Serum enzyme alterations in polymyositis. Possible pitfalls in diagnosis.

abstract：:The authors describe 11 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma arising in the nasal cavity or paranasal sinuses. Seven were men and four were women. The median age of the women was 76 years; the median age of the men was 45 years. The most common presenting symptoms were nasal obstruction and unilateral facial swelling....

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Frierson HF Jr,Mills SE,Innes DJ Jr

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nuclear DNA content of 20 cases of primary differentiated thyroid carcinoma, 27 corresponding cervical lymph node metastases, and 2 local recurrent tumors was determined by flow cytometry. Evidence of DNA aneuploidy was found in either the primary tumor or in the corresponding metastases in 10 (63%) of the 16 papillar...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Joensuu H,Klemi PJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Stat tests are one of the most important features of clinical laboratory performance, the indexed literature is devoid of significant discussion of the subject. The authors, undertook a study by querying hospital laboratories about their current practices and received 38 useable answers dealing with the types...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barnett RN,McIver DD,Gorton WL

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the issue of clonality in Richter's syndrome, phenotypic, molecular genetic, and cytogenetic studies were performed on tumor tissue from a patient with concurrent chronic lymphocytic leukemia and diffuse large cell lymphoma in a single lymph node specimen. The tumor was biphenotypic for immunoglobulin (...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nakamine H,Masih AS,Sanger WG,Wickert RS,Mitchell DW,Armitage JO,Weisenburger DD

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) are at increased risk for myocardial events that are difficult to evaluate due to atypical symptoms and chronically elevated protein markers of cardiac damage. This study evaluated cardiac troponin T (cTnT), a sensitive marker of cardiac injury, in patients with CRF without my...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Frankel WL,Herold DA,Ziegler TW,Fitzgerald RL

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is clinically and pathologically heterogeneous, leading to some difficulty in its diagnosis and acceptance as a specific entity. ALCL can be subdivided into different groups according to histologic features (pleomorphic, monomorphic, small cell predominant, Hodgkin's disease-relat...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kinney MC,Kadin ME

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 6-month period at Walter Reed Army Hospital the monthly attack rate of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia increased to 3.8 +/- 0.5 (mean +/- SEM) from 2.5 +/- 0.2 cases per 1,000 dispositions for the previous 48 months (P less than 0.05). A predominant phage pattern, designated S, was found in 12 (39%) of 31 ba...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cross AS,Zierdt CH,Roup B,Almazan R,Swan JC

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In 2001, the University of New Mexico Hospitals implemented a rapid screening tool for the triage of suspected hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome based on peripheral blood smear morphology. Five criteria guided clinical decisions: thrombocytopenia, hemoconcentration, granulocytic left shift, absence of toxi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dvorscak L,Czuchlewski DR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary thymic epithelial neoplasms have been the subject of much controversy in recent years owing to the difficulties posed by these tumors for precise histopathologic typing and prognostication. A number of classification schemes using different terminology have been proposed, none of which has satisfactorily manag...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Suster S,Moran CA

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:A computer software package written in Dibol for a PDP 8/E computer is described that is designed for the needs of the cytology department of a moderate-sized private medical laboratory. Computerized accessioning of cases, report preparation and printing, historical filing, activity summary reports, and direct patient...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ashworth CT,McConnell TH,Ashworth RD,Nielsen CR,Sanford J

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-nine mycelial-form stock cultures of Blastomyces dermatitidis, Coccidioides immitis, Histoplasma capsulatum, and morphologically similar fungi were extracted and tested by using commercial macroimmunodiffusion exoantigen test kits and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reference system for identifying funga...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Denys GA,Newman MA,Standard PG

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the histogenesis of and determine the most useful markers for diagnosing anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC), 32 cases, including 2 with numerous osteoclast-like cells, were stained with a battery of antibodies to epithelial (keratin, epithelial membrane antigen [EMA], carcinoembryonic antigen [CEA]), mesenchy...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ordóñez NG,El-Naggar AK,Hickey RC,Samaan NA

更新日期：1991-07-01 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：:Breast cancer in men is a rare condition affecting only 1,000 men each year in the United States. Hormonal, genetic, and perhaps environmental factors appear to be important in development of the disease. Clinically, breast cancer in men resembles that seen in woman. Histologically the diseases are indistinguishable, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hecht JR,Winchester DJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The availability of automated anti-Xa heparin assays provides the opportunity to manage patient unfractionated heparin levels directly, rather than by the activated partial thromboplastin time. Because critically ill patients can acquire an antithrombin deficiency, we compared the performance of 3 anti-Xa heparin assa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lehman CM,Rettmann JA,Wilson LW,Markewitz BA

