In addition, blood glucose data are not provided, a description of how the histologic analyses were performed is lacking, and the photomicrographs provided are of very low magnification and not easily interpretable by the reader.
All cases were of the epithelioid histologic subtype.
Here, similar to findings observed in other malignancies, late recurrence and low histologic grade were associated with improved survival.
It may be of benefit to illustrate chronicity of the TMP with morphologic evidence, such as otoscopic and histologic images.
These sites could be biopsied for histologic confirmation of metastases.
This may be due to low number of patients in G1 histologic subgroup and inhomogeneous nature of the G3 subgroup.
Low mRNA expression was also associated with high histologic grade (P=0.02), whereas the association with non-endometrioid histologic subtype was of borderline significance (P=0.07).
In contrast, correlation between DSQ score and peak eosinophil count (histologic response) was expected to be low (<0.4), owing to the potential time delay between histologic response and symptom improvement.
Third, the reproducibility of semiquantitative histologic scoring systems is reportedly low [ 11], but we believe semiquantitative scoring may be reasonable with a high degree of reproducibility if the parameters are kept basic and the grades are limited and well defined [ 13].
Based on morphological criteria, EOCs are classified as serous (of low and high grade), clear cell, endometrioid, mucinous transitional (Brenner type), mixed mesodermal, and undifferentiated histologic subtypes [ 1].
