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By routine histological staining technics and histochemical assays under an appropriate enzymic control the author has studied changes in the basement membranes of the uterine cervix in its precancer and cancer as compared with the normal state. Changes in the basement membranes, revealed morphologically, reflect objectively the status of the epithelium and stroma during the period of tumor origination and growth, and therefore these may serve as a valuable adjunct to the differential microscopic diagnosis of dysplasia, preinvasive cancer and an incipient invasive growth. It is believed that basement membrane neoplasms may develop around mostly differentiated complexes of cancer cells in far-advanced neoplasms and their metastases; this fact is regarded as a tendency to normalization of the relationship between the cancerous tumor parenchyma and stroma with correlations between them being remined even under extremely unfavourable conditions of the tumor growth.
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PMID:[Basement membranes in precancerous conditions and neoplasms of the uterine cervix]. 48 15

We report a group of neuroid, cutaneous tumors that are usually associated with, or preceded by a melanocytic dysplasia. For this clinicopathologic entity we have chosen the term neurotropic melanoma. The neurotropic melanoma is a cutaneous fibrous tumor whose clinical course is characterized by local infiltration, multiple recurrences, and commonly by metastases. Its microscopic picture is characterized by atypical "neuroma-like" patterns, by poorly defined margins, and by neurotropism. Its early or precursory melanocytic dysplasias include lentigo maligna (actinic or lentigo maligna variant), and a melanoma with borderline cytologic characteristics (minimal deviation variant). A third type is not preceded by a recognizable melanocytic dysplasia: it has "neuroma-like" qualities at its inception (de novo variant). In our 22 cases, the preponderant sites were the head, neck, and lip. The patients were fair-faced, and 18 of the patients were over 40 years old. Seventeen patients had one or more recurrences. Of 16 patients with follow-up, nine died with evidence of disease, five are alive with active disease, and seven are apparently free of disease.
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PMID:Neurotropic melanoma. A variant of desmoplastic melanoma. 53 14

Stomachs of 22 rats treated with aspirin for six months were examined histologically at times ranging from 6 to 18 months after completion of treatment. Healed chronic gastric ulcers were found in 20 rats. Glandular dysplasia was present at the sites of healed ulcers in 12 rats, the glands extending into the submucosa, muscularis propria, and even subserosal fat. The apparent lack of progression with time and the absence of metastases suggest that the changes are not neoplastic but are a consequence of repeated injury and regeneration, with entrapment of glands below the level of the muscularis mucosae. The lesions in the aspirin-treated animals closely resemble those of gastritis cystica polyposa and colitis cystica profunda in the human subject.
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PMID:Aspirin-induced glandular dysplasia of the stomach: histologic and histochemical studies in rats. 57

The authors report 32 patients with different lesions of ribs and 6 patients with clavicular lesions. Due attention is given to the difficulties in establishing the differential roentgenological diagnosis between reticulosarcoma. Ewing's sarcoma, fibrosarcoma, metastases of other tumors in the rib and fibrous dysplasia. Great diagnostic value of trephine biopsy in establishing the morphological diagnosis is emphasized. To close large defects in the thoracic wall following the resection of some ribs a new variant of autodermal thoracoplasty is suggested.
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PMID:[Surgical treatment of tumors of the ribs and clavicles]. 63 75

A painful intracortical and subperiosteal lesion of the fibula with a 14 year follow-up is reported to regress to a painfree state. Infection is favored in the differential diagnosis. Biopsy with histological and radiographical correlation are essential for exclusion of: osteoid osteoma, osteoblastoma, periostitis, glomus tumor, eosinophilic granuloma, enostosis, hemangioma of bone, giant cell tumor, simple cyst, aneurysmal bone cyst, non-ossifying fibroma, polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, hyperparathyroidism, Paget's disease, localized area of avascular necrosis, stress fracture and even metastatic disease.
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PMID:Intracortical and subperiosteal lesion of unknown etiology. 63 98

We report two patients with a similar syndrome of gross malformation of a lower limb and contiguous structures due to involvement with dysplastic, teratomatous tissue. This dysplasia seems to have arisen in a paramedian position in the embryonic hindquarter at the time of lower limb-bud differentiation. Malignant degeneration at 5--7 months led to metastases and death in both cases around 1 year of age. The behavior of the dysplastic/oncoplastic tissue suggests a 2-"mutational" causal model. This is an apparently previously undescribed formal genesis syndrome.
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PMID:An unusual dysplasia-malformation-cancer syndrome in two patients. 67 67

