The role of fine-needle aspiration biopsy in the management of palpable thyroid nodules.

abstract：:Delta checking is a laboratory information system (LIS)-based tool that detects patient and laboratory quality control errors. By using hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) data, we developed a novel approach to summarizing and presenting patient Delta values to address limitations of current Delta check algorithms. Delta values we...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tran DV,Cembrowski GS,Lee T,Higgins TN

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytopathologic smears and/or imprints of human adrenal cortex (9 cases) and its disorders were examined, including adrenocortical nodule (3 cases), adrenocortical adenoma (23 cases), carcinoma (8 cases), and renal cell carcinoma (6 cases). Immunocytochemistry directed against 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and ad...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sasano H,Shizawa S,Nagura H

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi is difficult to detect in routine biopsy material from patients with skin lesions of borreliosis. In this study, a new immunohistochemical method, focus floating microscopy (FFM), was developed to detect B burgdorferi in tissue sections and was compared with polymerase chain reaction (PCR). By usi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eisendle K,Grabner T,Zelger B

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) developed blast crisis that morphologically appeared to be the microgranular variant of acute promyelocytic leukemia. This represented 8% of CML patients developing blast crisis from 1984 to 1993. Cytogenetic studies revealed translocation 15;17 in addition to trans...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rosenthal NS,Knapp D,Farhi DC

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe 2 male patients in whom hepatosplenic gamma/delta T-cell lymphoma (HSTL) developed 6 and 10 years after renal transplantation. The onset was abrupt with systemic symptoms, cytopenia, and hepatosplenomegaly. The histologic examination of the spleen (case 1), liver, and bone marrow revealed sinusoidal infilt...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Khan WA,Yu L,Eisenbrey AB,Crisan D,al Saadi A,Davis BH,Hankin RC,Mattson JC

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of metastatic prostate cancer masquerading as a primary lung tumor. Histologically, the lung tumor displayed eosinophilic crystalloids in the malignant glands typical of those previously described in prostatic adenocarcinoma. Review of histologic material from 30 additional patients with meta...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Molberg KH,Mikhail A,Vuitch F

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute paraplegia developed in a 53-year-old man with pulmonary aspergilloma because of contiguous extension of Aspergillus infection to the epidural and subdural spaces and spinal cord. Histopathologic findings of the spinal cord showed Aspergillus hyphae penetrating the myelin sheath and myelomalacia, predominantly i...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sheth NK,Varkey B,Wagner DK

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of sensitive immunofluorescent technics for the detection of platelet antibodies has stimulated renewed interest in the field of platelet immunology. However, the analysis of multispecific sera containing both HLA and platelet-specific antibodies requires cumbersome absorption technics and relatively l...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Boisvert A,MacPherson BR

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gc allele frequencies were determined in Haitian immigrants, a group at high risk for AIDS. Gc2, an allele associated with disease resistance, is infrequent in this group; Gc1f is frequent. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wenk RE,Russo F

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty drugs used primarily in critical care and hospital settings were tested in vitro to observe interference on glucose measurements with 6 hand-held glucose meters and a portable glucose analyzer. Paired differences of glucose measurements between drug-spiked samples and unspiked control samples were calculated to...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tang Z,Du X,Louie RF,Kost GJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex probably plays a crucial role in the efficacy of the cellular immune response against virally infected cervical diseases. Therefore, the allele-specific histocompatibility-related leukocyte antigens (HLA) class I and II expression on normal (n = 10), premalignant (n = 25), and mali...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hilders CG,Houbiers JG,Krul EJ,Fleuren GJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ABH blood group isoantigen status of a retrospective series of 233 invasive breast carcinomas was examined, employing monoclonal antibodies (MCAB) against A, B, and H antigens with the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method. In addition, the H antigen was localized with Ulex Europeus Agglutinin I (UEAI) binding. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lee AK,DeLellis RA,Rosen PP,Saigo PE,Gangi MD,Bagin R,Groshen S,Wolfe HJ

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess physicians' and nurses' satisfaction with the service provided by the laboratory at Gondar University Hospital. METHODS:We conducted a cross-sectional study involving 196 nurses and physicians. RESULTS:Overall level of satisfaction was 51.1% for nurses and 51.5% for physicians. Lack of consistenc...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Addis Z,Birhan W,Derseh D,Sahle B,Gizaw N

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred serum samples were tested with two assays for rapid detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) antibodies. The assays were CMV Scan, a two-step latex particle agglutination assay for CMV IgG and IgM antibodies, and TranSTAT-CMV, a newly available six-step solid-phase enzyme immunoassay for CMV IgG antibodies. Comp...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Roseff SD,Campos JM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In-situ and microinvasive adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix. A clinical, cytologic and histologic study of 14 cases. Am J Clin Pathol 64: 155-70, 1975. The clinicopathologic features of 14 cases of in-situ and microinvasive adenocarcinoma of the cervix, encountered during the period 1961-1974, form the basis of thi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Qizilbash AH

