Evaluation of initial and deeper sections of esophageal biopsy specimens for detection of intestinal metaplasia.

abstract：:The authors have developed an immunoalkaline phosphatase method and have applied it with success to the study of blood cells. They have now observed that macrophages in tissues and in serous effusions may be nonspecifically stained when immunoalkaline phosphatase methods are used. A systematic study of this endogenous...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Janckila AJ,Yam LT,Li CY

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Many nonpathologists and some pathologists consider utilization review essential to laboratory quality improvement, but (1) confusion surrounding the definition of "appropriate" laboratory utilization, (2) the reliance on manual chart review, and (3) a lack of leadership have contributed to its unstandardize...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hauser RG,Shirts BH

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:Estrogen receptor (ER) status of breast carcinomas determines prognosis and treatment. Biochemical ER assays are expensive and time-consuming and require fresh tumor. Immunohistochemical ER was assessed in 68 breast carcinomas, by an automated method using routinely processed formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cohen C,Unger ER,Sgoutas D,Bradley N,Chenggis M

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report here a case of lymphoepithelial cystic lesion (LECL) of unknown origin in the mediastinum, which is closely related to a signet-ring cell adenocarcinoma. A 73-year-old man presented with a mass as revealed on a chest x-ray. During surgical operation, a solid, well-circumscribed and encapsulated 9 X ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ishimaru Y,Shibata Y,Ohkawara S,Ohshima H,Kihara S

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to evaluate the current standard practice of using volume and total nucleated cell (TNC) count for the selection of cord blood (CB) units for cryopreservation and further transplantation. Data on 794 CB units whose CD34+ cell content was determined by flow cytometry were analyzed by usin...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jaime-Pérez JC,Monreal-Robles R,Rodríguez-Romo LN,Mancías-Guerra C,Herrera-Garza JL,Gómez-Almaguer D

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon hospital admission a patient was found to have severe anemia and a strongly positive direct antiglobulin test (DAT). The patient was taking probenecid periodically for gout. An antibody was detected in the patient's serum that only reacted with red blood cells (RBCs) when probenecid was added. Eluates from the pa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sosler SD,Behzad O,Garratty G,Lee CL,Postoway N,Khomo O

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood glucose results for 2,601 specimens obtained at multiphasic health examination, divided into three age groups, were analyzed using probability plot paper. Two straight lines could be fitted to each distribution. The assumption was made that the lower lines correspond to "normal-healthy" persons, whereas the uppe...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morgenstern NL,Shearn MA

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 42 patients with locally advanced breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery and radiation therapy, the effects of chemotherapy on tumor architecture, morphometric nuclear and nucleolar characteristics, DNA ploidy, proliferation index measured by mitotic activity index, expression of di...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Honkoop AH,Pinedo HM,De Jong JS,Verheul HM,Linn SC,Hoekman K,Wagstaff J,van Diest PJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:Fibromatosis of the breast is an uncommon neoplasm with potential for local recurrence. Treatment has traditionally been surgical excision with current trends toward conservative management. Given the option of observation after diagnosis by core needle biopsy (CNB), we sought to evaluate the accuracy of CNB...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kuba MG,Lester SC,Giess CS,Bertagnolli MM,Wieczorek TJ,Brock JE

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anatomic pathology service is judged by accuracy of diagnosis and rapidity of reporting of that diagnosis to clinicians. Turnaround times have been used in anatomic pathology to show how long it take to produce a tissue report. Rapid tissue diagnosis is important to patients, clinicians, administrators, and anatomic p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smith MT,Garvin AJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the etiologic role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in oral carcinogenesis, DNA samples were purified from 103 oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) and 30 normal oral mucosal (NOM) specimens. A nested polymerase chain reaction, DNA sequencing, and gene-chip HPV typing were used to identify multiple HPV types i...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chang JY,Lin MC,Chiang CP

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of microcystic adenomas of the pancreas with special reference to multicentric origin are described. The gross features and light microscopic findings were consistent with those described as being microcystic adenomas, but in two cases the gross examination and gelatin-embedded giant slices revealed multip...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kim YI,Seo JW,Suh JS,Lee KU,Choe KJ

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted this study to ascertain the prevalence of erb-b2 gene amplification in breast cancer specimens read as 2+ in immunohistochemical analysis. Slides from patients with metastatic or recurrent breast cancer were eligible for fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) study if they were read as 2+ immunohistoche...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lan C,Liu JM,Liu TW,Hsu DH,Liang S,Chen JR,Peng JW

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteomic studies of cells via surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization spectrometry (SELDI) analysis have enabled rapid, reproducible protein profiling directly from crude samples. We applied this technique to archival cytology material to determine whether distinct, reproducible protein fingerprints could be ide...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fetsch PA,Simone NL,Bryant-Greenwood PK,Marincola FM,Filie AC,Petricoin EF,Liotta LA,Abati A

