EDTA Treatment of Serum Unmasks Complement-Mediated Prozone Inhibition in Human Leukocyte Antigen Antibody Testing.

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：:The visible absorption spectra of dilutions of commercially prepared chemistry control sera closely mimic those of jaundiced amniotic fluids in cases of fetal rhesus isoimmunization. The authors have assessed the use of these materials for the quality control of net absorbance measurements at 450 nm on amniotic fluids...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McDonald OL,Watts MT

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared prothrombin times (PTs) and international normalized ratios (INRs) for blood samples drawn into plastic vs glass collection tubes. We collected 60 venous blood samples into 4.5-mL glass and 2 plastic tubes (2.7 and 3.5 mL). An additional 153 samples, including 63 from warfarin-anticoagulated patients, were...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fiebig EW,Etzell JE,Ng VL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialogue regarding the autopsy has been sustained largely by medical students and professionals, and by families of deceased patients. Exclusion of the general public may represent a significant reason for the inexorable decline of autopsy rates and politicoeconomic support. Sensitivity to public concerns regarding th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McManus BM,Wood SM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) are now available for immunophenotyping non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) in paraffin-embedded tissue sections. To determine the reliability of these reagents in predicting the genotype, 44 cases of NHL were studied with the alkaline phosphatase-anti-alkaline phosphatase technique wi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Elghetany MT,Kurec AS,Schuehler K,Forbes BA,Duggan DB,Davey FR

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：OBJECTIVES:High-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC) is the most common ovarian malignancy. The role of cytopathology in obtaining tissue diagnosis before institution of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) was evaluated. METHODS:All histopathology-proven HGSC specimens between 2015 and 2018 with prior cytopathologic diagnosis by...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bansal A,Srinivasan R,Rohilla M,Sundaram A,Rai B,Rajwanshi A,Suri V,Saha SC,Gupta N,Gupta P,Dey P

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Two atypical human non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) that exhibited unusual genotypic and in situ immunophenotypic abnormalities are described. Immunophenotypically, both NHLs lacked surface Ig heavy chains. With the exception of the MB2 B-cell-associated antigen, no B- and T-cell differentiation antigen was detected in ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： De Re V,Carbone A,Dolcetti R,Tirelli U,Folegotto C,Boiocchi M

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:Although acute myeloid leukemias (AMLs) cytochemically negative for myeloperoxidase are now well recognized, myeloid surface antigen-negative AMLs are rare. The morphologic, cytochemical, immunologic, and cytogenetic or molecular features of such cases are described in four adults aged 19 to 60 years. All had AML with...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arber DA,Glackin C,Lowe G,Medeiros LJ,Slovak ML

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clotting tests based upon the activated partial thromboplastin time are disturbed by heparin. This brief communication shows that Factor XII clotting activity in plasma samples heparinized in vitro and in vivo can be measured accurately by means of an aPTT-test using congenitally deficient substrate plasma when the pl...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lämmle B,Tran TH,Duckert F

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the differential diagnosis of Spitz nevus vs malignant melanoma, patient age provides a critical piece of clinical information, because Spitz nevi occur mostly in children and melanomas occur mostly in adults. Nevertheless, there is overlap in the age distributions of Spitz nevus and melanoma. The issue to consider...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Vollmer RT

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen cases of low-grade B-cell lymphoma involving unusual extranodal sites have been studied in comparison to cases reported or observed arising in typical mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues. In every case, histopathologic features conformed to those characteristic for lymphomas of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pelstring RJ,Essell JH,Kurtin PJ,Cohen AR,Banks PM

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied whether laboratory confirmation of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) can be improved after antigen clearance by determining free antibody and combining the results of an antigenic and a biologic assay. Blood samples taken over 40 days in 14 patients with HIT with thromboembolism underwent fluorescence-...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harenberg J,Wang L,Hoffmann U,Huhle G,Feuring M

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:During a 6-month period at Walter Reed Army Hospital the monthly attack rate of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia increased to 3.8 +/- 0.5 (mean +/- SEM) from 2.5 +/- 0.2 cases per 1,000 dispositions for the previous 48 months (P less than 0.05). A predominant phage pattern, designated S, was found in 12 (39%) of 31 ba...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cross AS,Zierdt CH,Roup B,Almazan R,Swan JC

