Hormone receptor and c-ERBB2 status in distant metastatic and locally recurrent breast cancer. Pathologic correlations and clinical significance.

abstract：:Four commercially available herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) kits were compared with the use of sera selected because they were negative for HSV antibody by complement fixation (CF less than 1:8) and by ELISA (less than 1:100). However, 14 of 24 (58.3%) of these HSV-1 antibody-negativ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rand KH,Houck HJ,Dickinson M

更新日期：1986-12-01 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：:Protease inhibitor serpin-B2 (plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 [PAI-2]) protects pRb from degradation in human papillomavirus (HPV)-18+ HeLa cells. Our objective was to assess whether the pRb-mediated HPV-suppressive effect of PAI-2 in cancer cell lines has implications in the outcome of HPV infections. Cervical biop...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Syrjänen S,Naud P,Sarian L,Derchain S,Roteli-Martins C,Longatto-Filho A,Tatti S,Branca M,Erzen M,Hammes LS,Costa S,Syrjänen K

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly, all automated blood counts are not accompanied by a microscopic white blood cell differential. A popular strategy is to obtain a manual differential if any part of the automated blood count and differential is outside specified limits (the "diff-if" strategy). The authors compared two sets of criteria to...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McClure S,Bates JE,Harrison R,Gilmer PR,Bessman JD

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish an objective, scientific, evidence-based process for planning statistical quality control (SQC) procedures based on quality required for a test, precision and bias observed for a measurement procedure, probabilities of error detection and false rejection for different control rules and numbers o...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Westgard JO,Westgard SA

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typical yeast-phase cells of Blastomyces dermatitidis have a characteristic appearance in tissue sections. Fungal morphologic variation occurs infrequently in the lesions of blastomycosis, yet it can complicate the differential diagnosis, particularly if fresh tissue is not available for microbiologic culture. The aut...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Watts JC,Chandler FW,Mihalov ML,Kammeyer PL,Armin AR

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of Torulopsis glabrata endocarditis involving the mitral valve is reported. Endocarditis developed during convalescence from severe abdominal trauma and was associated with fungemia. Morphologically characteristic organisms were present in the mitral valve. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Heffner DK,Franklin WA

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the first comprehensive morphometry analysis of normal thyroid, adenomas, and follicular and papillary carcinomas. The mean nuclear volume and the mean nuclear surface increased, while the volume densities of rough endoplasmic reticulum and dense bodies decreased from normal thyroid through adenoma...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Johannessen JV,Sobrinho-Simóes M,Finseth I,Pilström L

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We wished to discover (1) in what circumstances surgeons wished to request frozen sections (FSs) on thyroid nodules having a prior fine needle aspiration (FNA) and the preoperative plan in these cases; (2) what the surgeons did with the information provided by FS and (3) in what types of cases was value adde...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kennedy JM,Robinson RA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who had masses in the breasts clinically suggestive of neoplasia had fibrous mastopathy and striking deposition of ochronotic pigment within the soft tissue of the breast. The gross appearance and light microscopic features are illustrated. The histochemical features of ochronotic pigment and the difficulty ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lefer LG,Rosier RP

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abbreviated pretransfusion testing, although permitted by American Association of Blood Banks Standards for unimmunized patients, is not widely practiced. Concerns remain about optimal antibody screening methods, antibodies missed by deleting the antiglobulin crossmatch, and cost-effectiveness. The authors prospective...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cordle DG,Strauss RG,Snyder EL,Floss AM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of thyroid bed (TB) lesions is a common diagnostic modality in monitoring patients for recurrent cancer after a thyroidectomy. To elucidate the value of TB FNA, we reviewed our experience at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD. We identified 57 TB FNA specimens from 50 patients. Of t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bishop JA,Owens CL,Shum CH,Ali SZ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with isolated trisomy 4 is rare. Associations with KIT mutations on chromosome 4q12 have been documented. The clinicopathologic features and mutational status of KIT, FLT3, NPM1, CEBPA, and RAS were assessed in 13 AML cases with isolated trisomy 4. There were 9 men and 4 women with a media...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bains A,Lu G,Yao H,Luthra R,Medeiros LJ,Sargent RL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:To analyze the economic impact of testing for activated protein C resistance (APC-R) due to factor V Leiden (FVL) mutation with APC-R with reflexive FVL genotyping (algorithmic approach) or genotyping alone. Methods:OptumLabs Data Warehouse (OLDW) data were used to assess testing approaches. Insurance claim...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Perez Botero J,Majerus JA,Strege AK,Johnson RD,Chen D,Pruthi RK

