Theory and applications of the polymerase chain reaction.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Method imprecision, error rates, and explanatory causes that were identified in the Institute for Quality Management in Healthcare point-of-care (POC) glucose proficiency testing (PT) program were assessed in comparison with results obtained from laboratory glucose PT surveys. METHODS:POC and laboratory glu...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Aslan B,Stemp J,Yip P,Gun-Munro J

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperparathyroidism may occasionally present as a neck mass resulting from cystic change in a parathyroid adenoma. We report an unusual instance of hyperparathyroidism presenting as a palpable, but asymptomatic hyperplastic parathyroid gland cyst. We conclude that hyperplastic parathyroid glands may undergo cystic deg...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fallon MD,Haines JW,Teitelbaum SL

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is an uncommon disease in which alveoli are progressively filled with surfactant-related material. Although a definitive diagnosis is usually made by an open lung biopsy, bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cytology may play a decisive role in the clinical work-up of these patients, and, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Burkhalter A,Silverman JF,Hopkins MB 3rd,Geisinger KR

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of unilateral gonadoblastoma in association with a ruptured ectopic tubal pregnancy is presented. The patient had normal menstrual history prior to a missed period followed by abdominal pain and the passage of clots. The surgical specimens, in addition to the ruptured tubal pregnancy, showed nodular foci of typ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pratt-Thomas HR,Cooper JM

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An American black family in whom hemoglobin J Baltimore and beta (+)-thalassemia genes coexisted is described. The proposita is a 23-year-old woman with a hemoglobin (Hb) level of 11.5 g/dl, microcytic, hypochromic indices, increased values of Hbs A2 and F, and alpha/non-alpha synthetic ratio of 1.52. Hbs A and J Balt...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ballas SK,Atwater J,Theriault C,Kim HC,Propst M

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient receiving antihypertensive therapy developed acute intravascular hemolysis and died. Hemolysis was due to an immune process associated with antibody to thiazide. Only two other cases have been reported. Thiazide-induced hemolysis appears to be confined to those patients treated concommitantly with methyldopa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Beck ML,Cline JF,Hardman JT,Racela LS,Davis JW

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demonstration of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in serum and in tissue sections may be of value in diagnosis and follow-up of several malignant tumors. Anti-CEA sera, however, cross-react with normal antigens, also present in tumors. The staining patterns of three commercially produced anti-CEA sera were investiga...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nap M,ten Hoor KA,Fleuren GJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody prepared against estrogen receptor has been shown to be specific and sensitive for the detection of estrogen receptor in human breast lesions by use of immunohistochemical methods. Two hundred selected cases of primary breast carcinoma were assayed for estrogen receptor content by biochemical and...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bacus S,Flowers JL,Press MF,Bacus JW,McCarty KS Jr

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：:A 39-year-old woman with a primary carcinoid of the common bile duct is presented. The tumor showed argyrophilia; and, by immunohistochemical studies, chromogranin, serotonin, and somatostatin were demonstrated. The patient has no symptoms 42 months after surgical treatment. To the authors' knowledge, this is the firs...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Angeles-Angeles A,Quintanilla-Martínez L,Larriva-Sahd J

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acquired circulating inhibitor to Factor VIII:C was found in a 27-year-old postpartum woman who presented with ecchymoses and hematomas. Postpartum Factor VIII:C inhibitors can clinically manifest with signs and symptoms not unlike those in a classic hemophiliac. The natural history of this inhibitor is typically o...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shitamoto BS,Leslie KO,Galloway WB

更新日期：1982-11-01 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:To examine the relationship between the recently defined Gleason grade groups and prostate cancer-specific mortality. Methods:If the probability of prostate cancer-specific death is symbolized as P(PSD), the probability of biochemical failure is symbolized as P(BF), and the probability of prostate cancer-sp...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Vollmer RT

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes our experience using blinded review as a method to measure quality in surgical pathology. It details the specifics about how the review is performed, the weaknesses in the method, and then summarizes our results so far. These results suggest that error rates correlate with the individual patholo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Renshaw AA,Gould EW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To our knowledge, there are no universally accepted, evidence-based guidelines for how to resolve the HER2 status of tumors demonstrating equivocal amplification. The present study was based on 17 breast core biopsy specimens demonstrating invasive carcinoma with equivocal HER2 amplification, defined as an HER2/chromo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Striebel JM,Bhargava R,Horbinski C,Surti U,Dabbs DJ

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bleeding problems are symptomatic of platelet delta-storage pool diseases (SPDs) such as Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome. Although at present no cure is available for delta-SPD, early diagnosis is of great importance for prophylactic and supportive treatment. This study tested the usefulness of a flow cytometric assay for p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Maurer-Spurej E,Pittendreigh C,Wu JK

