Fresh and citrated whole-blood specimens can produce different thromboelastography results in patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Many nonpathologists and some pathologists consider utilization review essential to laboratory quality improvement, but (1) confusion surrounding the definition of "appropriate" laboratory utilization, (2) the reliance on manual chart review, and (3) a lack of leadership have contributed to its unstandardize...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hauser RG,Shirts BH

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify, describe, and investigate the clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features of 8 cases of telangiectatic oncocytoma. METHODS:Fifty-three consecutive renal oncocytomas were reviewed for the telangiectatic pathologic features that were subsequently correlated with the demographic, clinical, and r...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Xiao GQ,Ko HB,Unger P

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies in Western populations have shown that trisomy 3 is the most frequent chromosomal abnormality in primary gastric lymphoma (PGL). To study the incidence of trisomy 3 and its implications for the pathogenesis of PGL in Hong Kong, we have applied the technique of chromosome in situ hybridization in 13 case...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zhang Y,Cheung AN,Chan AC,Shen DH,Xu WS,Chung LP,Ho FC

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of signet ring cell lymphoma, a rare variant of follicular center cell lymphoma, is presented with a review of 20 other such lymphomas previously reported in the English literature. The histologic, immunocytologic, and electron microscopic features are described with speculation as to the possible relationship ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Silberman S,Fresco R,Steinecker PH

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess their applied clinical utility, viral cultures and serological tests for cytomegalovirus (CMV) were reviewed at Duke University Medical Center (DUMC), a 1,125-bed tertiary-care hospital. Less than 1% (3 of 1,216) of CMV cultures were positive, and 8% of serum samples (45 of 587) were positive by single sera ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mangano WE,Gruninger RP

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytopathologic findings of 196 cases of cancer of the breast were correlated with the hormonal receptor levels. The strict cytologic criteria that allow a positive diagnosis to be used as bases for definitive treatment include adequate cellularity, lack of cohesion, and nuclear abnormalities, including increased n...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kern WH

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium leprae causes leprosy. M leprae strains collected worldwide have been genetically clonal, which poorly explains the varying severity and clinical features of the disease. We discovered a new Mycobacterium species from 2 patients who died of diffuse lepromatous leprosy (DLL). The Mycobacterium was purifie...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Han XY,Seo YH,Sizer KC,Schoberle T,May GS,Spencer JS,Li W,Nair RG

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphologic appearances of regional lymph nodes in radical mastectomy specimens obtained from 303 women entered into a prospective study of invasive breast cancer were categorized into patterns that have been considered to reflect immunologic function. An attempt was made to correlate these with 31 other histologi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fisher ER,Gregorio R,Redmond C,Dekker A,Fisher B

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin E has been reported to increase serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. Given the known inverse relationship between HDL-cholesterol and risk of developing coronary artery disease, these preliminary results require verification or refutation. In the present study, 39 volunteers were given 600 U of vi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Howard DR,Rundell CA,Batsakis JG

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported 24 cases of marrow fibrin-ring granuloma (FRG) encountered in 1 institution and concluded that, contrary to previous studies showing marrow FRG as a diagnostic marker for Q fever, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was the most common proven cause of such FRG. The present study characterized patients with...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chung HJ,Chi HS,Jang S,Park CJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a report of an adenocarcinoma of mesonephric origin studied by light microscopy, electron microscopy, and immunocytochemistry. Unlike previous reports, our lesion was located paravaginally and not in the leaves of the broad ligament or in the cervix. The light microscopic features are similar to those of previ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hinchey WW,Silva EG,Guarda LA,Ordonez NG,Wharton JT

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most commonly used fixative in effusion cytology is formalin. In the present study, the immunocytochemical properties of formalin-fixed and alcohol-fixed specimens were compared to evaluate the usefulness of alcohol-fixed cytocentrifuged preparations for routine cytologic diagnosis. A total of 269 effusion samples...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ikeda K,Tate G,Suzuki T,Mitsuya T

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a four-month period, methanol was found in the blood of 18 patients among 687 sequential emergency room admissions screened for alcohols by gas chromatography. In the patients with positive results, blood ethanol ranged from 6 to 570 mg/dL (1.3-123.7 mmol/L), blood methanol from 2.3 to 4.0 mg/dL (0.72-1.25 mmol/L...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wargotz ES,Werner M

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using Venn diagrams derived from set theory, a mathematic model is presented that allows triple-label immunophenotypic analysis of cells based upon double-label measurements. Practical applications of this method are illustrated and discussed. Using this model, triple-label data concerning Leu-8 and Leu-9 (CD7) antige...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wood GS

