Localized thymic Langerhans' cell histiocytosis and its relationship with myasthenia gravis. Immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, and cytometric studies.

abstract：:A number of classes of endogenous antibodies, including heterophile, rheumatoid factor, and autoantibodies, can interfere with immunoassay measurements of many different analytes. Heterophile and rheumatoid factor antibody interferences have been described previously for the AxSYM cardiac troponin I assay. Several com...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Knoblock RJ,Lehman CM,Smith RA,Apple FS,Roberts WL

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:5-Lipoxygenase (5-LO) is an arachidonic acid- metabolizing enzyme, which has been demonstrated to exert a role in colorectal cancer tumorigenesis. Its activity in promoting neoangiogenesis in colorectal malignancies has been also recently theorized on the basis of in vitro studies. OBJECTIVE:To investigate whe...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Barresi V,Vitarelli E,Tuccari G,Barresi G

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:In the era of targeted cancer therapy, there is growing interest in developing novel therapeutic strategies against endometrial carcinoma, especially its most biologically aggressive variant, serous adenocarcinoma. Several publications have demonstrated that a significant proportion of uterine serous carcinomas...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Buza N,Roque DM,Santin AD

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Since 1988, the College of American Pathologists has been offering materials for calibration verification coupled with the surveys for linearity, called the linearity (LN) surveys. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether successful completion of the College of American Pathologists LN surveys provides a benefit in term...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Kroll MH,Styer PE,Vasquez DA

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT.—:Related to the advances in prenatal diagnosis and the emergence of medically challenging situations, there has been an increased interest in conducting a pathologic study of first-trimester abortion products. OBJECTIVE.—:To evaluate measurements across a large group of first-trimester spontaneous abortion sp...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Nogueira R,Sousa S,Braga AC,Azevedo A,Pereira N,Carmo O,Tavares MP,Pinto JC

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Values for total lactate dehydrogenase (LDH; EC 1.1.1.27) activity and LDH isoenzymes 1 and 2 were determined in 80 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and in 40 without AMI every 24 hours up to 15 days after admission, when total serum LDH level returned to normal. The sensitivity, specificity, and effici...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Rotenberg Z,Davidson E,Weinberger I,Fuchs J,Sperling O,Agmon J

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Recent randomized controlled trials have shown a significant decrease in unsatisfactory rates for liquid-based cytology (LBC) compared with conventional Papanicolaou test (CP). The underlying causes and relevance of unsatisfactory results for LBC and CP have never been compared within the setting of a randomize...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Siebers AG,Klinkhamer PJ,Vedder JE,Arbyn M,Bulten J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The development of targeted therapies in the treatment of lung carcinoma is a rapidly growing area that requires a precise histologic classification of lung carcinomas and the implementation into clinical practice of testing for predictive biomarkers of therapy response. Molecular testing has added another laye...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Dacic S

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an autopsy case of pulmonary hypertension associated with systemic lupus erythematosus in a 48-year-old woman. After 8-year follow-up under a definite diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus, she experienced gradually developing exertional dyspnea with palpitation. Her chest x-ray showed clear lung fields ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Yokoi T,Tomita Y,Fukaya M,Ichihara S,Kakudo K,Takahashi Y

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal solitary fibrous tumors (SFTs) have been reported infrequently. We report a 76-year-old man with a left renal mass that had previously been shown radiographically to be stable, but was now growing. Grossly, the mass measured 12 cm, was poorly circumscribed, and invaded beyond the renal capsule. Approximately 10%...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Fine SW,McCarthy DM,Chan TY,Epstein JI,Argani P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A T-cell immunoblastic lymphoma having plasmacytoid features that mimic B-cell immunoblastic lymphoma, is described. The lesion was composed of sheets of pleomorphic plasmacytoid cells that displayed a helper T-cell immunophenotype (Leu-1+, Leu-3+, Leu-4+, Leu-5+, Leu-9-, Leu-2-). Ultrastructural features were consist...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Swanson S,Innes DJ Jr,Frierson HF Jr,Hess CE

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:- At our medical center, cytopathologists perform rapid on-site evaluation for specimen adequacy of fine-needle aspiration and touch imprint of needle core biopsy lung cancer samples. Two years ago the molecular diagnostics laboratory at our institution changed to next-generation sequencing using the Ion Torren...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Padmanabhan V,Steinmetz HB,Rizzo EJ,Erskine AJ,Fairbank TL,de Abreu FB,Tsongalis GJ,Tafe LJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of demonstrating linearity for a clinical chemistry analytical system has caused considerable debate. Disagreement about the way linearity is demonstrated has led to some misunderstanding about just what linearity means to the analytical goals. In many cases where linearity is evaluated by statistical m...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Shires GW

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 14-year-old adolescent girl presented with severe congestive heart failure, progressive throughout 3 months. A precordial thrill, machinery-like murmur, and right bundle branch block were noted. Death occurred despite digitalis and diuretic therapy and removal of pleural and ascitic fluid. The autopsy revealed 2 mul...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Lucey BP,Thomas CB,Hutchins GM

