Independent learning in pathology. Does it work?

abstract：:The efficacy of two new monoclonal antibodies with cell lineage-restricted reactivity (HMB-45 [melanocytes] and anti-synaptophysin [neuroepithelial cells]) was compared with that of "traditional" antibody panels in the delineation of malignant melanoma (MM) of the sinonasal region, nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), and ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Wick MR,Stanley SJ,Swanson PE

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is endemic in Uganda and because of the high incidence, diagnosis is often presumed during clinical care and epidemiologic studies. OBJECTIVES:To assess the accuracy of the clinical and the local pathology diagnosis of BL as assessed by an outside pathology review diagnosis and to underst...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Ogwang MD,Zhao W,Ayers LW,Mbulaiteye SM

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of 342 bone marrow examinations from 314 patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection, 70 examinations (20%) detected opportunistic mycobacterial or fungal infections. One hundred eleven of the 314 patients had such infections, and, hence, 63% (70/111) were detected by bone marrow examination. Spec...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Nichols L,Florentine B,Lewis W,Sattler F,Rarick MU,Brynes RK

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Typical cerebellar or spinal cord hemangioblastoma is often solitary and has a benign clinical course, whereas disseminated hemangioblastomatosis is extremely rare. We report a 75-year-old man with disseminated "leptomeningeal" hemangioblastomatosis and concurrent paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis who died of this di...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Ramachandran R,Lee HS,Matthews B,Shatzel A,Tihan T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Micropapillary urothelial carcinoma (MPUC) is a known aggressive variant of urothelial carcinoma. However, the reasons for its aggressiveness remain unclear. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the frequency of lymphovascular invasion in 22 cases of MPUC. DESIGN:Consecutive tissue sections were stained with D2-40 and CD...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： McQuitty E,Ro JY,Truong LD,Shen SS,Zhai Q,Ayala AG

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 3-month period, 61,496 errors were detected in clinical laboratory reports by 631 participants in the College of American Pathologists' 1990 Q-Probes program. Each error detected was defined as an opportunity for improvement. Almost 4% of the detected errors were attributed to nonlaboratory personnel and approx...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Howanitz PJ,Walker K,Bachner P

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of primary fibrosarcoma of the urinary bladder showing extensive chondroid differentiation was studied by light microscopy and immunofluorescent microscopy using tissue-specific antibodies against intermediate filaments. The tumor cells were uniformly and positively labeled with vimentin antibodies and were neg...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Suster S,Huszar M,Bubis JJ,Geiger B

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of primary rhabdomyosarcoma of the ileum occurring in a 45-year-old man. The rhabdomyoblastic nature was immunohistochemically confirmed by positivity with anti-myoglobin and anti-striated actin antisera. We discuss the differential diagnosis with similar tumors. To our knowledge, ileal rhabdomyosarco...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Damiani S,Nappi O,Eusebi V

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teratoid hepatoblastoma is a rare histologic subtype accounting for 4% to 10% of all hepatoblastomas and is characterized by the presence of divergent differentiation, including squamous, mucinous, melanocytic, cartilaginous, osseous, skeletal muscle, and neural elements. It is postulated that the teratoid elements mi...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Rabah R

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two autopsy cases of sympodial monsters, sympus dipus, were studied. They are of interest not only because they show the characteristic malformations of the limbs and the viscera below the diaphragm, but because one case also shows Potter's face and an atrial septal defect of the heart. In addition, histologic determi...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Nakamura Y,Komatsu Y,Nagasue N,Fukagawa K,Hamaguchi H,Akashi M

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinicopathologic studies of four patients with juvenile diabetes mellitus and renal disease demonstrated the pathogenetic variability of nephropathy in diabetic patients. Only in one patient was the clinical nephropathy associated with the typical diabetic glomerulosclerosis. Another patient had steroid responsive ne...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Gilboa N,Durante D,McIntosh RM,Guggenheim S

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To delineate changes that occur in various parameters of automated complete blood cell count (CBC) and differential leukocyte count (differential) on prolonged storage of blood at room temperature. DESIGN:A CBC and an automated differential were performed on the Coulter Gen.S on 40 K(3) (tripotassium ethylen...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Gulati GL,Hyland LJ,Kocher W,Schwarting R

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Diagnosing epithelioid serosal lesions remains a challenge because numerous different processes-primary or secondary, benign or malignant-occur in body cavities, some of which are very rare. OBJECTIVES:To review the newest literature and to describe the morphologic criteria and immunohistochemical markers that...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Anttila S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physician shortages are acute in developing countries, where disease burden is the greatest and resources for health care are very limited. A lack of pathologists in these countries has lead to delays in diagnosis and misdiagnoses that adversely affect patient care and survival. The introduction of telepathology into ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Hitchcock CL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathologists and cytologists who study Papanicolaou smears perform a highly successful cancer screening test in a low-prevalence population. This leads to a mathematically inevitable false-negative error rate even in the most competent professional hands. The US judicial system supports a public expectation of per...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Derman H

