abstract：:A 52-year-old woman presented with a solid spindle cell primary tumor of the lymph node. On light microscopic examination, mitoses and cellular atypia were absent. Electron-microscopic studies showed endothelial cell differentiation. Intracytoplasmic localization of Factor VIII-related antigen was demonstrated by the ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Silva EG,Phillips MJ,Langer B,Ordonez NG

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67-year-old man presented with a malignant tumor involving abdominal lymph nodes, spleen, liver, and lungs, with associated protracted fever and night sweats. The tumor consisted of large pleomorphic cells, often surrounding microabscesses. Intracytoplasmic S100 protein, surface T6, Leu-3a (T4), and HLA-DR antigens ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chan WC,Zaatari G

更新日期：1986-06-01 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：:A new disposable bleeding time device (Hemalet) was tested in 20 normal individuals and 11 patients with various bleeding disorders. The results were compared with those of Simplate II. The mean bleeding time for normal individuals was 5.4 +/- 1.5 (mean +/- 1 SD) minutes by Hemalet and 5.8 +/- 1.4 (mean +/- 1 SD) minu...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Toomey KC,Kim HC,Kosmin M,Saidi P

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunochemical characterization of the light chains of the mesangial immunoglobulin A (IgA) deposits were studied in 45 patients with IgA nephropathy. Kappa and lambda light chains were detected with direct immunofluorescence (IF) method, using monospecific rabbit anti-human anti-kappa and anti-lambda anti-sera. T...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lai KN,Chan KW,Mac-Moune F,Ho CP,Yan KW,Lam CW,Vallance-Owen J

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An evaluation of the performance of duplicate prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) assays was undertaken to develop analytical duplicate performance criteria in order to quantitate the risks associated with singlet versus duplicate procedures. Data were retrospectively collected from ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Scheer WD,Catrou PG,Lipscomb GE,Boudreau DA

更新日期：1986-04-01 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：:The development of a precise, mathematical relationship between blood pressure and renal microvascular abnormalities would be highly desirable. Such a relationship would require that abnormalities be quantitative on a rational scale. The dominant abnormality in nephrosclerosis occurs in arcuate and cortical arteries o...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tracy RE,Mercante DE,Moncada A,Berenson G

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mean nuclear areas (MNA) were calculated morphometrically in ten cases of well-differentiated adenocarcinoma, ten cases of atypical alveolar cuboidal cell hyperplasia (AAH), and five cases of alveolar cuboidal cell hyperplasia (AH) and were compared with each other. In cases of adenocarcinoma, the MNA were significant...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kodama T,Biyajima S,Watanabe S,Shimosato Y

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) for detection of herpes simplex virus (HSV) antigen in direct clinical specimens were compared with cell culture in primary rabbit kidney and MRC-5. With a total of 238 specimens, the sensitivity and specificity of the Dako ELISA method were determined to be 70...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Warford AL,Levy RA,Strong CA,Rekrut KA

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens is a little-known spiral bacterium. Presented here are two septicemia cases similar in that both occurred in rural northern Virginia, both patients presented with dental infection, and in both cases the organism was first suspected to be Campylobacter. The morphology, motility, bi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Park CH,Hixon DL,Endlich JF,O'Connell P,Bradd FT,Mount PM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) reagent test systems, General Diagnostics Automated APTT, American Dade Actin FS, and Pacific Hemostasis (Thromboscreen KAPTT) reagent, containing different activators for the APTT assay, were evaluated for their precision and sensitivity to factor deficiencies in the...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Turi DC,Peerschke EI

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:After several transfusions with D-negative blood, an O Rh-negative women was apparently sensitized to the C and D antigens. In her prenatal workup, it became evident that she had in fact not been sensitized to D but to G, which initially appeared as anti-D plus anti-C. This sensitization pattern is an unusual occurren...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yesus YW,Akhter JE

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four cases of a lesion characterized by unlined spaces in the colorectal lamina propria are presented. While lesions such as this have been reported previously as "lipomatosis" of the colon, histochemical and ultrastructural examination reveals that they are not, in fact, composed of adipocytes. It appears that...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Snover DC,Sandstad J,Hutton S

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum creatine kinase (CK) was measured in 515 healthy white women and 28 obligate carriers for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. There was substantial overlap between the control and carrier populations. To analyze the impact of the degree of overlap, the predictive value of a CK result was determined by (1) using sensiti...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gruemer HD,Miller WG,Chinchilli VM,Leshner RT,Blasco PA,Hassler CR,Nance WE

更新日期：1985-11-01 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

abstract：:The visible absorption spectra of dilutions of commercially prepared chemistry control sera closely mimic those of jaundiced amniotic fluids in cases of fetal rhesus isoimmunization. The authors have assessed the use of these materials for the quality control of net absorbance measurements at 450 nm on amniotic fluids...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： McDonald OL,Watts MT

更新日期：1985-10-01 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：:Using microscopic screening criteria employed in the study of sputum in acute bacterial pneumonia, the authors evaluated 644 sputum samples from 347 patients submitted for mycobacterial bacterial culture. After microscopic examination, these specimens were processed using standard mycobacterial laboratory technics. Sa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Isaac-Renton JL,Puselja BB,Allen EA,Grzybowski S,Black WA

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ideal method of heparinization should achieve therapeutic concentrations (0.2-0.5 IU/mL) in the artificial kidney and the least possible amount of heparin in the patient. Total heparinization using a bolus dose (8400 IU) followed by continuous infusion of heparin (20 IU/min), initially showed 1.4-2.4 IU/mL in the ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Talstad I,Kjelby K