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：:Adenocarcinomas of the sigmoid colon and rectum were studied for the presence of blood group substances of the A, B, H system using the method of specific erythrocytic adherence. Of 17 adenocarcinomas studied, eight were found to have reactivity for blood group substances. All eight tumours showing reactivity for bloo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cooper HS,Haesler WE Jr

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute toxic hepatic necrosis is common and may be fatal. Predicting clinical outcome may be aided by following serum markers that could indicate recovery or may signify massive (substantial) destruction of functional liver mass. Previously, in a published case of chloroform poisoning, we serially assayed serum biomark...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Horn KD,Wax P,Schneider SM,Martin TG,Nine JS,Moraca MA,Virji MA,Aronica PA,Rao KN

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine human exocrine pancreatic adenocarcinomas were examined by serial sectioning and double- and triple-labeled immunohistochemical techniques with antibodies against chromogranin A, insulin, islet amyloid polypeptide, glucagon, somatostatin, pancreatic polypeptide, serotonin, pancreastatin, and neuron-specific enola...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pour PM,Permert J,Mogaki M,Fujii H,Kazakoff K

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that the monoclonal antibody Ki-67 reacts with a nuclear antigen that is expressed only by proliferating cells. The feasibility of using image analysis to quantitate Ki-67 staining (proliferation index [PI]) of epithelial ovarian cancers was investigated. The PI was determined in 50 advanced-stage pr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jordan PA,Kerns BJ,Pence JC,Kohler MF,Bast RC Jr,Kinney RB,Berchuck A

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automation was introduced into the clinical microbiology laboratory in the 1960s but initially met with limited success. Today, instruments are an integral part of many clinical laboratories and are used for microbial detection, identification, and susceptibility testing; detection of positive blood cultures; screenin...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Woods GL

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the distribution and thromboembolic effect of Ultrafluid Lipiodol, 15 surgically removed hepatocellular carcinomas with selective intraarterial Lipiodol injection 7 to 10 days before surgery and 15 noninjected controls were studied radiologically and histologically. Tissue blocks were processed with an en blo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arnold MM,Kreel L,Wallace AC,Li AK

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen cases of disseminated Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI), representing a total of 27 bone marrow specimens, were studied. The patients ranged from 25 to 46 years of age and included ten immunocompromised and three immunocompetent hosts. Peripheral blood findings included anemia in all patients, leukopen...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Farhi DC,Mason UG 3rd,Horsburgh CR Jr

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RhD determination in pregnant women is critical to facilitate Rh immune globulin prophylaxis for RhD-negative women. A single amino acid change in the RhD antigen can cause epitope loss, giving rise to "partial D" variants. Women with some partial D variants may develop anti-D against the missing epitope after pregnan...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wang D,Lane C,Quillen K

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytopathologic smears and/or imprints of human adrenal cortex (9 cases) and its disorders were examined, including adrenocortical nodule (3 cases), adrenocortical adenoma (23 cases), carcinoma (8 cases), and renal cell carcinoma (6 cases). Immunocytochemistry directed against 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and ad...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sasano H,Shizawa S,Nagura H

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:BCOR-CCNB3 sarcoma (BCS) is an undifferentiated tumor that has some clinical and morphologic similarity to classic Ewing sarcoma, but it is characterized by a distinct BCOR-CCNB3 gene fusion. There are no reports describing its cytomorphologic findings. METHODS:We describe cytologic findings of five molecul...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gajdzis P,Laé M,Pierron G,Brisse HJ,Orbach D,Fréneaux P,Laurence V,Klijanienko J

更新日期：2020-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:After several transfusions with D-negative blood, an O Rh-negative women was apparently sensitized to the C and D antigens. In her prenatal workup, it became evident that she had in fact not been sensitized to D but to G, which initially appeared as anti-D plus anti-C. This sensitization pattern is an unusual occurren...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yesus YW,Akhter JE

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A column chromatographic method for the simultaneous single-eluate isolation of CPK-MB and LDH 1,2 has been evaluated. The method is rapid in that the entire isolation is completed in less than an hour and subsequent analysis can be performed using presently available spectrophotometric methods and reagents without th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lederer WH,Gerstbrein HL,McClintock WC

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of acute myelomonocytic leukemia (AMML) in an 81-year-old man is described. Ultrastructural examination revealed the presence of distinct Auer bodies, which commonly are found in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). The Auer bodies had a splinterlike appearance with a distinct tubular substructure. The ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Payne CM,Harrow EJ

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00