Ultraviolet spectrophotometric analysis of barbiturates. Current assessment as an emergency screening procedure.

abstract：:Giant lymph node hyperplasia is uncommon in children and is exceptionally rare in infancy. The authors report a case of giant lymph node hyperplasia that presented as a right supraclavicular mass in an asymptomatic two-month-old female infant. Clinically, the mass was thought to be either a lipoma or a cystic hygroma,...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hunt SJ,Anderson WD

更新日期：1989-03-01 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：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：:The results from fetal-maternal hemorrhage (FMH) detection and quantitation external quality assessment surveys conducted in Ontario indicate that the rosette test had a sensitivity and specificity for an FMH of more than 10 mL of 1.0 and 0.75, respectively, compared with 0.96 and 0.92, respectively, for acid elution....

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lafferty JD,Raby A,Crawford L,Linkins LA,Richardson H,Crowther M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-five consecutive renal biopsy specimens were evaluated by light histology using paraffin and glycol methacrylate embedding. The clarity of the renal structures was found to be much better, and the renal lesions better defined, using glycol methyacrylate embedding. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Agodoa LC,Striker GE,Chi E

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histiocytosis X, multicentric reticulohistiocytosis, juvenile xanthogranuloma, the "fibrous" type of dermatofibroma, dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans, and malignant fibrous histiocytoma are all characterized by dermal and/or subcutaneous infiltrates composed at least partially of cells having morphologic features sugge...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Burgdorf WH,Duray P,Rosai J

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report here a case of lymphoepithelial cystic lesion (LECL) of unknown origin in the mediastinum, which is closely related to a signet-ring cell adenocarcinoma. A 73-year-old man presented with a mass as revealed on a chest x-ray. During surgical operation, a solid, well-circumscribed and encapsulated 9 X ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ishimaru Y,Shibata Y,Ohkawara S,Ohshima H,Kihara S

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening sera for streptococcal antibodies is a useful clinical procedure when recent streptococcal infection requires verification. Presently there are two test kits available that detect five (or more) of the antibodies that may be present. These two screening tests were compared using antistreptolysin O (ASO) and ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tolliver PR,Roe MH

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple scheme for the speciation of clinical isolates of "viridans" streptococci based on nine physiological characteristics is presented. Use of this scheme will enable successful speciation of most "viridans" strep isolates in any laboratory and allow for the accumulation of data necessary for the definition of cl...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sands M,Sommers HM,Rubin MB

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic studies of bone marrow were performed in 230 consecutive cases of patients with chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL) admitted to the National Cancer Institute since 1961. Twenty patients lacked the Philadelphia (Ph1) chromosome. All were previously untreated. When compared with Ph1-positive patients, CGL pa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Canellos GP,Whang-Peng J,DeVita VT

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes four siblings affected with familial intrahepatic cholestasis detected in early infancy. In the two male siblings, biliary cirrhosis and fatal hepatocellular carcinoma later developed, whereas the female siblings have had persistent hepatomegaly and recurrent episodes of cholestasis. Sequential b...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ugarte N,Gonzalez-Crussi F

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:Free light chain (FLC) measurement gained a lot of interest for diagnostic workup of monoclonal gammopathy. Methods:We evaluated the performance of turbidimetric polyclonal Freelite (The Binding Site, Birmingham, UK) assays on Cobas 6000 (Roche Diagnostics, Rotkreuz, Switzerland) and nephelometric monoclona...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Messiaen AS,De Sloovere MMW,Claus PE,Vercammen M,Van Hoovels L,Heylen O,Debrabandere J,Vanpoucke H,De Smet D

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present what, to our knowledge, is the first reported case of nephrogenic metaplasia of the ureter. Nephrogenic metaplasia involves the transitional epithelium of the urinary tract and results in the formation of epithelial tubules, which are histologically similar to renal tubules. Special stains demonstrated both...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lugo M,Petersen RO,Elfenbein IB,Stein BS,Duker NJ

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For quality-control purposes, federal regulations require cytology laboratories to compare Papanicolaou smear and cervical biopsy reports, if available, and determine the cause of any discrepancies. The authors reviewed 56,497 cervicovaginal smears, of which 1,582 (2.8%) had a subsequent cervical biopsy or endocervica...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Joste NE,Crum CP,Cibas ES

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of spurious red blood cell parameters caused by serum cold agglutinins has been well characterized for the Coulter counters but not the Ortho ELT-8. The pattern consists of a spurious increase in mean corpuscular volume (MCV), a discrepancy between the hemoglobin and the hematocrit, the latter falsely redu...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Solanki DL,Blackburn BC

