Comparison of the sensitivity of commercial APTT reagents in the detection of mild coagulopathies.

abstract：:Three anti-Factor-VIII antibodies from hemophiliacs were reacted with samples of batches of Maws commerical bovine and porcine Factor VIII concentrates manufactured over a 12-year period. The apparent antibody concentrations varied widely with the different batches of concentrates. The variations are probably due to i...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Edson JR,Swinehart CD

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the diagnostic significance of the kappa/lambda ratio in germinal center (GC) B cells in Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT), we used 4-color flow cytometry to immunophenotype 27 samples (21 patients) of well-characterized HT B-cell clonality was analyzed further by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the immunoglo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chen HI,Akpolat I,Mody DR,Lopez-Terrada D,De Leon AP,Luo Y,Jorgensen J,Schwartz MR,Chang CC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe our experience, both in meeting challenges and in reporting outcomes, of the consolidation of anatomic pathology services in the North Shore-LIJ Health System in February 2011. METHODS:We addressed issues of governance, personnel, physical plant, quality programming, connectivity, and education....

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Groppi DE,Alexis CE,Sugrue CF,Bevis CC,Bhuiya TA,Crawford JM

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacteriology results of the CAP proficiency testing programs are reviewed for the years 1975-1981. Survey participants have shown a continuing and improving ability to isolate and identify Mycobacterium tuberculosis, nontuberculous mycobacteria, and to identify acid-fast bacteria in stain preparations. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dreskin RB,Sommers HM,Edson D

更新日期：1982-10-01 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：:Myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve is a disease of unknown etiology that is associated with many ominous complications. A case in which non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis, superimposed on a myxomatous mitral valve, resulted in systemic embolization to the brain, heart, and kidney is presented. The purpose ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Geyer SJ,Franzini DA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:BRAF V600E mutation is characteristic of hairy cell leukemia (HCL). A V600E mutation-specific antibody, VE1, has been recently developed. We studied the diagnostic utility of this antibody in HCL and compared it with other B-cell neoplasms. METHODS:VE1 activity was assessed using immunohistochemistry in 90 ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Uppal G,Ly V,Wang ZX,Bajaj R,Solomides CC,Banks PM,Medeiros LJ,Peiper SC,Gong JZ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine a system of quality assurance in which microscopic slides from all surgical cases were subject to peer review before completion of the final pathology report. Three thousand surgical pathology cases were evaluated and the diagnoses entered on preliminary diagnosis sheets. Micro...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Whitehead ME,Fitzwater JE,Lindley SK,Kern SB,Ulirsch RC,Winecoff WF 3rd

更新日期：1984-04-01 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:Pathogenic free-living amebae (FLAs) cause skin, ocular, and central nervous system (CNS) infections with significant morbidity and mortality. Diagnosis of FLA infections by pathologic examination of tissue sections can be aided using molecular assays. This study investigated the performance characteristics ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Norgan AP,Sloan LM,Pritt BS

更新日期：2019-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A man was hospitalized with bacteremic Achromobacter xylosoxidans type IIIa pneumonia. The authors are aware of no previously reported similar infections caused by this bacterium. A clinical cure was achieved with a combination of carbenicillin and kanamycin therapy. Microtiter susceptibility testing revealed that car...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dworzack DL,Murray CM,Hodges GR,Barnes WG

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Worldwide, infection with hepatitis viruses remains a major clinical and public heath concern. The laboratory is an integral part of the diagnosis of these infections since many of the manifestations are nonspecific, and the various hepatitis viruses show overlapping symptomatology. In this article, we discuss the lab...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harris KR,Dighe AS

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic expert system for colonic lesions (DESCL) was designed to discriminate colonic adenoma and adenocarcinoma from normal colonic tissue. Although it was originally developed for use in conjunction with a machine vision analytic system, the DESCL has evolved into a teaching tool and a model for conceptual m...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Graham AR,Paplanus SH,Bartels PH

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter fetus subspecies jejuni has recently been recognized as a significant cause of enteritis in humans. The organism has been previously postulated to cause illness by direct invasion of the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract, but this has not been documented. Reported is a case of Campylobacter enteritis ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Duffy MC,Benson JB,Rubin SJ

