Forensic pathology and the autopsy.

abstract：:Heterologous differentiation in osteosarcoma is rare, with only 17 cases previously described in the literature. We report a case of a mandibular osteoblastic osteosarcoma with rhabdomyosarcomatous differentiation in a 45-year-old man who had a history of Hodgkin lymphoma that was treated with chemotherapy and radiati...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Seethala RR,Sturgis EM,Raymond AK,Deavers MT

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Chordoma is a rare, notochordal tumor with a characteristic histomorphology and immunohistochemical profile. At times, it presents a diagnostic challenge, especially in small biopsies. Brachyury, a nuclear transcription factor, is a recently described immunohistochemical marker for diagnosing chordomas. OBJECT...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Jambhekar NA,Rekhi B,Thorat K,Dikshit R,Agrawal M,Puri A

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Foreign material typically elicits reactions dominated by multinucleated giant cells. Pulse granulomas are peculiar reactions to particles of food that are characterized by clusters of small to medium-sized hyaline rings. Pulse granulomas are rare and have occupied only the lungs, in association with aspiration...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Rhee DD,Wu ML

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of silicone-induced endocarditis as a newly recognized complication of transvenous cardiac pacing catheterization. Silicone was found embedded in thrombotic vegetations on the tricuspid valve of a patient who had a long-standing pacing catheter in the right side of his heart. Scanning electron microsc...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Travis WD,Balogh K,Wolf BC,Doos WG,Abraham JL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the hypothesis that older hospitalized patients have higher laboratory costs than younger patients in the same severity-adjusted diagnosis-related group (DRG). DESIGN:We obtained hospital case mix data sets (1995-1997) from the Massachusetts Division of Health Care Finance and Policy. We selected ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Brimhall BB,Dean T,Hunt EL,Siegrist RB,Reiquam W

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The development of targeted therapies creates a need to accurately classify tumors. Among the more pressing needs are the identification of the complete catalog of genes that are altered in cancer and the accurate discrimination of tumors based on their genetic background. OBJECTIVES:To discuss the use of gene...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Sanchez-Cespedes M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:- Current 2013 World Health Organization classification of tumors of soft tissue arranges these tumors into 12 groups according to their histogenesis. Tumor behavior is classified as benign, intermediate (locally aggressive), intermediate (rarely metastasizing), and malignant. In our practice, a general approac...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Wei S,Henderson-Jackson E,Qian X,Bui MM

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embolic cerebellar tissue was observed microscopically in the pulmonary and coronary arteries of a full-term male infant who died 1 hour after forceps delivery. Although embolization of brain tissue has been well documented after severe head trauma in adults and children, to our knowledge only 17 cases associated with...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Hauck AJ,Bambara JF,Edwards WD

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Turnaround time (TAT) for large or complex surgical pathology specimens is an indicator of efficiency in anatomic pathology and may affect coordination of patient care. OBJECTIVE:To establish benchmarks for TAT and to identify practice characteristics that may influence TAT. DESIGN:Participants in a 2012 Q-Pr...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Volmar KE,Idowu MO,Souers RJ,Karcher DS,Nakhleh RE

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The differential diagnosis of eosinophilic renal tumors can be difficult by light microscopy. In particular, chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is difficult to distinguish from oncocytoma. This differential diagnosis is important because chromophobe RCC is malignant, whereas oncocytoma is benign. Furthermor...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Hornsby CD,Cohen C,Amin MB,Picken MM,Lawson D,Yin-Goen Q,Young AN

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) is a nonlinear imaging approach, providing cellular and subcellular details from fresh (unprocessed) tissue by exciting intrinsic tissue emissions. With miniaturization and substantially decreased cost on the horizon, MPM is an emerging imaging technique with many potential clinical...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Jain M,Robinson BD,Scherr DS,Sterling J,Lee MM,Wysock J,Rubin MA,Maxfield FR,Zipfel WR,Webb WW,Mukherjee S

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The introduction of therapeutic digoxin antibodies in the treatment of digoxin toxicity has resulted in spurious results in the many assays of cardioglycoside in serum of patients receiving this therapy. An evaluation of currently used assay methods was incorporated into a pilot Ligand Assay Survey Program of the Coll...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Hansell JR

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A skeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma of the femur was examined by light and electron microscopy. Light microscopic features were characteristic for myxoid chondrosarcoma or "chordoid sarcoma." Electron microscopy disclosed crystalline arrays of microtubules within dilated rough endoplasmic reticulum, a feature previously ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Wolford JF,Bedetti CD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The pathogenesis of respiratory epithelial adenomatoid hamartoma (REAH) and inverted papilloma (IP) is poorly understood, especially compared with sinonasal adenocarcinoma (SNAC). One feature of malignant glandular lesions is loss of the basal/myoepithelial layer. The immunophenotype of the basal/myoepithelial ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Ozolek JA,Barnes EL,Hunt JL