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe four cases of an uncommon type of acalculous cholecystitis/cholangitis characterized by increased intraepithelial lymphocytes within the biliary epithelium. METHODS:Cases were prospectively compiled during regular surgical pathology sign-out. Clinical information was obtained from the electronic...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jessurun J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory syncytial virus is detected in cell culture by the presence of cytopathic effect. To detect RSV before cytopathic effect is usually seen, slides were evaluated retrospectively from 482 HEp-2 cell cultures on days 2-4 after inoculation. Indirect immunofluorescent staining detected RSV in 57 of 94 cultures t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bromberg K,Tannis G,Daidone B

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was made of quantitative urine cultures in bacteremic patients with urinary tract infection as the only identifiable source. These patients represent the most serious form of urinary tract infection and should be recognized as significant by the criteria used for interpreting quantitative urine cultures. In 83...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Roberts FJ

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine-needle cytology (FNC) of 292 palpable orbital and eyelid tumors was performed with a 25-gauge (0.5-mm), 3-cm needle and compared with the histopathologic findings in 286 cases. Among these 286 cases, a concordant diagnosis of malignancy and type was achieved in 249 cases (87%). False positive diagnoses were made ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zajdela A,Vielh P,Schlienger P,Haye C

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:GATA3 is a transcription factor regulating luminal cell differentiation in the mammary glands and has been implicated in the luminal types of breast carcinoma. The prognostic significance of GATA3 in breast cancer remains controversial. METHODS:In this study, we assessed the prognostic value of the molecule...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McCleskey BC,Penedo TL,Zhang K,Hameed O,Siegal GP,Wei S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify, describe, and investigate the clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features of 8 cases of telangiectatic oncocytoma. METHODS:Fifty-three consecutive renal oncocytomas were reviewed for the telangiectatic pathologic features that were subsequently correlated with the demographic, clinical, and r...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Xiao GQ,Ko HB,Unger P

更新日期：2013-07-01 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：:We tested the hypothesis that extensively keratinized squamous intraepithelial lesions (SILs) are difficult to grade precisely by identifying 100 Papanicolaou smears with a keratinizing SIL that had been originally judged difficult to grade. Of these, 65 were confirmed as low-grade SIL (LSIL) or high-grade SIL (HSIL) ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Faquin WC,Brown FM,Krane JF,Renshaw AA,Cibas ES

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent clinical and commercial success of anticancer antibodies such as rituximab and trastuzumab has created great interest in antibody-based therapeutics for hematopoietic malignant neoplasms and solid tumors. Given the likelihood of lower toxic effects of antibodies that target tumor cells and have limited impa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ross JS,Gray K,Gray GS,Worland PJ,Rolfe M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apocrine carcinoma (AC) is an uncommon, poorly characterized type of breast tumor. In this review, 55 patients with intraductal (ID) AC and 17 patients with infiltrating (IF) AC were analyzed retrospectively to define the histologic features and clinical course of this neoplasm. Recurrences in the breast occurred in 3...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Abati AD,Kimmel M,Rosen PP

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factitious laboratory results often lead to unnecessary testing or treatment. This brief review of factitious biochemical results due to preexisting hematologic conditions focuses on the mechanisms underlying the factitious results and suggests ways to prevent them. An observant pathologist identifies these errors, in...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dalal BI,Brigden ML

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An atypical form of macrocytosis termed volumetric macrocytosis is described. In contrast to the macrocyte associated with megaloblastic anemia and the pseudomacrocyte caused by viscoelastic defects, the volumetric macrocyte is characterized by an increased mean corpuscular volume and a normal cell diameter. The volum...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Burns ER,Reed LJ,Wenz B

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet refractoriness is caused by HLA antibodies and platelet-specific antibodies. Current methods used to detect antiplatelet antibodies have limitations. Solid phase red cell adherence (SPRCA) lacks sensitivity and requires a second assay using chloroquine-treated intact platelets to specify the response due to a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Vongchan P,Nawarawong W,Linhardt RJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two unusual cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia-hand mirror variant (ALL-HMV) are presented. One patient demonstrated a mixed immunophenotype with HLA-DR, My7, transferrin receptor surface markers, and terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase positivity. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first ALL-HMV reported wit...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schumacher HR,Desai SN,McClain KL,Domenico DR,Dizikes GJ,Bird ML

更新日期：1989-04-01 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