During follow-up examinations; 1,338 cervicovaginal cytologic smears were obtained from 254 women who had irradiation therapy for cervical cancer. These specimens were meticulously searched for the various cellular phenomena that may characterize such preparations, and some of the findings were subjectively quantitated. Correlations were made with histopathologic diagnoses, clinical findings, and results of treatment. Patients with malignant postradiation cells who were promptly treated for latent new or recurrent tumors generally responded well to treatment of the secondary tumor. The presence of malignant cells at any time after completion of therapy is an ominous sign, irrespective of the clinical status, and should lead to intensive effort to identify the site of a new or persisting lesion. The significance of dysplasia in postradiation smears is not entirely clear, and in certain instances it is difficult to distinguish severely dysplastic cells from either repair cells or malignant cells.
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PMID:Significance of cervicovaginal cytology after radiation therapy for cervical carcinoma. 111 22

Urinary beta-aminoisobutyric acid (beta-AIB) has been measured in 141 patients with urothelial tumours and 60 controls. Ninetyone of the patients have been followed-up for an average period of about 2 years, which included many determinations of the beta-AIB excretion. Thirtysix patients died during the control periods. Urinary beta-AIB was found to be significantly correlated to the grade of tumour cell dysplasia, but not to the clinical tumour stage. The treatment had no major influence on the excretion. Characteristic changes in the excretion preceding high-grade tumour recurrences are demonstrated. Autopsy findings with tumour tissue in the urinary tract and distant metastases were significantly correlated to a low urinary beta-AIB in the terminal phase of the disease. The results are discussed in relation to the degradation of thymine, the dual origin of beta-AIB and the tumour-host metabolism. It is concluded, that urinary beta-AIB can contribute to the graduation of malignancy, but is not valuable as a general screening procedure for urothelial cancer.
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PMID:A study on the clinical significance of urinary beta-aminoisobutyric acid in patients with urothelial tumours. 122 82

Lung cancer arises after a series of morphological changes, which take several years to progress from normal epithelium to invasive cancer. The morphological changes progress from hyperplasia, to metaplasia, to dysplasia, to carcinoma in situ, to invasive cancer and finally to metastatic cancer. Multiple molecular changes have been documented in lung cancers, both small cell (SCLC) and non-small cell (NSCLC) types. The number of changes has been estimated to be in double digits. These changes include activation of dominant oncogenes myc family, (K-ras and neu genes), as well as loss of recessive growth regulatory genes or anti-oncogenes (p53, and RB as well as unidentified gene or genes on chromosome 3). However, cytogenetic and molecular genetic studies indicate that multiple other specific sites of actual or potential DNA loss may be present in lung cancers. Other changes may include development of drug resistance, and production of growth factors and their receptors. It is tempting to associate specific molecular changes with specific morphological changes, as has been attempted in the colon. However, because of the difficulties in serially sampling the respiratory tract, such studies have not been performed to date. Documentation of molecular changes in premalignant lesions and prospective studies of their prognostic effects will be necessary for the design of rational chemoprevention trials.
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PMID:The molecular biology of lung cancer. 130 9

A 41-year-old female with a history of total ulcerative colitis for 15 years is presented. After eight years, she was enrolled in a colonoscopic surveillance program with regular examinations every second year and with biopsy sampling for histologic assessment of dysplasia as well as for flow cytometric analysis. Neither dysplasia nor DNA aneupoloidy developed during the course of the follow-up, but, after seven years, the patient developed a rapidly growing malignant stricture in the lower rectum. At the time of diagnosis, a local gluteal metastasis was found. Following preoperative radiation therapy, laparotomy disclosed a rectal cancer with local growth in the pelvis. Despite an attempt to perform curative surgery, the patient deteriorated and died within four months after the diagnosis. The carcinoma was of a poorly differentiated, mucinous, signet ring cell type, and DNA analyses of both the tumor and its metastases were diploid. Retrospective analyses of mucin content in colonoscopic biopsies showed a gradual shift from sulfated mucin to sialomucin. This case underlines the fact that even rigorous follow-ups offer no absolute guarantee against incurable malignancy in surveillance programs for ulcerative colitis despite the inclusion of DNA analyses.
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PMID:Highly malignant carcinoma in chronic ulcerative colitis without preceding dysplasia or DNA aneuploidy. Report of a case. 131 Feb 71


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