The probability of obtaining compatible blood from related directed donors.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To design, develop, and implement a prototype medical event-reporting system for use in transfusion medicine to improve transfusion safety by studying incidents and errors. METHODS:The IDEALS concept of design was used to identify specifications for the event-reporting system, and a Delphi and subsequent nom...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Battles JB,Kaplan HS,Van der Schaaf TW,Shea CE

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous immunohistochemical studies of cardiac myxomas are few in number, limited in scope and, in part, discrepant. We studied the immunoreactivity of five cardiac myxomas for factor VIII-related antigen, Ulex europaeus agglutinin I, smooth-muscle myosin, alpha 1-antitrypsin, and alpha 1-antichymotrypsin. Positive s...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Landon G,Ordóñez NG,Guarda LA

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anorectic agents, such as aminorex and fenfluramine derivatives, have been associated previously with the development of primary pulmonary hypertension. The combination diet drug phentermine-fenfluramine (or "phen-fen") was recently marketed in the United States. We describe a case of a 39-year-old woman with rapidly ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Strother J,Fedullo P,Yi ES,Masliah E

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the autopsy records of 261 patients with breast carcinoma, who died at The Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, for the presence of metastases to the central nervous system, particularly for the presence of leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. Metastases to the central nervous system were found in 41 (1...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Lamovec J,Zidar A

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Success in the practice of pathology demands proficiency in management, but management training for pathology residents is generally inadequate, with little agreement on an appropriate curriculum or competency assessment. Most residency training programs do not have faculty members who are interested and have e...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Horowitz RE,Naritoku W,Wagar EA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The salivary glands, despite their relatively simple morphology, give rise to more than 30 histologically distinct benign and malignant tumors. Salivary gland neoplasms comprise less than 2% of all tumors in humans and 3% of all head and neck tumors. They arise in the parotid gland in 80% of cases, and approximately 8...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Schneider M,Rizzardi C

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports have elucidated the variety of tissue types that can react with HMB-45. Consistent positivity has been demonstrated in angiomyolipomas, but only in the smooth-muscle cells. In this report, we examine five renal angiomyolipomas and 20 mesenchymal lesions with similar morphological features and with a pos...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Hoon V,Thung SN,Kaneko M,Unger PD

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Angiosarcomas are rare malignancies that commonly arise in the head and neck. No definitive precursor lesion or etiological link between hemangiomas and angiosarcoma has been postulated. Evidence at the cell culture level suggests that loss of heterozygosity of 13q might be involved in tumorigenesis of endothel...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Domfeh AB,Fichera M,Hunt JL

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Lesions associated with monoclonal light and heavy chains display a variety of glomerular, tubular interstitial, and vascular manifestations. While some of the entities are well recognized, including light and heavy chain deposition diseases, AL (light chain) and AH (heavy chain) amyloidosis, and light chain ("...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Herrera GA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PROBLEM CONSIDERED:Reproducibility is only one dimension of test quality to be considered when evaluating the utility of a test or deciding to perform a test at or near the point of care. METHODS:Personal experience and review of the literature. RESULTS:Hemoglobin A1c and bedside glucose measurements are cited as exa...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Watts NB

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the expression of thyroid transcription factor 1 (TTF-1) and cytokeratin 20 (CK20) in pulmonary small cell carcinomas, extrapulmonary small cell carcinomas, and Merkel cell carcinomas, and thereby determine whether these markers are helpful in distinguishing these 3 groups of small cell neuroendocrin...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Cheuk W,Kwan MY,Suster S,Chan JK

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The endometrium is an intrinsically dynamic tissue with great capability for regeneration and proliferation; consequently, there is some overlap between features seen in benign, premalignant, and malignant lesions. This leads to marked intrabiopsy, interbiopsy, and interobserver variability. OBJECTIVE:We studi...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Elhafey AS,Papadimitriou JC,El-Hakim MS,El-Said AI,Ghannam BB,Silverberg SG

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paraneoplastic disorders (PNDs) are remote effects of tumors that are unrelated to the size, location, metastases, or physiological activities of mature tissue of origin. Some of these disorders, such as fever and anemia, have been known for a long time. Other disorders, such as lymphopenia and low serum cholesterol l...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Payan HM,Gilbert EF,Mattson M

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Because the consequences of making an interpretive error on a proficiency test are more severe than those made on an educational challenge, the same slide may exhibit different performance characteristics in the 2 different settings. OBJECTIVE:The results of the 2006 College of American Pathologists Gynecologi...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Hughes JH,Bentz JS,Fatheree L,Souers RJ,Wilbur DC,Cytopathology Resource Committee, College of American Pathologists.

