Endometrial biopsy. Pathologic findings in 3,600 biopsies from selected patients.

abstract：Objectives:According to current guidelines, either immunohistochemistry (IHC) or in situ hybridization (ISH) can be used to determine human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (Her2/neu) status in breast carcinoma. While the guidelines explicitly delineate result interpretation, there is no consensus on the most appropr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Solomon JP,Dell'Aquila M,Fadare O,Hasteh F

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the current state of pathology resident training in genomic and molecular pathology. METHODS:The Training Residents in Genomics (TRIG) Working Group developed survey and knowledge questions for the 2013 pathology Resident In-Service Examination (RISE). Sixteen demographic questions related to a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Haspel RL,Rinder HM,Frank KM,Wagner J,Ali AM,Fisher PB,Parks ER,Training Residents in Genomics (TRIG) Working Group.

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-volume (200 ml) platelet concentrates prepared by discontinuous-flow centrifugation, with counts as high as ca. 2.0 x 10(12)/l, were stored in either 600 ml-capacity polyvinylchloride bags or 800-ml capacity polyethylene bags. Both polyvinylchloride and polyethylene bags appeared adequate for 24-hour storage of p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rosenstein R,Lawe JE,North JG

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A catenoidal, or saddle-shaped, configuration of the interventricular septum, concave toward the left ventricular cavity in the transverse plane, but convex toward the left ventricular cavity in the apex to base plane, occurs in idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis and possibly may lead to septal hypertrophy and...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hutchins GM,Moore GW,Skoog DK

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This session of the 2013 Society of Hematopathology/European Association for Haematopathology Workshop was dedicated to B-acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL)/lymphoblastic lymphoma (LBL) with recurrent translocations and not otherwise specified. METHODS:In this review, we summarize the cases discussed duri...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Loghavi S,Kutok JL,Jorgensen JL

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In 2001, the University of New Mexico Hospitals implemented a rapid screening tool for the triage of suspected hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome based on peripheral blood smear morphology. Five criteria guided clinical decisions: thrombocytopenia, hemoconcentration, granulocytic left shift, absence of toxi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dvorscak L,Czuchlewski DR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLDs) are a heterogeneous group of hematolymphoid proliferations arising in the context of chronic immunosuppression. The common and indolent B-cell lymphomas, including extranodal marginal zone lymphomas (ENMZLs) of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT), are...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cassidy DP,Vega F,Chapman JR

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:New federal regulations require review of all available negative gynecologic smears within the previous 5 years for each patient with a current high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HGSIL) or above. Two university hospitals retrospectively reviewed all patients who had HGSIL or above and who had prior negative s...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Allen KA,Zaleski S,Cohen MB

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-five renal biopsies with amyloidosis were studied by light microscopy with Congo red staining and action of potassium permanganate and by immunofluorescence with antihuman tissue A component antiserum antilight and heavy chains of immunoglobulins antisera. The patients were classified on the basis of concordance...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Noel LH,Droz D,Ganeval D

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of variables thought to affect measurement of prothrombin time (PT) and partial thromboplastin time (PTT) were examined in an effort to determine more precisely their effects on these measurements. On the basis of these studies, it is proposed that blood specimens be anticoagulated with one part 3.8% (w./v.) ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Koepke JA,Rodgers JL,Ollivier MJ

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reference values for hematologic parameters are determined using data from patient populations of a whole year. As a consequence, the authors are not dependent on a limited selected population and can determine reference values for all age and sex groups. It turns out that from the possible compilation technics the ga...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Swaanenburg JC,Rutten WP,Holdrinet AC,van Strik R

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eosinophils are normally absent from the urine. Their presence has been associated with a variety of clinical conditions affecting the kidney or urinary tract. The authors examined the clinical significance and eosinophils, in particular, for acute interstitial nephritis. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Corwin HL,Haber MH

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assessment of the infrequently performed protein-bound iodine determinations (PBI) and thyroxine (T4) determinations by column chromatography is presented after analysis of data contributed by participants in the 1976 College of American Pathologists Chemistry Survey Programs. The two technics yield comparable mean...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thiessen MM,Batsakis JG,Neuhoff J,Thomas BP

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of spurious red blood cell parameters caused by serum cold agglutinins has been well characterized for the Coulter counters but not the Ortho ELT-8. The pattern consists of a spurious increase in mean corpuscular volume (MCV), a discrepancy between the hemoglobin and the hematocrit, the latter falsely redu...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Solanki DL,Blackburn BC

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable progress has been achieved in our knowledge of the function of the chemokine system and in understanding its role in the pathophysiology of human diseases. This complex system, presently including approximately 50 cytokines and 20 receptors, coordinates leukocyte recruitment in a variety of human diseases...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Locati M,Bonecchi R,Corsi MM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods for testing stool samples for hemoglobin utilize peroxidase oxidation of chemical indicators such as guaiac or benzidine. These tests have frequent false-positive and false-negative results, complicating random screening for occult gastrointestinal bleeding. The authors have developed an immunochemical...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barrows GH,Burton RM,Jarrett DD,Russell GG,Alford MD,Songster CL