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blast-like cells in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of neonates have been identified and previously suggested to be of germinal matrix origin. Twelve additional CSF specimens with blast-like cells collected at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, between 1985-1992 were analyzed. The cytological features of...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jaffey PB,Varma SK,DeMay RM,McLucas EJ,Campbell GA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For quality-control purposes, federal regulations require cytology laboratories to compare Papanicolaou smear and cervical biopsy reports, if available, and determine the cause of any discrepancies. The authors reviewed 56,497 cervicovaginal smears, of which 1,582 (2.8%) had a subsequent cervical biopsy or endocervica...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Joste NE,Crum CP,Cibas ES

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:In-situ and microinvasive adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix. A clinical, cytologic and histologic study of 14 cases. Am J Clin Pathol 64: 155-70, 1975. The clinicopathologic features of 14 cases of in-situ and microinvasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix, encountered during the period 1961-1974, form the basis of thi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Qizilbash AH

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We surveyed 271 laboratories participating in a quality assessment program to ascertain whether the use of a calibration curve for determining the international normalized ratio (INR) would improve interlaboratory accuracy and precision. Lyophilized warfarinized samples with INR values assigned through manual calibrat...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brien WF,Baskerville JC,Taberner DA,Crawford L

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：: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

abstract：:Southern blot (Oncor, Gaithersburg, MD) and dot blot (Life Technologies, Gaithersburg, MD) nucleic acid hybridization assays were compared for their ability to detect and type human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in 50 cervical swab specimens and 11 biopsy specimens. Overall agreement between the two methods was 78.7%. With...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bartholoma NY,Adelson MD,Forbes BA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical analysis of oral lichen-planus-like eruption (LPLE) in graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) using monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) was performed on five patients after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) for leukemia. In the mucosal lesions of LPLE in GVHD, the major population of infiltrated lym...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fujii H,Ohashi M,Nagura H

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quality management program in the Division of Transfusion Medicine at our institution had evolved to the point that the program generally was perceived to be the sole responsibility of our Quality Unit (which was administratively independent of day-to-day operations). It became clear that this administrative model...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Foss ML,Moore SB

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to compare the quality of immunohistochemical assays of estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) and to compare the intermethod variability of assays from different manufacturers. immunohistochemical staining was entrusted to the following laboratories in Japan: Kyowa Medex, de...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arihiro K,Umemura S,Kurosumi M,Moriya T,Oyama T,Yamashita H,Umekita Y,Komoike Y,Shimizu C,Fukushima H,Kajiwara H,Akiyama F

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred fifty-two patients with amyloid in the tenosynovium who had carpal tunnel release were identified. Twenty-eight patients were excluded because of systemic amyloidosis: primary systemic amyloidosis (AL) in 24, secondary amyloidosis (AA) in 3, and familial amyloidosis (AF) in 1. The remaining 124 patients (8...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kyle RA,Eilers SG,Linscheid RL,Gaffey TA

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with an acute burn was noticed to have spuriously elevated platelet counts on an automated system. The major factor accounting for this discrepancy was the presence of numerous microspherocytes which were in the same size range of platelets. It is thus important to add microspherocytosis as an additional cau...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Akwari AM,Ross DW,Stass SA

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a report of an adenocarcinoma of mesonephric origin studied by light microscopy, electron microscopy, and immunocytochemistry. Unlike previous reports, our lesion was located paravaginally and not in the leaves of the broad ligament or in the cervix. The light microscopic features are similar to those of previ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hinchey WW,Silva EG,Guarda LA,Ordonez NG,Wharton JT

更新日期：1983-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Timely reporting of immunosuppressant (ISP) drug level results is needed for transplant patient management. This study characterized the local ISP testing process, identified bottlenecks and implemented process improvements to meet turnaround time requirements. METHODS:Laboratory information time stamps, di...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barakauskas VE,Bradshaw TA,Smith LD,Lehman CM,Johnson-Davis KL

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00