Aberrations of chromosomes 9 and 17 in bilharzial bladder cancer as detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization.

abstract：:This report describes the use of counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) as a method of detecting activation of the complement system. With this technic small amounts of C3 split products (C3c/d) can be detected in plasma samples by specific precipitation with antiserum in less than two hours. The CIE technic is a highly s...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arroyave CM,Taylor DG,Gallup P,Nakamura RM

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the pathologic significance of ductular reactions in chronic liver diseases with respect to cellular senescence. The expression of senescence-associated markers (p16(INK4a) and p21(WAF1/Cip1)), cell proliferation, cell cycle markers (cyclin D and cyclin A), and neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) was ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sasaki M,Ikeda H,Yamaguchi J,Miyakoshi M,Sato Y,Nakanuma Y

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen cases of low-grade B-cell lymphoma involving unusual extranodal sites have been studied in comparison to cases reported or observed arising in typical mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues. In every case, histopathologic features conformed to those characteristic for lymphomas of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pelstring RJ,Essell JH,Kurtin PJ,Cohen AR,Banks PM

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the hematopoietic origin of mast cells is very probable, the cell from which they originate is still a matter of speculation. The description of "transitional basophil/mast cells" in myeloproliferative disorders has suggested a common origin for basophils and mast cells. In a case of mast cell transformation ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gabriel LC,Escribano LM,Marie JP,Zittoun R,Navarro JL

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of malignant lymphoma is an increasingly important cause of morbidity and mortality in AIDS patients. The incidence of AIDS-related lymphoma in some developing countries such as Brazil is increasing as the survival of HIV infection has improved. Although there is a clear association between several type...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bacchi CE,Bacchi MM,Rabenhorst SH,Soares FA,Fonseca LE Jr,Barbosa HS,Weiss LM,Gown AM

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to study the possible association between oral lichen planus and chronic hepatitis C in patients from the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Two groups of patients were studied: group 1, 50 patients with oral lichen planus evaluated for the presence of chronic hepatitis C; and group 2, 215 patients with chroni...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： de Mattos Camargo Grossmann S,de Aguiar MC,Teixeira R,do Carmo MA

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied methylation of 2 tumor suppressor genes (p14, p16) and 4 MINT (methylated in tumor) clones (MINT1, MINT2, MINT25, MINT31) among 51 fundic gland polyps (FGPs) and 27 normal gastric body biopsy samples using bisulfite treatment of genomic DNA followed by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction. Thirty-...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Abraham SC,Park SJ,Cruz-Correa M,Houlihan PS,Half EE,Lynch PM,Wu TT

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:The case of a 23-year-old woman with a primary small cell carcinoma of the endometrium is reported. The light microscopic features were similar to those of small cell carcinoma of the lung and those of the uterine cervix. Electron microscopy revealed cytoplasmic neurosecretory type granules and indistinct cell junctio...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kumar NB

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Lean methodologies have been applied in many industries to reduce waste. We applied Lean techniques to redesign laboratory workstations with the aim of reducing the number of times employees must leave their workstations to complete their tasks. At baseline in 68 workflows (aggregates or sequence of process steps) stu...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yerian LM,Seestadt JA,Gomez ER,Marchant KK

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the relationship between pathologic features and clinical outcome is well established in adult adrenocortical neoplasms, the prognostic value of these features in pediatric adrenocortical neoplasms (PACN) is unclear. In a series of PACNs from 54 Brazilian children, the authors retrospectively investigated the...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bugg MF,Ribeiro RC,Roberson PK,Lloyd RV,Sandrini R,Silva JB,Epelman S,Shapiro DN,Parham DM

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the laboratory evaluation of platelet disorders, there are a number of situations in which determining the capacity of platelets to synthesize thromboxane is of diagnostic value. An assay for thromboxane production is required for the diagnosis of cyclooxygenase and thromboxane synthetase defects and is useful in d...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Connor AM,Laposata M

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have developed an immunoalkaline phosphatase method and have applied it with success to the study of blood cells. They have now observed that macrophages in tissues and in serous effusions may be nonspecifically stained when immunoalkaline phosphatase methods are used. A systematic study of this endogenous...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Janckila AJ,Yam LT,Li CY

