Elevation of myeloperoxidase in conjunction with cardiac-specific markers after marathon running.

abstract：:A computer software package written in Dibol for a PDP 8/E computer is described that is designed for the needs of the cytology department of a moderate-sized private medical laboratory. Computerized accessioning of cases, report preparation and printing, historical filing, activity summary reports, and direct patient...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ashworth CT,McConnell TH,Ashworth RD,Nielsen CR,Sanford J

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visible absorption spectra of dilutions of commercially prepared chemistry control sera closely mimic those of jaundiced amniotic fluids in cases of fetal rhesus isoimmunization. The authors have assessed the use of these materials for the quality control of net absorbance measurements at 450 nm on amniotic fluids...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McDonald OL,Watts MT

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the differential diagnosis of Spitz nevus vs malignant melanoma, patient age provides a critical piece of clinical information, because Spitz nevi occur mostly in children and melanomas occur mostly in adults. Nevertheless, there is overlap in the age distributions of Spitz nevus and melanoma. The issue to consider...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Vollmer RT

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor V Leiden (FVR506Q) is a genetic defect in the factor V (FV) molecule that confers resistance to proteolysis by activated protein C (APC) and is the most common abnormality detected in patients studied for hereditary thrombophilia. The initial screening test for this abnormality was a comparison of the activated...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Akhtar MS,Blair AJ,King TC,Sweeney JD

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 14-year period (1959-1972), 3,600 endometrial suction biopsies were performed in the office for specific indications in selected patients. Three hundred seventy-seven biopsies (10.5%) revealed abnormal findings. Of these, 233 showed endometritis, 96 associated with necrotic decidual or placental tissue, or bo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Baitlon D,Hadley JO

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulase-negative staphylococci are the most common cause of late-onset septicemia in neonates in intensive care nurseries. Clinical and laboratory diagnosis of infection with coagulase-negative staphylococci can be difficult. The authors reviewed serial mean platelet volumes of 18 infants in whom coagulase-negative ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： O'Connor TA,Ringer KM,Gaddis ML

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the usefulness of calretinin as an immunohistochemistry marker in the diagnosis of cardiac myxoma (CM) and the origin of myxoma cells, we examined 24 CMs and 9 fetal hearts with immunohistochemical methods on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. We compared 24 CMs with 10 mural thrombi, 6 jaw myxomas, an...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Terracciano LM,Mhawech P,Suess K,D'Armiento M,Lehmann FS,Jundt G,Moch H,Sauter G,Mihatsch MJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a university-affiliated community hospital, medical records of 58 patients on whom the intact parathyroid hormone immunoassay (I-PTH) and 29 patients on whom both the carboxyl terminal PTH(C-PTH) and I-PTH ordered by physicians were reviewed to determine the reasons for requesting these tests. Reasons for ordering ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Juan D,Wehrmeister J

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a patient with otherwise typical multiple myeloma whose myeloma cells were phagocytic is described. Phagocytosis of erythrocytes, erythrocytic precursors, lymphocytes, and platelets was found. Ingestion of latex particles by myeloma cells was demonstrated in vitro. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fitchen JH,Lee S

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the histopathologic features and the expression of angiogenesis-related markers in primary tumors and metastatic lymph nodes of oral squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) with multiple lymph node involvement in comparison with oral SCCs without nodal metastasis. The protein levels of th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nikitakis NG,Rivera H,Lopes MA,Siavash H,Reynolds MA,Ord RA,Sauk JJ

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesions of the breast containing extravasated mucin span a continuum from benign mucoceles to invasive mucinous (colloid) carcinoma. It is well known that distinguishing benign from malignant mucinous lesions is difficult infine-needle aspiration material. Whether these lesions also are difficult to distinguish in cor...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Renshaw AA

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the role of ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) with standard biomarkers (myoglobin, creatine kinase-MB [CK-MB], troponin I [TnI]) in assessment of 200 patients with suspected myocardial ischemia admitted to the emergency department. Every case was reviewed by a cardiologist. A clinical diagnosis of ischemia wa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Anwaruddin S,Januzzi JL Jr,Baggish AL,Lewandrowski EL,Lewandrowski KB

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to identify laboratory parameters representing erythrocyte engraftment to be used as an indicator to change the recipient to donor ABO group and Rh type following an ABO-incompatible hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Studies have shown that ABO incompatibility does not ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sanford K,Case N,Blake B,Michaud T,McPherson RA,Roseff SD

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide, infection with hepatitis viruses remains a major clinical and public heath concern. The laboratory is an integral part of the diagnosis of these infections since many of the manifestations are nonspecific, and the various hepatitis viruses show overlapping symptomatology. In this article, we discuss the lab...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harris KR,Dighe AS

