Fine-needle cytology of 292 palpable orbital and eyelid tumors.

abstract：:We evaluated the performance (ie, imprecision, inaccuracy, and analytic sensitivity) of the Sysmex SE-9000 commercial hematology analyzer (TOA Medical Electronics, Kobe, Japan) on differential leukocyte counts according to the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards H20-A protocol. The results obtained we...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Buttarello M,Bulian P,Temporin V,Rizzotti P

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：:An evaluation of the performance of duplicate prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) assays was undertaken to develop analytical duplicate performance criteria in order to quantitate the risks associated with singlet versus duplicate procedures. Data were retrospectively collected from ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Scheer WD,Catrou PG,Lipscomb GE,Boudreau DA

更新日期：1986-04-01 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 multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay using oligonucleotide primers to detect mecA and 16S ribosomal RNA gene was developed to aid in identification of methicillin-resistant staphylococci. Validation included 99 isolates of staphylococcus grouped into one of five categories: methicillin-susceptible coagula...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Salisbury SM,Sabatini LM,Spiegel CA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the diagnostic significance of the kappa/lambda ratio in germinal center (GC) B cells in Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT), we used 4-color flow cytometry to immunophenotype 27 samples (21 patients) of well-characterized HT B-cell clonality was analyzed further by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the immunoglo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chen HI,Akpolat I,Mody DR,Lopez-Terrada D,De Leon AP,Luo Y,Jorgensen J,Schwartz MR,Chang CC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX), a marker of renal cell carcinoma that recently has been described in malignant effusions. METHODS:Pleural and peritoneal fluids with the following diagnoses-reactive (n = 23), carcinoma (n = 17), and "suspicious for mesothelioma" (n = 4)-were immunostained for CAIX, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ananthanarayanan V,Tretiakova M,Husain AN,Krausz T,Antic T

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of the normal adult thymus in both sexes were determined in 50 cases of accidental death by a simplified quantitative histologic technic. A table of normal values derived from these findings was used for making comparisons with thymus from autopsies of 50 additional patients suffering terminal illn...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smith SM,Ossa-Gomez LJ

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report serum enzyme patterns in three patients with polymyositis or dermatomyositis whose cases posed potential problems in distinguishing malignancy, hepatocellular damage, and myocardial infarction from myositis. The alanine aminotransferase showed five- to 16-fold elevations. The creatine kinase MB isoenzyme and...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morton BD 3rd,Statland BE

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of Actinomyces viscosus infection of the lungs were seen in nonimmunosuppressed patients. One patient had a peripheral actinomycotic lung mass resembling a tumor. Both patients responded to a long course of penicillin therapy. Reports of A. viscosus infections are rare, although the organism colonizes the mo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eng RH,Corrado ML,Cleri D,Cherubin C,Goldstein EJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) are now available for immunophenotyping non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) in paraffin-embedded tissue sections. To determine the reliability of these reagents in predicting the genotype, 44 cases of NHL were studied with the alkaline phosphatase-anti-alkaline phosphatase technique wi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Elghetany MT,Kurec AS,Schuehler K,Forbes BA,Duggan DB,Davey FR

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:To investigate the association between the positive direct antiglobulin test (DAT) and hypergammaglobulinemia, the authors prospectively studied 154 patients, classified into three groups: Group 1, 52 patients with a positive DAT result in pretransfusion samples; Group 2, 52 patients with a negative DAT result; and Gr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Huh YO,Liu FJ,Rogge K,Chakrabarty L,Lichtiger B

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To develop reference ranges for platelet aggregation using the Multiplate analyzer (Roche Diagnostics, Mannheim, Germany) in blood anticoagulated with sodium citrate (Na-citrate), lithium heparin (Li-heparin), or hirudin. METHODS:The study was performed at three sites on consented, healthy adults (n = 193) ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Peerschke EI,Castellone DD,Stroobants AK,Francis J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the new screening and treatment guidelines and the prospect of human papillomavirus vaccination for adolescents, the current total volume of Papanicolaou (Pap) tests will be significantly reduced. We used available data to assess the current supply and demand in the cytotechnology labor market and how an expected...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eltoum IA,Roberson J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi is difficult to detect in routine biopsy material from patients with skin lesions of borreliosis. In this study, a new immunohistochemical method, focus floating microscopy (FFM), was developed to detect B burgdorferi in tissue sections and was compared with polymerase chain reaction (PCR). By usi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eisendle K,Grabner T,Zelger B

