A primer on the cost of quality for improvement of laboratory and pathology specimen processes.

abstract：:The thickness of eosinophilic band in collagenous colitis (CC) was assessed by 3 methods: histologic estimates (22 observers), conventional measurements using a calibrated micrometric scale (1 observer), and semiautomatic micrometric measurements (1 observer). By the histologic estimate technique, 7.4% of the results ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rubio CA,Orrego A,Höög A,Porwitz A,Petersson F,Elmberger G,Glaessgen A,Eriksson E,Kanter L,Jaremko G,Egevad L,Laforga J,Liljefors M,Löfdahl B,Norman P,Larsson O,Wanat R,Wejde J,Zickert P,Björk J,Caini S,Palli D

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A flow cytometric technic was developed to detect platelet surface-bound immunoglobulin in patients with thrombocytopenia. Elevated platelet surface IgG and/or IgM was detected in 90.9% of patients with immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP). False positive results occurred in 9.3% of patients with nonimmune thrombocyt...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rosenfeld CS,Nichols G,Bodensteiner DC

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet volume measurements have been used to differentiate consumptive and hypoplastic thrombocytopenia. Since thrombocytopenia is a frequent complication of neonatal sepsis, the authors explored the utility of correlating mean platelet volume (MVP) and platelet distribution width (PDW) with bacteremia. In a sample ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Patrick CH,Lazarchick J

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We tried to describe cellular immune response (tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs), lymphoid aggregates, tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs)) in neoplastic microenvironment of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) with or without associated microinvasion. METHODS:The histopathologic parameters of 177 DCIS and 2...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kim A,Heo SH,Kim YA,Gong G,Jin Lee H

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in the role of mononuclear phagocytes in glomerulonephritis (GN) and in defining markers of renal neoplasms led the authors to study alpha-naphthyl acetate/butyrate esterase (ANAE/ANBE), alkaline phosphatase (AlkP), acid phosphatase (AcP), 5'-nucleotidase (5'N), and ATPase (ATP) activity in paraformaldehyde-f...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alpers CE,Beckstead JH

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 2 male patients in whom hepatosplenic gamma/delta T-cell lymphoma (HSTL) developed 6 and 10 years after renal transplantation. The onset was abrupt with systemic symptoms, cytopenia, and hepatosplenomegaly. The histologic examination of the spleen (case 1), liver, and bone marrow revealed sinusoidal infilt...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Khan WA,Yu L,Eisenbrey AB,Crisan D,al Saadi A,Davis BH,Hankin RC,Mattson JC

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:We compared a rapid, point-of-care multimarker protocol with a single and serial troponin I (TnI)-only protocol in 5,244 patients admitted to the emergency department with chest pain. The diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) was based on a doubling myoglobin level accompanied by at least a 50% increase in th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Straface AL,Myers JH,Kirchick HJ,Blick KE

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 2 cases of splenic postchemotherapy histiocyte-rich pseudotumor. Each patient had a history of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, treated with multiagent chemotherapy. Computed tomography scans performed on both patients showed splenic masses. A positron emission tomography scan performed on 1 patient showed inc...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chandra P,Wen YH,Tuli S,Raphael BG,Amorosi EL,Medeiros LJ,Ibrahim S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports have indicated that patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-associated coronavirus infection could develop atypical pneumonia with fulminant pulmonary edema. However, the target cells of SARS viral infection have not been characterized in detail. We report the pathologic findings of the...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chow KC,Hsiao CH,Lin TY,Chen CL,Chiou SH

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:This report describes four siblings affected with familial intrahepatic cholestasis detected in early infancy. In the two male siblings, biliary cirrhosis and fatal hepatocellular carcinoma later developed, whereas the female siblings have had persistent hepatomegaly and recurrent episodes of cholestasis. Sequential b...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ugarte N,Gonzalez-Crussi F

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the effect of matrix-degrading enzymes on the malignant potential of oral squamous cell carcinoma, the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2/72-kD gelatinase/type IV collagenase) in 46 patients who had neck surgery for oral cancer was studied immunohistochemically. In 20 of 26 patients (76.9%)...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kusukawa J,Sasaguri Y,Shima I,Kameyama T,Morimatsu M

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A murine monoclonal antibody (MAb 12C3) that is specific to human ovarian carcinomas was generated by immunizing mice with a human ovarian germinoma cell line (JOHYC-2). The antigen distribution that was defined by MAb 12C3 in normal and malignant human tissues was analyzed by immunohistochemistry on paraffin-embedded...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yamada K,Ohkawa K,Joh K

