Blast-like cells in the cerebrospinal fluid of young infants: further characterization of clinical setting, morphology and origin.

abstract：:The determination of tumor cell estrogen receptor (ER) expression status by immunohistochemical analysis has become standard practice, yet assay reproducibility has not been assessed adequately. By using a breast cancer tissue microarray, we examined interlaboratory variability in ER reporting. A 2-fold redundant tiss...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Parker RL,Huntsman DG,Lesack DW,Cupples JB,Grant DR,Akbari M,Gilks CB

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I)-derived amyloid commonly occurs in atherosclerotic plaques. To clarify apo A-I amyloid formation, plasma levels of apo A-I and cholesterol were related to the presence of amyloid in atherosclerotic plaques in 15 patients with peripheral atherosclerosis, subjected to arterial reco...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mucchiano GI,Jonasson L,Häggqvist B,Einarsson E,Westermark P

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary role of the surgical pathologist is to diagnose, and then to transmit this information effectively so that it can be used to guide patient management; therefore, the dual roles of the surgical pathologist as a diagnostician and consultant are inextricable. The diagnostic pathologist determines the nature, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hutter RV

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The metaplastic intestinal epithelium in Barrett esophagus (BE) occasionally contains Paneth cells; however, little is known regarding the prevalence and significance of Paneth cell metaplasia (PCM) in BE. METHODS:We evaluated 757 esophageal biopsy specimens with intestinal metaplasia (IM) for PCM. Outcome ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chen W,Frankel WL,Cronley KM,Yu L,Zhou X,Yearsley MM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Overuse of laboratory tests is a persistent issue. We examined the use and overuse of serum immunofixation electrophoresis and serum free light chain assays to develop an algorithm for optimizing utilization. METHODS:A retrospective review of all tests, for investigation of monoclonal gammopathies, for all ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Heaton C,Vyas SG,Singh G

更新日期：2016-04-01 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：:Following normalization of blood glucose levels, a marked change in the MCV and in the calculated hematocrit was observed in five patients with transient severe hyperglycemia. The addition of varied concentrations of glucose to blood samples from healthy volunteers and from patients with microcytic, macrocytic, and no...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Holt JT,DeWandler MJ,Arvan DA

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory Branch Complement Fixation and FIAX (fluorescence immunoassay) were compared for the detection of antibodies to herpes simplex virus and cytomegalovirus in human sera. Of 68 sera with no antibodies to herpes simplex virus by complement fixation, one specimen was positive by FIAX (specificity, 98.6%). Of 75 ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Segar JE,Smith TF,Ilstrup DM

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:To model renal function 2 years following radical nephrectomy with quantitative analyses using clinical, histopathologic, and renal composite cortical volumes (CCV). Methods:This retrospective study involved an assessment of the nonneoplastic kidney tissue by three blinded nephropathologists using modified ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pruthi DK,Oomah S,Lu V,Ting T,Knickle C,Liss MA,Gibson IW,Kirkpatrick IDC,McGregor TB

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Promotion of high-quality care at a lower cost requires educational initiatives across the continuum of medical education. A needs assessment was performed to inform the design of an educational tool with the goal of teaching laboratory stewardship to medical students. METHODS:The needs assessment consisted...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Roth CG,Huang WY,Caruso AC,Sekhon N,Kung DH,Greely JT,Du YB,Holder-Haynes JG,Little JE,Fielder EK,Ismail NJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report on the cytologic features of six cases of poorly differentiated "insular" carcinoma (IC) of the thyroid, a recently described variety of thyroid tumor intermediate between well-differentiated and anaplastic neoplasms. It is characterized by trabecular and/or alveolar growth patterns, merging with fo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pietribiasi F,Sapino A,Papotti M,Bussolati G

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of the Coulter STKS (Coulter, Hialeah, FL) was evaluated in a busy computerized teaching hospital laboratory. The STKS was compared with a Coulter S Plus IV and manually performed 400 white blood-cell differentials. The measured blood-count parameters (i.e., white blood cells [WBCs], red blood cells [R...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Warner BA,Reardon DM

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of kidneys of ten patients with uremia and severe hypertension treated by chronic intermittent hemodialysis revealed a deposition of glycogen within interstitial cells of the renal medulla. This is unlike any described renal distribution of glycogen. Electron microscopic studies performed in one case demon...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hughson MD,McManus JF,Fitts CT,Williams AV

更新日期：1979-09-01 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：:Intrauterine clostridial infections have historically been associated with puerperal sepsis, often subsequent to instrumented abortions. Isolated reports have been associated with a malignant neoplasm or degenerating leiomyoma, most often after instrumentation, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy. In these cases, well-...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hogan SF,Ireland K