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose was to determine whether the in vitro (or "spiked curve") method for the therapeutic heparin range is an accurate and valid method for heparin monitoring. Many laboratories use the in vitro method for determining the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT)-based unfractionated heparin (UFH) therapeuti...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gausman JN,Marlar RA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing is more sensitive for the detection of cervical precancer and cancer than cervical cytology. The increased sensitivity of HPV testing and cytology combined ("cotesting") compared to cytology alone permitted professional societies to recommend 3-year screening intervals among the cote...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kinney W,Stoler MH,Castle PE

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:Two commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (EIAs) for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antigens were evaluated for sensitivity and reproducibility by use of supernatant fluid from cell cultures of peripheral mononuclear cells of 18 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and 12 asymptomatic HI...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jackson JB,Sannerud K,Rhame FS,Balfour HH Jr

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) are at increased risk for myocardial events that are difficult to evaluate due to atypical symptoms and chronically elevated protein markers of cardiac damage. This study evaluated cardiac troponin T (cTnT), a sensitive marker of cardiac injury, in patients with CRF without my...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Frankel WL,Herold DA,Ziegler TW,Fitzgerald RL

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:To determine the impact of systemwide charge display on laboratory utilization. Methods:This was a randomized controlled trial with a baseline period and an intervention period. Tests were randomized to a control arm or an active arm. The maximum allowable Medicare reimbursement rate was displayed for tests...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schmidt RL,Colbert-Getz JM,Milne CK,Vargo DJ,Hussong JW,Hoidal JR,Markewitz BA,Walker BS,Kawamoto K

更新日期：2017-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The Digene Hybrid Capture 2 (hc2) high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test (Digene, Gaithersburg, MD) is widely used for triage of women with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance. Results in a "retest zone" (weakly positive tests) are repeated up to 2 times according to the Digene-recommended algo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Muldrew KL,Beqaj SH,Han J,Lum SH,Clinard V,Schultenover SJ,Tang YW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old woman who had undergone orthotopic heart transplantation because of dilative cardiomyopathy received a triple-drug immunosuppressive regimen (cyclosporine A, azathioprine, and prednisolone). During her relatively frequent episodes of acute rejection, she was treated with methylprednisolone and repeated a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kemnitz J,Cremer J,Gebel M,Uysal A,Haverich A,Georgii A

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicare policies have gradually restricted the scope of pathologist services payable under the rules applicable to physician services. Recent changes applying relative value scales has provided an opportunity for national standardization of pathology codes, and has permitted the introduction of clinical pathology int...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Raslavicus P

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have examined the sensitivity and detection efficiency of the three peroxidase methods that currently have the widest application in diagnostic immunohistochemistry: the peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP), the avidin-biotin complex (ABC), and the labeled avidin-biotin (LAB) methods. Sensitivity was evaluated ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Elias JM,Margiotta M,Gaborc D

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 55-year-old man presented with nerve compression and examination of tissue removed by laminectomy, and bone marrow aspiration was diagnostic of multiple myeloma. Protein studies showed a total serum protein of 5.7 g/dL, with a M-component in the fast beta region. The abnormal protein reacted only with anti-lambda an...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hom BL

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radioimmunoassay of ACTH was used in a routine laboratory to localize the site of the lesion in 20 patients with Cushing's syndrome. Eight of the patients had no detectable circulating ACTH and had adrenal tumors removed, 12 had high levels and were diagnosed as having pituitary Cushing's syndrome. Very high level...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Broughton A

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequencing was used to confirm Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae nucleic acids in endocervical swab samples. DNA in residues of the samples with positive results by 2 commercial kits was subjected to nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification. The nested PCR amplicons were used as templates...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lee SH,Vigliotti VS,Pappu S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a child with renal failure and oliguria due to hyperoxaluria myelophthisis developed as a result of extensive bone-marrow replacement with calcium oxalate crystals and an accompanying fibrous proliferations. The histopathology associated with this metabolic disorder was demonstrated in posterior iliac crest bone-ma...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McKenna RW,Dehner LP

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00