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two monoclonal antibodies, UCD/AB 6.11 and UCD/PR 10.11, were evaluated for their patterns of immunohistochemical reactivity in a survey of paraffin-embedded human tissues by the avidin-biotin-immunoperoxidase technique. By two-dimensional immunoblotting, UCD/AB 6.11 reacts with keratin number 18 and UCD/PR 10.11 iden...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chan R,Edwards BF,Hu R,Rossitto PV,Min BH,Lund JK,Cardiff RD

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We wished to discover (1) in what circumstances surgeons wished to request frozen sections (FSs) on thyroid nodules having a prior fine needle aspiration (FNA) and the preoperative plan in these cases; (2) what the surgeons did with the information provided by FS and (3) in what types of cases was value adde...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kennedy JM,Robinson RA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Society for Hematopathology and European Association for Haematopathology workshop, from October 27 to 29, 2011, in Los Angeles, CA, exhibited many exemplary skin biopsy specimens with interesting inflammatory changes mimicking features of cutaneous lymphoma. This article reviews features observed in cutaneous lym...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sarantopoulos GP,Palla B,Said J,Kinney MC,Swerdlow SM,Willemze R,Binder SW

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FNAB is the most important advance in the management of thyroid nodules in the past two decades. Dr Mazzaferri has said that finding a thyroid cancer in a thyroid nodule is like finding a needle in a haystack. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy is like applying a strong electromagnet to find that needle. It should be avail...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Greenspan FS

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four acid hydrolases, acid phosphatase (AP), alpha-naphthyl acetate esterase (ANAE), beta-glucuronidase, and N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, were determined cytochemically in peripheral blood lymphocytes from 50 patients with B and T chronic lymphocytic and prolymphocytic leukemias (CLL, PLL) and related disorders. Str...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Crockard A,Chalmers D,Matutes E,Catovsky D

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, I have estimated the percentage of tumor by visual estimate in 447 prostatectomy specimens from American Veterans Affairs patients and related this measurement to overall survival. Although percentage of tumor was significantly related to the serum prostate-specific antigen level, tumor stage, and Gleas...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Vollmer RT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory syncytial virus is detected in cell culture by the presence of cytopathic effect. To detect RSV before cytopathic effect is usually seen, slides were evaluated retrospectively from 482 HEp-2 cell cultures on days 2-4 after inoculation. Indirect immunofluorescent staining detected RSV in 57 of 94 cultures t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bromberg K,Tannis G,Daidone B

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoperoxidase technics were used to examine the immunoglobulin content of sections of pulmonary tissue from two typical cases of lymphomatoid granulomatosis and two cases of pneumonic processes initially diagnosed as lymphomatoid granulomatosis but representing different processes on review. Both "typical" cases an...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bender BL,Jaffe R

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Certain laboratory tests are critical for patient care and must be communicated rapidly. Professional societies have developed guidelines for reporting of "critical values" and significant or unexpected surgical pathology findings. Urgent diagnoses requiring rapid reporting include new or unexpected diagnose...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Layfield LJ,Schnabel JL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progression of follicular lymphoma (FL) to a higher-grade lymphoma occurs in 25% to 60% of cases and frequently indicates a poor prognosis. The transformation is accompanied by alteration in morphologic features and clinical behaviors. Herein, we report a case of FL occurring in a 59-year-old woman with the developmen...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Young KH,Xie Q,Zhou G,Eickhoff JC,Sanger WG,Aoun P,Chan WC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human serum contains 2 isoforms of type-5 tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRACP): 5a and 5b. TRACP-5b is osteoclastic. Our goal was to determine if serum TRACP-5a could originate from inflammatory macrophages (MPhi). We stained 246 paraffin-embedded tissue samples for TRACP using monoclonal antibody 9C5 (mab9C5) ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Janckila AJ,Slone SP,Lear SC,Martin A,Yam LT

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the sensitivity and detection time of a new radiometric broth (BACTEC 13A medium, Johnston Laboratories, Towson, MD) designed for direct blood culturing for Mycobacteria. A total of 1,848 blood specimens were cultured in parallel by a new method in which blood was directly inoculated into 13A medi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Strand CL,Epstein C,Verzosa S,Effatt E,Hormozi P,Siddiqi SH

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reducing the rate of avoidable errors is crucial to patient safety. Telephone calls with misunderstood critical results constitute one area in which opportunities for improvement exist. The aviation industry has dealt with this issue by requiring pilots to repeat instructions received from the air traffic controller. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barenfanger J,Sautter RL,Lang DL,Collins SM,Hacek DM,Peterson LR

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferative activity in astrocytomas, measured by image cytometry, was related to prognosis. Fifty-eight astrocytic neoplasms (grade 1 or 2, 11; grade 3, 31; glioblastoma multiforme, 16) were immunostained for Ki-67 (MIB-1; 1:50) and proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA; prediluted). Proliferative activity (nucl...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kirkegaard LJ,DeRose PB,Yao B,Cohen C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00