Serum prostate-specific antigen and prostate pathology in men having simple prostatectomy.

abstract：:Peripheral blood samples of 23 patients who had hairy cell leukemia were examined for leukocyte alkaline phosphatase scores. Leukocyte alkaline phosphatase levels were elevated in seventeen patients (74%), were normal in six (26%), and were not decreased in any patient. The mean leukocyte alkaline phosphatase score wa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Aiba M,Raffa PP,Katayama I

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Location-guided screening in cervical cytology offers a potentially significant advance over routine manual screening. A prospective, 2-armed, masked clinical trial of the BD FocalPoint GS Imaging System using SurePath slides (BD Diagnostics-TriPath, Burlington, NC) compared routine manual screening and quality contro...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wilbur DC,Black-Schaffer WS,Luff RD,Abraham KP,Kemper C,Molina JT,Tench WD

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:Approximately 15% of breast cancers show equivocal human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) results on HER2 immunohistochemistry (IHC) and are reflexed for fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). However, some cases remain equivocal. In this study, we evaluated these double-equivocal cases by using...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hou Y,Nitta H,Li Z

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new blood culture medium (16B) containing adsorbent and cationic exchange resins has become available for use with the BACTEC instrument (Johnston Laboratories, Towson, MD). Its purpose is to enhance the detection of bacteremia through binding of antimicrobials. The performance of the BACTEC 16B resin medium was com...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： DeGirolami PC,Eichelberger K,Siegel J

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of microcystic adenoma (glycogen-rich cystadenoma) of the exocrine pancreas in a 62-year-old white female presenting with adult-onset diabetes mellitus is reported. Clinical, histopathologic, and ultrastructural findings are discussed with particular emphasis on the presence of myoepithelial cells, a morphologi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nyongo A,Huntrakoon M

更新日期：1985-07-01 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：: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：:Urine cultures represent 40-50% of specimens processed by hospital clinical microbiology laboratories. An accurate rapid screening method to detect positive urine cultures could greatly improve laboratory efficiency. Three hundred eighty-two unselected urines were screened by nephelometry at 2, 4, and 5 hours of shaki...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Heinz T,Pezzlo M,Thrupp L

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the blast cells obtained from two patients with acute myelofibrosis with the use of recently developed immunochemical and ultrastructural markers. They intended to examine the expression of megakaryoblastic, erythroblastic, myeloblastic, and monoblastic properties in these cells. Respectively,...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schreeder MT,Prchal JT,Parmley RT,Carroll AJ,Gewirtz AM,Hoffman R

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the seventh known case of blue nevus of the lymph node capsule and reviews the previously reported cases. The migration arrest hypothesis as an explanation for the occurrence of this lesion is favored rather than the "benign metastasis" hypothesis. The importance of the recognition of this pheno...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lamovec J

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen tubular carcinomas occurred among 211 consecutive mastectomies (7.6%). The relative frequencies of multicentric involvement in the ipsilateral breast (56%), history of bilateral mammary cancer (38%) (P less than .01), and family history of mammary cancer in a first-degree relative (40%) (P less than .05) wer...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lagios MD,Rose MR,Margolin FR

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the current frequency of discovering important diagnoses at autopsy, the diagnoses made in all complete or "no head" autopsies during 1994 at a major tertiary care transplantation referral center were retrospectively compared with the diagnoses made antemortem. Of 176 autopsies, 79 (44.9%) revealed 1 or m...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nichols L,Aronica P,Babe C

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenocarcinomas of the sigmoid colon and rectum were studied for the presence of blood group substances of the A, B, H system using the method of specific erythrocytic adherence. Of 17 adenocarcinomas studied, eight were found to have reactivity for blood group substances. All eight tumours showing reactivity for bloo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cooper HS,Haesler WE Jr

更新日期：1978-06-01 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：:In this study, 2 patient populations, using different elution strategies, were compared to evaluate eluate yields under more and less restrictive conditions. An informative eluate was defined as one in which an antibody that could be clinically significant was detected in the eluate but was not detectable in the plasm...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Veeraputhiran MK,Pesek GA,Blackall DP

