International Journal of Surgical Pathology
The International Journal of Surgical Pathology (IJSP) focuses on diagnostic histopathology and publishes 8 issues per year. Articles include original surgical pathology research in all major organ systems, as well as reviews and controversies in the practice of histopathology. Case reports may be considered but should bring new information to the practice of pathology, such as new deceptive morphologic patterns, emerging immunohistochemical markers, or previously unrecognized genetic alterations. “Brief Report” articles are formatted as a letter and may contain a brief description of original research or a case report. The Editorial Board includes subspecialty experts in histopathology from around the world. Proposals for special issues coordinated by a Guest Editor are considered, with emphasis on timely topics on a specific theme or organ system in surgical pathology. (Note: IJSP does not publish articles describing surgery techniques or clinical treatment, unless the focus is on the resulting histopathology specimens. Basic science articles, especially involving animal models or cell lines, are not considered.)
Common topics covered by the Journal include:
- Novel genetic alterations in tumor types
- Head and neck and thyroid tumors
- Soft tissue tumors
- Genitourinary pathology
- Gastrointestinal / hepatobiliary pathology
- Breast tumors and tumor-like conditions
- Thoracic / pulmonary pathology
- Gynecologic pathology
- Brain tumor pathology
- Immunohistochemical markers for diagnosis and differential diagnosis
- Novel techniques in the practice of histopathology
- Reviews highlighting diagnosis and differential diagnosis of emerging and challenging entities in surgical pathology
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
International Journal of Surgical Pathology is an official journal of the Italian Society of Anatomic Pathology and Diagnostic Cytopathology (SIAPEC) and of the Spanish and Hong King Divisions of the International Academy of Pathology (IAP). The following divisions of the IAP as well as additional societies are supporting sponsors of IJSP: Bolivian, Romanian, Brazilian, Australian, Portuguese, and Puerto Rican Divisions of the International Academy of Pathology, the Argentine Society of Pathology, the Brazilian Society of Pathology, and the Korean Society of Pathologists.
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijsp.
The mission of International Journal of Surgical Pathology is to share cutting-edge information for the practice of surgical pathology (histopathology). This includes studies based on standard techniques (light microscopic examination of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue), as well as emerging techniques, such as novel immunohistochemical markers, molecular pathology, and digital transformation of the field of histopathology. The Journal publishes original research, review articles, case reports (with important new information), letters (in response to articles in the Journal), brief reports of new information, and articles highlighting challenges in histopathology, such as pitfalls, molecular surgical pathology, and others.
| Sean R. Williamson | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Aliyah Sohani | Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA |
| Yasmeen M. Butt | Mayo Clinic, USA |
| Giovanna A. Giannico | Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA |
| Maria A. Gubbiotti | MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA |
| Mohamed El Hag | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Yin (Rex) P. Hung | Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
| Darcy A. Kerr | Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, USA |
| Kemal Kosemehmetoglu | Hacettepe University, Turkey |
| Konstantinos Linos | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA |
| Isidro Machado | Instituto Valenciano de Oncología, Valencia, Spain |
| Patrick J. McIntire | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| John D. Reith | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Steven C. Smith | Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
| Amitabh Srivastava | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA |
| Simona Stolnicu | University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology “George Emil Palade” of Targu Mures, Romania |
| Amanda L. Strickland | Northwestern University, USA |
| Mieke R. van Bockstal | Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc Bruxelles, Belgium |
| Zhaohai Yang | University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, USA |
| Miruna Popescu | Institut für Pathologie Ludwigsburg, Germany |
| Richard Pacheco | Stanford University, USA |
| Kajsa Affolter | University of Utah and ARUP Laboratories, USA |
| Mahmut Akgul | Albany Medical Center Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, USA |
| Alyaa Al-Ibraheemi | Boston Children's Hospital, USA |
| Khaleel I. Al-Obaidy | Henry Ford Health System, USA |
| Reza Alaghehbandan | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Zainab I. Alruwaii | Dammam Regional Laboratory and Blood Bank, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| Pedram Argani | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Susan M. Armstrong | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Stephanie Barak | Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA |
| Jacqueline Birkness-Gartman | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA |
| Justin A. Bishop | Clements University Hospital, USA |
| Adam L. Booth | Washington University School of Medicine, USA |