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to evaluate the current standard practice of using volume and total nucleated cell (TNC) count for the selection of cord blood (CB) units for cryopreservation and further transplantation. Data on 794 CB units whose CD34+ cell content was determined by flow cytometry were analyzed by usin...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jaime-Pérez JC,Monreal-Robles R,Rodríguez-Romo LN,Mancías-Guerra C,Herrera-Garza JL,Gómez-Almaguer D

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physicians are often forced to make decisions about the use of laboratory resources without adequate access to earlier results and related supporting information. Less than optimal use of the laboratory may result. The authors developed and deployed a clinical workstation meant to provide ready access to laboratory in...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Connelly DP,Sielaff BH,Willard KE

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet aggregation studies are usually performed in either electrical impedance or optical systems and the release reaction assessed by quantitating adenosine triphosphate (ATP) from luminesence produced by the firefly luciferin-luciferase system. In evaluating the results of such studies, attention is paid to a var...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sweeney JD,Labuzetta JW,Fitzpatrick JE

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative measurements of constituent concentrations of Survey specimens are generally recorded to the nearest integer or to the nearest tenth. Questions have arisen as to whether this degree of rounding of measurements is appropriate when available laboratory equipment can determine results more precisely. Statist...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Williams GW,Schork MA

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Our aim was to investigate the frequency of steatohepatitic morphology in hepatocellular adenoma (HCA) and correlate with its clinical parameters and risk factors underlying nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). METHODS:We examined a series of 41 liver resection sp...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Liu Y,Zen Y,Yeh MM

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of anti-Rh29 by erythrocytic stroma in feces was devised as a specific test for fecal occult blood. The sensitivity of this test was equivalent to that of a standard Hemoccult test, namely, 10(8) erythrocytes/g feces. Comparison of results of this test with results of Hemoccult tests of random stool specime...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rosenfield RE,Kochwa S,Kaczera Z,Maimon J

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with nonhemolytic Lewis antibodies in the serum were transfused on the basis of major crossmatch compatibility alone. No adverse clinical affects were noted when 33 such patients received a total of 230 transfusions. Considerable savings in technologist time and reagent cost were realized by adopting this pol...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Waheed A,Kennedy MS,Gerhan S,Senhauser DA

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of large cell lymphoma (LCL) (ten B and ten T), Hodgkin's disease (15 cases), and true histiocytic lymphoma (two cases) was undertaken, using formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections, a panel of eight antibodies, and one lectin to determine if any particular antibody or immunologic profile ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Meis JM,Osborne BM,Butler JJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of chemoresistance in a variety of cancers seems related to overexpression of the P-glycoprotein (P-gp) drug pump. Nephroblastoma, the most common malignant renal tumor of childhood, usually is responsive to treatment, and prognosis is favorable in most cases. However, the disease in a subset of patien...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Camassei FD,Arancia G,Cianfriglia M,Bosman C,Francalanci P,Ravà L,Jenkner A,Donfrancesco A,Boldrini R

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to identify laboratory parameters representing erythrocyte engraftment to be used as an indicator to change the recipient to donor ABO group and Rh type following an ABO-incompatible hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Studies have shown that ABO incompatibility does not ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sanford K,Case N,Blake B,Michaud T,McPherson RA,Roseff SD

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Histologic diagnosis of a nonpalpable breast lesion requires the following: (1) mammographically directed excision of the suspect lesion, (2) recovery of the target lesion from the tissue specimen, and (3) demonstration of the lesion in histologic section. Recovery of lesional tissue is a function of localization with...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alberhasky MT

更新日期：1989-10-01 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：:A 73-year-old man with myelodysplastic syndrome developed during the course of his illness auto-immune hemolytic anemia. The association between auto-immune hemolysis and myeloproliferative disease is extremely rare. An even more unique finding is the nature of the antibody which demonstrated single specificity agains...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sacher RA,McGinniss MM,Shashaty GG,Jacobson RJ,Rath CE

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is said that HER2/neu expression by immunohistochemical analysis varies with the time of fixation. The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the impact of the length of fixation in 10% buffered formalin on the expression of HER2/neu by immunohistochemical analysis. We studied tissue samples from 10 invasive ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ibarra JA,Rogers LW

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the expression of progesterone receptor (PR), estrogen receptor (ER), and G protein-coupled estrogen receptor 1 (GPER-1) in cutaneous neurofibromas (cNFs) and their correlation with demographic, clinical, and laboratory data of individuals with neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1). The association of PROGIN...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rozza-de-Menezes RE,Almeida LM,Andrade-Losso RM,de Souza Vieira G,Siqueira OHK,Brum CI,Riccardi VM,Cunha KS

更新日期：2020-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve is a disease of unknown etiology that is associated with many ominous complications. A case in which non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis, superimposed on a myxomatous mitral valve, resulted in systemic embolization to the brain, heart, and kidney is presented. The purpose ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Geyer SJ,Franzini DA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00