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with nonhemolytic Lewis antibodies in the serum were transfused on the basis of major crossmatch compatibility alone. No adverse clinical affects were noted when 33 such patients received a total of 230 transfusions. Considerable savings in technologist time and reagent cost were realized by adopting this pol...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Waheed A,Kennedy MS,Gerhan S,Senhauser DA

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocytes with orcein-positive ground-glass cytoplasm have been shown to contain abundant hepatitis B surface antigen in the cisternae of excess smooth endoplasmic reticulum. Hepatocytes with similar cytoplasmic changes that did not react with orcein were observed in 26.5% of 49 cases of cirrhosis. These cells exhib...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gerber MA,Thung SN

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe our experience, both in meeting challenges and in reporting outcomes, of the consolidation of anatomic pathology services in the North Shore-LIJ Health System in February 2011. METHODS:We addressed issues of governance, personnel, physical plant, quality programming, connectivity, and education....

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Groppi DE,Alexis CE,Sugrue CF,Bevis CC,Bhuiya TA,Crawford JM

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histiocytosis-X cells were obtained at autopsy from the lungs and lymph nodes of a patient who died of the disseminated infantile form of this disease (Letterer-Siwe disease). The ability of these cells to synthesize and release prostaglandins was investigated in culture, by prelabeling the cell lipids with [14C] arac...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gonzalez-Crussi F,Hsueh W,Wiederhold MD

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of urinary homovanillic acid (HVA) is an important analysis to establish the diagnosis and prognosis of neuroblastoma. A method is presented for the determination of this metabolite of dopamine using its reaction with 1-nitroso-2-naphthol and nitrous acid. The method has shown a sensitivity, specificity,...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rothstein A

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to characterize how well computerized "case flags" performed in evaluating critical diagnoses in anatomic pathology. All cases identified by a pathologist at sign-out and flagged as a critical diagnosis in anatomic pathology in 2 hospital laboratories during a 3-year period were reviewed. A subset of all cri...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Renshaw A,Gould EW

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of microcystic adenoma (glycogen-rich cystadenoma) of the exocrine pancreas in a 62-year-old white female presenting with adult-onset diabetes mellitus is reported. Clinical, histopathologic, and ultrastructural findings are discussed with particular emphasis on the presence of myoepithelial cells, a morphologi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nyongo A,Huntrakoon M

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of beta-thromboglobulin (BTG) and platelet lactic dehydrogenase (LDH) as markers for alpha-granule release and platelet lysis, respectively, has been reported to correlate with the amount of damage incurred during the preparation and storage of platelet concentrates. We compared the concentrations of t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kalmin ND,Wilson MJ,Liles BA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of trapped plasma in the microhematocrit red blood cell column of samples from 25 normal individuals and 102 patients was investigated. The mean value for the normal individuals was 1.53%, and the mean values for the samples from the patient groups ranged from 1.41% to 1.82%. These groups included patients ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pearson TC,Guthrie DL

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 63-year-old white man had simultaneous onset of the Guillain-Barré syndrome and the nephrotic syndrome, three weeks after having an upper respiratory tract infection. Many granular casts were noticed in the urine sediment. Renal biopsy specimens showed early membranous glomerulonephritis and acute interstitial nephr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Talamo TS,Borochovitz D

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venography was performed on fifty-six patients suspected of having deep venous thrombosis (DVT) of the legs. The accuracy of the D-dimer measurement in plasma using two latex tests and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was compared with that of usual determination of total fibrin(ogen) degradation products ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bounameaux H,Schneider PA,Reber G,de Moerloose P,Krahenbuhl B

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to further clarify the histologic criteria and prognostic measurement of appendiceal adenoma and well differentiated adenocarcinoma, lectin binding activity in 31 cases of appendiceal mucocele (6 hyperplasias, 16 adenomas and 9 adenocarcinomas) was studied using an immunoperoxidase staining method. An additio...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kim CW,Kim YI

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：:This paper presents the first comprehensive morphometry analysis of normal thyroid, adenomas, and follicular and papillary carcinomas. The mean nuclear volume and the mean nuclear surface increased, while the volume densities of rough endoplasmic reticulum and dense bodies decreased from normal thyroid through adenoma...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Johannessen JV,Sobrinho-Simóes M,Finseth I,Pilström L

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A flow cytometric technic was developed to detect platelet surface-bound immunoglobulin in patients with thrombocytopenia. Elevated platelet surface IgG and/or IgM was detected in 90.9% of patients with immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP). False positive results occurred in 9.3% of patients with nonimmune thrombocyt...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rosenfeld CS,Nichols G,Bodensteiner DC

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00