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a computerized case registry, containing 220 cases of sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy (SHML), 23 patients were identified with clinical or routine laboratory findings suggestive or diagnostic of immune dysfunction. We divided the abnormalities into hematologic autoantibodies (nine patients), glomer...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Foucar E,Rosai J,Dorfman RF,Eyman JM

更新日期：1984-11-01 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：:Blast-like cells in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of neonates have been identified and previously suggested to be of germinal matrix origin. Twelve additional CSF specimens with blast-like cells collected at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, between 1985-1992 were analyzed. The cytological features of...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jaffey PB,Varma SK,DeMay RM,McLucas EJ,Campbell GA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly, all automated blood counts are not accompanied by a microscopic white blood cell differential. A popular strategy is to obtain a manual differential if any part of the automated blood count and differential is outside specified limits (the "diff-if" strategy). The authors compared two sets of criteria to...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McClure S,Bates JE,Harrison R,Gilmer PR,Bessman JD

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal immunoradiometric assays (IRMA) for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) are available for either intact hCG (IhCG) or beta subunit hCG (beta hCG). The authors evaluated the clinical applications of both methods. Serum samples (N = 180) were divided into the following five clinical groups: Group 1: elevated l...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pardue MG,Taylor EH,London S,Walls RC,Pappas AA

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DRC (dendritic reticulum cell) antigen expression was studied in 38 cases of B-cell lymphomas including follicular lymphoma. The results of this study showed DRC-1 to be expressed in 1/3 of small lymphocytic; 3/3 of mantle zone lymphoma (MZL); 10/10 of follicular, small cleaved; 6/7 of follicular, mixed; 1/2 of follic...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mori N,Oka K,Kojima M

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft-agar culture of transitional cell carcinoma colonies from urine, bladder irrigation fluid, and transurethral resection solid tumor specimens demonstrate generally better growth of tumor cell colonies from urine than from irrigation fluid. Growth of tumor colonies from urine was adequate to evaluate presence of tu...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kirkels WJ,Pelgrim OE,Debruyne FM,Vooijs GP,Herman CJ

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of our study was to improve the quality of care in an emergency department (ED) as measured by length of stay (LOS), total turnaround time (TAT) for laboratory result reporting, and the blood culture contamination rate. Data were included for patients who had at least 1 of 5 laboratory tests performed as p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sheppard C,Franks N,Nolte F,Fantz C

更新日期：2008-10-01 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 of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBs-Ag) testing in a large volunteer blood donor population are described. Counterelectrophoresis and three versions of solid-phase radioimmunoassay technic are compared and evaluated. Initial results suggested that the radioimmunoassay technic are compared and evaluated. In...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dodd RY,Ni LY,Mallin WS,Greenwalt TJ

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the distribution and thromboembolic effect of Ultrafluid Lipiodol, 15 surgically removed hepatocellular carcinomas with selective intraarterial Lipiodol injection 7 to 10 days before surgery and 15 noninjected controls were studied radiologically and histologically. Tissue blocks were processed with an en blo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arnold MM,Kreel L,Wallace AC,Li AK

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of papillary cystic tumor (PCT) of the pancreas were investigated for the presence of estrogen receptors (ERs) and progesterone receptors (PgRs). Both PCT and normal pancreas are able to specifically bind 3H-estradiol. This binding almost exclusively results from the presence of high levels of type II ER, wh...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Carbone A,Ranelletti FO,Rinelli A,Vecchio FM,Lauriola L,Piantelli M,Capelli A

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is believed to develop from histologically identifiable intraductal lesions known as pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasias (PanINs) that undergo a series of architectural, cytologic, and genetic changes, a progression model similar to the adenoma-carcinoma sequence in the colon. The apomucin ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Swartz MJ,Batra SK,Varshney GC,Hollingsworth MA,Yeo CJ,Cameron JL,Wilentz RE,Hruban RH,Argani P

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid synthase is an enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of long-chain fatty acids. The enzyme expression is minimal in adult tissues and very high in many cancers. Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that, when long-standing, is associated with an increased risk of colon cancer. The aim of...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Consolazio A,Alò PL,Rivera M,Iacopini F,Paoluzi OA,Crispino P,Pica R,Paoluzi P

更新日期：2006-07-01 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