Babesiosis: problems in diagnosis using autoanalyzers.

abstract：:In patients infected with HIV, high-grade B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL), including the small noncleaved cell (SNCC) category, exhibit pleomorphic features, which makes precise definition difficult. Sixty-nine pathologic specimens with HIV-related systemic lymphomas, including 42 SNCC, 20 immunoblastic lymphomas...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Carbone A,Gloghini A,Gaidano G,Cilia AM,Bassi P,Polito P,Vaccher E,Saglio G,Tirelli U

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on the cytologic features of six cases of poorly differentiated "insular" carcinoma (IC) of the thyroid, a recently described variety of thyroid tumor intermediate between well-differentiated and anaplastic neoplasms. It is characterized by trabecular and/or alveolar growth patterns, merging with fo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pietribiasi F,Sapino A,Papotti M,Bussolati G

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of our study was to clarify the prognosis of lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (LELC) of the lung, which is rare. We analyzed the clinicopathologic features of 32 cases of pulmonary LELC and compared the cases with 84 cases of pulmonary non-LELC with available long-term follow-up information. The results sh...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Han AJ,Xiong M,Gu YY,Lin SX,Xiong M

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Increased frequency of hyperamylasemia has previously been reported in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients, but studies determined total amylase activity and were performed before the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). We evaluated the frequency of pancreatic hyper...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Szőke D,Ridolfo A,Valente C,Galli M,Panteghini M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of anti-Rh29 by erythrocytic stroma in feces was devised as a specific test for fecal occult blood. The sensitivity of this test was equivalent to that of a standard Hemoccult test, namely, 10(8) erythrocytes/g feces. Comparison of results of this test with results of Hemoccult tests of random stool specime...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rosenfield RE,Kochwa S,Kaczera Z,Maimon J

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is recognized as 2 distinct diseases: anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)+ ALCL and ALK- ALCL. ALK+ ALCL occurs in younger patients and has a better prognosis. Human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV-1) is linked to the development of adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL), which freque...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gualco G,Chioato L,Weiss LM,Harrington WJ Jr,Bacchi CE

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trends in surgical practice suggest that pathologists will encounter increased numbers of patients with small invasive ductal adenocarcinomas; small, if any, metastatic deposits in axillary lymph nodes (ALNs); and possibly fewer ALN specimens to examine. New prognostic histologic features may be needed in this environ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goldstein NS,Mani A,Vicini F,Ingold J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study of large cell lymphoma (LCL) (ten B and ten T), Hodgkin's disease (15 cases), and true histiocytic lymphoma (two cases) was undertaken, using formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections, a panel of eight antibodies, and one lectin to determine if any particular antibody or immunologic profile ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Meis JM,Osborne BM,Butler JJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This practice parameter, developed by the Practice Parameters and Outcomes Measurement Committee of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP), is a guideline for the development of reasonable stat lists. Stat testing lists vary according to practice setting. Furthermore, although stat lists exist, extenuati...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hilborne L,Lee H,Cathcart P

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytologic features of the cell-stroma interface are useful in distinguishing between monomorphic adenomas of the basal cell type and adenoid cystic carcinoma. In basal cell adenomas, the collagenous stroma interdigitates with adjacent cells, whereas in adenoid cystic carcinoma, the two are separated by a sharp smooth ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stanley MW,Horwitz CA,Rollins SD,Powers CN,Bardales RH,Korourain S,Stern SJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of signet ring cell lymphoma, a rare variant of follicular center cell lymphoma, is presented with a review of 20 other such lymphomas previously reported in the English literature. The histologic, immunocytologic, and electron microscopic features are described with speculation as to the possible relationship ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Silberman S,Fresco R,Steinecker PH

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A structure resembling a sulfur granule found in histologic sections of endometrium from patients with intrauterine contraceptive devices is described. It is distinguished from a true sulfur granule on morphologic grounds and is further characterized as a foreign substance, most probably fragments of the synthetic con...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： O'Brien PK,Roth-Moyo LA,Davis BA

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are mesenchymal tumors characterized by mutations of KIT or PDGFRA. The objectives of this study were to evaluate BRAF mutations in GISTs and then to correlate BRAF mutational status in the tumor with clinical parameters, with B-raf expression, and with activation of some cellul...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hostein I,Faur N,Primois C,Boury F,Denard J,Emile JF,Bringuier PP,Scoazec JY,Coindre JM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that kallikrein inhibition may predispose patients with the lupus inhibitor to thrombosis by interfering with the Factor XII-mediated activation of plasminogen. To further investigate this suggestion, the authors measured kallikrein inhibition in 19 patients with the lupus inhibitor. They found t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Killeen AA,Meyer KC,Vogt JM,Edson JR

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of blood cells to determine immunologic status is becoming an important clinical application of flow cytometric analysis. For a wider use of immunophenotyping technology in clinical laboratories, the authors developed a rapid method to detect monoclonal antibody-labeled cells using forward light scatter/abs...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kim YR,Paseltiner L,Kling G,Yeh CK

