Spurious hemoglobin Barts caused by bilirubin: a common interference mimicking an uncommon hemoglobinopathy.

abstract：:This article explores 3 aspects of breast diagnosis that are currently under investigation and about which our thinking has recently undergone considerable reshaping. The trend toward more frequent evaluation of clinically subtle lesions has suggested that it might be necessary to understand thefine-needle aspiration ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stanley MW,Sidawy MK,Sanchez MA,Stahl RE,Goldfischer M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a rapid, point-of-care multimarker protocol with a single and serial troponin I (TnI)-only protocol in 5,244 patients admitted to the emergency department with chest pain. The diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) was based on a doubling myoglobin level accompanied by at least a 50% increase in th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Straface AL,Myers JH,Kirchick HJ,Blick KE

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ligand assay specific for cobalamin that uses mouse stomach as the source of intrinsic factor has been developed. When mouse stomach extract incubated with radiocobalamin is fractionated by gel chromatography, the radioactive complex elutes as a single peak with apparent molecular weight of 54,900. Formation of the ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reynoso G,Tuggey R,Hansen H,Fontelo PA,Konopka S,Miller JT

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frequency with which blood gas measurements should be obtained is controversial because laboratory-based blood gas analyzers impose blood loss, delay, and cost on each measurement. Point-of-care analyzers eliminate the delay factor, but blood loss and cost factors remain. Optode microsensing can be adopted readily...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shapiro BA

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to study the possible association between oral lichen planus and chronic hepatitis C in patients from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Two groups of patients were studied: group 1, 50 patients with oral lichen planus evaluated for the presence of chronic hepatitis C; and group 2, 215 patients with chroni...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： de Mattos Camargo Grossmann S,de Aguiar MC,Teixeira R,do Carmo MA

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:Evaluation of blood cells to determine immunologic status is becoming an important clinical application of flow cytometric analysis. For a wider use of immunophenotyping technology in clinical laboratories, the authors developed a rapid method to detect monoclonal antibody-labeled cells using forward light scatter/abs...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kim YR,Paseltiner L,Kling G,Yeh CK

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy is a well-established therapeutic approach for several malignancies, but its clinical efficacy is often limited by its related cardiotoxicity, which leads to cardiomyopathy, possibly evolving into heart failure. To detect cardiac damage, the adopted diagnostic approach is the estimation of left ventricula...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dolci A,Dominici R,Cardinale D,Sandri MT,Panteghini M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the relationship between pathologic features and clinical outcome is well established in adult adrenocortical neoplasms, the prognostic value of these features in pediatric adrenocortical neoplasms (PACN) is unclear. In a series of PACNs from 54 Brazilian children, the authors retrospectively investigated the...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bugg MF,Ribeiro RC,Roberson PK,Lloyd RV,Sandrini R,Silva JB,Epelman S,Shapiro DN,Parham DM

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To examine carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX), a marker of renal cell carcinoma that recently has been described in malignant effusions. METHODS:Pleural and peritoneal fluids with the following diagnoses-reactive (n = 23), carcinoma (n = 17), and "suspicious for mesothelioma" (n = 4)-were immunostained for CAIX, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ananthanarayanan V,Tretiakova M,Husain AN,Krausz T,Antic T

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histologic findings in liver biopsy specimens obtained from 88 patients before and one and two years after end-to-end jejunoileal bypass are compared. In addition to the expected fatty changes, mild changes of centrilobular, pericellular fibrosis were present in the initial biopsies in 8.6%; a year later they had beco...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Marubbio AT Jr,Buchwald H,Schwartz MZ,Varco R

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results obtained with eight pregnancy kits on 735 urines were compared. Overall accuracies were similar and fairly high (93.4 to 95.37%), although only 78.28% of all pregnancies were simultaneously detected by all eight kits. It is suggested that the different performances of each kit could be accounted for not on...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Porres JM,D'Ambra C,Lord D,Garrity F

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Chondroid chordoma" is a controversial and confusing entity that was originally described by Heffelfinger and colleagues as a biphasic malignant neoplasm possessing elements of both chordoma and cartilaginous tissue. Because the premise for this distinction was based strictly on histomorphologic criteria, the light m...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jeffrey PB,Biava CG,Davis RL

