Malignant deciduoid mesothelioma: a diagnostic challenge.

abstract：CONTEXT:Since 1988, the College of American Pathologists has been offering materials for calibration verification coupled with the surveys for linearity, called the linearity (LN) surveys. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether successful completion of the College of American Pathologists LN surveys provides a benefit in term...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Kroll MH,Styer PE,Vasquez DA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Neuroendocrine lung neoplasms are a heterogeneous group of tumors with different clinical behavior and prognosis. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the expression of p53, KLF4, and p21 in neuroendocrine lung neoplasms and to analyze the influence that expression has on the prognosis of those tumors. DESIGN:All neuroendo...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Naranjo Gómez JM,Bernal JF,Arranz PG,Fernández SL,Roman JJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The results of studies among patients with antithrombin deficiency have suggested that the use of warfarin will increase the level of antithrombin. OBJECTIVE:To reevaluate the effect of warfarin on antithrombin levels using an automated amidolytic method in current use. DESIGN:Antithrombin levels were measure...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Sanfelippo MJ,Engel JM,Onitilo AA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peliotic lesions of the liver and spleen are rare and usually occur in patients with wasting diseases, such as tuberculosis and cancer, or in patients who have received treatment with anabolic-androgenic steroids. Peliosis appears grossly as blood-filled, cyst-like or nodular lesions, 1 to 5 mm in diameter, that are d...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Warfel KA,Ellis GH

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Despite the widespread practice of pathologist review of blood and body fluid smears, little is known about its impact on improving patient care. OBJECTIVE:To assess the clinical usefulness of pathologist review of blood and body fluid smears. DESIGN:Survey study. Pathology residents contacted the ordering ph...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Sandhaus LM,Wald DN,Sauder KJ,Steele EL,Meyerson HJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Diagnostic use of immunohistochemistry has been extensively studied in prostate needle biopsy, but its use in routine practice and the quality assurance and associated cost have not been previously addressed. OBJECTIVE:To examine the routine use of immunohistochemistry in prostate biopsies in a tertiary academ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Watson K,Wang C,Yilmaz A,Bismar TA,Trpkov K

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The history and recent developments in label technology are reviewed. Because the new labels generally are used in both classic immunoassays and immunometric assays, a brief review of the advantages and disadvantages of each type of assay is included. Recent developments in enzyme labels, such as channeling techniques...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Howanitz JH

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A benign chondrolipomatous breast tumor occurred in a 66-year-old woman. The preoperative diagnosis, based on mammography and xeroradiography, was fibroadenoma. Grossly, the demarcated lesion resembled a fibroadenoma with islands of cartilage projecting from its cut surface. Histologically, it was composed of benign m...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Kaplan L,Walts AE

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three pseudosarcomatous lesions of the genitourinary tract are described. One that arose in the urinary bladder of a 59-year-old man was composed of atypical spindle cells admixed with inflammatory cells in an edematous stroma. The second lesion occurred in the stroma of a hyperplastic prostate gland of a 51-year-old ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Young RH,Scully RE

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:- Current 2013 World Health Organization classification of tumors of soft tissue arranges these tumors into 12 groups according to their histogenesis. Tumor behavior is classified as benign, intermediate (locally aggressive), intermediate (rarely metastasizing), and malignant. In our practice, a general approac...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Wei S,Henderson-Jackson E,Qian X,Bui MM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crystal-storing histiocytosis is an uncommon form of nonneoplastic histiocytic proliferation that in most patients complicates an underlying lymphoproliferative or plasma cell disorder. Lung is a common site of involvement in patients with localized disease. We present an illustrative example from a 54-year-old woman ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Zhang C,Myers JL

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Clinical laboratory specimens may be rejected as unsuitable for analysis for a variety of reasons and specimen rejection may have significant clinical consequences. OBJECTIVE:To quantify the clinical consequences of specimen rejection and determine the impact of laboratories' policies and practices on these co...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Karcher DS,Lehman CM

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoidlike granulomas may occur in association with Hodgkin lymphoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The granulomas may be concomitant and so extensive that they obscure the malignant process. In addition, a sarcoidosis-lymphoma syndrome has been described in which there appears to be a relationship between sarcoidosis and...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Dunphy CH,Panella MJ,Grosso LE

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Plasma cell myeloma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia are both common hematologic malignancies, sharing many epidemiologic features. Concomitant detection of the 2 conditions poses special diagnostic challenges for the pathologist. OBJECTIVE:To describe the pathologic findings in cases of concomitant bone marro...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Alley CL,Wang E,Dunphy CH,Gong JZ,Lu CM,Boswell EL,Burchette J,Lagoo AS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary blastomas are rare primary tumors that consist of tubular or glandular structures embedded in an undifferentiated mesenchymal stroma. Focal cartilage, bone, and skeletal muscle as well as squamous differentiation have been described in these tumors. We report a unique case of a pulmonary blastoma showing a m...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Cohen RE,Weaver MG,Montenegro HD,Abdul-Karim FW

