Campylobacter fetus sepsis with mycotic aortic aneurysm.

abstract：CONTEXT:A Treatise on Pathological Anatomy, published in 1829 by William E. Horner, is the first American textbook on pathology. Several articles have been written on Horner, but they do not evaluate the role that the knowledge he recorded played on the intellectual origin of the discipline of pathology in America. Onl...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Quinonez G,McLendon WW

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Measurement of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is used as an objective measure of long-term blood glucose control in diabetic patients. Recent improvements in automation combined with new recommendations for precision and accuracy have caused us to reevaluate our methods for measuring HbA1c. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Khuu HM,Robinson CA,Goolsby K,Hardy RW,Konrad RJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhabdoid tumor of the thyroid gland is a very rare neoplasm, characterized by significant metastatic potential. All of the 6 cases reported in the recent literature had poor outcomes. We report an additional case involving, to our knowledge, the oldest patient reported so far. A 67-year-old woman had a nodular goiter ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Lai ML,Faa G,Serra S,Senes G,Daniele GM,Boi F,Mariotti S,Beauchemin M,Asa SL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Inflicted traumatic brain injury of infants and young children results in a complex array of autopsy findings. In many cases, immunostains for beta-amyloid precursor protein are used to detect axonal injury. Interpretation of the gross, microscopic, and immunostaining results requires the integration of the man...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Dolinak D,Reichard R

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 14-year-old boy with a solitary cavernous hemangioma in the proximal small intestine that caused recalcitrant iron deficiency anemia beginning at 3 years of age. After a number of attempts to ascertain the cause of the anemia were unsuccessful, the vascular tumor was ultimately diagnosed in the jejunum, ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Boyle L,Lack EE

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) is an independent inverse risk factor for coronary artery disease. Current methodologies for measurement of HDL-C in most clinical laboratories involve chemical precipitation-based methods. However, these methods are time-consuming, affected by high triglycerides,...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Hoang MP,Hirany SV,Parupia J,Devaraj S,Jialal I

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT.—:The incidence of anal cancer in the United States is on the rise in high-risk populations. The anal Papanicolaou test (APT) is advocated as a screening tool, in addition to digital rectal examination and high-resolution anoscopy. OBJECTIVE.—:To review our experience and the current literature to create, in c...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Morency EG,Harbert T,Fatima N,Samolcyzk J,Maniar KP,Nayar R

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Blood loss from laboratory testing (BLLT) can be significant in hospitalized patients. It is a common practice to draw full large-volume tubes of blood from adults. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether BLLT occurred when a small-volume (pediatric) blood collection tube (SVT) was substituted for each large-volume blo...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Sanchez-Giron F,Alvarez-Mora F

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract are now referred to as gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). The tumors differ from ordinary leiomyomas and schwannomas in several respects: the GISTs typically express c-kit protein (CD117) and CD34, 30% to 50% of them are (often focally) positive for alpha-smo...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Lasota J,Carlson JA,Miettinen M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the prevalence of merosin deficiency in cases of unclassified congenital muscular dystrophy and to determine the temporal stability of merosin epitopes in fixed and stored archival material. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Using an antibody to human merosin we retrospectively studied 12 cases of undiagno...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Brett FM,Loring P,Caesar A,Burke M,Brennan RP,King M,Farrell MA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen cases of toxoplasmosis in subjects at autopsy with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome are reviewed. Death was related to toxoplasmosis in four cases: in three from central nervous system complications and in one case from myocarditis. In six cases the infection was identified outside of the central nervous sy...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Tschirhart D,Klatt EC

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the use of stat (ie, statim--as soon as possible) laboratory tests at a university teaching hospital. For the 20 most frequently performed tests, 35.7% of the determinations were performed on a stat basis. The frequency with which a test was ordered on a stat basis ranged from 6.0% (for ESR) to 61.5% (amyla...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Chu RC,Williams SV,Eisenberg JM

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synovitic symptoms and radiologically documented cystic lesions in several carpal bones and distal radius developed two years after the implantation of silicone rubber scaphoid prosthesis for pseudoarthrosis. Open biopsy revealed granulomatous synovitis and osteitis and foreign material in carpal tissues. Ultrastructu...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Ekfors TO,Aro H,Mäki J,Aho AJ

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Study of 115 kidneys from 60 patients with chronic renal failure maintained by dialysis for two months to five years revealed an unexpected number and variety of epithelial proliferative processes, several types of which are hitherto unreported. Proliferative activity was defined either by the presence of epithelial s...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： McManus JF,Hughson MD,Hennigar GR,Fitts CT,Rajagopalan PR,Williams AV

