Touch Preps of Products of Conception for Rule-Out Ectopic Pregnancy:  A Viable Alternative to Frozen Section.

abstract：:Experiences of the CAP Survey Program in reticulocyte counts and morphologic identification of reticulocytes from 1971 to 1974 are reviewed. Problems of morphologic identification are reflected in an excessive variance of reticulocyte counts. Statistical sources of variations in counting are identified. The older, ori...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gilmer PR Jr,Koepke JA

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is well characterized clinically and immunophenotypically. Demonstration of a monotypic CD19+, CD5+ B-cell population is central to the diagnosis. We report 2 cases of biclonal CLL. Two elderly men were encountered with an absolute lymphocytosis consisting of the typical CD5+, CD19+,...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hsi ED,Hoeltge G,Tubbs RR

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (LELC) of the uterine cervix is a rare tumor. The goal of this study was to evaluate a series of cases of cervical LELC and to investigate possible association with human papillomavirus (HPV) and/or Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Methods:Immunohistochemistry for p63, p16, human l...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pinto A,Huang M,Nadji M

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Long-term follow-up is important for determining performance characteristics of thyroid fine-needle aspiration (FNA). METHODS:Histologic or 3 or more years of clinical follow-up was used to calculate performance characteristics of thyroid FNA before and after implementation of The Bethesda System for Report...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sauter JL,Lehrke H,Zhang X,Al Badri OT,Rodriguez-Gutierrez R,Delivanis DA,Singh Ospina N,Donegan D,Hamidi O,Iñiguez-Ariza N,Sharma A,Kittah NEN,Tamhane SU,Hurtado Andrade MD,Kotwal A,Jenkins SM,Spears G,Rivera M,Dean

更新日期：2019-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Myofibromatosis generally is regarded as a fibrous proliferative disease of neonates and children that, even when multicentric, has an excellent prognosis and a propensity for spontaneous involution. Reported is a case of solitary, locally recurrent myofibromatosis in the ear canal of an adult patient. It was initiall...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hogan SF,Salassa JR

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), using repetitive alpha satellite probes to chromosomes 9 and 17, was performed on 27 paraffinembedded bladder specimens from 18 Egyptian patients affected with bilharzial carcinoma. Fluorescence in situ hybridization results in the carcinomas and benign mucosa of patients wit...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ghaleb AH,Pizzolo JG,Melamed MR

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the clinicopathologic findings in four cases of adult women with rhabdomyosarcomas that originated in the endometrium or cervix, or both. All tumors were pure sarcomas and not components of carcinosarcomas or malignant mixed mesodermal tumors. In two patients, the tumors were typical botryoid embryo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hart WR,Craig JR

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is clinically and pathologically heterogeneous, leading to some difficulty in its diagnosis and acceptance as a specific entity. ALCL can be subdivided into different groups according to histologic features (pleomorphic, monomorphic, small cell predominant, Hodgkin's disease-relat...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kinney MC,Kadin ME

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urine dipstick jars often are left uncapped, which led the authors to wonder what effect prolonged air exposure might have on dipstick accuracy. Unexpired Ames Multistixs (Miles Inc., Elkhart, IN) were exposed to ambient air for intervals of up to eight weeks and were used to test urine for the presence or absence of ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cohen HT,Spiegel DM

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to assess the loss of E-cadherin (EC) as a diagnostic marker or a predictor of prognosis. We stained 276 breast carcinomas with monoclonal antibodies to EC (invasive lobular carcinomas [ILC] and variants, 59; invasive ductal carcinoma and ductal special types [IDC], 204; tubulolobular carcinoma [TLC]...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Qureshi HS,Linden MD,Divine G,Raju UB

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of automated anti-Xa heparin assays provides the opportunity to manage patient unfractionated heparin levels directly, rather than by the activated partial thromboplastin time. Because critically ill patients can acquire an antithrombin deficiency, we compared the performance of 3 anti-Xa heparin assa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lehman CM,Rettmann JA,Wilson LW,Markewitz BA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the 1977 College of American Pathologists (CAP) Comprehensive Chemistry Survey and other programs have been analyzed in an interlaboratory comparison of the measurements of serum uric acid. The majority of clinical laboratories utilize some form of phosphotungstic acid (PTA) oxidation-reduction technic for t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Geisinger KR,Batsakis JG,Bauer RC

