The effects of heparin on lipoproteins in high-resolution electrophoresis of serum.

abstract：:Urine cultures represent 40-50% of specimens processed by hospital clinical microbiology laboratories. An accurate rapid screening method to detect positive urine cultures could greatly improve laboratory efficiency. Three hundred eighty-two unselected urines were screened by nephelometry at 2, 4, and 5 hours of shaki...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Heinz T,Pezzlo M,Thrupp L

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cases of 20 patients, each of whom has a positive lupus erythematosus cell preparation and a negative antinuclear factor test, are presented. The concept of a false-positive lupus erythematosus preparation is suggested. Five common mechanisms causing a false-negative antinuclear factor test are discussed and evalu...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Koller SR,Johnston CL Jr,Moncure CW

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine laser microdissection and mass spectrometry (LMD-MS), which has emerged as a new tool to aid in typing amyloid proteins. RESULTS:ALECT-2 is a potential cause of hepatic amyloidosis best detected by LMD-MS. METHODS:One of the more recently reported proteins is ALECT-2 (leukocyte cell-derived chem...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Damlaj M,Amre R,Wong P,How J

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The JAK2(V617F)mutation is recurrent in polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia, which are myeloproliferative neoplasms frequently associated with arterial and venous thromboembolism. It has also been reported as a marker for occult myeloproliferative disorder (MPD) in patients with splanchnic venous thrombosi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shetty S,Kulkarni B,Pai N,Mukundan P,Kasatkar P,Ghosh K

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chicken pox, although common, is rarely associated with autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Reported here is the case of an 8-year-old boy who was found to have cold agglutinin disease and severe anemia several days after he contracted chicken pox. The cold agglutinin appeared to be a polyclonal immunoglobulin M antibody wit...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Friedman HD,Dracker RA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported 24 cases of marrow fibrin-ring granuloma (FRG) encountered in 1 institution and concluded that, contrary to previous studies showing marrow FRG as a diagnostic marker for Q fever, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was the most common proven cause of such FRG. The present study characterized patients with...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chung HJ,Chi HS,Jang S,Park CJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report 2 cases of splenic postchemotherapy histiocyte-rich pseudotumor. Each patient had a history of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, treated with multiagent chemotherapy. Computed tomography scans performed on both patients showed splenic masses. A positron emission tomography scan performed on 1 patient showed inc...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chandra P,Wen YH,Tuli S,Raphael BG,Amorosi EL,Medeiros LJ,Ibrahim S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is one of the most potent mitogenic, highly specific tumor angiogenic factors, which acts via binding to 2 specific tyrosine kinase receptors. There are few studies analyzing VEGF receptor expression in prostate cancer cells, and results are contradictory. In an immunohistoche...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Köllermann J,Helpap B

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histologic diagnosis of a nonpalpable breast lesion requires the following: (1) mammographically directed excision of the suspect lesion, (2) recovery of the target lesion from the tissue specimen, and (3) demonstration of the lesion in histologic section. Recovery of lesional tissue is a function of localization with...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alberhasky MT

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uterine tumors with histologic resemblances to ovarian sex-cord tumors were encountered in 14 women in the fourth to sixth decades of life, most of whom had abnormal vaginal bleeding and enlarged uteri suggesting leiomyomas. The tumors in six cases (Group I) were identical to one or another form of well-recognized end...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Clement PB,Scully RE

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old woman who had undergone orthotopic heart transplantation because of dilative cardiomyopathy received a triple-drug immunosuppressive regimen (cyclosporine A, azathioprine, and prednisolone). During her relatively frequent episodes of acute rejection, she was treated with methylprednisolone and repeated a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kemnitz J,Cremer J,Gebel M,Uysal A,Haverich A,Georgii A

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From November 1985 to December 1990, 2,552 endomyocardial biopsy specimens from 209 heart transplant patients were studied. Forty-four (21%) patients developed 45 episodes of major human cytomegalovirus infection (HCMV). Human cytomegalovirus infection was primary in 13 of 44 patients. Thirty-one patients developed ep...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arbustini E,Grasso M,Diegoli M,Percivalle E,Grossi P,Bramerio M,Campana C,Goggi C,Gavazzi A,Vigano M

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to study the expression and localization of the molecular components of enterocyte junctions in celiac disease together with the level of tyrosine phosphorylation, a phenomenon known to affect their cellular distribution and function, and to explore the influence of proinflammatory cytokines. Duodenal biopsy ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ciccocioppo R,Finamore A,Ara C,Di Sabatino A,Mengheri E,Corazza GR

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is more likely to develop in patients with Hodgkin disease (HD) than in the general population. Although reports of synchronous or metachronous HD and NHL are not uncommon in the literature, the biologic relationship of these 2 malignant neoplasms often is unclear. A larger-than-expected fra...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brown JR,Weng AP,Freedman AS

