Protein C assay performance: an analysis of North American specialized coagulation laboratory association proficiency testing results.

abstract：:The clinical and pathologic features of 64 inflammatory fibroid polyps of the large and small bowel in 63 patients are reported. Six of the lesions in the small bowel were studied by electron microscopy. Follow-up information was obtained from 39 patients. The lesion was always benign, occurred at all ages, and had a ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shimer GR,Helwig EB

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a minimally invasive method possibly representing a diagnostic tool in the evaluation of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) of different causes. We first describe herein the morphologic, histochemical, and immunohistochemical features of previously unreported eosinophilic globular deposi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rossi G,Andreani A,Morandi P,Marchioni A,Corradini P,Cappiello G,Bortolotti M,Qosja A,Manzini C,Ferri C,Richeldi L,Cavazza A

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunohistochemical study was conducted of 108 papillary carcinoma cases, including 48 cases with intratumoral heterotopic ossification (IHO). In 48 cases, papillary carcinoma with IHO was accompanied by nodular fibrosis. Cases of papillary carcinoma with IHO or nodular fibrosis showed higher incidences of lymph no...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Takeda M,Mikami T,Numata Y,Okamoto M,Okayasu I

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared prothrombin times (PTs) and international normalized ratios (INRs) for blood samples drawn into plastic vs glass collection tubes. We collected 60 venous blood samples into 4.5-mL glass and 2 plastic tubes (2.7 and 3.5 mL). An additional 153 samples, including 63 from warfarin-anticoagulated patients, were...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fiebig EW,Etzell JE,Ng VL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carumonam, a new monobactam, was found to have an anti-microbial spectrum similar to aztreonam. Its spectrum includes Enterobacteriaceae, Haemophilus influenzae, pathogenic Neisseria species, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and some streptococci. Staphylococcus species, enterococci, and many other nonenteric gram-negative bac...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jones RN,Barry AL,Thornsberry C,Fuchs PC,Packer RR

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the data for the 1969 to 1973 CAP Surveys of proficiency in partial thromboplastin time (PTT) determination indicates more than desirable variability in this measurement. Non-activated procedures show greater interlaboratory variability than activated methods; therefore, they may be preferable for routine ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Koepke JA

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the HER2 receptor remains uncertain in the pathogenesis and progression of human prostate cancer. Previous studies have reported widely divergent rates for HER2 expression in primary prostate tumors, probably owing to significant methodologic differences in the studies. Few data exist about the frequency o...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reese DM,Small EJ,Magrane G,Waldman FM,Chew K,Sudilovsky D

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of primary Ki-1 lymphoma of the brain. The patient was a 4 1/2-year-old black girl who presented with a 4- and 5-day history of headaches, nausea, vomiting, neck stiffness, and difficulty in walking. Computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain showed two discrete densities in the left occipita...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Havlioglu N,Manepalli A,Galindo L,Sotelo-Avila C,Grosso L

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hairy cell populations of greater than 90 purity were prepared from six samples obtained from four patients with leukemic reticuloendotheliosis (LRE). These then were analyzed for surface immunoglobulin (SIg) and antigens specified by a panel of monoclonal antibodies. The hairy cells from all patients displayed SIg an...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Janckila AJ,Stelzer GT,Wallace JH,Yam LT

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anemia developing during the course of chronic renal disease is a frequent complication often necessitating periodic transfusion therapy. A number of etiologic factors have been implicated, including decreased production of erythropoietin; decreased erythrocyte life span secondary to uremia and splenomegaly; increased...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hancock DE,Onstad JW,Wolf PL

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：:Same-day turnaround of pathology specimens is desirable in this era of managed care, and rapid microwave tissue processing produces histologic features of a quality equivalent to overnight processing. We studied whether microwave-assisted rapid tissue processing adversely affects the quality of immunohistochemical sta...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Emerson LL,Tripp SR,Baird BC,Layfield LJ,Rohr LR

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a case of secondary syphilis with gastric involvement, the clinical history and roentgenographic and gastroscopic examiniations initially suggested an infiltrative malignant neoplasm. However, macroscopic and histologic examination of the partial gastrectomy specimen demonstrated an erosive, inflammatory lesion. Su...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Butz WC,Watts JC,Rosales-Wuintana S,Hicklin MD

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of HER-2/neu oncogene amplification has become clinically important in the present management of breast cancer and may have important applications in other areas of clinical oncology and scientific research. In situ hybridization is an extremely accurate and sensitive technique for assessing amplificatio...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gupta D,Middleton LP,Whitaker MJ,Abrams J