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

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：:We performed a retrospective clinicopathologic study on sequential biopsy specimens from 90 patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia to study therapy-specific effects of busulfan (28 patients), hydroxyurea (32 patients), and interferon-alfa (IFN-alfa; 30 patients). Bone marrow specim...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thiele J,Kvasnicka HM,Schmitt-Graeff A,Bundschuh S,Biermann T,Roessler G,Wasmus M,Diehl V,Zankovich R,Schaefer HE

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared a rapid, point-of-care multimarker protocol with a single and serial troponin I (TnI)-only protocol in 5,244 patients admitted to the emergency department with chest pain. The diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) was based on a doubling myoglobin level accompanied by at least a 50% increase in th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Straface AL,Myers JH,Kirchick HJ,Blick KE

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review summarizes our experience using blinded review as a method to measure quality in surgical pathology. It details the specifics about how the review is performed, the weaknesses in the method, and then summarizes our results so far. These results suggest that error rates correlate with the individual patholo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Renshaw AA,Gould EW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A two-sample plot is often used to display test results in clinical chemistry external quality control programs. The use of control materials at different concentrations calls for a re-evaluation of the two-sample plot. A modification of the two-sample plot is presented. The axes of the graph are graduated in units of...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Elion-Gerritzen WE

更新日期：1977-01-01 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：: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：:Although acute myeloid leukemias (AMLs) cytochemically negative for myeloperoxidase are now well recognized, myeloid surface antigen-negative AMLs are rare. The morphologic, cytochemical, immunologic, and cytogenetic or molecular features of such cases are described in four adults aged 19 to 60 years. All had AML with...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arber DA,Glackin C,Lowe G,Medeiros LJ,Slovak ML

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fresh frozen plasma (FFP) normally requires about 45 min to thaw in a 37 degrees C water bath when placed inside an additional plastic overbag. That relatively prolonged time may result in non-utilization or delays in delivery of the product, especially, during emergency surgery. One report recommends the use of a mic...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Westphal RG,Tindle B,Howard PL,Golden EA,Page GA

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five hundred eighty-seven daily urine specimens were examined from 179 consecutive renal allograft recipients with the use of quantitative cytodiagnostic urinalysis. Specimens were divided between those patients receiving cyclosporine (CyA) and steroid immunotherapy (73 patients) and those receiving standard azathiopr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ashton A,Alexander DP,DeBellis C,Schumann GB

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Point-of-care testing (POCT) is a means of providing patient services more rapidly. Most evaluations of bedside laboratory testing devices have emphasized analytical performance in tertiary care settings. In contrast, the authors compare the operating cost of POCT for glucose and an electrolyte/glucose/blood urea nitr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nosanchuk JS,Keefner R

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the antigen expression profiles of 19 anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) cases by multiparameter flow cytometry. The neoplastic cells expressed CD45, HLA-DR, and CD30 in all cases. At least 1 T cell-associated antigen was expressed in each case (CD2, 12/17 [71%]; CD4, 12/19 [63%]; CD3, 6/19 [32%]; CD7, 6...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Juco J,Holden JT,Mann KP,Kelley LG,Li S

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the use of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) for the early, noninvasive determination of coronary reperfusion following thrombolytic therapy. Cardiac troponin I, creatine kinase (CK)-MB, and myoglobin concentrations were measured in early serum specimens at 30, 60, and 90 minutes after initiation of therapy...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Apple FS,Henry TD,Berger CR,Landt YA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of microcystic adenomas of the pancreas with special reference to multicentric origin are described. The gross features and light microscopic findings were consistent with those described as being microcystic adenomas, but in two cases the gross examination and gelatin-embedded giant slices revealed multip...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kim YI,Seo JW,Suh JS,Lee KU,Choe KJ

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We report a case of a patient with diabetes mellitus and unexpectedly low hemoglobin A1c results associated with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). We review the impact of shortened RBC half-life on the interpretation of hemoglobin A1c levels. METHODS:Patient history and laboratory test results were...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Xia D,McShine R,Berg AH

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infusible platelet membranes (IPMs) prepared from fresh or outdated human platelets have been shown to correct prolonged bleeding times in thrombocytopenic rabbits. In previous trials, IPMs did not seem to be immunogenic and lacked dose-limiting toxicity. The present study was undertaken to explore whether the platele...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Graham SS,Gonchoroff NJ,Miller JL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00