Primary embryonal-choriocarcinoma of the mediastinum in a woman. A case report with immunohistochemical study.

abstract：:Micropapillary lung adenocarcinoma (MPA) has been reported as an aggressive variant of adenocarcinoma, frequently manifesting at high stage with a poor prognosis. We analyzed the clinical and molecular profile of 15 primary MPAs for K-ras, EGFR, and BRAF mutations and performed fluorescence in situ hybridization for E...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： De Oliveira Duarte Achcar R,Nikiforova MN,Yousem SA

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytopathologic findings of 196 cases of cancer of the breast were correlated with the hormonal receptor levels. The strict cytologic criteria that allow a positive diagnosis to be used as bases for definitive treatment include adequate cellularity, lack of cohesion, and nuclear abnormalities, including increased n...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kern WH

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty drugs used primarily in critical care and hospital settings were tested in vitro to observe interference on glucose measurements with 6 hand-held glucose meters and a portable glucose analyzer. Paired differences of glucose measurements between drug-spiked samples and unspiked control samples were calculated to...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tang Z,Du X,Louie RF,Kost GJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the case of a 33-year-old man with a solitary cystic lesion of the left distal radius with central radiodensities that radiographically suggested a chondroid matrix. Curettage of the lesion revealed numerous calcospherites with a lamellar structure. This lamellar pattern is thought to be a result ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kragel PJ,Williams J,Garvin DF,Goral AB

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood gas measurements performed at the central laboratory and at a satellite laboratory of Brigham and Women's Hospital were studied to determine the differences in quality, turnaround time (TAT), and cost. The quality in both laboratories, as determined by results on proficiency and quality control samples, satisfac...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Winkelman JW,Wybenga DR

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：Objectives:Free light chain (FLC) measurement gained a lot of interest for diagnostic workup of monoclonal gammopathy. Methods:We evaluated the performance of turbidimetric polyclonal Freelite (The Binding Site, Birmingham, UK) assays on Cobas 6000 (Roche Diagnostics, Rotkreuz, Switzerland) and nephelometric monoclona...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Messiaen AS,De Sloovere MMW,Claus PE,Vercammen M,Van Hoovels L,Heylen O,Debrabandere J,Vanpoucke H,De Smet D

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 2 male patients in whom hepatosplenic gamma/delta T-cell lymphoma (HSTL) developed 6 and 10 years after renal transplantation. The onset was abrupt with systemic symptoms, cytopenia, and hepatosplenomegaly. The histologic examination of the spleen (case 1), liver, and bone marrow revealed sinusoidal infilt...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Khan WA,Yu L,Eisenbrey AB,Crisan D,al Saadi A,Davis BH,Hankin RC,Mattson JC

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delta checking is a laboratory information system (LIS)-based tool that detects patient and laboratory quality control errors. By using hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) data, we developed a novel approach to summarizing and presenting patient Delta values to address limitations of current Delta check algorithms. Delta values we...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tran DV,Cembrowski GS,Lee T,Higgins TN

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gc allele frequencies were determined in Haitian immigrants, a group at high risk for AIDS. Gc2, an allele associated with disease resistance, is infrequent in this group; Gc1f is frequent. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wenk RE,Russo F

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with sporadic primary hyperparathyroidism were found to harbor tiny medullary thyroid carcinomas. In addition, parafollicular-cell hyperplasia was recognized in one of these thyroids by the use of immunoperoxidase stain to localize calcitonin. The possible relationships between these lesions are discussed...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Livolsi VA,Feind CR

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results obtained with eight pregnancy kits on 735 urines were compared. Overall accuracies were similar and fairly high (93.4 to 95.37%), although only 78.28% of all pregnancies were simultaneously detected by all eight kits. It is suggested that the different performances of each kit could be accounted for not on...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Porres JM,D'Ambra C,Lord D,Garrity F

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen receptor (ER) status of breast carcinomas determines prognosis and treatment. Biochemical ER assays are expensive and time-consuming and require fresh tumor. Immunohistochemical ER was assessed in 68 breast carcinomas, by an automated method using routinely processed formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cohen C,Unger ER,Sgoutas D,Bradley N,Chenggis M

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three paired samples were distributed at three--six-month intervals in the Basic Ligand Survey during 1976. The stabilities of mean values obtained by widely used commercial kit procedures and by all methods for eight analytes are reported. Significant improvements in accuracy and long-term precision were identified i...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Haven GT,Hansell JR,Haven MC

