To step or not to step: an approach to clinically diagnosed polyps with no initial pathologic finding.

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：:Thrombocytosis may reflect a primary myeloproliferative disorder or be a secondary reaction to other pathologic processes. Patients with persistent unexplained thrombocytosis meeting criteria of primary thrombocythemia had elevated levels of serum lactic dehydrogenase, whereas comparable patients with secondary thromb...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Budman DR,Lackner H,Berczeller P,Silber R

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of patients with lymphoid malignancies have suggested a relationship between survival and the presence of more than 40% hard-mirror cells in the bone marrow. This report represents the first detailed study of a patient with American Burkitt's lymphoma with numerous hand-mirror cells in the bone marrow...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schumacher HR,Rainey T,Davidson L,Simon D,Strong M,Creegan WJ,Holloway ML,Stass SA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although some studies have examined the expression of aberrant markers such as CD2, CD7, CD10, CD13, CD33, and CD34 on B cells in chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL), a uniform multiparametric analysis of the frequency of expression of these markers using stringent criteria is lacking. By...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kampalath B,Barcos MP,Stewart C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venography was performed on fifty-six patients suspected of having deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the legs. The accuracy of the D-dimer measurement in plasma using two latex tests and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was compared with that of usual determination of total fibrin(ogen) degradation products ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bounameaux H,Schneider PA,Reber G,de Moerloose P,Krahenbuhl B

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reliability of "standard" plasmas used by clinical laboratories to assay factor VIII concentrations of patients' plasmas was studied by assessing the credibility of their reference values. Two of three commercial reference plasmas were considered to be unreliable. The third commercial reference plasma appeared to ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harper TA,Bailey EL,Chauhan K

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cases of three patients who had clinical courses and hematologic data consistent with plasma-cell leukemia or a terminal leukemic phase of multiple myeloma are presented. A double Bence Jones protein was demonstrated in the urine of two of the patients. Immunoelectrophoresis and immunofluorescence studies demonstr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pedraza MA

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The t(3;21)(q26.2;q22) translocation is rare in cases of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We studied 17 patients with MDS/AML associated with t(3;21) and compared them with 17 patients with MDS associated with inv(3) (q21q26.2)/t(3;3)(q21;q26.2), because these entities share 3q26 locus ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Li S,Yin CC,Medeiros LJ,Bueso-Ramos C,Lu G,Lin P

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：Objective:T-cell large granular lymphocytic (T-LGL) leukemia is associated with B-cell lymphomas (BCLs), especially small BCLs. We aimed to explore and expand upon its association with BCLs. Methods:We retrospectively studied clinicopathologic features of T-LGL leukemia patients with coexisting BCL from January 2001 t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goyal T,Thakral B,Wang SA,Bueso-Ramos CE,Shi M,Jevremovic D,Morice WG,Zhang QY,George TI,Foucar KK,Bhattacharyya S,Bagg A,Rogers HJ,Bodo J,Durkin L,Hsi ED

更新日期：2018-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of carcinoma of the prostate with metastases is described. the prostate and the metastases showed adenocarcinoma with carcinoid-like areas. A tumor with the same histologic features was found at the tip of the appendix and proved to be metastatic. The possibility of primary carcinoid of the prostate wa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ansari MA,Pintozzi RL,Choi YS,Ladove RF

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol content of the high-density lipoproteins has become of interest in evaluating the risk of development of coronary heart disease. There is an inverse relationship between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and risk. The authors found a significant bias (11.1 mg/dl; 0.289 mmol/l) in a comparison of a rapid...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gerson B,Dean L,Copeland BE

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet aggregation studies are usually performed in either electrical impedance or optical systems and the release reaction assessed by quantitating adenosine triphosphate (ATP) from luminesence produced by the firefly luciferin-luciferase system. In evaluating the results of such studies, attention is paid to a var...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sweeney JD,Labuzetta JW,Fitzpatrick JE

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I)-derived amyloid commonly occurs in atherosclerotic plaques. To clarify apo A-I amyloid formation, plasma levels of apo A-I and cholesterol were related to the presence of amyloid in atherosclerotic plaques in 15 patients with peripheral atherosclerosis, subjected to arterial reco...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mucchiano GI,Jonasson L,Häggqvist B,Einarsson E,Westermark P

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of acute myelomonocytic leukemia (AMML) in an 81-year-old man is described. Ultrastructural examination revealed the presence of distinct Auer bodies, which commonly are found in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). The Auer bodies had a splinterlike appearance with a distinct tubular substructure. The ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Payne CM,Harrow EJ

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method using the RNA polymerase chain reaction technique to diagnose infection retrospectively using single-stranded RNA enteroviruses in paraffin-embedded tissue blocks is reported. This method takes advantage of extreme sequence conservation in the 5' untranslated region of the enteroviral genome and uses two roun...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Redline RW,Genest DR,Tycko B