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distributions of nine clinical chemistry determinations (serum bilirubin, globulin, creatinine, thyroxine, alkaline phosphatase, hematocrit, aspartate aminotransferase, uric acid, and plasma glucose) were assessed for 1,605 schoolchildren aged 6 to 17 years, in the Cincinati Lipid Research Clinic's Princeton School Di...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Laskarzewski P,Kelly KA,Mellies MJ,Morrison JA,Khoury P,Tillett S,Glueck CJ

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction mammaplasty (RM) is a common surgical procedure that yields a variable amount of tissue for pathologic examination. Occult breast carcinomas are detected rarely in these specimens. We evaluated the pathologic findings in RM specimens performed in our institution during an 11.5-year period (July 1989 to Decem...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ishag MT,Bashinsky DY,Beliaeva IV,Niemann TH,Marsh WL Jr

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of re-engineering rests on computer coordination of information. As a management tool, it has been tested and found to be ambiguous. At best it sharpens laboratory objectives, but at worst it fragments skills and threatens the community attitudes needed for teamwork. Experience with its most fruitful compo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lincoln TL

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of spurious red blood cell parameters caused by serum cold agglutinins has been well characterized for the Coulter counters but not the Ortho ELT-8. The pattern consists of a spurious increase in mean corpuscular volume (MCV), a discrepancy between the hemoglobin and the hematocrit, the latter falsely redu...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Solanki DL,Blackburn BC

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologic rupture of the spleen is a rare phenomenon in acute lymphocytic leukemia, and its mechanism is unknown. This complication has been seen almost exclusively in men, and at ages much older than those of the majority of patients who have this leukemia; these unusual features are also unexplained. A case of acut...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Johnson CS,Rosen PJ,Sheehan WW

更新日期：1979-07-01 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：:The results of a direct anaerobic susceptibility testing method were compared with those of a standardized method. Seventy-three blood culture isolates and eight antimicrobial agents were used. The results of the direct and standardized testing methods were within one two-fold dilution for 95.2% of the 584 anaerobe-an...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Murray PR,Christman JL

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplastic thyroid carcinomas usually pose no problems in histologic diagnosis because of the obvious invasive growth, high cellularity, and frank anaplasia. Two cases of a variant of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma with peculiar gross and histologic features closely mimicking those of Riedel's thyroiditis are described ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wan SK,Chan JK,Tang SK

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of metastatic prostate cancer masquerading as a primary lung tumor. Histologically, the lung tumor displayed eosinophilic crystalloids in the malignant glands typical of those previously described in prostatic adenocarcinoma. Review of histologic material from 30 additional patients with meta...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Molberg KH,Mikhail A,Vuitch F

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 13 cases in which the submucosa and muscularis mucosae of the gastrointestinal tract exhibited a focal or diffuse increase of elastin fibers. This elastosis or elastofibromatous change most commonly manifested as a colonic polyp and usually was found during screening colonoscopy. Gastric and small intestin...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hobbs CM,Burch DM,Sobin LH

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical release of single cell suspensions from solid tumors for DNA analysis by flow cytometry has been shown to be optimal for adenocarcinomas in general. In the breast, many adenocarcinomas are fibrotic or scirrhous, creating difficulty in separating the neoplastic cells from the stroma. The authors have conduct...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Torres FX,Mackowiak PG,Brown RD,Linden MD,Zarbo RJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine high expression of tumor necrosis factor ligand superfamily member 13 (TNFSF13), which is correlated with several malignancies. METHODS:TNFSF13 messenger RNA expression in tumor cells and fibroblasts in a cohort of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was analyzed by quantitative real...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Qian Z,Qingshan C,Chun J,Huijun Z,Feng L,Qiang W,Qiang X,Min Z

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infusible platelet membranes (IPMs) prepared from fresh or outdated human platelets have been shown to correct prolonged bleeding times in thrombocytopenic rabbits. In previous trials, IPMs did not seem to be immunogenic and lacked dose-limiting toxicity. The present study was undertaken to explore whether the platele...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Graham SS,Gonchoroff NJ,Miller JL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to characterize how well computerized "case flags" performed in evaluating critical diagnoses in anatomic pathology. All cases identified by a pathologist at sign-out and flagged as a critical diagnosis in anatomic pathology in 2 hospital laboratories during a 3-year period were reviewed. A subset of all cri...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Renshaw A,Gould EW

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of a comparison of the diagnostic efficacy of percutaneous needle biopsy of the parietal pleura with that of cytologic examination of pleural fluid sediment obtained concurrently from 166 patients with benign or cancerous pleural disorders are reported. Of 44 patients with confirmatory evidence of cancer invol...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Frist B,Kahan AV,Koss LG

更新日期：1979-07-01 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