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The greater precision in prothrombin time monitoring obtained using thromboplastins with low international sensitivity index (ISI) values are believed to result in improved patient care. The authors conducted a blinded prospective study of 84 random patients on low-intensity warfarin therapy who were monitored with ei...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brophy MT,Fiore LD,Lau J,Goodwin R,Lopez A,Deykin D

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the stability of the tests comprising the SMA-6 and SMA-12 chemistry profiles during overnight refrigerated storage. Several constituents were found to undergo changes that were statistically significant when evaluated by a t test for paired comparisons. A recently published sequential method ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rossing RG,Foster DM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of blood transfusion on DNA profiles of an individual is a significant issue in the forensic context. In the present study, the effects of blood transfusion in 5 recipients were studied by performing restriction fragment length polymorphism and polymerase chain reaction HLA-DQA1 and Polymarker (LDLR, GYPA, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Giroti RI,Biswas R,Mukherjee K

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of unilateral gonadoblastoma in association with a ruptured ectopic tubal pregnancy is presented. The patient had normal menstrual history prior to a missed period followed by abdominal pain and the passage of clots. The surgical specimens, in addition to the ruptured tubal pregnancy, showed nodular foci of typ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pratt-Thomas HR,Cooper JM

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies from Africa have demonstrated that black people have higher vitamin B12 (cobalamin) levels than do white people. The authors compared healthy white people, black people, and Latin-Americans in the United States. Their study is also the largest in which the effect of race and sex on the cobalamin levels has bee...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Saxena S,Carmel R

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 65-year-old man with lower back pain was found to have multiple myeloma. Unique findings in the marrow aspirate smears of this patient were tadpolelike plasma cells and cellular rosettes simulating those seen in neuroblastoma. This case documents yet another facet of the broad morphologic spectrum of neoplastic plas...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wong KF,Chan JK,Chu YC

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a child with renal failure and oliguria due to hyperoxaluria myelophthisis developed as a result of extensive bone-marrow replacement with calcium oxalate crystals and an accompanying fibrous proliferations. The histopathology associated with this metabolic disorder was demonstrated in posterior iliac crest bone-ma...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McKenna RW,Dehner LP

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX), a marker of renal cell carcinoma that recently has been described in malignant effusions. METHODS:Pleural and peritoneal fluids with the following diagnoses-reactive (n = 23), carcinoma (n = 17), and "suspicious for mesothelioma" (n = 4)-were immunostained for CAIX, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ananthanarayanan V,Tretiakova M,Husain AN,Krausz T,Antic T

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although reports have suggested the incomplete type of intestinal metaplasia (IM) had a close correlation with carcinoma, considerable data showed no apparent relationship between the particular type of IM and the intestinal type carcinoma. The purpose of this study was to establish a novel classification of IM using ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Matsuzaki H,Shimada S,Uno K,Tsuruta J,Ogawa M

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of Actinomyces viscosus infection of the lungs were seen in nonimmunosuppressed patients. One patient had a peripheral actinomycotic lung mass resembling a tumor. Both patients responded to a long course of penicillin therapy. Reports of A. viscosus infections are rare, although the organism colonizes the mo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eng RH,Corrado ML,Cleri D,Cherubin C,Goldstein EJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred eighty-three patients with endometrial carcinoma had both immunohistochemical and biochemical analysis of estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) content of the tumor. Biochemical analysis was done on a homogenate of uterine curettings; immunohistochemical stainings were done on formalin-fixe...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chambers JT,Carcangiu ML,Voynick IM,Schwartz PE

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：: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：:Three brands of blood collection tubes were studied for their influence on the prothrombin time (PT) and international sensitivity index (ISI) for 5 commercial thromboplastin reagents. With all reagents, PTs were shorter in Vacutainer (Becton Dickinson Vacutainer Systems, Plymouth, England) samples than in S-Monovette...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： van den Besselaar AM,Hoekstra MM,Witteveen E,Didden JH,van der Meer FJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reference values for hematologic parameters are determined using data from patient populations of a whole year. As a consequence, the authors are not dependent on a limited selected population and can determine reference values for all age and sex groups. It turns out that from the possible compilation technics the ga...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Swaanenburg JC,Rutten WP,Holdrinet AC,van Strik R

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 68 sporadic colorectal carcinomas (CRCs) with medullary features (MCRCs) and compared them with 35 poorly differentiated purely "enteric" CRCs (ECRCs) and 15 purely neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs) of grades II and III, all in patients lacking a family history of CRC. Potential clinicopathologic differences...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wick MR,Vitsky JL,Ritter JH,Swanson PE,Mills SE

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00