Acetic acid-zinc-formalin: a safe alternative to B-5 fixative.

abstract：:Adenocarcinomas of the sigmoid colon and rectum were studied for the presence of blood group substances of the A, B, H system using the method of specific erythrocytic adherence. Of 17 adenocarcinomas studied, eight were found to have reactivity for blood group substances. All eight tumours showing reactivity for bloo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cooper HS,Haesler WE Jr

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to establish whether morphologic parameters were prognostically important in a large series of breast phyllodes tumors in Asian women. Of 335 phyllodes tumors diagnosed at the Department of Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, between January 1992 and December 2002, 250 (74.6%) were benign, 54 (1...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tan PH,Jayabaskar T,Chuah KL,Lee HY,Tan Y,Hilmy M,Hung H,Selvarajan S,Bay BH

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：:Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is well characterized clinically and immunophenotypically. Demonstration of a monotypic CD19+, CD5+ B-cell population is central to the diagnosis. We report 2 cases of biclonal CLL. Two elderly men were encountered with an absolute lymphocytosis consisting of the typical CD5+, CD19+,...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hsi ED,Hoeltge G,Tubbs RR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method of spectrophotometric detection of BCR/ABL chimeric sequences amplified by multiplex reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), enabling the use of archival hematologic slides as RNA sources. Multiplex PCR amplified b3a2, b2a2, and e1a2 break points of the BCR/ABL translocation and ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Attadia V,Alosi M,Improta S,Zagonel V,Martinazzo G,Carbone A,Pinto A

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hematologic status of 265 patients with rheumatoid arthritis was assessed. In the group as a whole, a mild depression in the hemoglobin concentration and mean cell volume (MCV) was associated with an increase in the red blood cell distribution width (RDW), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and platelet count. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Baynes RD,Bothwell TH,Bezwoda WR,Gear AJ,Atkinson P

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe consecutive vulvar biopsy cases and to create an educational template for pathology trainees and practicing pathologists. METHODS:We reviewed 189 consecutive biopsies from the female genital area skin and mucosa. We classified them based on etiologies and examined limited clinical information. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Joehlin-Price AS,Mully TW

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the differential counts of normal and abnormal bone marrow from touch imprints with those from aspirate smears to determine whether the touch imprint was reliable for independent routine use in the examination of bone marrow and the classification of hematologic abnormalities. Normocellular bone marrow spe...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Aboul-Nasr R,Estey EH,Kantarjian HM,Freireich EJ,Andreeff M,Johnson BJ,Albitar M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several adulterants are used to mask tests for abused drugs in urine. Adulterants such as "Klear" and "Whizzies" contain potassium nitrite, and "Urine Luck" contains pyridinium chlorochromate (PCC). The presence of these adulterants cannot be detected by routine specimen integrity checks (pH, specific gravity, and tem...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dasgupta A,Wahed A,Wells A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prehospital environment has not been studied for point-of-care testing. Therefore, the authors' helicopter program evaluated the performance of the i-STAT Portable Clinical Analyzer, a rapid point-of-care, hand-held instrument. The primary aim of the study was to determine if the i-STAT Portable Clinical Analyzer ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Herr DM,Newton NC,Santrach PJ,Hankins DG,Burritt MF

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of clinical signs, elevated values of the cardiac isoforms of troponin T (cTnT) and I (cTnI) can be found in the serum samples of some patients with skeletal muscle myopathies; the cause is unclear. We studied the messenger RNA (mRNA) expression of cTnT and cTnI in the skeletal muscles of 24 patients wi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Messner B,Baum H,Fischer P,Quasthoff S,Neumeier D

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three brands of blood collection tubes were studied for their influence on the prothrombin time (PT) and international sensitivity index (ISI) for 5 commercial thromboplastin reagents. With all reagents, PTs were shorter in Vacutainer (Becton Dickinson Vacutainer Systems, Plymouth, England) samples than in S-Monovette...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： van den Besselaar AM,Hoekstra MM,Witteveen E,Didden JH,van der Meer FJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative evaluation of two commercial kits that detect antinuclear antibodies via indirect immunofluorescence was undertaken using an adult ambulatory population. The sensitivity and specificity of the kits were compared to determine which of the two was more efficient as a screening test for systemic lupus eryth...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Valdiserri RO,Petronie JS

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have assessed the clinical value of an "accurate" band count as a correlate to infection in 33 patients with a culture proven bacterial infection and a normal total leukocyte count. Thirty hematologically normal outpatients, presumably with no infections, were selected for the control group. Manual 500 cel...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ardron MJ,Westengard JC,Dutcher TF