| Veerle Bossuyt | Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
| Thomas Brenn | University of Michigan, USA |
| Andrey Bychkov | Kameda Medical Center, Japan |
| Dengfeng Cao | Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine Renji Hospital, China |
| Norman Carr | Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK |
| Matthew J. Cecchini | Western University London Health Sciences Centre, Canada |
| Amy Chadburn | Cornell University, USA |
| Greg Charville | Stanford University, USA |
| Hao Chen | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA |
| Esther Cheng | Weill Cornell Medicine, USA |
| Zhikai Chi | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA |
| Nicole A. Cipriani | University of Chicago, USA |
| Kimberly S. Cole | University of Chicago, USA |
| Katrina Collins | Indiana University School of Medicine, USA |
| Genevieve Crane | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| David Creytens | Ghent University Hospital, Belgium |
| Xiaoyan Cui | Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, USA |
| Carina A. Dehner | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA |
| Alessandro Del Gobbo | Fondazione IRCCS Ca Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Italy |
| Josephine K. Dermawan | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Mark Ettel | University of Rochester Medical Center, USA |
| Carol F. Farver | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Roger Feakins | Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Giovanni Fellegara | Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Italy |
| Adam S. Fisch | Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
| Uta Flucke | Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Karen Fritchie | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Jatin S. Gandhi | Emory University School of Medicine, USA |
| Paula Ginter | Cornell University, USA |
| Sounak Gupta | Mayo Clinic, USA |
| Katja Gwin | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA |
| Michelle S. Hirsch | Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA |
| Erika Hissong | New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medicine, USA |
| Ye Lin Hock | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, United Kingdom |
| Raza S. Hoda | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Syed Hoda | Weill Cornell Medicine, USA |
| Danielle Hutchings | Cedars-Sinai Health System, USA |
| Deepali Jain | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India |
| Judith Jebastin-Thangaiah | Mayo Clinic, USA |
| Taylor M. Jenkins | University of Virginia, USA |
| Liwei Jia | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA |
| Chia-Sui (Sunny) Kao | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Alison Krywanczyk | Office of the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner, USA |
| Brent K. Larson | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA |
| Scott R. Lauer | Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA |
| Zhichun Lu | Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
| Claudio Luchini | University of Verona, Italy |
| Amy Ly | Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
| Michelle Madden Felicella | University of Texas Medical Branch, USA |
| Kelly Magliocca | Emory University, USA |
| Kelsey E. McHugh | Mayo Clinic, USA |
| Madhu P. Menon | University of Utah and ARUP Laboratories, USA |
| Ozgur Mete | Toronto General Hospital/Research Institute, Canada |
| Michal Michal | Charles University, Czech Republic |
| Daniel Miller | Washington University School of Medicine, USA |
| Elizabeth Montgomery | University of Miami School of Medicine, USA |
| MacLean P. Nasrallah | Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Jane K. Nguyen | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Ondrej Ondic | Biopticka Laboratory, Czech Republic |
| Adrian Ormsby | Awanui Labs, New Zealand |
| Adepitan O. Owosho | The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA |
| David J. Papke Jr. | Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA |
| Kyle D. Perry | University of Michigan, USA |
| Raghavendra Pillappa | Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
| Christopher G. Przybycin | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Peter Pytel | University of Chicago, USA |
| Dinesh Rakheja | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA |
| Sanjita Ravishankar | Cleveland, OH, USA |
| Bharat Rekhi | Tata Memorial Hospital, India |
| Miguel Reyes-Múgica | Miami, FL, USA |
| Jordan P. Reynolds | Mayo Clinic, USA |
| Fausto Rodriguez | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA |
| Lisa Rooper | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA |
| Peter M. Sadow | Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
| Ankur R. Sangoi | Stanford University, USA |
| Stuart J. Schnitt | Harvard Medical School, USA |
| J. Kenneth Schoolmeester | Mayo Clinic, USA |
| Jefree Schulte | University of Wisconsin, USA |
| Selim Sevim | Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center (CEDAR), Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA |
| Anurag Sharma | University of Kansas Medical Center, USA |
| Shivani Sharma | CORE Diagnostics, India |
| Angela Shih | Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
| Jean F. Simpson | Breast Pathology Consultants, USA |
| Alena Skalova | Biopticka Laboratory, Czech Republic |
| Jonathan C. Slack | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Emily A. Sloan | MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, USA |
| Ivan Stojanov | Cleveland Clinic, USA |