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with massive cardiac involvement in a previously well 65-year-old man, presenting with pericardial tamponade and heart failure of recent onset. Results of echocardiography and of pericardial and pleural fluid cytology suggested the diagnosis. Within two weeks the patient's c...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Cairns P,Butany J,Fulop J,Rakowski H,Hassaram S

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mucoepidermoid carcinoma is the most common primary malignancy of the salivary glands, the sclerosing morphologic variant of this tumor is extremely rare, with only 6 reported cases. As its name suggests, sclerosing mucoepidermoid carcinoma is characterized by an intense central sclerosis that occupies the en...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Fadare O,Hileeto D,Gruddin YL,Mariappan MR

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whipple disease is a chronic, relapsing, and multisystem disease. It presents a diagnostic challenge for both clinicians and pathologists. Recent advances in isolation and culture have identified the organism responsible for the disease to be a member of the order Actinomycetes designated Tropheryma whipplei. Several ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Muir-Padilla J,Myers JB

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate (4F-PCC), containing therapeutic doses of vitamin K-dependent coagulation factors, was recently licensed in the United States for reversal of vitamin K antagonist therapy. However, given the emergence of several oral anticoagulants for which there are no specific reversal age...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Unold D,Tormey CA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of "uncombable hair syndrome" that occurred in a boy who had no other abnormalities. The diagnosis was clinically suspected and confirmed by examination of the scalp hair, which was treated with a bath of gold. Scanning electron microscopy was used for examination. The main defect of the hair was a lo...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Zegpi M,Roa I

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 57-year-old woman with rheumatoid arthritis and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (PiMZ phenotype), recovering from intraabdominal sepsis in association with gastric ulcer perforation, had portal hypertension. An operative liver biopsy specimen showed a distinctive elastosis of the portal tracts without cirrhosis. ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Lee FI,Kelly JK,Vasudev KS

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anomalous origin of 4 separate coronary ostia from a single coronary sinus has rarely been reported. We report what is to our knowledge a previously undescribed variation characterized by the left anterior descending, left ramus, left circumflex, and right coronary arteries originating from separate ostia in the right...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Beach L,Burke A,Chute D,Virmani R

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), a disease of young women, is characterized by proliferation of abnormal smooth muscle cells (LAM cells), which often differ from normal pulmonary smooth muscle cells by frequently having estrogen and progesterone receptors. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the relationships am...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Usuki J,Horiba K,Chu SC,Moss J,Ferrans VJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate choroid plexus neoplasms for p53 expression. CASE MATERIAL:We studied 10 choroid plexus tumors (four papillomas and six carcinomas) by immunohistochemistry using the DO7 anti-p53 monoclonal antibody. RESULTS:Three of four choroid plexus papillomas demonstrated no staining. Scattered nuclear and ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Jay V,Ho M,Chan F,Malkin D

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the current understanding of the pathophysiology of antithrombin deficiency and its role in congenital thrombophilia. Recommendations for diagnostic testing of antithrombin function and concentration, derived from the medical literature and consensus opinions of recognized experts in the field, are ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Kottke-Marchant K,Duncan A

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspiration biopsy cytology (ABC) specimens were obtained from 540 patients by transrectal biopsy because of suspicious lesions or metastases from occult carcinoma. Although poorly differentiated prostatic carcinoma had previously presented few diagnostic problems by ABC, cells from well-differentiated adenocarcinoma h...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Kline TS,Kohler FP,Kelsey DM

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of a 31-week fetus who died in utero with an invasive retroperitoneal kaposiform hemangioendothelioma. This rare vascular neoplasm usually presents as a localized violaceous skin lesion in infants and behaves in a benign fashion; however, kaposiform hemangioendothelioma may present as an invasive ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Martinez AE,Robinson MJ,Alexis JB

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Our understanding of molecular events in the pathogenesis of hematologic malignancies has evolved substantially. The research data gathered in the past 3 decades have led to the definition of neoplastic disorders based on specific genetic and molecular alterations, which is reflected in the current World Health...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Pozdnyakova O,Kutok JL,Rodig SJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to assess the specificity of split renal basement membranes in hereditary nephritis (HN). Thirteen specimens from eight patients with HN were mixed in a random fashion with specimens from control patients with either idiopathic nephrotic syndrome or various forms of glomerulonephritis and wit...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Kohaut EC,Singer DB,Nevels BK,Hill LL

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in lung transplant patients and requires timely and accurate diagnosis. This study compares the diagnostic utility of the evaluation of transbronchial biopsy by histology, immunohistochemistry, and simultaneous culture of bronchoalveola...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Solans EP,Garrity ER Jr,McCabe M,Martinez R,Husain AN

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stomachs of 22 rats treated with aspirin for six months were examined histologically at times ranging from 6 to 18 months after completion of treatment. Healed chronic gastric ulcers were found in 20 rats. Glandular dysplasia was present at the sites of healed ulcers in 12 rats, the glands extending into the submucosa...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： St John DJ,Yeomans ND,Bourne CA,de Boer WG

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00