Small cell carcinoma of the endometrium in a 23-year-old woman: light microscopic and ultrastructural study.

abstract：:We studied whether laboratory confirmation of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) can be improved after antigen clearance by determining free antibody and combining the results of an antigenic and a biologic assay. Blood samples taken over 40 days in 14 patients with HIT with thromboembolism underwent fluorescence-...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harenberg J,Wang L,Hoffmann U,Huhle G,Feuring M

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abbreviated pretransfusion testing, although permitted by American Association of Blood Banks Standards for unimmunized patients, is not widely practiced. Concerns remain about optimal antibody screening methods, antibodies missed by deleting the antiglobulin crossmatch, and cost-effectiveness. The authors prospective...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cordle DG,Strauss RG,Snyder EL,Floss AM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To correlate human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) viral load with pathologic features in graft acute hepatitis of unknown origin. METHODS:Liver frozen samples from 26 patients with graft hepatitis of unknown origin were available for HHV-6 DNA quantification. RESULTS:In 10 (38.5%) of 26 liver samples, HHV-6 DNA was...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Buyse S,Roque-Afonso AM,Vaghefi P,Gigou M,Dussaix E,Duclos-Vallée JC,Samuel D,Guettier C

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data collection can be enhanced with the use of computers. Care must be taken, however, to ensure that the data collected have a purpose and meet either the quality assessment needs or business functions of the transfusion service. Required data elements are frequently in several data repositories and must be merged t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Butch SH

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard method for detecting antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) is by immunofluorescence assay (IFA), a method that is labor intensive and subjective. In an attempt to overcome these limitations, several commercial enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) have been developed. We report the results of our evaluation of the ANA Micro...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reisner BS,DiBlasi J,Goel N

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific esterase activity, a property generally ascribed to cells of granulocytic origin, was found in abnormal erythroid precursors obtained from the bone marrows of six patients with untreated erythroleukemia. These erythroblasts also showed nonspecific esterase activity. Neither specific nor nonspecific esterase a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kass L

更新日期：1977-04-01 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：:Determination of breast cancer estrogen receptor (ER) status as a predictor of tumor response to adjuvant endocrine therapy remains a mainstay of breast cancer management. Recent second generation anti-ER antibodies and new epitope retrieval methods have produced paraffin-based immunohistochemical results that correla...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nichols GE,Frierson HF Jr,Boyd JC,Hanigan MH

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied the effect of averaging replicated assays of Factor IX coagulation activity and Factor IX antigen on each plasma specimen in improving the ability to detect carriers of hemophilia B. The improvement resulting from this procedure is particularly marked in tests depending on the linear regression of ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lipworth L,Tiarks CY,Rice CA,Pechet L

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：:Because of the demonstrated efficacy of Leu-M1 as a discriminant between malignant epithelioid mesothelioma (MEM) and adenocarcinomas involving the serosal surfaces (ACSs), the authors assessed the reactivities of related "myelomonocytic" antigens in this context. Paraffin sections from 41 MEMs and 43 ACSs (pulmonary,...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wick MR,Mills SE,Swanson PE

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is apparently the second report of a case of human meningoencephalitis caused by the nematode Micronema deletrix. The patient had severe granulomatous meningoencephalitis with numerous foci of hemorrhage and encephalomalacia. Numerous adult female and larval M. deletrix were in the brain. The organisms probably i...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shadduck JA,Ubelaker J,Telford VQ

更新日期：1979-10-01 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：: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：:We compared the differential counts of normal and abnormal bone marrow from touch imprints with those from aspirate smears to determine whether the touch imprint was reliable for independent routine use in the examination of bone marrow and the classification of hematologic abnormalities. Normocellular bone marrow spe...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Aboul-Nasr R,Estey EH,Kantarjian HM,Freireich EJ,Andreeff M,Johnson BJ,Albitar M

