Preventing Genetic Testing Order Errors With a Laboratory Utilization Management Program.

abstract：:We report an unusual case of acinar cell cystadenoma of the pancreas in a 52-year-old man treated for pulmonary adenocarcinoma. The lesion, located in the body of the pancreas, was revealed incidentally by abdominal computed tomography during follow-up for a pulmonary neoplasm. A left pancreatectomy was performed. The...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chatelain D,Paye F,Mourra N,Scoazec JY,Baudrimont M,Parc R,Flejou JF

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The 2014 Bethesda System (TBS 2014) guidelines for reporting cervical cytology revised the age for reporting benign endometrial cells (BECs) from 40 years or older to age 45 years or older. We evaluated this change and further investigated if extending the reporting age to 50 years or older may be acceptable...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hernandez A,Schatz-Siemers N,Zhou F,Brandler TC,Negron R,Modi L,Elgert PA,Simsir A

更新日期：2020-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cytogenetics defines disease entities and predicts prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Conventional karyotyping provides a comprehensive view of the genome, while fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) detects targeted abnormalities. The aim of this study was to compare the utility of karyotyping a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： He R,Wiktor AE,Hanson CA,Ketterling RP,Kurtin PJ,Van Dyke DL,Litzow MR,Howard MT,Reichard KK

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Promotion of high-quality care at a lower cost requires educational initiatives across the continuum of medical education. A needs assessment was performed to inform the design of an educational tool with the goal of teaching laboratory stewardship to medical students. METHODS:The needs assessment consisted...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Roth CG,Huang WY,Caruso AC,Sekhon N,Kung DH,Greely JT,Du YB,Holder-Haynes JG,Little JE,Fielder EK,Ismail NJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:To evaluate the prognostic values of microRNAs (miRNAs) in glioblastoma, and to see if there is an association between miRNAs and MGMT promoter methylation status. Methods:We collected paraffin blocks from resection specimens from 114 glioblastoma patients who had received temozolomide treatment and radioth...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chen YY,Ho HL,Lin SC,Ho TD,Hsu CY

更新日期：2018-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Using microscopic screening criteria employed in the study of sputum in acute bacterial pneumonia, the authors evaluated 644 sputum samples from 347 patients submitted for mycobacterial bacterial culture. After microscopic examination, these specimens were processed using standard mycobacterial laboratory technics. Sa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Isaac-Renton JL,Puselja BB,Allen EA,Grzybowski S,Black WA

更新日期：1985-09-01 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

abstract：:Pseudomonas alcaligenes is a common soil and water inhabitant that has rarely been proven a human pathogen. We describe a fatal case of Pseudomonas alcaligenes endocarditis. The need for accurate identification of unusual organisms isolated in a clinical setting are discussed. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Valenstein P,Bardy GH,Cox CC,Zwadyk P

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:B-lymphoblastic leukemia (B-LBL) arising in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is exceedingly rare and poorly characterized. METHODS:We describe four patients with CLL and concurrent or subsequent B-LBL diagnosed by morphologic, immunophenotypic, cytogenetic, and molecular analysis and reviewe...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chakhachiro Z,Yin CC,Abruzzo LV,Aladily TN,Barron LL,Banks HE,Thomas DA,Keating M,Medeiros LJ,Huh YO

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：: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：:We examined the occurrence of JAK2(V617F) and JAK2 exon 12 mutations in a clinical cohort of polycythemia vera (PV) in Taiwan. Of 22 patients with PV, 17 (77%) had the V617F mutation, and all 5 V617F-negative patients (23%) had the exon 12 mutation. We found 3 different exon 12 mutations: 3 N542-E543del, 1 F537-K539de...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yeh YM,Chen YL,Cheng HY,Su WC,Chow NH,Chen TY,Ho CL

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mucocele-like lesion (MLL) is a rare mucinous lesion of the breast with highly variable upgrade rates to atypia or malignancy on excision. This spectrum of data has led to differing opinions on the need for surgical excision. We evaluated 50 core biopsy specimens diagnosed as having MLLs and correlated the findings wi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sutton B,Davion S,Feldman M,Siziopikou K,Mendelson E,Sullivan M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For quality-control purposes, federal regulations require cytology laboratories to compare Papanicolaou smear and cervical biopsy reports, if available, and determine the cause of any discrepancies. The authors reviewed 56,497 cervicovaginal smears, of which 1,582 (2.8%) had a subsequent cervical biopsy or endocervica...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Joste NE,Crum CP,Cibas ES

