A case of Neisseria elongata subsp. nitroreducens endocarditis with a favourable course is presented. Dental foci were involved as the infective origin. Only conservative therapy was performed for 6 weeks; no complications were registered in 3 months of follow-up. The other 12 cases with similar aetiology communicated in the past 30 y were reviewed.

Four cases are described of Aerococcus viridans endocarditis with favorable outcome, focusing on the clinical picture. Extracardiac findings (e.g. neurological, renal, musculoskeletal, intra-abdominal) in infective endocarditis (IE) have been recognized more frequently in recent years, and may delay the diagnosis and have a negative influence on the prognosis. Aerococcus viridans, a very rare microorganism causing invasive infections, has been associated

Telocytes (TCs) are actually defined as being stromal cells with specific long and thin prolongations, called telopodes (Tp). They were positively identified in various tissues up to now. We report here for the first time the presence of TCs in the structure of esophagus. Such cells were identified under transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in esophageal samples of Wistar rats (N=5) and were found beneath the basal epithelial layer, in submucosa,

Histopathological diagnosis using Formalin-Fixed Paraffin Embedded (FFPE) tissues is essential for the prognostic and therapeutic management of cancer patients. Pathologists are being confronted with increasing demands, from both clinicians and patients, to provide immunophenotypic and gene expression data from FFPE tissues to allow the planning of personalized therapeutic regimens. Recent improvements in the protocols for pre-analysis processing