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the diagnostic accuracy of margin evaluation of melanocytic lesions using en face frozen sections compared with standard paraffin-embedded sections, we studied 2 sets of lesions in which en face frozen sections were used for analysis of surgical margins (13 from malignant melanomas [MMs] and 10 from nonmelan...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Prieto VG,Argenyi ZB,Barnhill RL,Duray PH,Elenitsas R,From L,Guitart J,Horenstein MG,Ming ME,Piepkorn MW,Rabkin MS,Reed JA,Selim MA,Trotter MJ,Johnson MM,Shea CR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67-year-old man presented with a malignant tumor involving abdominal lymph nodes, spleen, liver, and lungs, with associated protracted fever and night sweats. The tumor consisted of large pleomorphic cells, often surrounding microabscesses. Intracytoplasmic S100 protein, surface T6, Leu-3a (T4), and HLA-DR antigens ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chan WC,Zaatari G

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the occurrence of a coenurus, the encysted larval stage of a cestode of the genus Multiceps, within the axilla of a 40-year-old Nigerian woman. The patient had a history of intraductal carcinoma of the breast two years prior to the finding of an ipsilateral axillary mass. Pathologic evaluation o...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kurtycz DF,Alt B,Mack E

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By electrophoresis, prealbumin is seen as a discrete band anodic to the albumin fraction. Cases of duplicate bands in the prealbumin region have been described previously in serum, cerebrospinal fluid, and urine, and have had an association with varied clinical entities. The authors describe a novel association of sev...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Castañeda L,Ruiz P

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation of the change in the former close relationship between the patient and his physician, and the contribution of the pathologist to its development, is presented. The effect of these changes on the interest in and care of the patient by all in the hospital in this changing medical scene is decried; the pati...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Angrist AA

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight resected primary non-small cell lung carcinomas were studied for intratumoral DNA variability by flow cytometry (FCM). Three separate tissue specimens from each resected tumor were divided equally for FCM analysis and histologic evaluation. FCM analysis also was performed on fine-needle aspirates (FNAs) f...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sara A,el-Naggar AK

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate cryoprecipitate and platelet ordering practices after the implementation of real-time clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) in a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system. METHODS:Uniform platelet and cryoprecipitate transfusion thresholds were implemented at 11 hospitals in a regiona...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Collins RA,Triulzi DJ,Waters JH,Reddy V,Yazer MH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe two patients with clinically and histopathologically documented advanced (tumor) stage mycosis fungoides. In each case the large, pleomorphic neoplastic cells lacked the monoclonal antibody-defined cell surface antigens commonly associated with immature and mature T-cells, i.e., T11, Leu-1, T3, T4...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wieczorek R,Suhrland M,Ramsay D,Reed ML,Knowles DM 2nd

更新日期：1986-07-01 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：:Little information has been reported describing antigen stability in plasma cell myeloma. In this study, the expression frequency and stability of 2 potential therapeutic targets, CD20 and CD52, along with the frequently aberrantly expressed CD56 antigen, were evaluated by flow cytometric analyses in 56 patients with ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cao W,Goolsby CL,Nelson BP,Singhal S,Mehta J,Peterson LC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the humoral and tissue expression of six antigens associated with medullary thyroid cancer (MTC): calcitonin (CT), calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), neuron-specific enolase (NSE), somatostatin (SRIF), and thyroglobulin (TG). The antigens were studied in th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pacini F,Basolo F,Elisei R,Fugazzola L,Cola A,Pinchera A

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：:Three cases of pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are described displaying a prominent microcystic pattern closely resembling microcystic adnexal carcinoma of the skin (MAC). The patients were 2 women and 1 man aged 72 to 83 years. Histologically, in addition to conventional SCC, all tumors showed striking microc...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Weissferdt A,Moran CA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trends in surgical practice suggest that pathologists will encounter increased numbers of patients with small invasive ductal adenocarcinomas; small, if any, metastatic deposits in axillary lymph nodes (ALNs); and possibly fewer ALN specimens to examine. New prognostic histologic features may be needed in this environ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goldstein NS,Mani A,Vicini F,Ingold J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recombinant factor VIIa (rFVIIa) has become available for treating people with hemophilia with inhibitors who experience bleeding or require surgery. It has become apparent that rFVIIa is useful in controlling bleeding in a variety of clinical situations. This review attempts to collate and summarize the nonhemophilia...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Midathada MV,Mehta P,Waner M,Fink LM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00