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 reliability of "standard" plasmas used by clinical laboratories to assay factor VIII concentrations of patients' plasmas was studied by assessing the credibility of their reference values. Two of three commercial reference plasmas were considered to be unreliable. The third commercial reference plasma appeared to ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harper TA,Bailey EL,Chauhan K

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histiocytosis-X cells were obtained at autopsy from the lungs and lymph nodes of a patient who died of the disseminated infantile form of this disease (Letterer-Siwe disease). The ability of these cells to synthesize and release prostaglandins was investigated in culture, by prelabeling the cell lipids with [14C] arac...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gonzalez-Crussi F,Hsueh W,Wiederhold MD

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present immunoperoxidase study attempted to localize aldosterone and cortisol in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded adrenal glands or tumors. Apparently, steroid substances are solubilized during routine tissue processing, and the cytoplasm of adrenal cortical cells is not stained by either antialdosterone or antico...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hsu SM,Raine L,Martin HF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of Actinomyces viscosus infection of the lungs were seen in nonimmunosuppressed patients. One patient had a peripheral actinomycotic lung mass resembling a tumor. Both patients responded to a long course of penicillin therapy. Reports of A. viscosus infections are rare, although the organism colonizes the mo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eng RH,Corrado ML,Cleri D,Cherubin C,Goldstein EJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method designed to allow coagulation studies in heparinized blood was evaluated. Citrated plasma containing heparin was incubated with an anion-exchange resin commercially available in tablet form (Heparsorb). After centrifugation of the mixture, coagulation studies were carried out on the supernatant plasma....

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cowan JF,Khan MB,Vargo J,Joist JH

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes results of fresh-frozen immunohistochemistry applied to two typical Warthin's tumors. Polyclonal follicular center cell staining and an apparent reduction in the number of T-lymphocytes were found. These observations tend to support the concept that the lymphoid infiltrate in Warthin's tumor repre...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tubbs RR,Sheibani K,Weiss RA,Lee V,Sebek BA,Valenzuela R

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple assay based on molecular light scattering was developed to detect soluble immune complexes. In this assay the percentage of relative light scattering (%RLS) caused by complexes in buffer containing polyethylene glycol 6000 (PEG) was measured with a laser nephelometer. In low concentrations of PEG (3%-5%), IgG...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Koethe SM,Melton HE,Jendrzejczak Z

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proper collection, handling, and storage of the blood alcohol specimen are essential in medicolegal cases involving the question of sobriety. A standard operating procedure is necessary to ensure maximum reliability. Comments are offered on the advantages of using blood specimens in preference to urine or tissue speci...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kaye S

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the significance of 40% or more leukemic cells in hand-mirror configuration in the bone marrow (hand-mirror cell leukemia), eight of 34 cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and one of 17 cases of acute myeloblastic leukemia were collected from a six-year period. Five of the eight patients who ha...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Glassy EF,Sun NC,Okun DB

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The May-Hegglin anomaly is one of the rare forms of heriditary thrombocytopenia. Since fewer than 100 cases of May-Hegglin anomaly have been described to date, major controversies regarding the adequacy of hemostasis in vivo and abnormalities of platelet function in vitro continue to prevail. This report describes the...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hamilton RW,Shaikh BS,Ottie JN,Storch AE,Saleem A,White JG

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the 1978 CAP Hematology Survey were analyzed for the effect of sodium and calcium salts of heparin on the activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT). The results indicate that the sodium salt of heparin prolongs the APTT more than the calcium salt at a heparin concentration of 0.2 units/ml. Furthermore, th...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Banez EI,Triplett DA,Koepke J

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distributions of nine clinical chemistry determinations (serum bilirubin, globulin, creatinine, thyroxine, alkaline phosphatase, hematocrit, aspartate aminotransferase, uric acid, and plasma glucose) were assessed for 1,605 schoolchildren aged 6 to 17 years, in the Cincinati Lipid Research Clinic's Princeton School Di...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Laskarzewski P,Kelly KA,Mellies MJ,Morrison JA,Khoury P,Tillett S,Glueck CJ

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Workload recording as designed by the College of American Pathologists has proven to be an invaluable aid in the assessment of overall laboratory operation. The administrative information derived from the compilation of these workload statistics is utilized to provide effective and these workload statistics is utilize...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Norbut AM,Foulis PR,Mendelow H

