Published in Cureus
Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare and highly aggressive tumor with a poor prognosis. The literature on prognosis from low-income or low-middle-income countries is limited and scarce. This study aimed to determine the clinical and histopathological characteristics, recurrence-free survival (RFS), overall survival (OS), and the factors affecti...
Published in Cureus
Introduction Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is an aggressive B-cell lymphoma. The 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) update on hematopoietic tumors suggested that all DLBCL cases should be subtyped into germinal and non-germinal center phenotypes. Ki67 immunohistochemistry is a maker of cell proliferation and thus is used as a prognostic a...
Published in Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer
PurposeGastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) have the potential to recur and metastasize. Several prognostic schemes have been developed but none are precise enough and most times the pathologist faces a small biopsy where it is not possible to evaluate the mitotic count. Our aim was to determine the influence of ki67 index and other clinicopathol...
