Evaluation of the status of laboratory practices and the need for continuing education in medical mycology.

abstract：:By application of combined structural and functional analyses, most lymphoid neoplasms may be categorized as of T- or B-cell origin. T lymphocyte neoplasms include types of acute and chronic lymphocytic leukemias, certain cutaneous and node-based lymphomas, and lymphomas of thymocytes (convoluted lymphocytic lymphomas...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Collins RD,Waldron JA,Glick AD

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty drugs used primarily in critical care and hospital settings were tested in vitro to observe interference on glucose measurements with 6 hand-held glucose meters and a portable glucose analyzer. Paired differences of glucose measurements between drug-spiked samples and unspiked control samples were calculated to...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tang Z,Du X,Louie RF,Kost GJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To facilitate the differential diagnosis of poorly differentiated metastatic carcinomas of unknown primary site, we evaluated p63 and cytokeratin (CK) 5/6 as immunohistochemical markers for squamous cell carcinomas. The study cases were as follows: squamous cell carcinoma of the lungs, head/neck, esophagus, cervix ute...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kaufmann O,Fietze E,Mengs J,Dietel M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing a bacterial-agar overlay technic incorporating the methionine-requiring bacterium Leukonostoc mesenteroides, little or no bacterial growth was seen surrounding the megaloblasts and proerythroblasts of eight patients who had severe untreated pernicious anemia. Similarly, scant bacterial growth was observed in...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kass L

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Serologic testing for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has experienced a changing landscape of available assays coupled with uncertainty surrounding performance characteristics. Studies are needed to directly compare multiple commercially available assays. METHODS:Residual serum ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Manthei DM,Whalen JF,Schroeder LF,Sinay AM,Li SH,Valdez R,Giacherio DA,Gherasim C

更新日期：2020-10-09 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：OBJECTIVES:To demonstrate the impact of genetics specialists on identifying test order errors and improving reimbursement for genetic testing. METHODS:Forty-four cases in which whole exome sequencing (WES) was performed but not reimbursed were reviewed by a genetic counselor through simulated prospective and retrospec...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Conway ME,Kalejta CD,Sternen DL,Singh IR

更新日期：2020-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of bcl-2, CD10, and CD20 was examined by multicolor flow cytometry in 78 samples including lymph node or other tissue biopsy specimens containing follicular lymphoma (FL; n = 17), reactive hyperplasia (RH; n = 28), or other malignant lymphomas (n = 20), as well as bone marrow aspirates (n = 13). The pre...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cook JR,Craig FE,Swerdlow SH

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new generation hematology analyzer, Abbott CELL-DYN 4000 (CD 4000), capable of providing 26 parameters, including fully automated reticulocyte, nucleated RBC, blast, band, and immature granulocyte, and variant lymphocyte counts, was evaluated by using the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards H20-A pr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Grimaldi E,Scopacasa F

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunophenotypic analysis is useful in distinguishing reactive from neoplastic lymphoproliferations, particularly when tissue is limited or histologic findings are equivocal. Surface membrane immunoglobulin (SmIg) light chain restriction in B cells is especially helpful in documenting clonality, and the loss of SmIg b...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zhao XF,Cherian S,Sargent R,Seethala R,Bonner H,Greenberg B,Bagg A

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet refractoriness is caused by HLA antibodies and platelet-specific antibodies. Current methods used to detect antiplatelet antibodies have limitations. Solid phase red cell adherence (SPRCA) lacks sensitivity and requires a second assay using chloroquine-treated intact platelets to specify the response due to a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Vongchan P,Nawarawong W,Linhardt RJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 41 cases of myeloid neoplasms (MNs) secondary to plasma cell myeloma (PCM). The types of MN included myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in 34 (82.9%), acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in 4 (9.8%), and myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) or MDS/MPN in 3 (7.3%) cases. The latency from treatment to diagnosis of MN rang...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reddi DM,Lu CM,Fedoriw G,Liu YC,Wang FF,Ely S,Boswell EL,Louissaint A Jr,Arcasoy MO,Goodman BK,Wang E

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A goat anti-serum was prepared against mucinous ovarian cyst fluid and absorbed with normal colon and a variety of normal tissues until the only residual immunoreactivity was directed against colon cancer and ovarian tumor mucin. The set of antigenic determinants defined by this anti-serum has been called COTA, standi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pant KD,Fenoglio-Preiser CM,Berry CO,Zamora PO,Ram MD,Fulks RM,Rhodes BA

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:To analyze interobserver reproducibility and compare practice patterns between academic and community settings of Lower Anogenital Squamous Terminology (LAST). Methods:In total, 132 anal biopsy slides were revised as well as p16 immunostains. Results:LAST was used in 49% of cases (academic center, 68%; sat...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Roma AA,Liu X,Patil DT,Xie H,Allende D