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter medium (CAMPY, Becton Dickinson [BD] Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, MD) and Vancomycin Screen Agar (VSA, BD) were compared for their ability to screen for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) from primary plates. A microdilution minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) assay (Pasco, BD) served as t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shigei J,Tan G,Shiao A,de la Maza LM,Peterson EM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ongoing collaborative relationship between a pathology department and the vendor of its laboratory information system is vitally important because of the strategic importance of the laboratory information system in managing the information product of the department. Laboratory information system vendors are value-...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Friedman BA,Mitchell W

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A man was hospitalized with bacteremic Achromobacter xylosoxidans type IIIa pneumonia. The authors are aware of no previously reported similar infections caused by this bacterium. A clinical cure was achieved with a combination of carbenicillin and kanamycin therapy. Microtiter susceptibility testing revealed that car...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dworzack DL,Murray CM,Hodges GR,Barnes WG

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carumonam, a new monobactam, was found to have an anti-microbial spectrum similar to aztreonam. Its spectrum includes Enterobacteriaceae, Haemophilus influenzae, pathogenic Neisseria species, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and some streptococci. Staphylococcus species, enterococci, and many other nonenteric gram-negative bac...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jones RN,Barry AL,Thornsberry C,Fuchs PC,Packer RR

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the histopathologic features and the expression of angiogenesis-related markers in primary tumors and metastatic lymph nodes of oral squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) with multiple lymph node involvement in comparison with oral SCCs without nodal metastasis. The protein levels of th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nikitakis NG,Rivera H,Lopes MA,Siavash H,Reynolds MA,Ord RA,Sauk JJ

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article deals with and formalizes 2 notions common to the practice of pathology. The first is that the number of lymph nodes found positive for metastasis relates directly to the total number of lymph nodes examined. The second is that for any patient, there is a chance that the absence of lymph node metastases i...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Vollmer RT

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little information has been reported describing antigen stability in plasma cell myeloma. In this study, the expression frequency and stability of 2 potential therapeutic targets, CD20 and CD52, along with the frequently aberrantly expressed CD56 antigen, were evaluated by flow cytometric analyses in 56 patients with ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cao W,Goolsby CL,Nelson BP,Singhal S,Mehta J,Peterson LC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to inhibit the release reaction was found to correlate well with the ability to inhibit aggregation in washed human platelets exposed to antilymphocyte serum (ALS). However, the primary mechanism that contributes to ALS-induced aggregation in unwashed platelets appeared to be different from that found in w...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wang TY,Hussey CV,Hause LL,Fobian JE

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic control achieved by an anticoagulant clinic may be assessed by calculation of the proportion of time spent by the patients within the prothrombin time target range aimed for by the clinic. Three calculation methods for such assessment have been described by other investigators. The three methods were compa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： van den Besselaar AM,van der Meer FJ,Gerrits-Drabbe CW

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two separate courses in clinical pathology were presented to two groups of second-year medical students. The first (large) group was taught by the conventional lecture method; the other (small) group, by a self-instructional method for roughly half of the course, followed by the conventional lecture method for the sec...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kao YS,Beeler MF,Strong JP

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of patients with lymphoid malignancies have suggested a relationship between survival and the presence of more than 40% hard-mirror cells in the bone marrow. This report represents the first detailed study of a patient with American Burkitt's lymphoma with numerous hand-mirror cells in the bone marrow...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schumacher HR,Rainey T,Davidson L,Simon D,Strong M,Creegan WJ,Holloway ML,Stass SA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Enterobacteriaceae are endemic in New York City hospitals and have been associated with serious infections globally. A real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay was developed to detect carbapenem resistance attributable to KPC from blood culture bottles posi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Francis RO,Wu F,Della-Latta P,Shi J,Whittier S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new disposable bleeding time device (Hemalet) was tested in 20 normal individuals and 11 patients with various bleeding disorders. The results were compared with those of Simplate II. The mean bleeding time for normal individuals was 5.4 +/- 1.5 (mean +/- 1 SD) minutes by Hemalet and 5.8 +/- 1.4 (mean +/- 1 SD) minu...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Toomey KC,Kim HC,Kosmin M,Saidi P

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute exacerbations of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis/cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (IPF/CFA) are rare and typically terminal events, but their relationship to underlying patterns of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias is unknown. We reviewed autopsy material from patients who died of diffuse alveolar damage in the c...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rice AJ,Wells AU,Bouros D,du Bois RM,Hansell DM,Polychronopoulos V,Vassilakis D,Kerr JR,Evans TW,Nicholson AG

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilization of nonconventional bacterial strains and electron microscopy occasionally may aid in the recognition of unusual microorganisms which fail to be demonstrated by more conventional bacterial stains. We report an unusual case of recurrent vaginal polyps, initially thought by physical examination to represent a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Strate SM,Taylor WE,Forney JP,Silva FG

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00