Native-valve endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus epidermidis. A histologically confirmed case.

abstract：:The effects of physiologic temperature variations on antibiotic-induced killing of Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Streptococcus faecalis, and Streptococcus pneumoniae were studied. At concentrations less than or equal to four times the minimal bactericidal concentration, the activity of each of the antibiot...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mackowiak PA,Ruderman AE,Martin RM,Many WJ,Smith JW,Luby JP

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the usefulness of the cytocentrifuge Gram stain as a urine screening test in the clinical microbiology laboratory for the elimination of culture for screen-negative specimens, we compared the results of the cytocentrifuge Gram stain to the results of culture for 1,171 urine specimens. The data were analyzed ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Winquist AG,Orrico MA,Peterson LR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer in men is a rare condition affecting only 1,000 men each year in the United States. Hormonal, genetic, and perhaps environmental factors appear to be important in development of the disease. Clinically, breast cancer in men resembles that seen in woman. Histologically the diseases are indistinguishable, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hecht JR,Winchester DJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical (IHC) assays using the monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) B72.3 and B6.2, recognizing two distinct and independently expressed breast tumor-associated antigens (BTAAs), recently have been shown to significantly improve the accuracy of cytodiagnosis of breast nodules by fine-needle aspiration (FNA). To e...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mottolese M,Bigotti G,Coli A,Vitucci C,Natali PG

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-volume (200 ml) platelet concentrates prepared by discontinuous-flow centrifugation, with counts as high as ca. 2.0 x 10(12)/l, were stored in either 600 ml-capacity polyvinylchloride bags or 800-ml capacity polyethylene bags. Both polyvinylchloride and polyethylene bags appeared adequate for 24-hour storage of p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rosenstein R,Lawe JE,North JG

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28-month-old girl, whose parents are first cousins, was hospitalized following a series of severe infections. Results of functional granulocytic tests permitted the diagnosis of chronic granulomatous disease (lack of nitroblue tetrazolium dye reduction, impaired bactericidal activity for Staphylococcus aureus but no...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Corberand J,De Larrard B,Vergnes H,Carrière JP

更新日期：1978-08-01 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：:Cellular and humoral immunity combine to determine the outcome following exposure to hepatitis virus and are implicated in the proposed pathogenetic mechanism for acute and chronic hepatitis. Although antibody to HBsAg is found in virtually all following recovery from hepatitis B, a cell-mediated response to HBsAg can...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lee WM

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the histologic and multiparameter flow cytometry (MFC) features of 12 cases of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL), 13 of mature T-cell lymphoma, and 25 control cases of reactive lymphoid hyperplasia to evaluate the role of CD10 in the differential diagnosis of peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCLs). A c...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stacchini A,Demurtas A,Aliberti S,Francia di Celle P,Godio L,Palestro G,Novero D

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 14-year period (1959-1972), 3,600 endometrial suction biopsies were performed in the office for specific indications in selected patients. Three hundred seventy-seven biopsies (10.5%) revealed abnormal findings. Of these, 233 showed endometritis, 96 associated with necrotic decidual or placental tissue, or bo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Baitlon D,Hadley JO

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：:The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a newly developed molecular biology technique that can significantly amplify DNA or RNA. The process consists of repetitive cycles of specific DNA synthesis, defined by short stretches of preselected DNA. With each cycle, there is a doubling of the final, desired DNA product such...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Remick DG,Kunkel SL,Holbrook EA,Hanson CA

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients using anticoagulation point-of-care (POC) monitors are advised to periodically test these systems against laboratory methods to monitor performance. The international normalized ratio (INR), however, can vary between test systems owing to different instrument-reagent combinations. In a randomized study evalua...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sunderji R,Gin K,Shalansky K,Carter C,Chambers K,Davies C,Schwartz L,Fung A

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-eight resected primary non-small cell lung carcinomas were studied for intratumoral DNA variability by flow cytometry (FCM). Three separate tissue specimens from each resected tumor were divided equally for FCM analysis and histologic evaluation. FCM analysis also was performed on fine-needle aspirates (FNAs) f...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sara A,el-Naggar AK

更新日期：1991-09-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Bladder cancers invading the muscularis mucosae (MM) are treated differently from those invading the muscularis propria (MP). However, it may be difficult to determine the type of smooth muscle in transurethral resection (TUR) or biopsy specimens. We aimed to investigate the clinicopathologic features of bla...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hwang MJ,Kamat AM,Dinney CP,Czerniak B,Guo CC

