 2022-04-28

A microcystic/reticular schwannoma in an unusual site: description of a retroperitoneal location and review of the literature

Rita Bianchi, Giulio Fraternali Orcioni, Bruno Spina, Valerio Gaetano Vellone, Jean Luis Ravetti, Gabriele Gaggero

159-163 | published: 2022-04-28

Metastasis of lung carcinoid in the thyroid gland after 18 years: it is never too late. A case report and review of the literature

Michele Dello Spedale Venti, Elisa Giannetta, Daniela Bosco, Marco Biffoni, Raffaella Carletti, Caterina Chiappetta, Massimo Barberis, Michele Simbolo, Davide Antonello, Andrea Isidori, Aldo Scarpa, Cira Rosaria Tiziana di Gioia

164-169 | published: 2022-04-28

Hematuria in breast cancer: don’t forget bladder metastases!

Alessandro Caputo, Maria Addesso, Filippo Fraggetta, Antonio D'Antonio

170-173 | published: 2022-04-28

Subcutaneous dirofilariosis in Italy: a diagnostic hypothesis to remind when the anamnesis is misleading

Naghia Ahmed, Leonardo Tonelli, Giuseppina Labagnara, Claudio Doglioni, Federica Pedica

174-177 | published: 2022-04-28

Editorial

Top of sliding slope

Riccardo Di Segni

178 | published: 2022-04-28

Historical Pathologica

Jewish anatomic pathologists in the time of Italian Racial Laws

Carlo Patriarca, Giorgio Sirugo, Mattia Barbareschi

179-184 | published: 2022-01-25

From Pathognomicha and Passiologia to Pathologia: concise history of a neologism (1486-1598)

Diederik F. Janssen

185-188 | published: 2022-04-28