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：: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：:Clq precipitins were assayed in a model system by absorption nephelometry. Polyethylene glycol was used to extract immune complexes so that sufficient sensitivity with minimal interference could be achieved. Using a double beam spectrophotometer, we found that the reaction of immune complexes with Clq occurred rapidly...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Levinson SS,Goldman J

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) expresses pan-B-cell antigens and is usually CD5+/CD10-/CD23-/FMC7+. In this study, we evaluated 52 patients with confirmed diagnoses of MCL and identified variant immunophenotypes in 21 patients (19/48 classical and 2/4 variant MCLs), including CD5- in 6 (12%) of 52, CD10+ in 4 (8%) of 50, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gao J,Peterson L,Nelson B,Goolsby C,Chen YH

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five hundred eighty-seven daily urine specimens were examined from 179 consecutive renal allograft recipients with the use of quantitative cytodiagnostic urinalysis. Specimens were divided between those patients receiving cyclosporine (CyA) and steroid immunotherapy (73 patients) and those receiving standard azathiopr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ashton A,Alexander DP,DeBellis C,Schumann GB

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial hyperplasia, a component of proliferative breast disease (PBD), is a known risk factor for the development of breast carcinoma. To determine if criteria established for tissue biopsy could be used to more precisely define cytologic criteria for diagnosis of PBD, 37 breast fine-needle aspirates with biopsy d...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dawson AE,Mulford DK,Sheils LA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen patients with acute nonlymphocytic leukemia were found to have a pericentric inversion of chromosome 16. All were classified as having acute myelomonocytic leukemia (M4) according to French-American-British Cooperative Group (FAB) criteria. Consistent abnormalities of marrow eosinophils were present. In 15 of...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bitter MA,Le Beau MM,Larson RA,Rosner MC,Golomb HM,Rowley JD,Vardiman JW

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of infantile hemangioendothelioma were immunohistochemically studied with the use of antibodies against von Willebrand factor (vWF), Ulex europaeus I lectin (UEA I), vimentin, thrombomodulin (TM), and actin, as endothelial cell (EC) markers. Because of a broad variety of histologic features, the growth pat...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yasunaga C,Sueishi K,Ohgami H,Suita S,Kawanami T

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:This investigation was designed to improve reference information and to evaluate the influences of sample distribution and age on the derived reference intervals. Specimens from 127 men were collected after a 12- to 14-hour fast and analyzed by 60 different laboratory procedures. Differences in the reference intervals...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ash KO,Clark SJ,Sandberg LB,Hunter E,Woodward SC

更新日期：1983-05-01 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：:Heterogeneous expression or amplification is a challenge to HER2 diagnostics. A guideline defines heterogeneity as the presence of between 5% and 50% cells with HER2/CEP17 ratios of more than 2.20. We audited the frequency of such cells and their clinical impact in the results from 2 pathology laboratories combined wi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bartlett AI,Starcyznski J,Robson T,Maclellan A,Campbell FM,van de Velde CJ,Hasenburg A,Markopoulos C,Seynaeve C,Rea D,Bartlett JM

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anemia developing during the course of chronic renal disease is a frequent complication often necessitating periodic transfusion therapy. A number of etiologic factors have been implicated, including decreased production of erythropoietin; decreased erythrocyte life span secondary to uremia and splenomegaly; increased...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hancock DE,Onstad JW,Wolf PL

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic expert system for colonic lesions (DESCL) was designed to discriminate colonic adenoma and adenocarcinoma from normal colonic tissue. Although it was originally developed for use in conjunction with a machine vision analytic system, the DESCL has evolved into a teaching tool and a model for conceptual m...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Graham AR,Paplanus SH,Bartels PH

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemistry occasionally is used to determine the lineage of entirely necrotic tumors. However, the sensitivity and specificity of antibodies on necrotic tissue are unknown. To determine the usefulness of immunohistochemistry with necrotic lesions, a series of 24 known tumors consisting of 14 carcinomas, 2 ly...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Judkins AR,Montone KT,LiVolsi VA,van de Rijn M

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percent-free prostate-specific antigen (proportion of free prostate-specific antigen [PSA] to total PSA) has been shown recently in studies on frozen serum samples to be more useful than total PSA alone in distinguishing prostate cancer from benign conditions of the prostate gland. The primary purpose of our study was...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Henricks WH,England BG,Giacherio DA,Oesterling JE,Wojno KJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00