Analysis of the leprosy agents Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis in four countries.

abstract：:Venography was performed on fifty-six patients suspected of having deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the legs. The accuracy of the D-dimer measurement in plasma using two latex tests and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was compared with that of usual determination of total fibrin(ogen) degradation products ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bounameaux H,Schneider PA,Reber G,de Moerloose P,Krahenbuhl B

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following normalization of blood glucose levels, a marked change in the MCV and in the calculated hematocrit was observed in five patients with transient severe hyperglycemia. The addition of varied concentrations of glucose to blood samples from healthy volunteers and from patients with microcytic, macrocytic, and no...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Holt JT,DeWandler MJ,Arvan DA

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We further characterize the heterogeneous carcinomas of the papilla of Vater (CPVs) in relation to various clinicopathologic patient characteristics and patient survival. Of the 71 reevaluated CPVs, 32 were intestinal, 26 were pancreatobiliary, 6 were mixed, 4 were mucinous, and 3 were poorly differentiated carcinomas...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kohler I,Jacob D,Budzies J,Lehmann A,Weichert W,Schulz S,Neuhaus P,Röcken C

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of clindamycin, cefoxitin, imipenem, and metronidazole were determined by the E-Test and a reference agar dilution method for 92 gram-negative anaerobic organisms. For 335 MIC pairs, the agreement between the two systems was 80.1%; 60 (17.9%) differed by two or more twofold dil...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Couroux PR,Massey VE,Schieven BC,Lannigan R,Hussain Z

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor V Leiden (FVR506Q) is a genetic defect in the factor V (FV) molecule that confers resistance to proteolysis by activated protein C (APC) and is the most common abnormality detected in patients studied for hereditary thrombophilia. The initial screening test for this abnormality was a comparison of the activated...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Akhtar MS,Blair AJ,King TC,Sweeney JD

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue repositories maintained by pathology departments represent an abundant resource of clinically annotated human specimens. The storage expenses associated with pathology archives are known to administrators of most pathology departments. However, such basic repository characteristics as the quality of stored mate...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smith MA,Barnes EL,Chiosea SI

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hematologic status of 265 patients with rheumatoid arthritis was assessed. In the group as a whole, a mild depression in the hemoglobin concentration and mean cell volume (MCV) was associated with an increase in the red blood cell distribution width (RDW), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and platelet count. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Baynes RD,Bothwell TH,Bezwoda WR,Gear AJ,Atkinson P

更新日期：1987-02-01 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：:Blood glucose results for 2,601 specimens obtained at multiphasic health examination, divided into three age groups, were analyzed using probability plot paper. Two straight lines could be fitted to each distribution. The assumption was made that the lower lines correspond to "normal-healthy" persons, whereas the uppe...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morgenstern NL,Shearn MA

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the dispensing and inoculating characteristics of the MIC-2000 micro-broth dilution system and compares its ability to determine minimum inhibitory concentrations with that of the reference macro-broth dilution method. Micro-well filling showed a coefficient of variation of 6.8%, and micro-well...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Woolfrey BF,Ramadei WA,Quall CO

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three stillborn fetuses are reported in which an abdominal wall defect was associated with defects in the urogenital and anal region. Autopsy of these fetuses provided clues indicative of how and where the embryonic development went wrong. The malformation involved a disturbance of the cell deposition process, occurri...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hartwig NG,Steffelaar JW,Van de Kaa C,Schueler JA,Vermeij-Keers C

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fatal case of an apparently congenital form of hemophagocytic reticulosis is reported. The onset was manifested by hyperbilirubinemia and hepatosplenomegaly which were present at birth and persisted throughout life. Fever, anemia and pancytopenia developed at 1 month of age and became progressively worse. A splenect...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Koto A,Morecki R,Santorineou M

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunohistochemical staining patterns of three pulmonary blastomas (PBs) were studied for markers of mesenchymal (vimentin, muscle-specific actin) and epithelial (cytokeratin, epithelial membrane antigen) differentiation to clarify their phenotypic nature and, possibly, their histogenesis. Epithelial markers were ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Berean K,Truong LD,Dudley AW Jr,Cagle PT