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon hospital admission a patient was found to have severe anemia and a strongly positive direct antiglobulin test (DAT). The patient was taking probenecid periodically for gout. An antibody was detected in the patient's serum that only reacted with red blood cells (RBCs) when probenecid was added. Eluates from the pa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sosler SD,Behzad O,Garratty G,Lee CL,Postoway N,Khomo O

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain new hematologic findings in eight homosexual or bisexual patients with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are presented. All eight patients manifested a normochromic, normocytic anemia, and six of eight had granulocytopenia during their hospitalization. The other two had low-normal granulocyte coun...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schneider DR,Picker LJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A three-and-a-half-year old boy suffering from streptococcal pneumonia developed hemolytic-uremic syndrome and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). His red blood cells (RBC) were shown to be T- and Tk-activated; serial testing showed his mature RBCs as well as neocytes remained T-activated at 40 days. Anti-T ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Beattie KM,Lewis PE,Briski JE,Strauch BM

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：:Serum ferritin, serum iron, and unsaturated iron binding capacity were studied in 64 patients with beta homozygous thalassemia (BHT), 120 patients with beta heterozygous thalassemia, and 46 normal subjects. Incidence of iron overload seen in 32 BHT cases was similar in untransfused and transfused cases. Among heterozy...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Saraya AK,Kumar R,Choudhry VP,Kailash S,Sehgal AK

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anti-serum against human neuron-specific enolase (NSE), raised in sheep, has been characterized and used for immunocytochemical localization of NSE in paraffin sections of normal tissues and lung cancers. Of the small cell carcinomas (SCC), 69 out of 99 (70%) cases stained with the anti-serum. Maltreated biopsies s...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bergh J,Esscher T,Steinholtz L,Nilsson K,Påhlman S

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experience at one institution concerning the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by aspiration biopsy is reviewed. Twelve cases in which acid-fast bacilli were identified in pulmonary aspiration material are reported. The cytologic findings were confirmed by microbiologic culture in nine cases. The advantages of u...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Robicheaux G,Moinuddin SM,Lee LH

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to compare several methods of evaluating the common assumption that laboratory data may be treated as if they had been drawn from an underlying Gaussian distribution. As had been described earlier, the usual Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was found to be unsatisfactory due to its sensitivity to roun...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rossing RG,Hillis A,Chou DY

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical data and histologic sections of the liver, including immunohistochemical studies for hepatitis B surface and core antigens, were reviewed in 42 autopsy cases of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Hepatomegaly, elevation of serum transaminases, and mild elevation of alkaline phosphatase were commo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Glasgow BJ,Anders K,Layfield LJ,Steinsapir KD,Gitnick GL,Lewin KJ

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in the role of mononuclear phagocytes in glomerulonephritis (GN) and in defining markers of renal neoplasms led the authors to study alpha-naphthyl acetate/butyrate esterase (ANAE/ANBE), alkaline phosphatase (AlkP), acid phosphatase (AcP), 5'-nucleotidase (5'N), and ATPase (ATP) activity in paraformaldehyde-f...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alpers CE,Beckstead JH

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 76-year-old white man previous diagnosed as having Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia continued with persistent fevers and sweats for two and a half years. Recently, repeated automated differentials during 11 days of hospitalization failed to note any intracellular inclusions in the RBCs. Blood sent to the Microbiology...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bruckner DA,Garcia LS,Shimizu RY,Goldstein EJ,Murray PM,Lazar GS

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen cases of disseminated Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI), representing a total of 27 bone marrow specimens, were studied. The patients ranged from 25 to 46 years of age and included ten immunocompromised and three immunocompetent hosts. Peripheral blood findings included anemia in all patients, leukopen...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Farhi DC,Mason UG 3rd,Horsburgh CR Jr

更新日期：1985-04-01 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：:Bull's algorithm has been evaluated by computer simulation studies. Varying amounts of systematic analytic error were simulated in either hemoglobin (Hgb), red blood cell count (RBC), or mean corpuscular volume (MCV) with the resulting red blood cell indices averaged in batches of 20 using Bull's algorithm. The number...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cembrowski GS,Westgard JO

更新日期：1985-03-01 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：:Thrombocytopenia frequently complicates neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and has been postulated to result from absorption of bacterial endotoxins from the injured gut. The authors tested blood obtained during 47 episodes of NEC for endotoxin-like activity (ELA), using a Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay and fou...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Scheifele DW,Olsen EM,Pendray MR

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the blast cells obtained from two patients with acute myelofibrosis with the use of recently developed immunochemical and ultrastructural markers. They intended to examine the expression of megakaryoblastic, erythroblastic, myeloblastic, and monoblastic properties in these cells. Respectively,...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schreeder MT,Prchal JT,Parmley RT,Carroll AJ,Gewirtz AM,Hoffman R

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-100 protein was detected in a small number of human peripheral T-lymphocytes by a direct immunoperoxidase method with the use of monospecific antibody to S-100 protein. Complemented-mediated lysis using monoclonal antibodies revealed that the S-100+ T-lymphocytes bore OKT3, OKT8, and OKT11 antigens but not OKT4, OKM...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Takahashi K,Isobe T,Ohtsuki Y,Sonobe H,Yamaguchi H,Akagi T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors illustrate two neoplasms arising in the pretibial soft tissue that are histologically identical to adamantinoma of the long bones. The tumors developed in a 24-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man. Both were treated by local excision. Histologically, one tumor had a tubular pattern and one was composed of ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mills SE,Rosai J

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00