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute paraplegia developed in a 53-year-old man with pulmonary aspergilloma because of contiguous extension of Aspergillus infection to the epidural and subdural spaces and spinal cord. Histopathologic findings of the spinal cord showed Aspergillus hyphae penetrating the myelin sheath and myelomalacia, predominantly i...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sheth NK,Varkey B,Wagner DK

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance characteristics of the XE-2100 (Sysmex, Kobe, Japan) automated immature granulocyte (IG) count were studied. The automated IG count was compared with the manual morphology count and with a proposed reference flow cytometric count. The comparison data were analyzed by both least-squares and Passing-Babl...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fernandes B,Hamaguchi Y

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae with greatly increased resistance to penicillin (minimal inhibitory concentrations or MICs, 1--8 microgram/ml) were recovered in cultures of blood from patients in South Africa and from one in Minnesota who had serious pneumococcal infections. The authors undertook a study...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Maki DG,Helstad AG,Kimball JL

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The professional activities of anatomic and clinical pathologists involve, to a large extent, management issues. To evaluate the management training received by pathology residents, the authors surveyed pathology residency training programs in the United States. Responses were collected from 138 of 187 programs (73.8%...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brugnara C,Fenton T,Winkelman JW

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the value of argyrophilic nucleolar organizer region (AgNOR) staining as a potential technique for the estimation of cell kinetics in conventional histology sections, in benign and malignant breast lesions. Using a silver staining technique and immunohistochemistry, the authors correlated the numbe...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dervan PA,Gilmartin LG,Loftus BM,Carney DN

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anatomic pathology service is judged by accuracy of diagnosis and rapidity of reporting of that diagnosis to clinicians. Turnaround times have been used in anatomic pathology to show how long it take to produce a tissue report. Rapid tissue diagnosis is important to patients, clinicians, administrators, and anatomic p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smith MT,Garvin AJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the histologic and multiparameter flow cytometry (MFC) features of 12 cases of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL), 13 of mature T-cell lymphoma, and 25 control cases of reactive lymphoid hyperplasia to evaluate the role of CD10 in the differential diagnosis of peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCLs). A c...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stacchini A,Demurtas A,Aliberti S,Francia di Celle P,Godio L,Palestro G,Novero D

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whipple disease is a rare, chronic multisystem disease associated with the recently characterized organism Tropheryma whippelii. Extraintestinal manifestation involving the central nervous system, heart, and joints occasionally occurs. Involvement of the abdominal lymph nodes, especially the mesenteric and periaortic ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alkan S,Beals TF,Schnitzer B

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytologic features of fine-needle aspiration specimens from 16 breast carcinomas that closely simulated benign lesions were analyzed and compared to smears from fibroadenomas and fibrocystic change. No combination of features was found that accurately separated all benign and malignant cases. Many nuclei with disc...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rogers LA,Lee KR

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of fetal demise and maternal recovery after acetaminophen overdose is presented, to our knowledge the first reported. Fetal liver and maternal serum concentrations indicate overdose to be the cause of fetal death. Maternal disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) may have been related to maternal acetaminop...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Haibach H,Akhter JE,Muscato MS,Cary PL,Hoffmann MF

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas alcaligenes is a common soil and water inhabitant that has rarely been proven a human pathogen. We describe a fatal case of Pseudomonas alcaligenes endocarditis. The need for accurate identification of unusual organisms isolated in a clinical setting are discussed. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Valenstein P,Bardy GH,Cox CC,Zwadyk P

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We aimed to find descriptors to identify chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), Sézary, granular, and villous lymphocytes among normal and abnormal lymphocytes in peripheral blood. METHODS:Image analysis was applied to 768 images from 15 different types of lymphoid cells and monocytes to determine four discrim...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Puigví L,Merino A,Alférez S,Boldú L,Acevedo A,Rodellar J

更新日期：2019-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A man was hospitalized with bacteremic Achromobacter xylosoxidans type IIIa pneumonia. The authors are aware of no previously reported similar infections caused by this bacterium. A clinical cure was achieved with a combination of carbenicillin and kanamycin therapy. Microtiter susceptibility testing revealed that car...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dworzack DL,Murray CM,Hodges GR,Barnes WG

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant hemoglobin fraction may be an incidental finding during HbA(1c) analysis using the G8 Tosoh HPLC analyzer, but it is unclear if the retention times and fraction patterns can reliably predict the findings of a high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) β-thalassemia program (Bio Rad Variant II analyzer). W...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Froom P,Henig C,Zalman L,Barak M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00