The effects of nonclassic pediatric bacterial pathogens on the usefulness of the Directigen latex agglutination test.

abstract：:To investigate the association between the positive direct antiglobulin test (DAT) and hypergammaglobulinemia, the authors prospectively studied 154 patients, classified into three groups: Group 1, 52 patients with a positive DAT result in pretransfusion samples; Group 2, 52 patients with a negative DAT result; and Gr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Huh YO,Liu FJ,Rogge K,Chakrabarty L,Lichtiger B

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of florid proliferative sialometaplasia arising in salivary ductal inclusions in an intraparotid lymph node is described. This lesion probably represents an exuberant response to sialadenitis. Other entities that enter into its differential diagnosis in this particular location are discussed. Except for Warthin...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goldman RL,Klein HZ

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Increased frequency of hyperamylasemia has previously been reported in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients, but studies determined total amylase activity and were performed before the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). We evaluated the frequency of pancreatic hyper...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Szőke D,Ridolfo A,Valente C,Galli M,Panteghini M

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:The lupus anticoagulant was identified in three patients. Laboratory studies gave evidence of inhibitory activity directed against phospholipid and prekallikrein. Inhibition of prekallikrein has not been reported previously. When exposed to kaolin, all three patients' plasmas failed to develop the level of fibrinolyti...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sanfelippo MJ,Drayna CJ

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of patients with lymphoid malignancies have suggested a relationship between survival and the presence of more than 40% hard-mirror cells in the bone marrow. This report represents the first detailed study of a patient with American Burkitt's lymphoma with numerous hand-mirror cells in the bone marrow...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schumacher HR,Rainey T,Davidson L,Simon D,Strong M,Creegan WJ,Holloway ML,Stass SA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective double-blind trial was performed to investigate the safety of long-term oral anticoagulant control when dosaged adjustment depends on the prothrombin times assessed with one type of thromboplastin being calculated as if assayed by another type. The three main types of thromboplastin, i.e., bovine (Thromb...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Boekhout-Mussert MJ,van der Kolk-Schaap PJ,Hermans J,Loeliger EA

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter medium (CAMPY, Becton Dickinson [BD] Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, MD) and Vancomycin Screen Agar (VSA, BD) were compared for their ability to screen for vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) from primary plates. A microdilution minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) assay (Pasco, BD) served as t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shigei J,Tan G,Shiao A,de la Maza LM,Peterson EM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of direct thrombin inhibitors (DTIs) for prophylactic or therapeutic anticoagulation is increasing because of the predictable bioavailability and short half-life of these DTIs. However, in certain situations, indication of the concentration is warranted. We investigated the effects of 3 DTIs (lepirudin, argatr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Curvers J,van de Kerkhof D,Stroobants AK,van den Dool EJ,Scharnhorst V

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the morphologic findings of different types of marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (MZL) involving the bone marrow (BM), including 18 splenic (SMZL), 6 extranodal (mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma), and 6 nodal cases. The median percentage of BM involvement was 15%, and multiple overlapping patterns of...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Inamdar KV,Medeiros LJ,Jorgensen JL,Amin HM,Schlette EJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose was to evaluate the clinical, histologic, and histochemical staining characteristics of intestinal metaplasia (IM) at an endoscopically normal-appearing esophagogastric junction (IM-EGJ) compared with IM in a columnar-lined esophagus (IM-CLE). A prospective study included 253 patients referred for elective...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： van Sandick JW,van Lanschot JB,van Felius L,Haringsma J,Tytgat GN,Dekker W,Drillenburg P,Offerhaus GJ,ten Kate FJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:The presence of antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies with specificity for proteinase 3 (PR3-ANCA) usually is detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with purified PR3 as a substrate. We studied the technical performance of direct and capture ELISA using a recombinant proteolytically inactive form of...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rarok AA,Huitema MG,van der Leij MJ,van der Geld YM,Berthold H,Schmitt J,Stegeman CA,Limburg PC,Kallenberg CG

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the usefulness of calretinin as an immunohistochemistry marker in the diagnosis of cardiac myxoma (CM) and the origin of myxoma cells, we examined 24 CMs and 9 fetal hearts with immunohistochemical methods on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. We compared 24 CMs with 10 mural thrombi, 6 jaw myxomas, an...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Terracciano LM,Mhawech P,Suess K,D'Armiento M,Lehmann FS,Jundt G,Moch H,Sauter G,Mihatsch MJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:Encephalitozoon (Septata) intestinalis affects AIDS patients with CD4 counts <100/microL, causing intestinal and disseminated disease. It must be distinguished from the more common intestinal microsporidian, Enterocytozoon bieneusi, and from other microsporidia of extraintestinal tissues, such as Encephalitozoon helle...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chu P,West AB

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:To examine the relationship between the recently defined Gleason grade groups and prostate cancer-specific mortality. Methods:If the probability of prostate cancer-specific death is symbolized as P(PSD), the probability of biochemical failure is symbolized as P(BF), and the probability of prostate cancer-sp...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Vollmer RT