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital syphilis remains a public health concern in the United States. Infants whose mothers are treated in the third trimester without adequate prenatal care have an increased risk of morbidity and mortality in the immediate perinatal period. The identification of Treponema pallidum in tissue is definitive confirm...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Bell C,Taxy J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of the bone marrow poses several unique challenges to the pathologist: it is a semisolid organ without helpful gross correlation, it exists in a dynamic state with the peripheral blood and other organs of the lymphohemopoietic system, and the diagnosis of diseases affecting bone marrow often depends heavil...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Hasserjian RP

更新日期：2008-04-01 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：:Postmortem changes were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in renal tissue from five species of animals. Specimens were collected at intervals up to 24 hours after death. Six distinct morphological alterations were identified in the renal glomerulus, including capillary loop constriction, changes in microvi...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Langlinais PC

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The term heterotopia, a term derived from Greek, implies "other place." It refers to the finding of normal tissues at foreign sites. Heterotopic gastric tissue rarely involves the large bowel. We report 2 cases of this rare entity. DATA SOURCES:Case reports of 2 patients with sessile polypoid lesion in the r...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Srinivasan R,Loewenstine H,Mayle JE

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 35-year-old obese black American woman presented with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, cough, and chest pain of 2 weeks duration. She was pancytopenic and acidotic, with respiratory failure and hypotension. A diagnosis of septic shock was made, and the patient died 48 hours after admission. Blood cultures were pos...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Porto R,Hevia O,Hensley GT,Meyer PR

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between platelets and microorganisms may be underestimated. Our in vivo studies support a direct role of thrombocytes in malarial infections. We have found intrathrombocytic parasites of Plasmodium vivax (in 10% of men naturally infected) and P berghei (in 53% of mice experimentally infected); these we...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Fajardo LF

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here 2 separate cases in which patients with known low-grade B-cell lymphomas presented with transformed lesions that were CD30⁺, CD4⁺, Epstein-Barr virus negative, and negative or focally weak for a wide range of B-cell, T-cell, and histiocytic/dendritic cell markers. In each case the transformed lymphoma p...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Shaver AC,Ma L,Vnencak-Jones C,Schwarting RS,Fasig KJ,Kim AS

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:The utility of a laboratory test for differential diagnosis depends on the degree that test results for different disease states overlap. I developed a new overlap index that ranges from zero, for an ideal test with no overlap, to one if the median test result is the same for the two disease states. The index does not...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Hartz AJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 2 cases of nonspecific postvaccinial dermatitis following smallpox vaccination. The patients presented with diffuse, pruritic, erythematous macules and papules 11 days (case 1) and 7 days (case 2) following routine smallpox vaccination. Biopsies of the lesions demonstrated spongiotic dermatitis without evide...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Gaertner EM,Groo S,Kim J

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The pancreas gives rise to an array of distinct neoplasms that can be solid, cystic, or intraductal and can recapitulate the various lines of differentiation present in the normal gland. OBJECTIVE:To develop an algorithmic approach to the diagnosis of pancreatic neoplasms that simplifies their pathologic evalu...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Klimstra DS,Pitman MB,Hruban RH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonneoplastic vascular lesions in lymph nodes have been infrequently reported. These lesions are believed to be rare and display histologic features ranging from minimal changes associated with vasodilation to vascular proliferative lesions resembling Kaposi's sarcoma. The spectrum of histologic features observed in t...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Ostrowski ML,Siddiqui T,Barnes RE,Howton MJ

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extensive squamous metaplasia is described in a case of gynecomastia. Numerous ducts in all sections of breast tissue revealed multiple foci of squamous metaplasia, many of which included large, papillary excrescences of keratinizing squamous cells into duct lumens, with foci of dyskeratosis. Review of four years of g...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Gottfried MR

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The endometrium is an intrinsically dynamic tissue with great capability for regeneration and proliferation; consequently, there is some overlap between features seen in benign, premalignant, and malignant lesions. This leads to marked intrabiopsy, interbiopsy, and interobserver variability. OBJECTIVE:We studi...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Elhafey AS,Papadimitriou JC,El-Hakim MS,El-Said AI,Ghannam BB,Silverberg SG

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 4% formaldehyde-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues, PAS negativity for mycobacteria in the literature has been axiomatic. However, recent observations of disseminated human mycobacteriosis have shown that intracellular (phagocytosed) organisms stained strongly positive with the routine PAS technique. This staining wa...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Pappolla MA,Mehta VT

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00