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunochemical characterization of the light chains of the mesangial immunoglobulin A (IgA) deposits were studied in 45 patients with IgA nephropathy. Kappa and lambda light chains were detected with direct immunofluorescence (IF) method, using monospecific rabbit anti-human anti-kappa and anti-lambda anti-sera. T...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lai KN,Chan KW,Mac-Moune F,Ho CP,Yan KW,Lam CW,Vallance-Owen J

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited giant platelet disorders are extremely rare. The aim of this article is to review the clinical and laboratory features of this heterogeneous group and to arrive at a working classification. We conducted our literature search using the National Library of Medicine database. A total of 12 clinical entities wer...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mhawech P,Saleem A

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a report of the histochemical and ultrastructural analysis of nevus cell aggregates in the placenta from a neonate with a giant pigmented nevus. Although the distinction between aberrant migration of neural crest elements and blood-borne metastasis from the giant pigmented nevus is not readily resolved, the au...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sotelo-Avila C,Graham M,Hanby DE,Rudolph AJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The probabilities of low transferrin saturation, folic acid, or vitamin B12 levels in association with various erythrocyte indices was determined from the prevalences of these abnormalities and the distributions of the indices among 206 hospitalized and 1,000 ambulatory anemic patients. At mean corpuscular hemoglobin ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Griner PF,Oranburg PR

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical limit protocol requiring that all point of care glucose meter readings > 22.2 mmol/L (400 mg/dL) and < 2.2 mmol/L (40 mg/dL) be immediately confirmed by the laboratory was assessed. A total of 193 (2%) of 9,523 glucose meter determinations (63 patients) were > 22.2 or < 2.2 mmol/L. One hundred twenty-two (6...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lum G

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:This report concerns a particular benign histologic variant of Hodgkin's disease, the lymphocyte-predominant category of the Rye classification. The group of 24 cases, all involving localized disease, was first reported in 1960, and is now reappraised, incorporating subsequent data. The interpretations of the original...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wright CJ

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mastocytosis, an unusual disorder of bone marrow-derived, clonally transformed hematopoietic progenitor cells, exhibits a broad spectrum of clinical and morphologic features ranging from a self-limiting benign disorder (ie, juvenile cutaneous mastocytosis) to highly aggressive neoplasms like mast cell leukemia. Princi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Horny HP

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the occurrence of a coenurus, the encysted larval stage of a cestode of the genus Multiceps, within the axilla of a 40-year-old Nigerian woman. The patient had a history of intraductal carcinoma of the breast two years prior to the finding of an ipsilateral axillary mass. Pathologic evaluation o...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kurtycz DF,Alt B,Mack E

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiparameter flow cytometry with optimally selected antibody combinations has expanded the use of this technique beyond traditional applications in hematopathology. By analyzing qualitative patterns of antigen expression on discrete populations or "clusters," one can detect immunophenotypic aberrancy in specific cel...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kroft SH

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We noticed almost routine disparate results in margin lengths when colorectal specimens are measured in vivo by the surgeon and in vitro by the pathologist. We studied 26 sigmoid and rectum specimens to document the amount of organ shrinkage after surgical removal and fixation. Each specimen had a 5.0-cm segment at ea...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goldstein NS,Soman A,Sacksner J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We surveyed 271 laboratories participating in a quality assessment program to ascertain whether the use of a calibration curve for determining the international normalized ratio (INR) would improve interlaboratory accuracy and precision. Lyophilized warfarinized samples with INR values assigned through manual calibrat...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brien WF,Baskerville JC,Taberner DA,Crawford L

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three policies for decreasing unnecessary cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) management Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) tests were compared. The first policy attempted to educate physicians about the use of serologic tests for diagnosing neurosyphilis but allowed the CSF VDRL to be performed either as a screening t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Albright RE Jr,Christenson RH,Emlet JL,Graham CB 3rd,Estevez EG,Wilson ML,Reller LB,Schneider KA

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：:We describe 41 cases of myeloid neoplasms (MNs) secondary to plasma cell myeloma (PCM). The types of MN included myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) in 34 (82.9%), acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in 4 (9.8%), and myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) or MDS/MPN in 3 (7.3%) cases. The latency from treatment to diagnosis of MN rang...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reddi DM,Lu CM,Fedoriw G,Liu YC,Wang FF,Ely S,Boswell EL,Louissaint A Jr,Arcasoy MO,Goodman BK,Wang E

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate cryoprecipitate and platelet ordering practices after the implementation of real-time clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) in a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system. METHODS:Uniform platelet and cryoprecipitate transfusion thresholds were implemented at 11 hospitals in a regiona...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Collins RA,Triulzi DJ,Waters JH,Reddy V,Yazer MH

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00