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To compare thromboelastography (TEG) tracings obtained from fresh and citrated whole-blood samples in patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) or after cardiopulmonary bypass and in healthy volunteers. METHODS:Samples of fresh and citrated whole blood were analyzed for 25 patients and 4 health...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gilman EA,Koch CD,Santrach PJ,Schears GJ,Karon BS

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 68 sporadic colorectal carcinomas (CRCs) with medullary features (MCRCs) and compared them with 35 poorly differentiated purely "enteric" CRCs (ECRCs) and 15 purely neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs) of grades II and III, all in patients lacking a family history of CRC. Potential clinicopathologic differences...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wick MR,Vitsky JL,Ritter JH,Swanson PE,Mills SE

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe two patients with clinically and histopathologically documented advanced (tumor) stage mycosis fungoides. In each case the large, pleomorphic neoplastic cells lacked the monoclonal antibody-defined cell surface antigens commonly associated with immature and mature T-cells, i.e., T11, Leu-1, T3, T4...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wieczorek R,Suhrland M,Ramsay D,Reed ML,Knowles DM 2nd

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess physicians' and nurses' satisfaction with the service provided by the laboratory at Gondar University Hospital. METHODS:We conducted a cross-sectional study involving 196 nurses and physicians. RESULTS:Overall level of satisfaction was 51.1% for nurses and 51.5% for physicians. Lack of consistenc...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Addis Z,Birhan W,Derseh D,Sahle B,Gizaw N

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In-situ and microinvasive adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix. A clinical, cytologic and histologic study of 14 cases. Am J Clin Pathol 64: 155-70, 1975. The clinicopathologic features of 14 cases of in-situ and microinvasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix, encountered during the period 1961-1974, form the basis of thi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Qizilbash AH

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant lymph node hyperplasia is uncommon in children and is exceptionally rare in infancy. The authors report a case of giant lymph node hyperplasia that presented as a right supraclavicular mass in an asymptomatic two-month-old female infant. Clinically, the mass was thought to be either a lipoma or a cystic hygroma,...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hunt SJ,Anderson WD

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that extensively keratinized squamous intraepithelial lesions (SILs) are difficult to grade precisely by identifying 100 Papanicolaou smears with a keratinizing SIL that had been originally judged difficult to grade. Of these, 65 were confirmed as low-grade SIL (LSIL) or high-grade SIL (HSIL) ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Faquin WC,Brown FM,Krane JF,Renshaw AA,Cibas ES

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal organisms morphologically resembling Candida were found in one third of 72 consecutive surgically resected gastric ulcers. In over half of these cases the organisms were present in the mycelial form. Large numbers of fungi forming clusters were found in 13 cases (18%) and were associated with a surprisingly hig...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Katzenstein AL,Maksem J

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the clinicopathologic features of extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (ENKTL) not preceded by another Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-related disorder in children and adolescents. METHODS:A series of 17 cases of ENKTL not preceded by another EBV-related disorder in children and adolescents in ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Huang Y,Xie J,Ding Y,Zhou X

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of fine-needle aspiration (FNA) in the diagnosis of breast carcinoma is established. We evaluated whether the degree of cellular dyscohesion and the nuclear grade in FNA material of breast carcinomas are reliable prognostic predictors for ipsilateral axillary lymph node metastasis. FNA specimens from 98 women...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schiller AB,Tadros TS,Birdsong GG,Grossl NA

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical techniques applied to fresh frozen sections of metastatic malignant melanoma tissue revealed abundant fibrinogen (or fibrin I) in perivascular areas throughout the tumor connective tissue stroma. Fibrin was readily detected in a focal distribution in the connective tissue around nodules of viable t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wojtukiewicz MZ,Zacharski LR,Memoli VA,Kisiel W,Kudryk BJ,Rousseau SM,Stump DC

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from pemphigus vulgaris and bullous pemphigoid patients produced antiepithelial antibodies in a pokeweed mitogen-stimulated in vitro cell culture system. Antiintercellular substance (ICS) antibodies were detected in supernatants of cell cultures from four of four pemphigus vulgaris p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fitzmaurice M,Deodhar SD

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis is among the most common organisms isolated from blood cultures. Conversely, it is rarely a well-documented cause of natural-valve endocarditis. However, several authors have reported series of patients with the clinical picture of endocarditis and S. epidermidis bacteremia. Most of these ca...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Littenberg B,Cooper B,Levitz R

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of an anterior mediastinal mass arising in a 64-year-old woman that showed on histologic, immunopathologic, and ultra-structural examination features of a poorly differentiated (insular) thyroid carcinoma. The tumor in this patient most likely arose from ectopically displaced thyroid tissue on the ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dominguez-Malagon H,Guerrero-Medrano J,Suster S

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Stat tests are one of the most important features of clinical laboratory performance, the indexed literature is devoid of significant discussion of the subject. The authors, undertook a study by querying hospital laboratories about their current practices and received 38 useable answers dealing with the types...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barnett RN,McIver DD,Gorton WL

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00