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Whipple disease is a rare, chronic multisystem disease associated with the recently characterized organism Tropheryma whippelii. Extraintestinal manifestation involving the central nervous system, heart, and joints occasionally occurs. Involvement of the abdominal lymph nodes, especially the mesenteric and periaortic ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alkan S,Beals TF,Schnitzer B

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Two patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) developed blast crisis that morphologically appeared to be the microgranular variant of acute promyelocytic leukemia. This represented 8% of CML patients developing blast crisis from 1984 to 1993. Cytogenetic studies revealed translocation 15;17 in addition to trans...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rosenthal NS,Knapp D,Farhi DC

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to determine if the Advia 2120 hematology analyzer (Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Deerfield, IL) can accurately quantify both WBCs and the proportion of neutrophils from synovial and ascitic body fluids. METHODS:We analyzed 60 samples on the Advia and compared the results wit...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Froom P,Diab A,Barak M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:MDM2 gene amplification is associated with well-differentiated (WDL) and dedifferentiated liposarcomas (DDL). Using fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), we sought to characterize various patterns of MDM2 amplification among the morphologic spectrum of liposarcoma. METHODS:Forty-six cases of liposarcoma...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ware PL,Snow AN,Gvalani M,Pettenati MJ,Qasem SA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical analysis, the most efficient way of assaying for HER-2/neu overexpression in patients with invasive breast cancer, is subject to variation in sensitivity and evaluation when used in multiple laboratories. Cell lines with differing but constant levels of HER-2/neu expression have been advocated as s...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rhodes A,Borthwick D,Sykes R,Al-Sam S,Paradiso A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of the Coulter STKS (Coulter, Hialeah, FL) was evaluated in a busy computerized teaching hospital laboratory. The STKS was compared with a Coulter S Plus IV and manually performed 400 white blood-cell differentials. The measured blood-count parameters (i.e., white blood cells [WBCs], red blood cells [R...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Warner BA,Reardon DM

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antithrombin assay (AA) and an antithrombin assay modified by the addition of heparin (H-AA) were performed using sera from healthy subjects, patients predisposed to thrombosis, and patients with thromboembolic disease. Characteristic AA, and H-AA patterns were found in each group. Normal controls and four of 39 "p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Innerfield I,Stone ML,Mersheimer W,Clauss RD,Greenberg J

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:Induction chemotherapy (IC) is occasionally used in head and neck cancer, leading to less extensive surgery and reduced need for irradiation. Factors predicting the response to IC have not been determined. In this study, we investigated the clinical and histopathologic factors that predict the response to IC...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Karpathiou G,Giroult JB,Forest F,Fournel P,Monaya A,Froudarakis M,Dumollard JM,Prades JM,Gavid M,Peoc'h M

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred fifty-two patients with amyloid in the tenosynovium who had carpal tunnel release were identified. Twenty-eight patients were excluded because of systemic amyloidosis: primary systemic amyloidosis (AL) in 24, secondary amyloidosis (AA) in 3, and familial amyloidosis (AF) in 1. The remaining 124 patients (8...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kyle RA,Eilers SG,Linscheid RL,Gaffey TA

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：:Oxidant-antioxidant balance is known to regulate growth factors and invasion of tumor cells. Manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD), copper zinc SOD (CuZnSOD), and extracellular SOD (ECSOD), the first-line antioxidant defenses, were studied in lung carcinomas by immunohistochemical analysis (n = 139, 56, and 37, respe...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Svensk AM,Soini Y,Pääkkö P,Hiravikoski P,Kinnula VL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experience at one institution concerning the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by aspiration biopsy is reviewed. Twelve cases in which acid-fast bacilli were identified in pulmonary aspiration material are reported. The cytologic findings were confirmed by microbiologic culture in nine cases. The advantages of u...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Robicheaux G,Moinuddin SM,Lee LH

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infusible platelet membranes (IPMs) prepared from fresh or outdated human platelets have been shown to correct prolonged bleeding times in thrombocytopenic rabbits. In previous trials, IPMs did not seem to be immunogenic and lacked dose-limiting toxicity. The present study was undertaken to explore whether the platele...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Graham SS,Gonchoroff NJ,Miller JL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00