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT.—:Mutations within the same signature transduction pathway are redundant and, therefore, most are mutually exclusive. Laboratory errors, however, may introduce unexpected coexisting mutations. OBJECTIVE.—:To validate coexisting mutations within epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), mitogen-activated protein...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： De Marchi F,Haley L,Fryer H,Ibrahim J,Beierl K,Zheng G,Gocke CD,Eshleman JR,Belchis D,Illei P,Lin MT

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the ability to recover human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) from the plasma and mononuclear cell (MNC) fractions of postmortem blood samples from patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. DESIGN:Blood was randomly cultured post mortem from 41 patients with the acquired immunod...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Bankowski MJ,Landay AL,Staes B,Shuburg R,Kritzler M,Hajakian V,Kessler H

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present an autopsy case of a 29-week-old male fetus with a very unusual set of congenital granular cell tumors, including gingival epulis and granular cell lesions of the kidneys, lung, heart, esophagus, small and large intestine, thyroid, adrenals, spleen, urinary bladder, testis, pituitary, and leptomeninges. The...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Park SH,Kim TJ,Chi JG

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal cell carcinoma arising from the nipple of the breast is an uncommon malignancy, with only a handful of cases reported in the literature. The diagnosis is, however, important because basal cell carcinoma in this location can mimic breast cancer, may behave aggressively, and there is a relative lack of consensus i...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Gupta C,Sheth D,Snower DP

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The College of American Pathologists periodically surveys laboratories to determine changes in cytopathology practices. We report the results of a 2011 gynecologic cytology survey. OBJECTIVE:To provide a cross-sectional survey of gynecologic cytology practices in 2010. DESIGN:In 2011, a survey was sent to 160...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Crothers BA,Darragh TM,Tambouret RH,Nayar R,Barkan GA,Zhao C,Booth CN,Padmanabhan V,Tabatabai ZL,Souers RJ,Thomas N,Wilbur DC,Moriarty AT

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:We recently described a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia who presented with a breast carcinoma that stained positive for CD5 using a commercially available antibody (CD5-4C7, Novocastra, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK). OBJECTIVES:To study the distribution of CD5 immunoreactivity in tissue sections of a vari...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Walsh R,Peston D,Shousha S

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of primary Wilms' tumor of the endocervix in a 13-year-old girl. The tumor was polypoid, filled the vagina, and was attached to the endocervix by a stalk. Microscopic examination disclosed blastematous, epithelial, and stromal elements characteristic of Wilms' tumor. The patient's kidneys were normal ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Bell DA,Shimm DS,Gang DL

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Cystatin C is becoming an increasingly popular biomarker for estimating glomerular filtration rate, and accurate measurements of cystatin C concentrations are necessary for accurate estimates of glomerular filtration rate. OBJECTIVE:To assess the accuracy of cystatin C concentration measurements in laboratorie...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Eckfeldt JH,Karger AB,Miller WG,Rynders GP,Inker LA

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with inherited or acquired immunodeficiency disorders are vulnerable to a broad spectrum of opportunistic infectious diseases, but a narrow spectrum of malignancies. These malignancies--B-cell lymphomas, Kaposi's sarcomas, and squamous cell carcinomas--are likely due to failure of immune surveillance to recog...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Purtilo DT

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of lipoprotein lipase in the vascular bed represents the major pathway by which triglyceride fatty acid is cleared from the plasma and made available to the epripheral tissues. Recent studies on the properties of the enzyme, both solubilized and membrane-bound have provided new information on the regulati...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Fielding CJ,Havel RJ

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic studies from the peripheral blood of a patient with malignant lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis who was treated with intra-articular gold Au 198 revealed mosaicism with a normal female metaphase and a 43-chromosome metaphase. The abnormal cell line showed six missing normal chromosomes and three morphologi...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Goh K,Jacox RF,Anderson FW

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of endometrial metaplasia of the endocervix, which was associated with tubal and squamous metaplasias. The similarity to normal endometrial glands and its benign nature should be recognized, and over-diagnosis of endocervical glandular dysplasia should be avoided. ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Yeh IT,Bronner M,LiVolsi VA

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The differentiation between iron deficiency and a thalassemia syndrome is an important consideration in the investigation of microcytic anemia. OBJECTIVE:An established statistical method was used to demonstrate the importance of considering ethnic background in combination with mean cell volume (MCV) in the i...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Kiss TL,Ali MA,Levine M,Lafferty JD

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synovitic symptoms and radiologically documented cystic lesions in several carpal bones and distal radius developed two years after the implantation of silicone rubber scaphoid prosthesis for pseudoarthrosis. Open biopsy revealed granulomatous synovitis and osteitis and foreign material in carpal tissues. Ultrastructu...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Ekfors TO,Aro H,Mäki J,Aho AJ

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Distinct human polyomavirus genotypes cause different diseases in patients with renal transplants: BK virus (BKV) causes tubulointerstitial nephritis and ureteral stenosis, whereas both JC virus (JCV) and BKV are responsible for hemorrhagic cystitis. These findings could result from a selective infection of kid...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Boldorini R,Veggiani C,Barco D,Monga G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00