The First Ten Years

Abstract

When we wrote our first editorial ten years ago we were confident that the enthusiasm and dedication of our distinguished Editorial Board and eminent consulting editors would go a long way toward making Ultrastructural Pathology a success. Now, on our tenth anniversary, Ultrastructural Pathology has achieved the success we hoped it would. We thank our editorial colleagues, our reviewers, our publication staff, and especially our contributors and readers who have made this success possible.

At the meeting of the Ultrastructural Pathology Club, held as a part of the US-Canadian Academy of Pathology meeting in San Francisco, Ultrastructural Pathology presented awards for the Best Paper of the Year published during the period 1980–1986. The winning papers (see below) were selected by a vote of the Editorial Board members and consultants with the benefit of at least 2 1/2 years of retrospective analysis.

The winning papers include a respectable array of new information about human pathobiology. In the majority of these papers, electron microscopic findings are complemented by observations derived from other disciplines and techniques including histochemistry, quantitative analysis, immunocytochemistry at the light and electron microscopy levels, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis, immunoblot analysis, and others. Thus the awards clearly recognize and exhibit the contemporary approach to the study of pathology that was outlined in the editorials of the first and third issues of Ultrastructural Pathology in 1980.

We feel confident that Ultrastructural Pathology will remain at the forefront of pathology and pathobiology during the next ten years, and we will continue to interpret the title of the journal with the widest possible connotation.

The proof that Ultrastructural Pathology has become a far-reaching, respected journal is demonstrated by the increasing number of distinguished papers that are being submitted for publication. The selection of winners of future Best Paper of the Year awards will no doubt become an increasingly difficult challenge to our Editorial Board, but it is a challenge we look forward to meet.

Ultrastructural Pathology Awards

1980 Michael T. Mazur and Anna-Luise A. Katzenstein: Metastatic melanoma: The spectrum of ultrastructural morphology. Ultrastruct Pathol 1:337–356, 1980.

1981 Victor E. Gould, Vincent A. Memoli, Loren E. Dardi, Harold J. Sobel, Sheldon C. Sommers, and Jan Vincents Johannessen: Neuroendocrine carcinomas with multiple immunoreactive peptides and melanin production. Ultrastruct Pathol 2:199–217, 1981.

1982 Italo Caorsi, Carlos D. Figueroa, and Esteban M. Rodriguez: Morphologic and morphometric study of the two main cell lineages involved in mycosis fungoides: The lymphoid cells and the Langerhans cells. Ultrastruct Pathol 3:119–136, 1982.

1983 Nelson C. Ordoñez and Bruce Mackay: Ultrastructure of liver cell and bile duct carcinomas. Ultrastruct Pathol 5:201–241, 1983.

1984 Markus Rautiainen, Yrjö Collan, Juhani Nuutinen, and Juhani Kärjä: Ultrastructure of human respiratory cilia: A study based on serial sections. Ultrastruct Pathol 6:331–339, 1984.

1985 G. Berger, F. Berger, F. Boman, and J. Féroldi: Light and electron microscope localization of G-17- and G-34-like immunoreactivities of human gastrinomas. Ultrastruct Pathol 8:305–318, 1985.

1986 Roland Moll, Mary Osborn, Wolfgang Hartschuh, Ingrid Moll, Gustav Mahrle, and Klaus Weber: Variability of expression and arrangement of cytokeratin and neurofilaments in cutaneous neuroendocrine carcinomas (Merkel cell tumors): Immunocytochemical and biochemical analysis of twelve cases. Ultrastruct Pathol 10:473–495, 1986.