更新日期：1995-03-01 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

abstract：:Spiral arteries, from curetted endometrium, of first-trimester pregnancies, were examined in 342 consecutive cases, comprising 150 primigravida and 192 multigravida . Vascular changes, similar to the "acute atherosis ," described at the end of pregnancy in preeclamptic women, were found. Primigravida had a statistical...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lichtig C,Deutch M,Brandes J

更新日期：1984-06-01 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：:Although cytology laboratories are mandated to rescreen at least 10% of cervicovaginal smears, there is no uniform national rescreening practice. Follow-up data for 16,188 rescreened cervicovaginal smears were studied and decision analysis was performed to determine an optimal rescreening strategy. High-grade dysplasi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Raab SS,Bishop NS,Zaleski MS

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied the effect of averaging replicated assays of Factor IX coagulation activity and Factor IX antigen on each plasma specimen in improving the ability to detect carriers of hemophilia B. The improvement resulting from this procedure is particularly marked in tests depending on the linear regression of ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lipworth L,Tiarks CY,Rice CA,Pechet L

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A test for the detection of antibodies to HTLV-III is available and will be widely used to screen donated blood to prevent transfusion-associated acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Based upon the sensitivity and specificity, the authors calculated the expected predictive values for different groups of asymptom...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sivak SL,Wormser GP

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 73-year-old man with myelodysplastic syndrome developed during the course of his illness auto-immune hemolytic anemia. The association between auto-immune hemolysis and myeloproliferative disease is extremely rare. An even more unique finding is the nature of the antibody which demonstrated single specificity agains...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sacher RA,McGinniss MM,Shashaty GG,Jacobson RJ,Rath CE

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-five consecutive renal biopsy specimens were evaluated by light histology using paraffin and glycol methacrylate embedding. The clarity of the renal structures was found to be much better, and the renal lesions better defined, using glycol methyacrylate embedding. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Agodoa LC,Striker GE,Chi E

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Peritoneal mesothelial cysts have been reported under various terms, including benign cystic mesothelioma, usually in the form of case reports/series, whereas extraperitoneal cases are rarely reported. Our objective was to report the detailed characteristics of cystic lesions of the serosal cavities. METHOD...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Karpathiou G,Casteillo F,Dridi M,Peoc'h M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on the cytologic features of six cases of poorly differentiated "insular" carcinoma (IC) of the thyroid, a recently described variety of thyroid tumor intermediate between well-differentiated and anaplastic neoplasms. It is characterized by trabecular and/or alveolar growth patterns, merging with fo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pietribiasi F,Sapino A,Papotti M,Bussolati G

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from 2.5 million glucose analyses on pools of lyophilized human quality control serum were used to evaluate analyte stability in the prereconstitution phase. Input information was from laboratories in Regional Quality Control Programs that use CAP Quality Assurance Service (QAS) data processing. Of 31 pools in us...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lawson NS,Haven GT,DiSilvio TV,Gilmore BF

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Ancillary molecular testing on tissue is available for mycobacterial disease; however, judicious use of highly sensitive tests, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequencing, should be guided by histologic parameters. We sought to investigate the utility of performing acid-fast stains (AFS) on skin ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Laga AC,Milner DA Jr,Granter SR

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reference values for hematologic parameters are determined using data from patient populations of a whole year. As a consequence, the authors are not dependent on a limited selected population and can determine reference values for all age and sex groups. It turns out that from the possible compilation technics the ga...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Swaanenburg JC,Rutten WP,Holdrinet AC,van Strik R

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrauterine pulmonary infarction is extremely rare. In a series of 775 stillborn and newborn infants, only a few cases of acute pulmonary infarction were reported. The authors present the findings from a full-term infant who died at 9 hours of age of a chronic pulmonary infarction. Several pathogenic mechanisms, incl...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mirkin LD,Wong RC

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the grading and staging of transurethral resection of the bladder (TURB) and cystectomy specimens for 105 patients who underwent radical cystectomy for urothelial carcinoma between 1980 and 1984. Of 105 patients, 96% underwent cystectomy within 100 days of TURB (median interval, 10 days). Grading was perfo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cheng L,Neumann RM,Weaver AL,Cheville JC,Leibovich BC,Ramnani DM,Scherer BG,Nehra A,Zincke H,Bostwick DG

更新日期：2000-02-01 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