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to study the possible association between oral lichen planus and chronic hepatitis C in patients from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Two groups of patients were studied: group 1, 50 patients with oral lichen planus evaluated for the presence of chronic hepatitis C; and group 2, 215 patients with chroni...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： de Mattos Camargo Grossmann S,de Aguiar MC,Teixeira R,do Carmo MA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the histopathologic features and the expression of angiogenesis-related markers in primary tumors and metastatic lymph nodes of oral squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) with multiple lymph node involvement in comparison with oral SCCs without nodal metastasis. The protein levels of th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nikitakis NG,Rivera H,Lopes MA,Siavash H,Reynolds MA,Ord RA,Sauk JJ

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method combining alizarin red and a modified silver stain for reticulum fibers in tissue sections is described. The method allows precise localization of calcium deposits and crystals in relation to epithelial and interstitial connective tissue elements. The deposits and their spatial relationships are clearly disce...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Elbadawi A,Musto LA,Lilien OM

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing is more sensitive for the detection of cervical precancer and cancer than cervical cytology. The increased sensitivity of HPV testing and cytology combined ("cotesting") compared to cytology alone permitted professional societies to recommend 3-year screening intervals among the cote...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kinney W,Stoler MH,Castle PE

更新日期：2010-08-01 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：:Medicare policies have gradually restricted the scope of pathologist services payable under the rules applicable to physician services. Recent changes applying relative value scales has provided an opportunity for national standardization of pathology codes, and has permitted the introduction of clinical pathology int...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Raslavicus P

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer with microsatellite instability (MSI) may occur sporadically or be inherited in cases of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) syndrome. However, there is no consensus as to which patients must be tested and how to test MSI. In this study, MSI was tested by immunohistochemical analysis an...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bouzourene H,Taminelli L,Chaubert P,Monnerat C,Seelentag W,Sandmeier D,Andrejevic S,Matter M,Bosman F,Benhattar J

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish an objective, scientific, evidence-based process for planning statistical quality control (SQC) procedures based on quality required for a test, precision and bias observed for a measurement procedure, probabilities of error detection and false rejection for different control rules and numbers o...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Westgard JO,Westgard SA

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred serum samples were tested with two assays for rapid detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibodies. The assays were CMV Scan, a two-step latex particle agglutination assay for CMV IgG and IgM antibodies, and TranSTAT-CMV, a newly available six-step solid-phase enzyme immunoassay for CMV IgG antibodies. Comp...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Roseff SD,Campos JM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital-infantile fibrosarcoma (CIFS) is a relatively indolent sarcoma that should be distinguished from more aggressive spindle cell sarcomas of childhood. CIFSs have been found to have a novel recurrent reciprocal translocation t(12;15)(p13;q25) resulting in the gene fusion ETV6-NTRK3 (ETS variant gene 6; neurotr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sheng WQ,Hisaoka M,Okamoto S,Tanaka A,Meis-Kindblom JM,Kindblom LG,Ishida T,Nojima T,Hashimoto H

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serrated adenomas are the precursors of at least 5.8% of colorectal cancers; otherwise little is known of their clinical significance in comparison with conventional adenomas and hyperplastic polyps. We compared the risk of metachronous lesions in colorectal serrated adenomas, conventional adenomas, and hyperplastic p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lazarus R,Junttila OE,Karttunen TJ,Mäkinen MJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional assays for heparin cofactor II (HC-II) are based on the inactivation of thrombin by HC-II in the presence of dermatan sulfate (DS). Residual thrombin is measured in a chromogenic assay. Interference by the antithrombin-III (AT-III)/heparin complex, which also rapidly inactivates thrombin, must be eliminated...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nakhleh R,Vogt JM,Edson JR

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) exhibit similar but distinct immunophenotypic profiles. Many cases can be diagnosed readily by flow cytometry (FCM) alone; however, ambiguous cases are frequently encountered and necessitate additional studies, including immunohistochemical staining for c...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zare H,Bashashati A,Kridel R,Aghaeepour N,Haffari G,Connors JM,Gascoyne RD,Gupta A,Brinkman RR,Weng AP

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:The Digene Hybrid Capture 2 (hc2) high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA test (Digene, Gaithersburg, MD) is widely used for triage of women with atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance. Results in a "retest zone" (weakly positive tests) are repeated up to 2 times according to the Digene-recommended algo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Muldrew KL,Beqaj SH,Han J,Lum SH,Clinard V,Schultenover SJ,Tang YW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00