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3-year-old girl of Navajo heritage had intractable diarrhea beginning at 4 days of age and resulting in long-term hyperalimentation. Investigation before multivisceral transplantation included biopsies of the rectum, stomach, duodenum, and liver. The diagnosis of microvillus inclusion disease was established by docu...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schofield DE,Agostini RM Jr,Yunis EJ

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred eighty-three patients with endometrial carcinoma had both immunohistochemical and biochemical analysis of estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) content of the tumor. Biochemical analysis was done on a homogenate of uterine curettings; immunohistochemical stainings were done on formalin-fixe...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chambers JT,Carcangiu ML,Voynick IM,Schwartz PE

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenomatous polyps are common neoplastic lesions of the large intestine. The risk of carcinoma increases with polyp size. Small polyps are typically totally embedded for histologic examination, but no standard method for sampling large, grossly benign polyps has been established. We reviewed grossly noninvasive adenom...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Euscher ED,Niemann TH,Lucas JG,Kurokawa AM,Frankel WL

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of adult patients admitted to a general hospital showed that 1.5% had hepatitis B surface antigen in the blood and 22% had hepatitis antibody. The majority of patients with hepatitis B did not have clinical hepatitis and would not have been recognized without screening all hospital admissions for hepatitis B ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Linnemann CC Jr,Hegg ME,Ramundo N,Schiff GM

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overall performances of several enzyme reagent kits for alkaline phosphatase, creatine kinase, lactic dehydrogenase, and aspartate aminotransferase were evaluated using an ABA-100 Bichromatic Analyzer. Interassay precision using this instrument with commercial reagents compared well with published data for similar...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Beckala HR,Agrell J,Forsman RW,Homburger HA

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results from fetal-maternal hemorrhage (FMH) detection and quantitation external quality assessment surveys conducted in Ontario indicate that the rosette test had a sensitivity and specificity for an FMH of more than 10 mL of 1.0 and 0.75, respectively, compared with 0.96 and 0.92, respectively, for acid elution....

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lafferty JD,Raby A,Crawford L,Linkins LA,Richardson H,Crowther M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucocele-like tumors of the breast originally were reported by Rosen in 1986 as benign lesions that histologically resembled colloid carcinoma of the breast. The authors document two cases of mucocele-like tumors to illustrate the difficulty in separating these lesions from colloid carcinoma on the basis of fine-needl...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bhargava V,Miller TR,Cohen MB

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA of Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes extracted by ammonium hydroxide was used as the template for nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of the species-specific 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA). The primers were those well known to be specific for signature sequence amplification of the B burgdorferi sens...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lee SH,Vigliotti VS,Vigliotti JS,Jones W,Pappu S

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Edoxaban, an oral direct factor Xa inhibitor, does not require routine monitoring. However, assessment of the anticoagulant effects may be required in certain situations. METHODS:We investigated the effects of edoxaban on prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), and thrombin gene...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morishima Y,Kamisato C

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine the sensitivity and specificity of immunohistochemistry using the TORDJI-22 MoAb (BioGenex, San Ramon, Calif), which is specific for the C-100 protein of the hepatitis C virus, compared with reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) of tissue for viral RNA. RT-PCR had been perform...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brody RI,Eng S,Melamed J,Mizrachi H,Schneider RJ,Tobias H,Teperman LW,Theise ND

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies suggest that low prostate weight is a significant negative prognostic factor for prostate cancer. In the current study, the data for 431 men who underwent radical retropubic prostatectomy between 1990 and 1998 were analyzed for association between prostate weight and various clinical and pathologic pa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Davidson DD,Koch MO,Lin H,Jones TD,Biermann K,Cheng L

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialogue regarding the autopsy has been sustained largely by medical students and professionals, and by families of deceased patients. Exclusion of the general public may represent a significant reason for the inexorable decline of autopsy rates and politicoeconomic support. Sensitivity to public concerns regarding th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McManus BM,Wood SM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor core laboratory performance that causes delays in diagnosis and treatment is an impediment to optimal patient care, particularly in high-volume patient care areas such as the emergency department (ED). To evaluate the impact of laboratory performance on patient care outcomes, we obtained data from 11 hospitals re...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Holland LL,Smith LL,Blick KE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results obtained with eight pregnancy kits on 735 urines were compared. Overall accuracies were similar and fairly high (93.4 to 95.37%), although only 78.28% of all pregnancies were simultaneously detected by all eight kits. It is suggested that the different performances of each kit could be accounted for not on...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Porres JM,D'Ambra C,Lord D,Garrity F

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2, ERBB2) testing is an important prognostic/predictive marker in breast cancer management, especially in selecting HER2-targeted treatment. American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)/College of American Pathologists (CAP) guidelines address HER2 status and were...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Long TH,Lawce H,Durum C,Moore SR,Olson SB,Gatter K,Troxell ML

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00