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:CDX2, a critical nuclear transcription factor for intestinal development, is expressed in intestinal epithelium and adenocarcinomas. OBJECTIVES:To determine if CDX2 is a useful marker for intestinal-type differentiation and to correlate tumor histology with CDX2 staining in colorectal adenocarcinomas. DESIGN:...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： De Lott LB,Morrison C,Suster S,Cohn DE,Frankel WL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cases of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, when a source for blood loss is not apparent from examination of the colon and upper gastrointestinal tract, the small bowel usually becomes the focus of investigation. A tumor with interesting pathologic features was found in a patient who presented with recurrent episod...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Sass DA,Chopra KB,Finkelstein SD,Schauer PR

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:One of the major attributes of laboratory testing is cost. Although fully automated central laboratory glucose testing and semiautomated bedside glucose testing (BGT) are performed at most institutions, rigorous determinations of interinstitutional comparative costs have not been performed. OBJECTIVES:To compa...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Howanitz PJ,Jones BA,College of American Pathologists.

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT.—:Repair is a challenging diagnosis and a significant source of false-positive (FP) interpretations in cervical cytology. No large-scale study of performance of repair in the liquid-based era has been performed. OBJECTIVE.—:To evaluate the performance of repair in the College of American Pathologists Pap Educa...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Staats PN,Souers RJ,Nunez AL,Li Z,Kurtycz DFI,Goodrich K,Witt BL,Davey DD,Booth CN

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the hypothesis that older hospitalized patients have higher laboratory costs than younger patients in the same severity-adjusted diagnosis-related group (DRG). DESIGN:We obtained hospital case mix data sets (1995-1997) from the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy. We selected ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Brimhall BB,Dean T,Hunt EL,Siegrist RB,Reiquam W

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67-year-old man, with multiple skin lesions that appeared over 2 years, had biopsies that disclosed granulomatous dermatitis with associated small yeasts. The urinary antigen test results were negative for Histoplasma infection; cultures from the biopsies did not grow any fungi or other potential pathogens. The ches...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Desai HB,Perkins PL,Procop GW

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:- Fine-needle aspiration of thyroid nodules is a reliable diagnostic method to determine the nature of thyroid nodules. Nonetheless, indeterminate cytology diagnoses remain a diagnostic challenge. The development of multiplex molecular techniques and the identification of genetic alterations associated with dif...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Zhang M,Lin O

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical values in anatomic pathology are usually information sensitive, whereas most such values in laboratory medicine are time sensitive. However, there is an important time element in anatomic pathology as well. Pathologists should be aware that many medicolegal actions against radiologists are based on failure to...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： LiVolsi VA,Leung S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Bone marrow examination is essential for diagnosis and staging of hematologic disorders. Traditionally, the bone marrow biopsy and aspirate are obtained with 2 needles at 2 separate sites. This approach is associated with significant discomfort, procedural time, and occasionally, morbidity. Although previous ob...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Al-Ibraheemi A,Pham T,Chen L,Syklawer E,Quesada A,Wahed A,Nedelcu E,Nguyen AN

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the role of sputum examination in the diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), we conducted a prospective study of 30 patients with AIDS or suspected AIDS. Sputum was obtained just prior to bronchoscopy by spontaneous cough (20 patients) or ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： del Rio C,Guarner J,Honig EG,Slade BA

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with alloantibodies may request directed blood donations from their relatives despite the lack of any scientific data suggesting that blood from these donors is safer. We have derived formulas that are applicable to any ethnic group for calculating the probability that a given class of relatives will have com...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Kanter MH,Hodge SE

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:In Thailand until 2005 there had been no external quality assessment scheme at the national level for blood coagulation tests. Only a few laboratories had an external quality assessment for these tests. In the year 2005, the Thailand National External Quality Assessment Scheme for Blood Coagulation was founded....

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Tientadakul P,Opartkiattikul N,Wongtiraporn W

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Stereotactic biopsies are increasingly being used for the diagnosis and grading of astrocytomas, and there is a growing need to obtain maximum information from these tissue samples. In everyday practice, p53 protein and Ki-67 immunohistochemical analyses are the most frequently used ancillary studies to aid i...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Tihan T,Davis R,Elowitz E,DiCostanzo D,Moll U

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The College of American Pathologists Cancer Case Summaries templates provide a method for including all necessary pathology information in surgical pathology reports with cancer. How effective these templates are at ensuring a complete report, as measured by a separate outside tumor registry, is not known. OBJ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Renshaw SA,Mena-Allauca M,Touriz M,Renshaw A,Gould EW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human leukocyte antigen typing is currently being done by both serologic and cellular techniques. It is this methodology that forms the basis for organ transplantation, since HLA antigens are the major proteins involved in graft rejection. Matching organ graft donors with recipients at these polymorphic HLA loci clear...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Freeman SM,Noreen HJ,Bach FH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00