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer in men is a rare condition affecting only 1,000 men each year in the United States. Hormonal, genetic, and perhaps environmental factors appear to be important in development of the disease. Clinically, breast cancer in men resembles that seen in woman. Histologically the diseases are indistinguishable, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hecht JR,Winchester DJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Labor use ratings assigned to instruments by the Workload Recording Method (WRM) do not change with batch size or walk-away time use. The authors evaluated the effect of both on the labor use of the analyzers Paramax B6100 (Baxter Paramax, Irvine, CA) and Ektachem 700 (Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY) by timing all worke...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McClellan GA,Nipper HC,Horn MJ,Burris WD,Hodges K,Monaco S,Cox RS Jr

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation of the validity in infants of standard computations for the correction of white cell counts in blood-contaminated cerebrospinal fluid (traumatic lumbar puncture) was undertaken. In 39 infants with significant blood contamination (greater than 10(4) red blood cells/microL) and no evidence of bacterial men...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Novak RW

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum ferritin, serum iron, and unsaturated iron binding capacity were studied in 64 patients with beta homozygous thalassemia (BHT), 120 patients with beta heterozygous thalassemia, and 46 normal subjects. Incidence of iron overload seen in 32 BHT cases was similar in untransfused and transfused cases. Among heterozy...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Saraya AK,Kumar R,Choudhry VP,Kailash S,Sehgal AK

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital-infantile fibrosarcoma (CIFS) is a relatively indolent sarcoma that should be distinguished from more aggressive spindle cell sarcomas of childhood. CIFSs have been found to have a novel recurrent reciprocal translocation t(12;15)(p13;q25) resulting in the gene fusion ETV6-NTRK3 (ETS variant gene 6; neurotr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sheng WQ,Hisaoka M,Okamoto S,Tanaka A,Meis-Kindblom JM,Kindblom LG,Ishida T,Nojima T,Hashimoto H

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:The authors evaluated the Yellow IRIS automated urinalysis instrument (International Remote Imaging Systems, Chatsworth, CA 91311) in terms of its analytic performance as well as its ease of use. The Yellow IRIS is a system using automated intelligence microscopy (AIM), coupled with a dipstick reader and specific grav...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Roe CE,Carlson DA,Daigneault RW,Statland BE

更新日期：1986-11-01 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：:A morphometric and immunohistochemical study was performed to assess the spleen's alterations in patients with autoimmune thrombocytopenia and in drug abusers with thrombocytopenia (DAT) related to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. A total of 34 patients were included in the study: 20 DAT patients and 14 w...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Marti M,Feliu E,Campo E,Palacin A,Berga L,Casals FJ,Urbano Ispizua A,Cardesa A,Rozman C

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An acquired circulating inhibitor to Factor VIII:C was found in a 27-year-old postpartum woman who presented with ecchymoses and hematomas. Postpartum Factor VIII:C inhibitors can clinically manifest with signs and symptoms not unlike those in a classic hemophiliac. The natural history of this inhibitor is typically o...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shitamoto BS,Leslie KO,Galloway WB

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the stability of the tests comprising the SMA-6 and SMA-12 chemistry profiles during overnight refrigerated storage. Several constituents were found to undergo changes that were statistically significant when evaluated by a t test for paired comparisons. A recently published sequential method ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rossing RG,Foster DM

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：:Immunohistochemistry occasionally is used to determine the lineage of entirely necrotic tumors. However, the sensitivity and specificity of antibodies on necrotic tissue are unknown. To determine the usefulness of immunohistochemistry with necrotic lesions, a series of 24 known tumors consisting of 14 carcinomas, 2 ly...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Judkins AR,Montone KT,LiVolsi VA,van de Rijn M

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：:Vimentin has been regarded as the intermediate filament characteristic of normal and neoplastic mesenchymal cells and keratins as typical of epithelial cells and the neoplasms derived from them. However, many epithelial cells in tissue culture or in effusion, as well as cells in some solid epithelial neoplasms such as...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Azumi N,Battifora H

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryostat sections from fully developed papular lesions of lymphomatoid papulosis (histologic subtype A or B) have been examined by immunoenzymatic staining with 24 monoclonal antibodies against lymphoid cells and their subsets. The lesions demonstrated essentially identical cellular compositions and consisted of T-lym...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ralfkiaer E,Stein H,Wantzin GL,Thomsen K,Ralfkiaer N,Mason DY

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the hematopoietic origin of mast cells is very probable, the cell from which they originate is still a matter of speculation. The description of "transitional basophil/mast cells" in myeloproliferative disorders has suggested a common origin for basophils and mast cells. In a case of mast cell transformation ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gabriel LC,Escribano LM,Marie JP,Zittoun R,Navarro JL

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00