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percent-free prostate-specific antigen (proportion of free prostate-specific antigen [PSA] to total PSA) has been shown recently in studies on frozen serum samples to be more useful than total PSA alone in distinguishing prostate cancer from benign conditions of the prostate gland. The primary purpose of our study was...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Henricks WH,England BG,Giacherio DA,Oesterling JE,Wojno KJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 127 renal specimens reflecting a wide spectrum of renal pathology was evaluated with a direct immunoperoxidase technic in which frozen tissue was first reacted with anti-Ig(G,A,M) and anti-C3-peroxidase conjugates and subsequently counterstained with periodic acid-Schiff-hematoxylin (IMPAS). This technic p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tubbs RR,Gephardt G,Valenzuela R,Deodhar S

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute paraplegia developed in a 53-year-old man with pulmonary aspergilloma because of contiguous extension of Aspergillus infection to the epidural and subdural spaces and spinal cord. Histopathologic findings of the spinal cord showed Aspergillus hyphae penetrating the myelin sheath and myelomalacia, predominantly i...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sheth NK,Varkey B,Wagner DK

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient receiving antihypertensive therapy developed acute intravascular hemolysis and died. Hemolysis was due to an immune process associated with antibody to thiazide. Only two other cases have been reported. Thiazide-induced hemolysis appears to be confined to those patients treated concommitantly with methyldopa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Beck ML,Cline JF,Hardman JT,Racela LS,Davis JW

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present immunoperoxidase study attempted to localize aldosterone and cortisol in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded adrenal glands or tumors. Apparently, steroid substances are solubilized during routine tissue processing, and the cytoplasm of adrenal cortical cells is not stained by either antialdosterone or antico...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hsu SM,Raine L,Martin HF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern blot (Oncor, Gaithersburg, MD) and dot blot (Life Technologies, Gaithersburg, MD) nucleic acid hybridization assays were compared for their ability to detect and type human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA in 50 cervical swab specimens and 11 biopsy specimens. Overall agreement between the two methods was 78.7%. With...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bartholoma NY,Adelson MD,Forbes BA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of changes in cytology laboratory costs, including the costs of new technologies, on the cost-effectiveness of cervical cancer prevention has not been studied. Using University of Iowa laboratory detection rates and costs, a decision model determined the cost-effectiveness of the laboratory with and without...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Raab SS,Zaleski MS,Silverman JF

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) exhibit similar but distinct immunophenotypic profiles. Many cases can be diagnosed readily by flow cytometry (FCM) alone; however, ambiguous cases are frequently encountered and necessitate additional studies, including immunohistochemical staining for c...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zare H,Bashashati A,Kridel R,Aghaeepour N,Haffari G,Connors JM,Gascoyne RD,Gupta A,Brinkman RR,Weng AP

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to compare the quality of immunohistochemical assays of estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) and to compare the intermethod variability of assays from different manufacturers. immunohistochemical staining was entrusted to the following laboratories in Japan: Kyowa Medex, de...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arihiro K,Umemura S,Kurosumi M,Moriya T,Oyama T,Yamashita H,Umekita Y,Komoike Y,Shimizu C,Fukushima H,Kajiwara H,Akiyama F

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:This study was undertaken to compare several methods of evaluating the common assumption that laboratory data may be treated as if they had been drawn from an underlying Gaussian distribution. As had been described earlier, the usual Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was found to be unsatisfactory due to its sensitivity to roun...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rossing RG,Hillis A,Chou DY

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunostaining of cell cycle-related antigens, especially Ki-67, DNA polymerase alpha, and proliferating cell nuclear antigen, has become an important method to assess the proliferative activity of tumors. These three nuclear antigens were studied by immunohistochemical analysis of cytologic smears. These smears were ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sasano H,Miyazaki S,Nishihira T,Sawai T,Nagura H

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coagulase-negative staphylococci are the most common cause of late-onset septicemia in neonates in intensive care nurseries. Clinical and laboratory diagnosis of infection with coagulase-negative staphylococci can be difficult. The authors reviewed serial mean platelet volumes of 18 infants in whom coagulase-negative ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： O'Connor TA,Ringer KM,Gaddis ML

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have assessed the clinical value of an "accurate" band count as a correlate to infection in 33 patients with a culture proven bacterial infection and a normal total leukocyte count. Thirty hematologically normal outpatients, presumably with no infections, were selected for the control group. Manual 500 cel...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ardron MJ,Westengard JC,Dutcher TF

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：:The cytodiagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii (PC) in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluids has traditionally required a special stain such as Gomori's methenamine silver (GMS) stain. Recent reports indicate that identification of foamy alveolar casts (FACs) with Papanicolaou's (Pap) stain may provide a sensitive and less c...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schumann GB,Swensen JJ

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:Three cases of pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are described displaying a prominent microcystic pattern closely resembling microcystic adnexal carcinoma of the skin (MAC). The patients were 2 women and 1 man aged 72 to 83 years. Histologically, in addition to conventional SCC, all tumors showed striking microc...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Weissferdt A,Moran CA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00