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of adenocarcinoma of the small bowel arising in pre-existing transmural ileitis (Crohn's disease) is reported and 28 previously reported cases are reviewed. Carcinoma associated with transmural enteritis occurs more often in the distal ileum, in younger patients, and in more males than expected from published d...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Savage RA,Farmer RG,Hawk WA

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percent-free prostate-specific antigen (proportion of free prostate-specific antigen [PSA] to total PSA) has been shown recently in studies on frozen serum samples to be more useful than total PSA alone in distinguishing prostate cancer from benign conditions of the prostate gland. The primary purpose of our study was...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Henricks WH,England BG,Giacherio DA,Oesterling JE,Wojno KJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:The authors describe 11 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma arising in the nasal cavity or paranasal sinuses. Seven were men and four were women. The median age of the women was 76 years; the median age of the men was 45 years. The most common presenting symptoms were nasal obstruction and unilateral facial swelling....

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Frierson HF Jr,Mills SE,Innes DJ Jr

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histologic follow-up of patients with the Bethesda system cervical-vaginal diagnosis of atypical glandular cells of undetermined significance (AGUS), "favor endocervical origin", or "not otherwise specified" (NOS) shows a high percentage of clinically significant (neoplastic or preneoplastic) lesions. Using the criter...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Raab SS,Snider TE,Potts SA,McDaniel HL,Robinson RA,Nelson DL,Sigman JD,Thomas PA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the functions of von Willebrand factor (vWF) is to serve as a carrier of clotting factor VIII (FVIII). Deficiency of this function results in the von Willebrand disease (vWD) variant type 2N, which resembles hemophilia A. We describe a new sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to study the ability ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Casonato A,Pontara E,Zerbinati P,Zucchetto A,Girolami A

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the positive predictive value (PPV) for high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) in primary screening, DNA ploidy was measured on the same liquid-based sample by image cytometry in 984 cases showing discrepancies between cytology and HR-HPV testing. Of the conflicting results, 14.5% corresponded to a cytolog...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lorenzato M,Bory JP,Cucherousset J,Nou JM,Bouttens D,Thil C,Dez F,Evrard G,Quereux C,Birembaut P,Clavel C

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of rapid, simple tests to detect antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in urine could be valuable for several testing situations, such as in private offices, for epidemiologic surveys, and in developing countries. The authors evaluated the performance of the SUDS HIV type 1 test to detect antibody t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Constantine NT,Zhang X,Li L,Bansal J,Hyams KC,Smialek JE

更新日期：1994-02-01 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 authors have examined the cellular distribution of lipocortin-1 (L-1) in the normal and diseased central nervous system (CNS) using the peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP) technique with a polyclonal antibody specific for L-1. L-1 immunoreactivity was evaluated in the frontal cortex, parahippocampal gyrus/lateral vent...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Johnson MD,Kamso-Pratt JM,Whetsell WO Jr,Pepinsky RB

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We retrospectively reviewed the immunophenotypic profile of 75 cases of lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma/Waldenström macroglobulinemia (LPL/WM) analyzed by flow cytometry. All patients had monoclonal IgM (median, 2,100 mg/dL [21 g/L]) in serum and were considered clinically to have WM. The neoplastic cells, in all cases, ex...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Konoplev S,Medeiros LJ,Bueso-Ramos CE,Jorgensen JL,Lin P

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary thymic epithelial neoplasms have been the subject of much controversy in recent years owing to the difficulties posed by these tumors for precise histopathologic typing and prognostication. A number of classification schemes using different terminology have been proposed, none of which has satisfactorily manag...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Suster S,Moran CA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using digital cell image analysis performed on Feulgen-stained nuclei, the nuclear characteristics of prostatic neoplasia, ranging from benign (benign prostatic hyperplasia [BPH]), through dysplastic (prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia [PIN] 1-3), to carcinoma were studied. Four histopathologic groups were studied: g...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Petein M,Michel P,van Velthoven R,Pasteels JL,Brawer MK,Davis JR,Nagle RB,Kiss R

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Certain laboratory tests are critical for patient care and must be communicated rapidly. Professional societies have developed guidelines for reporting of "critical values" and significant or unexpected surgical pathology findings. Urgent diagnoses requiring rapid reporting include new or unexpected diagnose...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Layfield LJ,Schnabel JL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryostat sections from fully developed papular lesions of lymphomatoid papulosis (histologic subtype A or B) have been examined by immunoenzymatic staining with 24 monoclonal antibodies against lymphoid cells and their subsets. The lesions demonstrated essentially identical cellular compositions and consisted of T-lym...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ralfkiaer E,Stein H,Wantzin GL,Thomsen K,Ralfkiaer N,Mason DY

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00