| Fattaneh Tavassoli | Yale School of Medicine, USA |
| Khin Thway | Royal Madison NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom |
| Kiril Trpkov | University of Calgary, Canada |
| Gulisa Turashvili | Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA |
| Jaylou M. Velez Torres | University of Miami School of Medicine, USA |
| Jian Wang | Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, China |
| Kevin Waters | Cedars-Sinai Health System, USA |
| Annika Windon | New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medicine, USA |
| Shaofeng Yan | Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, USA |
| Ming Zhao | Ningbo Clinical Pathology Diagnostic Center, China |
| Wei Zheng | Emory University School of Medicine, USA |
| John S. J. Brooks | University of Pennsylvania,USA |
| Cyril Fisher | University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, UK |
| Juan Rosai | Instituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, Italy |
Instructions for Authors
Purpose
The mission of the International Journal of Surgical Pathology is to provide a forum for the communication of scientific information in the field of surgical pathology. Studies that emphasize important diagnostic and prognostic features involving human tissue provide the basis for publication of works utilizing standard techniques, as well as those from applied and basic science. Manuscript categories include: original articles; review articles; molecular surgical pathology; case reports; news; diagnostic pearls, pitfalls and mistakes; profiles of tumors and immunomarkers; images in pathology; controversies in surgical pathology; historical aspects; and medicolegal issues (invited and submitted).
Submission of Manuscripts
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijsp, where authors will be required to set up an online account in the SAGETRACK system powered by ScholarOne. Files should be submitted in Microsoft Word and should include the following elements: complete author names; author contact information, including credentials; departmental and institutional affiliations; acknowledgments; abstract (150 or fewer words); keywords; references; tables; illustrations; and legends. Original works will be accepted with the understanding that they are contributed solely to the International Journal of Surgical Pathology and have not been published by and are not under simultaneous review by another publication. Accepted manuscripts become the sole property of the journal and may not be published elsewhere without the consent of the publisher. A form stating that the authors transfer all copyright ownership to the publisher will be sent from the editorial office when the manuscript is accepted; this form must be signed by all authors of the article (faxes are accepted). Average time from submission to first decision: 16 days.
ORCID
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process SAGE has become a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities ensuring that their work is recognized.
The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Manuscript Preparation
Manuscripts should be prepared using the AMA Style Guide (10th Edition).
Margins
One inch margins are required around the text.
Line Spacing
Single space is required within the abstract, notes, titles and headings, block quotes, tables and figures, and references etc; double space is required before and after each single spaced block.
Fonts
Text should be in 10-point or 12-point, Times New Roman.
Indents
Half-inch indents are standard.
Page Numbers
All the pages must be numbered sequentially.
The manuscript should include four major sections (in this order): Title Page, Abstract, Main Body, and References.
Sections in a manuscript may include the following (in this order): (1) Title page, (2) Abstract, (3) Keywords, (4) Text, (5) References, (6) Tables, (7) Figures, and (8) Appendices.
1. Title page. Please include the following:
- Full article title
- Acknowledgments and credits
- Each author’s complete name, academic degrees, and institutional affiliation(s)
- Grant numbers and/or funding information
- Corresponding author (name, address, phone/fax, e-mail)
2. Abstract. Abstracts should be structured for reports of original data, systematic reviews (including meta-analyses), and clinical reviews (word limit shotld be250-300, depending on the journal style) and should be unstructured for other major manuscripts (word limit should be150, depending on the journal style).
Type the abstract on a separate page headed by the full article title. Omit author(s)’s names.
Abstracts are not required for special features such as letters, news articles, editorial etc.
References should not be cited in abstract.
3. Keywords: A short list of keywords should be given at the end of the abstract.
4. Text. Begin article text on a new page headed by the full article title.
IMPORTANT: Please remove all author identifying information in the manuscript for the purpose of double blind peer review.
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Items to Avoid in Headings:
Ø Avoid using a single abbreviation as a heading, even if the abbreviation has been expanded earlier in the text.
Ø Avoid expanding abbreviations for the first time in a heading. Spell the abbreviation out in the heading if that is its first appearance and introduce the abbreviation, if appropriate, at the next appearance of the term.
Ø Avoid citing figures or tables and references in headings. Cite them in the appropriate place in the text that follows the heading.
References
In-text citation.