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Chondroid chordoma" is a controversial and confusing entity that was originally described by Heffelfinger and colleagues as a biphasic malignant neoplasm possessing elements of both chordoma and cartilaginous tissue. Because the premise for this distinction was based strictly on histomorphologic criteria, the light m...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jeffrey PB,Biava CG,Davis RL

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kikuchi's lymphadenitis is a self-limiting condition typically affecting young patients. Surgical biopsy is unnecessary if a firm diagnosis can be rendered by fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). The authors report the FNAC findings for 27 cases, including 24 female and 3 male patients aged 12 to 43 years. Histolog...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tsang WY,Chan JK

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of metastatic ameloblastoma of the maxilla with secondary hypercalcemia in a 54-year-old man is presented. After treatment with surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, the patient was found to have multiple metastases and severe hypercalcemia associated with high levels of parathormone-like substance in the pe...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Madiedo G,Choi H,Kleinman JG

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen tubular carcinomas occurred among 211 consecutive mastectomies (7.6%). The relative frequencies of multicentric involvement in the ipsilateral breast (56%), history of bilateral mammary cancer (38%) (P less than .01), and family history of mammary cancer in a first-degree relative (40%) (P less than .05) wer...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lagios MD,Rose MR,Margolin FR

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：:Actinomycosis was diagnosed in three cases by the use of thin-needle aspiration biopsy technic. Aspiration was utilized for morphologic studies and collection of material for microbiologic isolation. The critical histologic features of sulfur granules remain intact with aspiration technic. Thin-needle aspiration biops...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pollock PG,Meyers DS,Frable WJ,Valicenti JF Jr,Koontz FP,Beavert CS

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a four-month period, methanol was found in the blood of 18 patients among 687 sequential emergency room admissions screened for alcohols by gas chromatography. In the patients with positive results, blood ethanol ranged from 6 to 570 mg/dL (1.3-123.7 mmol/L), blood methanol from 2.3 to 4.0 mg/dL (0.72-1.25 mmol/L...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wargotz ES,Werner M

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of bcl-2, CD10, and CD20 was examined by multicolor flow cytometry in 78 samples including lymph node or other tissue biopsy specimens containing follicular lymphoma (FL; n = 17), reactive hyperplasia (RH; n = 28), or other malignant lymphomas (n = 20), as well as bone marrow aspirates (n = 13). The pre...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cook JR,Craig FE,Swerdlow SH

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:A case of septicemia caused by Pseudomonas paucimobilis is reported. This represents the first definitive case of disease produced by this yellow-pigmented, nonfermentative bacillus. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Slotnick IJ,Hall J,Sacks H

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 3-week-old infant with Coxsackie B3 meningoencephalitis is discussed. Hypoglycorrhachia and neutrophils in the cerebrospinal fluid characterized the first ten days of her illness. Coxsackie B3 should be added to the list of enteroviruses that can cause hypoglycorrhachia during infections of the central n...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chesney PJ,Quennec P,Clark C

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey to determine the need for training in medical mycology was sent to 605 US laboratories. Training needs were determined by comparing actual laboratory mycology practices with recommended practices, documenting the extent of mycology training reported by employees, and asking respondents to specify the fungi th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rosner ER,Reiss E,Warren NG,Shadomy HJ,Lipman HB

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the cervical Papanicolaou (Pap) smear to detect cervicitis associated with Chlamydia trachomatis was investigated. Cultures and cervical cytology samples were obtained from 487 women seen at the Mayo Clinic Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and at the Sexually Transmitted Disease clinic of the Olm...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dorman SA,Danos LM,Wilson DJ,Noller KL,Malkasian GD,Goellner JR,Smith TF

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is presented of an anterior mediastinal mass arising in a 64-year-old woman that showed on histologic, immunopathologic, and ultra-structural examination features of a poorly differentiated (insular) thyroid carcinoma. The tumor in this patient most likely arose from ectopically displaced thyroid tissue on the ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dominguez-Malagon H,Guerrero-Medrano J,Suster S

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The metaplastic intestinal epithelium in Barrett esophagus (BE) occasionally contains Paneth cells; however, little is known regarding the prevalence and significance of Paneth cell metaplasia (PCM) in BE. METHODS:We evaluated 757 esophageal biopsy specimens with intestinal metaplasia (IM) for PCM. Outcome ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chen W,Frankel WL,Cronley KM,Yu L,Zhou X,Yearsley MM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00