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with normal cytogenetics represents approximately 40% to 50% of de novo AML. This heterogeneous AML subgroup constitutes the single largest cytogenetic group with an intermediate prognosis. Previous studies have suggested that the Fms-like tyrosine kinase-3 internal tandem duplication (FLT...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rausei-Mills V,Chang KL,Gaal KK,Weiss LM,Huang Q

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant hemoglobin fraction may be an incidental finding during HbA(1c) analysis using the G8 Tosoh HPLC analyzer, but it is unclear if the retention times and fraction patterns can reliably predict the findings of a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) β-thalassemia program (Bio Rad Variant II analyzer). W...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Froom P,Henig C,Zalman L,Barak M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies with specificity for proteinase 3 (PR3-ANCA) usually is detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with purified PR3 as a substrate. We studied the technical performance of direct and capture ELISA using a recombinant proteolytically inactive form of...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rarok AA,Huitema MG,van der Leij MJ,van der Geld YM,Berthold H,Schmitt J,Stegeman CA,Limburg PC,Kallenberg CG

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening sera for streptococcal antibodies is a useful clinical procedure when recent streptococcal infection requires verification. Presently there are two test kits available that detect five (or more) of the antibodies that may be present. These two screening tests were compared using antistreptolysin O (ASO) and ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tolliver PR,Roe MH

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performances of four instruments for counting platelets were evaluated in a side-by-side study: the Haema-Count MK-4/HC, an electronic impedance instrument that counts platelets in platelet-rich plasma; the Ultra-Flo 100, and the Coulter Counter Model S-Plus, electronic impedance instruments that count platelets i...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dalton WT Jr,Bollinger P,Drewinko B

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little information has been reported describing antigen stability in plasma cell myeloma. In this study, the expression frequency and stability of 2 potential therapeutic targets, CD20 and CD52, along with the frequently aberrantly expressed CD56 antigen, were evaluated by flow cytometric analyses in 56 patients with ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cao W,Goolsby CL,Nelson BP,Singhal S,Mehta J,Peterson LC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We noticed almost routine disparate results in margin lengths when colorectal specimens are measured in vivo by the surgeon and in vitro by the pathologist. We studied 26 sigmoid and rectum specimens to document the amount of organ shrinkage after surgical removal and fixation. Each specimen had a 5.0-cm segment at ea...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goldstein NS,Soman A,Sacksner J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gc allele frequencies were determined in Haitian immigrants, a group at high risk for AIDS. Gc2, an allele associated with disease resistance, is infrequent in this group; Gc1f is frequent. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wenk RE,Russo F

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are wide variations in the preparation of histologic sections from endoscopic esophageal biopsy specimens. We evaluated serial step sections from 261 esophageal or gastroesophageal junction biopsies at 4 levels to determine the first level at which goblet cell metaplasia (GCM) was detected. Deeper step sections ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chitkara YK,Eyre CL

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared an automated quantitative heart-type fatty acid-binding protein (H-FABP) assay with other cardiac-marker assays to examine its usefulness as an early diagnostic marker of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Serum samples for cardiac troponin T (cTnT), creatine kinase-MB isozyme (CK-MB), myoglobin, and H-FAB...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kim Y,Kim H,Kim SY,Lee HK,Kwon HJ,Kim YG,Lee J,Kim HM,So BH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the ability of flow cytometry (FC) to detect putative neoplastic T-cell subsets on skin shave biopsy (SSB) specimens from patients with mycosis fungoides (MF) and to study the immunophenotype of skin-infiltrating tumor cells in MF. METHODS:SSB specimens from patients with suspected MF were bisecte...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Horna P,Kurant D,Sokol L,Sotomayor EM,Moscinski L,Glass LF

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factitious laboratory results often lead to unnecessary testing or treatment. This brief review of factitious biochemical results due to preexisting hematologic conditions focuses on the mechanisms underlying the factitious results and suggests ways to prevent them. An observant pathologist identifies these errors, in...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dalal BI,Brigden ML

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and c-ERBB2 (HER2/neu) are therapeutically and prognostically important markers in the management of breast carcinoma. They are not always analyzed in distant metastatic and locally recurrent breast cancers. We compared immunohistochemical expression in a series of p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Idirisinghe PK,Thike AA,Cheok PY,Tse GM,Lui PC,Fook-Chong S,Wong NS,Tan PH

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who had masses in the breasts clinically suggestive of neoplasia had fibrous mastopathy and striking deposition of ochronotic pigment within the soft tissue of the breast. The gross appearance and light microscopic features are illustrated. The histochemical features of ochronotic pigment and the difficulty ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lefer LG,Rosier RP

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00