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ligand assay specific for cobalamin that uses mouse stomach as the source of intrinsic factor has been developed. When mouse stomach extract incubated with radiocobalamin is fractionated by gel chromatography, the radioactive complex elutes as a single peak with apparent molecular weight of 54,900. Formation of the ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reynoso G,Tuggey R,Hansen H,Fontelo PA,Konopka S,Miller JT

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine whether a group of cases that was relatively high in disagreements and subsequent amendments could be identified and targeted for blinded review. During a 4-year period, 8,916 surgical pathology and nongynecologic cytology cases were subjected to blinded review; of these, there were 616 disagree...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Renshaw AA,Gould EW

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose was to determine whether the in vitro (or "spiked curve") method for the therapeutic heparin range is an accurate and valid method for heparin monitoring. Many laboratories use the in vitro method for determining the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT)-based unfractionated heparin (UFH) therapeuti...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gausman JN,Marlar RA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To facilitate the differential diagnosis of poorly differentiated metastatic carcinomas of unknown primary site, we evaluated p63 and cytokeratin (CK) 5/6 as immunohistochemical markers for squamous cell carcinomas. The study cases were as follows: squamous cell carcinoma of the lungs, head/neck, esophagus, cervix ute...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kaufmann O,Fietze E,Mengs J,Dietel M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma (BSCC) and carcinosarcoma of the esophagus are rare entities, making up fewer than 2% of esophageal malignancies. Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) in 1 case of BSCC and 2 cases of carcinosarcoma and subsequent array CGH in 1 case each of BSCC and carcinosarcoma revealed common c...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schaefer IM,Enders C,Polten A,Haller F,Frölich AM,Cameron S,Schüler P,Schweiger P,Gunawan B,Beham A,Füzesi L

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Peritoneal mesothelial cysts have been reported under various terms, including benign cystic mesothelioma, usually in the form of case reports/series, whereas extraperitoneal cases are rarely reported. Our objective was to report the detailed characteristics of cystic lesions of the serosal cavities. METHOD...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Karpathiou G,Casteillo F,Dridi M,Peoc'h M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of clinical signs, elevated values of the cardiac isoforms of troponin T (cTnT) and I (cTnI) can be found in the serum samples of some patients with skeletal muscle myopathies; the cause is unclear. We studied the messenger RNA (mRNA) expression of cTnT and cTnI in the skeletal muscles of 24 patients wi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Messner B,Baum H,Fischer P,Quasthoff S,Neumeier D

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the cell-cycle-associated Ki-67 antigen by MIB-1 monoclonal antibody was retrospectively assessed in 35 surgically resected neuroendocrine tumor specimens of the pancreas embedded in paraffin. The MIB-1 proliferation index was correlated with the classification of the neuroendocrine tumors of the pan...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gentil Perret A,Mosnier JF,Buono JP,Berthelot P,Chipponi J,Balique JG,Cuilleret J,Dechelotte P,Boucheron S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures from the gallbladder and blood of a 60-year-old man with acute cholecystitis grew Haemophilus aphrophilus. This organism, an unusual isolate in clinical specimens, is most frequently seen in patients with either endocarditis or brain abscesses. Haemophilus aphrophilus may be distinguished from Eikenella corro...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Huck W,Britt MR

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Blood specimen hemolysis is a major cause of sample recollection in the neonatal intensive care unit. We aimed to reduce the hemolysis rate from 6.3% at baseline to less than 4% within the 9 months' duration of the study. METHODS:Intravenous infusion of lipid emulsion during sample collection, sample collec...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tolan NV,Kaleta EJ,Fang JL,Colby CE,Carey WA,Karon BS,Baumann NA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed the cytologic features of 20 adrenal cortical carcinomas (ACCs; 9 primary and 11 metastatic) from 19 patients and highlighted diagnostic pitfalls. The mean size of primary ACCs was 11.9 cm, and that of metastatic ACCs was 3.0 cm. The metastatic sites were liver, lung, lymph node, soft tissue, and bone. Pri...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ren R,Guo M,Sneige N,Moran CA,Gong Y

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ideal method of heparinization should achieve therapeutic concentrations (0.2-0.5 IU/mL) in the artificial kidney and the least possible amount of heparin in the patient. Total heparinization using a bolus dose (8400 IU) followed by continuous infusion of heparin (20 IU/min), initially showed 1.4-2.4 IU/mL in the ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Talstad I,Kjelby K

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods for testing stool samples for hemoglobin utilize peroxidase oxidation of chemical indicators such as guaiac or benzidine. These tests have frequent false-positive and false-negative results, complicating random screening for occult gastrointestinal bleeding. The authors have developed an immunochemical...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barrows GH,Burton RM,Jarrett DD,Russell GG,Alford MD,Songster CL

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00