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two autopsy cases of sympodial monsters, sympus dipus, were studied. They are of interest not only because they show the characteristic malformations of the limbs and the viscera below the diaphragm, but because one case also shows Potter's face and an atrial septal defect of the heart. In addition, histologic determi...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Nakamura Y,Komatsu Y,Nagasue N,Fukagawa K,Hamaguchi H,Akashi M

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare angiomyxoma of umbilica cord occurred in a male infant. The presence of such a tumor with its vascular component arising from a hypoplastic umbilical artery supports the hypothesis that the lesions arose through improper placental vascularization. ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Carvounis EE,Dimmick JE,Wright VJ

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Previous studies have shown that paraproteins caused spurious results on individual analytes including total bilirubin (TBIL), direct bilirubin (DBIL), or HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C). Studies demonstrating paraprotein interferences with multiple analytes measured by different analyzers have not been reported. OBJE...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Yang Y,Howanitz PJ,Howanitz JH,Gorfajn H,Wong K

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:-Immunohistochemical analysis of tissue biopsy specimens is a crucial tool in diagnosis of both rejection and infection in patients with solid organ transplants. In the past 15 years, the concept of antibody-mediated rejection has been refined, and diagnostic criteria have been codified in renal, heart, pancrea...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Troxell ML,Lanciault C

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Primary liposarcomas of the pleura are extremely rare malignancies, and relatively few reports appear in the world literature. DESIGN:We compiled a small series of 4 cases of primary pleural liposarcoma from the files of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Washington, DC) and compared the histopatholog...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Okby NT,Travis WD

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic angiomyolipoma is a rare, benign, hepatic mesenchymal neoplasm found in both males and females, and most commonly in adult females. Angiomyolipoma occurs most commonly in the kidneys. The liver represents the second most frequent site of involvement. Hepatic angiomyolipomas are composed of varying amounts of s...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Petrolla AA,Xin W

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) is the most common tumor of conjunctival epithelium associated with risk of permanent visual impairment. It includes conjunctival intraepithelial neoplasia and squamous cell carcinoma. Although American Joint Committee on Cancer-TNM (AJCC-TNM) staging is commonly used in...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Chauhan S,Sen S,Sharma A,Tandon R,Kashyap S,Pushker N,Vanathi M,Sharma N

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with sarcoidosis had a biopsy of a firm nontender breast nodule that at analysis disclosed multiple noncaseating granulomas. In another patient with sarcoidosis, noncaseating granulomas were an incidental finding in a mastectomy specimen containing medullary carcinoma and in two subsequent biopsy specimens o...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Gansler TS,Wheeler JE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 72-year-old patient had a meningotheliomatous meningioma that invaded through the skull and into temporalis muscle. One year following craniotomy for removal of the neoplasm, he developed headaches, diplopia, and proptosis of the left eye. Biopsy of the orbital contents revealed a malignant supporting tissue neoplas...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Repola D,Weatherbee L

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissecting aneurysms of the pulmonary trunk are a rare cause of sudden death. We report a case in a patient with pulmonary hypertension secondary to a patent ductus arteriosus. A brief review of the condition is also presented. ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Nguyen GK,Dowling GP

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 43-year-old white woman had a pheochromocytoma removed from her left adrenal gland, and one year later she developed a new left upper abdominal mass that was found to be a neuroblastoma. On both occasions, urinary vanillylmandelic acid level was elevated. However, urinary norepinephrine and epinephrine levels were i...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Amodeo C,Perez J,Sturgill BC,Turner SM,Atuk NO

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although atrial myxoma is the most common primary tumor of the heart, the synchronous occurrence of myxomas of the intestine and the heart has not been reported in the English literature. We report a case of a 47-year-old woman who presented with small bowel obstruction by a pedunculated mass that was found to be a my...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Wang Y,Sharkey FE

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The addition of cetuximab to first-line chemotherapy substantially prolonged survival in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors expressed high levels of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR; immunohistochemistry score of ≥200 on a scale of 0-300). OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the interobserv...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Rüschoff J,Kerr KM,Grote HJ,Middel P,von Heydebreck A,Alves VA,Baldus SE,Büttner R,Carvalho L,Fink L,Jochum W,Lo AW,López-Ríos F,Marx A,Molina TJ,Olszewski WT,Rieker RJ,Volante M,Thunnissen E,Wrba F,Celik I,Stör

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physician shortages are acute in developing countries, where disease burden is the greatest and resources for health care are very limited. A lack of pathologists in these countries has lead to delays in diagnosis and misdiagnoses that adversely affect patient care and survival. The introduction of telepathology into ...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Hitchcock CL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Although much has been said and written about medical error and about error in pathology since the publication of the Institute of Medicine's report on medical error in 1999, precise definitions of what constitutes error in anatomic pathology do not exist for the specialty. Without better definitions, it is imp...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Sirota RL

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a case of acute myeloid leukemia (subtype M1) with biphasic morphology. The bone marrow biopsy showed 2 distinct regions of blasts, one containing large cells and the other small cells. Morphometric and DNA ploidy analysis showed that the mean nuclear area and mean DNA index for the large cell re...

journal_title：Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine

authors： Imkie M,Davis MK,Persons DL,Cunningham MT

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00