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies from Africa have demonstrated that black people have higher vitamin B12 (cobalamin) levels than do white people. The authors compared healthy white people, black people, and Latin-Americans in the United States. Their study is also the largest in which the effect of race and sex on the cobalamin levels has bee...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Saxena S,Carmel R

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 42 patients with locally advanced breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery and radiation therapy, the effects of chemotherapy on tumor architecture, morphometric nuclear and nucleolar characteristics, DNA ploidy, proliferation index measured by mitotic activity index, expression of di...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Honkoop AH,Pinedo HM,De Jong JS,Verheul HM,Linn SC,Hoekman K,Wagstaff J,van Diest PJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anemia developing during the course of chronic renal disease is a frequent complication often necessitating periodic transfusion therapy. A number of etiologic factors have been implicated, including decreased production of erythropoietin; decreased erythrocyte life span secondary to uremia and splenomegaly; increased...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hancock DE,Onstad JW,Wolf PL

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid, convenient immunologic assay technic for fibrinogen is reported. Basically a latex agglutination, the assay technic, called kinetic latex agglutinometry, quantitates the increase in light transmission that occurs in a stirred suspension of anti-fibrinogen-coated latex beads after the addition of a plasma or w...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Babson AL,Opper CA,Crane LJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma samples from patients with severe classic hemophilia, suspected of having mild inhibitors not detected in the standard Bethesda inhibitor test, were examined in modified Bethesda tests and in a screening test based on the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT). The APTT test was more sensitive to mild inh...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ewing NP,Kasper CK

更新日期：1982-06-01 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：:We compared the morphologic findings of different types of marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (MZL) involving the bone marrow (BM), including 18 splenic (SMZL), 6 extranodal (mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma), and 6 nodal cases. The median percentage of BM involvement was 15%, and multiple overlapping patterns of...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Inamdar KV,Medeiros LJ,Jorgensen JL,Amin HM,Schlette EJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FNAB is the most important advance in the management of thyroid nodules in the past two decades. Dr Mazzaferri has said that finding a thyroid cancer in a thyroid nodule is like finding a needle in a haystack. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy is like applying a strong electromagnet to find that needle. It should be avail...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Greenspan FS

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The demonstration of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in serum and in tissue sections may be of value in diagnosis and follow-up of several malignant tumors. Anti-CEA sera, however, cross-react with normal antigens, also present in tumors. The staining patterns of three commercially produced anti-CEA sera were investiga...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nap M,ten Hoor KA,Fleuren GJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristically, mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) expresses surface immunoglobulin (sIg), CD19, CD20, and CD5 and lacks CD10 and CD23. Rare CD5-MCL variants have been described. This report describes a case of leukemic MCL with morphologically and immunophenotypically distinct classic MCL and blastoid-variant MCL (BV-MCL...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morice WG,Hodnefield JM,Kurtin PJ,Hanson CA

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marfan syndrome is one of the most common connective tissue diseases and may manifest with a range of symptoms and pathologic changes. We present a retrospective series of 5 cases of patients with Marfan syndrome and pulmonary pathology. Patients were young to middle-aged adults with absent or minimal smoking historie...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dyhdalo K,Farver C

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bull's algorithm has been evaluated by computer simulation studies. Varying amounts of systematic analytic error were simulated in either hemoglobin (Hgb), red blood cell count (RBC), or mean corpuscular volume (MCV) with the resulting red blood cell indices averaged in batches of 20 using Bull's algorithm. The number...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cembrowski GS,Westgard JO

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma (BSCC) and carcinosarcoma of the esophagus are rare entities, making up fewer than 2% of esophageal malignancies. Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) in 1 case of BSCC and 2 cases of carcinosarcoma and subsequent array CGH in 1 case each of BSCC and carcinosarcoma revealed common c...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schaefer IM,Enders C,Polten A,Haller F,Frölich AM,Cameron S,Schüler P,Schweiger P,Gunawan B,Beham A,Füzesi L

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We describe the morphologic and immunohistochemical features of 17 endometrial stromal neoplasms, 16 sarcomas, and one stromal nodule. METHODS:We reviewed 35 cases interpreted as endometrial stromal neoplasms, but 17 high-grade endometrial stromal sarcomas (ESS) and one case of mixed endometrial sarcoma and...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Albores-Saavedra J,Dorantes-Heredia R,Chablé-Montero F,Chanona-Vilchis J,Pérez-Montiel D,Lino-Silva LS,González-Romo MA,Ramírez-Jaramillo JM,Henson DE

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:α1-Antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency is associated with an increased risk for lung and liver disease. Identification of AAT deficiency as the underlying cause of these diseases is important in correct patient management. METHODS:AAT deficiency is commonly diagnosed by demonstrating low concentrations of AAT foll...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Suh-Lailam BB,Procter M,Krautscheid P,Haas J,Kumar S,Mao R,Grenache DG

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00