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incubation of stored blood in a mixture of inosine, pyruvate, glucose, and phosphate restores the O2 affinity of hemoglobin to physiologic levels, as measured by the configuration of the dissociation curve and the P50. This regeneration of normal hemoglobin function not only is consistent for samples anticoagulate...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sumoza A,Fairbanks VF,Pineda AA

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A markedly prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) was observed in a 61-year-old woman with bruising and a decreasing hematocrit. Coagulation laboratory evaluation was sought to determine the cause of the prolonged APTT and bleeding. Evaluation demonstrated that, rather than identifying a coagulopathy, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Humphries JE,Acker MN,Schnell DE,Knarr JW

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe our experience, both in meeting challenges and in reporting outcomes, of the consolidation of anatomic pathology services in the North Shore-LIJ Health System in February 2011. METHODS:We addressed issues of governance, personnel, physical plant, quality programming, connectivity, and education....

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Groppi DE,Alexis CE,Sugrue CF,Bevis CC,Bhuiya TA,Crawford JM

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common differentiated renal tumor of early childhood is the congenital mesoblastic neophroma. Well-differentiated forms of Wilms' tumor may present a difficult differential diagnosis from these benign neoplasms. The cases of two patients found to have well-differentiated renal neoplasms after being treated fo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hughson MD,Hennigar GR,Othersen HB Jr

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain new hematologic findings in eight homosexual or bisexual patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are presented. All eight patients manifested a normochromic, normocytic anemia, and six of eight had granulocytopenia during their hospitalization. The other two had low-normal granulocyte coun...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schneider DR,Picker LJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Enterobacteriaceae are endemic in New York City hospitals and have been associated with serious infections globally. A real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay was developed to detect carbapenem resistance attributable to KPC from blood culture bottles posi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Francis RO,Wu F,Della-Latta P,Shi J,Whittier S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocytes with orcein-positive ground-glass cytoplasm have been shown to contain abundant hepatitis B surface antigen in the cisternae of excess smooth endoplasmic reticulum. Hepatocytes with similar cytoplasmic changes that did not react with orcein were observed in 26.5% of 49 cases of cirrhosis. These cells exhib...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gerber MA,Thung SN

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The international sensitivity index (ISI) calibration of point-of-care-test (POCT) prothrombin time (PT) whole blood monitors is complex, requiring manual PT testing of 60 patients' and 20 healthy subjects' plasma samples. The possibility of reducing these numbers was studied by a Monte Carlo Bootstrap study for 2 POC...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Poller L,Keown M,Chauhan N,van den Besselaar AM,Tripodi A,Jespersen J,Shiach C

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determination of tumor cell estrogen receptor (ER) expression status by immunohistochemical analysis has become standard practice, yet assay reproducibility has not been assessed adequately. By using a breast cancer tissue microarray, we examined interlaboratory variability in ER reporting. A 2-fold redundant tiss...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Parker RL,Huntsman DG,Lesack DW,Cupples JB,Grant DR,Akbari M,Gilks CB

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whipple disease is a rare, chronic multisystem disease associated with the recently characterized organism Tropheryma whippelii. Extraintestinal manifestation involving the central nervous system, heart, and joints occasionally occurs. Involvement of the abdominal lymph nodes, especially the mesenteric and periaortic ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alkan S,Beals TF,Schnitzer B

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 23-year-old woman with a primary small cell carcinoma of the endometrium is reported. The light microscopic features were similar to those of small cell carcinoma of the lung and those of the uterine cervix. Electron microscopy revealed cytoplasmic neurosecretory type granules and indistinct cell junctio...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kumar NB

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population-based case-control study of college students was undertaken to estimate the effect of a positive clinical test for human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA (the Virapap test) on the rate of squamous intraepithelial lesions (SIL) of the uterine cervix. When age, multiple lifetime sexual partners, and oral contracept...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Levine AJ,Harper J,Hilborne L,Rosenthal DL,Weismeier E,Haile RW

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the specificity of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) as a marker for lymphoblastic lymphoma in the non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, the authors assayed malignant cells from 142 patients with non-Hodgkin's malignant lymphoma, as well as cells from normal lymphoid tissue controls. Neoplastic cells from ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Braziel RM,Keneklis T,Donlon JA,Hsu SM,Cossman J,Bollum FJ,Jaffe ES

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anti-serum against human neuron-specific enolase (NSE), raised in sheep, has been characterized and used for immunocytochemical localization of NSE in paraffin sections of normal tissues and lung cancers. Of the small cell carcinomas (SCC), 69 out of 99 (70%) cases stained with the anti-serum. Maltreated biopsies s...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bergh J,Esscher T,Steinholtz L,Nilsson K,Påhlman S

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Auto Microbic System (AMS) is an almost completely automated system, capable of identifying Enterobacteriaceae after 8 hours, and some glucose nonfermenters after 13 hours of incubation. The Autobac ID system is a mechanized, computer-assisted system capable of identifying Enterobacteriaceae and many nonfermentati...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barry AL,Gavan TL,Badal RE,Telenson MJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00