For each text citation there must be a corresponding citation in the reference list and for each reference list citation there must be a corresponding text citation.
Cite references in consecutive order using superscript Arabic numbers.
Each superscript must match one reference in the References list.
Use commas to separate multiple citation numbers in text. Corresponding references should be listed in numeric order at the end of the document. Unpublished works and personal communications (oral, written, and electronic) should be cited parenthetically (and not on the reference list). Superscript numbers are placed outside periods and commas, and inside colons and semicolons.
When more than 2 references are cited at a given place in the manuscript, use hyphens to join the first and last numbers of a closed series; use commas without space to separate other parts of a multiple citation.
For eg., As reported previously, 1,3-8,19
The derived data were as follows3,4
Page numbers may be used in the superscript numbers; they are enclosed in parentheses.
Page numbers are required for direct quotations.
Basic rules for the reference list
Ø The title “References” is centered at the top of a separate page at the end of the document.
Ø Entries are preceded by their number and are given in numerical order.
Ø The reference list should be single-spaced. Single-space between entries.
Ø The second line and all subsequent lines of each item in the reference list should be indented (hanging indent).
Do not use “et al.” in the Reference list at the end; names of all authors of a publication should be listed there.
Figure and Artwork Submission
Electronic submission of figures is highly preferred, except for Case Reports. If hard copies of photographs are submitted, rather than digital images, they should be submitted in triplicate. Photographs should be black-and-white or color glossy prints, not films or negatives, and should not be mounted or trimmed. Mark lightly on the back, in soft pencil, the lead author’s name, figure number, and correct orientation ("top"). Photographs may be as large as 7" wide and 9" long (including legend). Artwork includes charts and graphs, maps, photographs, and line art. Acceptable file formats include the following: TIFF, EPS, JPEG, and PDF. Microsoft application files are acceptable for line art (vector art). These are figures that only contain black and white lines, such as charts, and no gray-shaded or color areas.
Scanned images
Line art should be scanned as a bitmap at 900 ppi. Photos should be scanned as a grayscale or CMYK at 300 ppi.
Color figures
Color figures that will enhance the article will be accepted for publication. Color figures should be be submitted at 300 ppi resolution.
Funding
IJSP additionally requires all Authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading titled 'Funding'. Please visit Funding Acknowledgements on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding or state in your acknowledgments that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
Declaration of Conflicting Interests
It is the policy of IJSP to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.
Please ensure that a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ statement is included. If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’.
When making a declaration the disclosure information must be specific and include any financial relationship that all authors of the article has with any sponsoring organization and the for-profit interests the organization represents, and with any for-profit product discussed or implied in the text of the article.
Any commercial or financial involvements that might represent an appearance of a conflict of interest need to be additionally disclosed in the covering letter accompanying your article to assist the Editor in evaluating whether sufficient disclosure has been made within the Declaration of Conflicting Interests provided in the article.
For more information please visit the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
Research Ethics
All papers reporting animal and human studies must include whether written consent was obtained from the local Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee and an Ethics Committee reference number.
We accept manuscripts that report human and/or animal studies for publication only if it is made clear that investigations were carried out to a high ethical standard. Studies in humans which might be interpreted as experimental (e.g. controlled trials) should conform to the Declaration of Helsinki http://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/index.html and typescripts must include a statement that the research protocol was approved by the appropriate ethical committee. In line with the Declaration of Helsinki 1975, revised Hong Kong 1989, we encourage authors to register their clinical trials (at http://clinicaltrials.gov or other suitable databases identified by the ICMJE, http://www.icmje.org/publishing_10register.html). If your trial has been registered, please state this on the Title Page. When reporting experiments on animals, indicate on the Title Page which guideline/law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Patient Consent
Authors are required to ensure the following guidelines are followed, as recommended by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals. Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published.
Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note. When informed consent has been obtained it should be indicated in the submitted article.
For Case Reports, Images in Pathology, Pitfalls in Pathology, and Letters to the Editor, informed consent must be obtained from all individual patients included in the study and/or manuscript.
Sage Choice
If you or your funder wish your article to be freely available online to nonsubscribers immediately upon publication (gold open access), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Choice, subject to the payment of a publication fee. The manuscript submission and peer review procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Choice. To check journal eligibility and the publication fee, please visit SAGE Choice. For more information on open access options and compliance at SAGE, including self/author archiving deposits (green open access) visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.