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors quantified creatine kinase MB (CK-MB) isoenzyme activity and mass in the serum of 81 uremic and 20 nonuremic (control) patients who had no clinical or electrocardiographic evidence of acute myocardial infarction. CK-MB was quantified by three methods: electrophoresis, the QuiCK-MB (International Immunoassa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Medeiros LJ,Schotte D,Gerson B

更新日期：1987-01-01 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:The aim of this study is to determine if the diagnosis of nephrogenic adenoma (NA) can be made on cytologic criteria alone and if pair box gene transcription factor 8 (PAX8) is useful in the diagnosis of NA in daily cytology practice. METHODS:Cytologic features of NA previously described in a literature wer...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McCroskey Z,Pambuccian SE,Wojcik EM,Barkan GA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen receptor (ER) status of breast carcinomas determines prognosis and treatment. Biochemical ER assays are expensive and time-consuming and require fresh tumor. Immunohistochemical ER was assessed in 68 breast carcinomas, by an automated method using routinely processed formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cohen C,Unger ER,Sgoutas D,Bradley N,Chenggis M

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight cases are reported of an unusual breast lesion consisting of dense intralobular, perilobular, and perivascular lymphocytic infiltrates associated with lobular atrophy and sclerosis. Immunologic studies on paraffin-embedded tissue (seven cases) and frozen tissue (two cases) demonstrated a predominance of B-cells ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schwartz IS,Strauchen JA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five hundred consecutive isolates of viridans streptococci were identified to the species level in an effort to determine their distribution and incidence in routine clinical specimens. Viridans streptococci accounted for significant percentages of streptococcal isolates from urine, wounds, body fluids, and blood. The...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ruoff KL,Fishman JA,Calderwood SB,Kunz LJ

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes results of fresh-frozen immunohistochemistry applied to two typical Warthin's tumors. Polyclonal follicular center cell staining and an apparent reduction in the number of T-lymphocytes were found. These observations tend to support the concept that the lymphoid infiltrate in Warthin's tumor repre...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tubbs RR,Sheibani K,Weiss RA,Lee V,Sebek BA,Valenzuela R

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the diagnostic role of claudins in effusion cytology in 325 effusions, including 218 ovarian, 49 breast, 15 cervical or endometrial, 10 gastrointestinal, and 8 lung adenocarcinomas and 25 malignant mesotheliomas (MMs). Specimens were analyzed for claudin-1 and claudin-3 expression using immunohistochemical...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kleinberg L,Holth A,Fridman E,Schwartz I,Shih IeM,Davidson B

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed cytologic specimens from 11 mantle cell lymphomas (MCLs) and 32 other B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) for 11q13 breakpoints using a 2-color fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) assay that uses an 11q13 probe centered on the CCND1 gene and a centromeric chromosome 11 probe (CEP11). The number of nu...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Katz RL,Caraway NP,Gu J,Jiang F,Pasco-Miller LA,Glassman AB,Luthra R,Hayes KJ,Romaguera JE,Cabanillas FF,Medeiros LJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report concerns a particular benign histologic variant of Hodgkin's disease, the lymphocyte-predominant category of the Rye classification. The group of 24 cases, all involving localized disease, was first reported in 1960, and is now reappraised, incorporating subsequent data. The interpretations of the original...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wright CJ

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain new hematologic findings in eight homosexual or bisexual patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are presented. All eight patients manifested a normochromic, normocytic anemia, and six of eight had granulocytopenia during their hospitalization. The other two had low-normal granulocyte coun...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schneider DR,Picker LJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between Campylobacter-like organisms (CLOs) and lesions of the gastric mucosa was studied in 59 consecutive biopsies. Hematoxylin and eosin and Warthin-Starry silver stains, as well as high-resolution light microscopy (HRLM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), were used. The organisms were foun...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chen XG,Correa P,Offerhaus J,Rodriguez E,Janney F,Hoffmann E,Fox J,Hunter F,Diavolitsis S

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary hepatic tumor with histologic features suggestive of carcinoid tumor is reported, and six previously reported cases reviewed. Tumor cells contained electron dense secretory granules with an average diameter 150-200 nm which demonstrated positive argyrophilic reactions. On immunohistochemistry, chromogranin A...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Miura K,Shirasawa H

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Auto Microbic System (AMS) is an almost completely automated system, capable of identifying Enterobacteriaceae after 8 hours, and some glucose nonfermenters after 13 hours of incubation. The Autobac ID system is a mechanized, computer-assisted system capable of identifying Enterobacteriaceae and many nonfermentati...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barry AL,Gavan TL,Badal RE,Telenson MJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00