Detection of Naegleria fowleri, Acanthamoeba spp, and Balamuthia mandrillaris in Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Tissues by Real-Time Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction.

abstract：:Pretreatment posterior iliac crest bone marrow biopsies were obtained from 26 multiple myeloma patients. Biopsies were processed in methacrylate. The percentage of myeloma tissue, myeloid tissue, and fat was estimated in each biopsy. In 20 patients who died there was a positive correlation between the percent of myelo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mahmoud LA,Block MH,Franks JJ,Sayed NM

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 49-year-old diabetic woman developed polymicrobial anaerobic meningitis secondary to a meningorectal fistula one year after receiving neutron beam therapy for a rectal adenocarcinoma. The meningitis was refractory to chloramphenicol and penicillin but responded to oral metronidazole. Sustained eradication of meningi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Walsh TJ,Weinstein RA,Malinoff H,Breyer MD,Berelowitz BA

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Mutations in CALR (calreticulin) have been discovered in 50% to 80% of JAK2 (Janus kinase 2) and MPL (myeloproliferative leukemia protein) wild-type patients with Philadelphia-negative myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPNs). We evaluate the performance of a monoclonal antibody for immunohistochemical detection o...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nomani L,Bodo J,Zhao X,Durkin L,Loghavi S,Hsi ED

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-100 protein was detected in a small number of human peripheral T-lymphocytes by a direct immunoperoxidase method with the use of monospecific antibody to S-100 protein. Complemented-mediated lysis using monoclonal antibodies revealed that the S-100+ T-lymphocytes bore OKT3, OKT8, and OKT11 antigens but not OKT4, OKM...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Takahashi K,Isobe T,Ohtsuki Y,Sonobe H,Yamaguchi H,Akagi T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical limit protocol requiring that all point of care glucose meter readings > 22.2 mmol/L (400 mg/dL) and < 2.2 mmol/L (40 mg/dL) be immediately confirmed by the laboratory was assessed. A total of 193 (2%) of 9,523 glucose meter determinations (63 patients) were > 22.2 or < 2.2 mmol/L. One hundred twenty-two (6...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lum G

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the use of counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) as a method of detecting activation of the complement system. With this technic small amounts of C3 split products (C3c/d) can be detected in plasma samples by specific precipitation with antiserum in less than two hours. The CIE technic is a highly s...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arroyave CM,Taylor DG,Gallup P,Nakamura RM

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose was to determine whether the in vitro (or "spiked curve") method for the therapeutic heparin range is an accurate and valid method for heparin monitoring. Many laboratories use the in vitro method for determining the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT)-based unfractionated heparin (UFH) therapeuti...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gausman JN,Marlar RA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quality management program in the Division of Transfusion Medicine at our institution had evolved to the point that the program generally was perceived to be the sole responsibility of our Quality Unit (which was administratively independent of day-to-day operations). It became clear that this administrative model...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Foss ML,Moore SB

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Timely reporting of immunosuppressant (ISP) drug level results is needed for transplant patient management. This study characterized the local ISP testing process, identified bottlenecks and implemented process improvements to meet turnaround time requirements. METHODS:Laboratory information time stamps, di...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barakauskas VE,Bradshaw TA,Smith LD,Lehman CM,Johnson-Davis KL

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We wished to discover (1) in what circumstances surgeons wished to request frozen sections (FSs) on thyroid nodules having a prior fine needle aspiration (FNA) and the preoperative plan in these cases; (2) what the surgeons did with the information provided by FS and (3) in what types of cases was value adde...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kennedy JM,Robinson RA

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Assess support for the effectiveness of two separate practices, restrictive transfusion strategy and computerized physician order entry/clinical decision support (CPOE/CDS) tools, in decreasing RBC transfusions in adult surgical and nonsurgical patients. METHODS:Following the Centers for Disease Control and...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Derzon JH,Clarke N,Alford A,Gross I,Shander A,Thurer R

更新日期：2019-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of subclinical hemolytic disease of the newborn resulting in reticulocytosis and positive direct and indirect antiglobulin tests in an infant both ABO- and Rh(D)-compatible with its mother is reported. The antibody was an IgG, non-complement-binding molecule present in low titer with a low avidity for the antig...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hanzlick RL,Senhauser DA

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 10 cases of Barrett adenocarcinoma, samples from 8 tumor areas (including superficial and deep from peripheral and central areas) and a regional lymph node metastasis were studied for amplification of c-myc, c-erbB-2, and EGFR. We analyzed loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at 3 loci (APC, MCC, and RB) and 2 anonymous mi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Owonikoko T,Rees M,Gabbert HE,Sarbia M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the result of a multistage carcinogenic process. Initiation, promotion, dependency and autonomy make up a sequence of experimentally distinguishable phases of this process. Progression--the transition from dependency on hormonal support to autonomy--is demonstrable clinically. High-affinity saturatabl...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brennan MJ

