Comparison of two slide tests for detection of group A streptococcal antibodies.

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：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：: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：: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 participant performances on the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Urine Survey specimens distributed during 1979 and 1980 for pregnancy testing are reviewed. Almost all the reagent methods used by the participants performed well on the negative specimens. Prominent differences in results on the positive speci...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Biesecker JL,Rippey JH

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under carefully controlled conditions in a clinical research ward, conjugated primary bile-acid concentrations were measured by a 125I-radioimmunoassay every eight hours for four days in seven healthy control subjects and ten patients with hepatic disease (five with cirrhosis, three with primary biliary cirrhosis and ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Engelking LR,Dasher CA,Hirschowitz BI

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:GATA3 is a transcription factor regulating luminal cell differentiation in the mammary glands and has been implicated in the luminal types of breast carcinoma. The prognostic significance of GATA3 in breast cancer remains controversial. METHODS:In this study, we assessed the prognostic value of the molecule...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McCleskey BC,Penedo TL,Zhang K,Hameed O,Siegal GP,Wei S

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Proliferative lesions, which include collagen, elastic fibers and abnormally oriented muscle fibers, were found to develop in intramyocardial arteries more rapidly with age in cigarette smokers than in nonsmokers. The study attempted to determine whether these lesions reduce perfusion pressures in the subendocardial z...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Naeye RL,Truong LD

更新日期：1977-10-01 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：:The ability to inhibit the release reaction was found to correlate well with the ability to inhibit aggregation in washed human platelets exposed to antilymphocyte serum (ALS). However, the primary mechanism that contributes to ALS-induced aggregation in unwashed platelets appeared to be different from that found in w...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wang TY,Hussey CV,Hause LL,Fobian JE

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific radioimmunoassays, sensitive to plasma levels of less than 1% of normal, were developed for protein C and Factor X. In 31 normal subjects, mean plasma antigen levels were as follows: protein C, 3.23 +/- 0.79 microgram/mL (2 SD); Factor X, 7.74 +/- 1.81 microgram/mL. In patient son chronic warfarin therapy, pr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Epstein DJ,Bergum PW,Bajaj SP,Rapaport SI

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to identify laboratory parameters representing erythrocyte engraftment to be used as an indicator to change the recipient to donor ABO group and Rh type following an ABO-incompatible hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Studies have shown that ABO incompatibility does not ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sanford K,Case N,Blake B,Michaud T,McPherson RA,Roseff SD

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A markedly prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) was observed in a 61-year-old woman with bruising and a decreasing hematocrit. Coagulation laboratory evaluation was sought to determine the cause of the prolonged APTT and bleeding. Evaluation demonstrated that, rather than identifying a coagulopathy, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Humphries JE,Acker MN,Schnell DE,Knarr JW

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated a comprehensive deidentification engine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, that uses a complex set of rules, dictionaries, pattern-matching algorithms, and the Unified Medical Language System to identify and replace identifying text in clinical reports while preserving ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gupta D,Saul M,Gilbertson J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of a precise, mathematical relationship between blood pressure and renal microvascular abnormalities would be highly desirable. Such a relationship would require that abnormalities be quantitative on a rational scale. The dominant abnormality in nephrosclerosis occurs in arcuate and cortical arteries o...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tracy RE,Mercante DE,Moncada A,Berenson G

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cytogenetics defines disease entities and predicts prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Conventional karyotyping provides a comprehensive view of the genome, while fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) detects targeted abnormalities. The aim of this study was to compare the utility of karyotyping a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： He R,Wiktor AE,Hanson CA,Ketterling RP,Kurtin PJ,Van Dyke DL,Litzow MR,Howard MT,Reichard KK

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sysmex R-3000 (TOA Medical Electronics, Kobe, Japan) evaluates maturation of reticulocytes by quantitating the fraction of reticulocytes within low-, middle-, and high-fluorescence intensity regions. We defined the immature reticulocyte fraction (IRF) as the sum of the fraction of high-fluorescence intensity regio...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chang CC,Kass L

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial hyperplasia, a component of proliferative breast disease (PBD), is a known risk factor for the development of breast carcinoma. To determine if criteria established for tissue biopsy could be used to more precisely define cytologic criteria for diagnosis of PBD, 37 breast fine-needle aspirates with biopsy d...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dawson AE,Mulford DK,Sheils LA

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Blood specimen hemolysis is a major cause of sample recollection in the neonatal intensive care unit. We aimed to reduce the hemolysis rate from 6.3% at baseline to less than 4% within the 9 months' duration of the study. METHODS:Intravenous infusion of lipid emulsion during sample collection, sample collec...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tolan NV,Kaleta EJ,Fang JL,Colby CE,Carey WA,Karon BS,Baumann NA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have examined the sensitivity and detection efficiency of the three peroxidase methods that currently have the widest application in diagnostic immunohistochemistry: the peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP), the avidin-biotin complex (ABC), and the labeled avidin-biotin (LAB) methods. Sensitivity was evaluated ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Elias JM,Margiotta M,Gaborc D

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer software package written in Dibol for a PDP 8/E computer is described that is designed for the needs of the cytology department of a moderate-sized private medical laboratory. Computerized accessioning of cases, report preparation and printing, historical filing, activity summary reports, and direct patient...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ashworth CT,McConnell TH,Ashworth RD,Nielsen CR,Sanford J

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the 1978 CAP Hematology Survey were analyzed for the effect of sodium and calcium salts of heparin on the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT). The results indicate that the sodium salt of heparin prolongs the APTT more than the calcium salt at a heparin concentration of 0.2 units/ml. Furthermore, th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Banez EI,Triplett DA,Koepke J

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To establish the effect of a quality control failure on the performance of the LCx-GC nucleic-acid amplification assay for Neisseria gonorrhoeae (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL) in the field, we conducted a retrospective analysis comparing the clinical and analytic performance of the recalled lots with those not...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Skeate RC,Wahi MM,Hanson KL,Cartwright CP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common differentiated renal tumor of early childhood is the congenital mesoblastic neophroma. Well-differentiated forms of Wilms' tumor may present a difficult differential diagnosis from these benign neoplasms. The cases of two patients found to have well-differentiated renal neoplasms after being treated fo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hughson MD,Hennigar GR,Othersen HB Jr

更新日期：1976-08-01 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:Blood component waste is an important issue at all hospitals. As an initiative of the patient blood management program at a regional health care system, the causes and extent of blood product wastage were identified, and targeted interventions to effect a reduction were implemented. METHODS:Multiple low-cos...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Collins RA,Wisniewski MK,Waters JH,Triulzi DJ,Yazer MH

更新日期：2015-03-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To examine Hedgehog signaling in cutaneous fibrosing disorders for which effective approved therapies are lacking, expand our knowledge of pathophysiology, and explore the rationale for targeted inhibition. METHODS:Stain intensity and percentage of cells staining for Sonic hedgehog (Shh), Indian hedgehog (I...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goyal A,Linskey KR,Kay J,Duncan LM,Nazarian RM

更新日期：2016-12-01 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