Annacarolina da Silva

ORCID: 0000-0002-0067-0288 · 3 papers in corpus
other 2019
Incidence of Mismatch Repair Protein Deficiency and Associated Clinicopathologic Features in a Cohort of 104 Ovarian Endometrioid Carcinomas
The American journal of surgical pathology ·doi:10.1097/PAS.0000000000001165

Patients with Lynch syndrome have up to a 24% risk of developing ovarian carcinoma, but universal mismatch repair (MMR) protein testing of ovarian carcinomas is not standard practice in most institutions. We reviewed 104 unselected ovarian …

2016
Dual loss of the SWI/SNF complex ATPases SMARCA4/BRG1 and SMARCA2/BRM is highly sensitive and specific for small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcaemic type.
The Journal of Pathology ·doi:10.1002/path.4633

Small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcaemic type (SCCOHT) is a lethal and sometimes familial ovarian tumour of young women and children. We and others recently discovered that over 90% of SCCOHTs harbour inactivating mutations in the …

article 2015
Experimental Model of Intestinal Endometriosis: Pilot Study
·doi:10.9734/bjast/2015/13615

Aims: The objective of this study is to create an experimental model of intestinal endometriosis in pigs, which might allow better understanding of deep infiltrating endometriosis and development of new treatment techniques. As secondary ob…