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumors and pseudotumors of the liver account for fewer than 2% of the tumors in children and vary considerably in incidence throughout the pediatric age range, with hepatoblastoma, infantile hemangioendothelioma, and mesenchymal hamartoma seen most frequently in the first 2 years of life and hepatocellular carcinoma, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stocker JT

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：:Mucocele-like tumors of the breast originally were reported by Rosen in 1986 as benign lesions that histologically resembled colloid carcinoma of the breast. The authors document two cases of mucocele-like tumors to illustrate the difficulty in separating these lesions from colloid carcinoma on the basis of fine-needl...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bhargava V,Miller TR,Cohen MB

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor V Leiden (FVR506Q) is a genetic defect in the factor V (FV) molecule that confers resistance to proteolysis by activated protein C (APC) and is the most common abnormality detected in patients studied for hereditary thrombophilia. The initial screening test for this abnormality was a comparison of the activated...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Akhtar MS,Blair AJ,King TC,Sweeney JD

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peliosis of the spleen was found in 10 out of 1,200 cases autopsied from 1977 through 1980 in our laboratory. Eight such cases had no peliosis of the liver. Histologically, it was noticed that the parafollicular areas were the most common sites of the lesions, and this feature seemed to be important for the histologic...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tada T,Wakabayashi T,Kishimoto H

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a child with renal failure and oliguria due to hyperoxaluria myelophthisis developed as a result of extensive bone-marrow replacement with calcium oxalate crystals and an accompanying fibrous proliferations. The histopathology associated with this metabolic disorder was demonstrated in posterior iliac crest bone-ma...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McKenna RW,Dehner LP

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Descriptive reports of liver histologic features in celiac disease (CD) are sparse, and the effect of a gluten-free diet (GFD) on the course of liver injury is poorly understood. We reviewed liver biopsy specimens in 30 patients with CD and performed immunostains for IgG, IgG4, IgM, and IgA. Subsequent liver biochemic...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mounajjed T,Oxentenko A,Shmidt E,Smyrk T

更新日期：2011-07-01 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：:Immunoperoxidase strains for prostate-specific antigen (PSA), prostatic acid phosphatase (PAcP), epithelial membrane antigen (EMA), and cytokeratins (MAK 6 and CK-KES) were performed on 1 case of squamous cell carcinoma of the prostate and on 13 cases of squamous metaplasia of prostatic epithelium in an effort to demo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lager DJ,Goeken JA,Kemp JD,Robinson RA

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a frequent and virulent pulmonary pathogen in patients with cystic fibrosis. If colonization is not prevented, P aeruginosa becomes permanently established and nearly always mutates into a mucoid strain. The alginate-containing matrix of the mucoid strain is thought to allow the formation of ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pritt B,O'Brien L,Winn W

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The probabilities of low transferrin saturation, folic acid, or vitamin B12 levels in association with various erythrocyte indices was determined from the prevalences of these abnormalities and the distributions of the indices among 206 hospitalized and 1,000 ambulatory anemic patients. At mean corpuscular hemoglobin ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Griner PF,Oranburg PR

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free testosterone (FT) measurement by equilibrium dialysis and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectroscopy (LCMS/MS) is the "gold standard." We hypothesized that calculated FT values could substitute for measured values; compared FT results reported by Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), Washington, DC, with r...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： DeVan ML,Bankson DD,Abadie JM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from 2.5 million glucose analyses on pools of lyophilized human quality control serum were used to evaluate analyte stability in the prereconstitution phase. Input information was from laboratories in Regional Quality Control Programs that use CAP Quality Assurance Service (QAS) data processing. Of 31 pools in us...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lawson NS,Haven GT,DiSilvio TV,Gilmore BF

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:To determine whether V H family usage in B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders can be deduced from polymerase chain reaction (PCR) product-length information obtained through the BIOMED-2 (Invivoscribe, San Diego, CA) clonality assay. Methods:We develop an algorithm that uses the sizing information of the BI...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McDonald TJ,Kuo L,Kuo FC

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vimentin has been regarded as the intermediate filament characteristic of normal and neoplastic mesenchymal cells and keratins as typical of epithelial cells and the neoplasms derived from them. However, many epithelial cells in tissue culture or in effusion, as well as cells in some solid epithelial neoplasms such as...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Azumi N,Battifora H

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00