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear cell sarcoma shares features with melanoma, but frequently shows EWSR1 rearrangements. It is an aggressive tumor typically occurring in the soft tissues of the extremities, with a gastrointestinal variant with less consistent melanocytic differentiation. It is extremely rare in the head and neck region, with no ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Kraft S,Antonescu CR,Rosenberg AE,Deschler DG,Nielsen GP

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-six carcinoid tumors of the appendix, diagnosed in surgically resected specimens during an 11-year period (1965 to 1975) were reviewed to determine the features of metastasizing tumors. Of the carcinoid tumors of the appendix, 8.8% were found to metastasize to regional lymph nodes. The most reliable criterion of...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Glasser CM,Bhagavan BS

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcystic transitional cell carcinoma is a rare variant of urothelial carcinoma; to date, it has been described only in the urinary bladder. We report 2 cases of microcystic transitional cell carcinoma arising in the renal pelvis. The first case occurred in a 73-year-old man with a history of superficially invasive ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Leroy X,Leteurtre E,De La Taille A,Augusto D,Biserte J,Gosselin B

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:- Lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) refers to a neoplastic proliferation of cells that characteristically shows loss of E-cadherin expression and has long been regarded as a risk factor for invasive breast cancer. Long-term outcome studies and molecular data have also implicated LCIS as a nonobligate precursor t...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Ginter PS,D'Alfonso TM

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusarium species are saprophytic fungi that may colonize human skin and nails and may rarely cause invasive infections in traumatized tissue and in debilitated and immunocompromised patients. We report herein a case of invasive intranasal Fusarium oxysporum infection in a diabetic patient. This unusual presentation po...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Valenstein P,Schell WA

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As recipients of tissue and medical specimens, pathologists and other medical specialists regard themselves as stewards of patient tissues and consider it their duty to protect the best interests of both the individual patient and the public. The stewardship of slides, blocks, and other materials includes providing, u...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Grizzle W,Grody WW,Noll WW,Sobel ME,Stass SA,Trainer T,Travers H,Weedn V,Woodruff K

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination against hepatitis B is readily available and provides safe and effective immunization for individuals at increased risk for this disease. However, since the available vaccines employ a protein consisting of hepatitis B surface antigen, the question has arisen whether a detectable surface antigenemia might ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Katkov WN,Ault MJ,Dubin SB

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Expert opinion is often used as a gold standard for gynecologic cytology in the evaluation of new technologies, in the legal setting, and in the validation of cases for use in educational programs and proficiency testing. However, the reliability of expert opinion alone in selecting slides of a specific cytodia...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Renshaw AA,Wang E,Mody DR,Wilbur DC,Davey DD,Colgan TJ,Cytopathology Resource Committee, College of American Pathologists.

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ergotamine has been associated with numerous vascular complications but only rarely with fibrosing disorders or valvular heart disease. Two patients are described in whom severe valvular dysfunction developed during ergotamine therapy for migraine headache. The surgically excised mitral and aortic valves were involved...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Hauck AJ,Edwards WD,Danielson GK,Mullany CJ,Bresnahan DR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The uses of monoclonal antibodies via immunochemistry have been reported frequently within the literature using various methodologies with applications to cytology specimens. The direct application of immunochemistry to cytology may have a variety of pitfalls that the general pathologist familiar with its appli...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Fowler LJ,Lachar WA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of endometrial metaplasia of the endocervix, which was associated with tubal and squamous metaplasias. The similarity to normal endometrial glands and its benign nature should be recognized, and over-diagnosis of endocervical glandular dysplasia should be avoided. ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Yeh IT,Bronner M,LiVolsi VA

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of an ultrastructural study on peroral gastric biopsy specimens that were obtained from patients with chronic atrophic gastritis, peculiar pathological changes of endocrine cells were observed and correlated with functional and hormonal data on the patients. An increased number of G (gastrin) cells was f...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Bordi C,Gabrielli M,Missale G

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe unique features seen in a case of classic acoustic schwannoma. In the central portion of the tumor, abundant Rosenthal fibers and occasional eosinophilic granular bodies were present. Rosenthal fibers are homogeneous eosinophilic structures commonly seen in central nervous system lesions, such as pilocytic...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Brown DF,Rushing EJ

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frozen section is a prominent point of intersection between surgeons and pathologists. It is regarded as the most definitive--but not the sole--form of intraoperative consultation. Its role in tissue triage, diagnosis, and intraoperative management should not be misconstrued as a shortcut to a definitive diagnosis. Al...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Taxy JB

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 47-year-old man had a spindly malignant melanoma of the tongue many years after low-dose radiation therapy for lichen planus. To our knowledge, only 12 melanomas of the tongue have been reported previously, and in none of these was radiation documented. ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Kalemeris GC,Rosenfeld L,Gray GF Jr,Glick AD

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Distinct human polyomavirus genotypes cause different diseases in patients with renal transplants: BK virus (BKV) causes tubulointerstitial nephritis and ureteral stenosis, whereas both JC virus (JCV) and BKV are responsible for hemorrhagic cystitis. These findings could result from a selective infection of kid...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Boldorini R,Veggiani C,Barco D,Monga G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00