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral blood samples of 23 patients who had hairy cell leukemia were examined for leukocyte alkaline phosphatase scores. Leukocyte alkaline phosphatase levels were elevated in seventeen patients (74%), were normal in six (26%), and were not decreased in any patient. The mean leukocyte alkaline phosphatase score wa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Aiba M,Raffa PP,Katayama I

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performances of four instruments for counting platelets were evaluated in a side-by-side study: the Haema-Count MK-4/HC, an electronic impedance instrument that counts platelets in platelet-rich plasma; the Ultra-Flo 100, and the Coulter Counter Model S-Plus, electronic impedance instruments that count platelets i...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dalton WT Jr,Bollinger P,Drewinko B

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subsequent to recent disclosures that low serum vitamin B12 results can appear normal using many of the current radioassay methods because of the presence of cobalamin (vitamin B12) analogues in human serum, a number of radioassay kits have become available with modified intrinsic factor preparations and claims of mea...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： LeFebvre RJ,Virji AS,Mertens BF

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil function was determined in resting and phagocytic cells by an assay of hexose monophosphate shunt activity performed on small volumes of whole blood. This new micromethod clearly differentiated between zymosan-stimulated and unstimulated hexose monophosphate shunt activity. Furthermore, the whole blood micr...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： King JW,McCall CE

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although prednisolone is the most common immunosuppressive agent used in renal transplantation, an accurate formulation of the optimal dose regimen remains to be established. A sensitive and precise radioimmunoassay was developed for this purpose. Fifty microliters of 1:20 dilutions of serum or 1:200 dilutions of urin...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Woo J,Floyd M,Master G,Cannon DC

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter fetus subspecies jejuni has recently been recognized as a significant cause of enteritis in humans. The organism has been previously postulated to cause illness by direct invasion of the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract, but this has not been documented. Reported is a case of Campylobacter enteritis ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Duffy MC,Benson JB,Rubin SJ

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of a direct anaerobic susceptibility testing method were compared with those of a standardized method. Seventy-three blood culture isolates and eight antimicrobial agents were used. The results of the direct and standardized testing methods were within one two-fold dilution for 95.2% of the 584 anaerobe-an...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Murray PR,Christman JL

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report serum enzyme patterns in three patients with polymyositis or dermatomyositis whose cases posed potential problems in distinguishing malignancy, hepatocellular damage, and myocardial infarction from myositis. The alanine aminotransferase showed five- to 16-fold elevations. The creatine kinase MB isoenzyme and...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morton BD 3rd,Statland BE

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although papillary forms of intraductal cancer are a common component of amny mammary cancers, invasive papillary cancer of the breast is relatively rare. Only 35 examples were encountered in the specimens obtained from 1603 women participating in a prospective randomized study of invasive mammary cancer. Contingency-...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fisher ER,Palekar AS,Redmond C,Barton B,Fisher B

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-volume (200 ml) platelet concentrates prepared by discontinuous-flow centrifugation, with counts as high as ca. 2.0 x 10(12)/l, were stored in either 600 ml-capacity polyvinylchloride bags or 800-ml capacity polyethylene bags. Both polyvinylchloride and polyethylene bags appeared adequate for 24-hour storage of p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rosenstein R,Lawe JE,North JG

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the dispensing and inoculating characteristics of the MIC-2000 micro-broth dilution system and compares its ability to determine minimum inhibitory concentrations with that of the reference macro-broth dilution method. Micro-well filling showed a coefficient of variation of 6.8%, and micro-well...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Woolfrey BF,Ramadei WA,Quall CO

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under carefully controlled conditions in a clinical research ward, conjugated primary bile-acid concentrations were measured by a 125I-radioimmunoassay every eight hours for four days in seven healthy control subjects and ten patients with hepatic disease (five with cirrhosis, three with primary biliary cirrhosis and ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Engelking LR,Dasher CA,Hirschowitz BI

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae with greatly increased resistance to penicillin (minimal inhibitory concentrations or MICs, 1--8 microgram/ml) were recovered in cultures of blood from patients in South Africa and from one in Minnesota who had serious pneumococcal infections. The authors undertook a study...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Maki DG,Helstad AG,Kimball JL

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 127 renal specimens reflecting a wide spectrum of renal pathology was evaluated with a direct immunoperoxidase technic in which frozen tissue was first reacted with anti-Ig(G,A,M) and anti-C3-peroxidase conjugates and subsequently counterstained with periodic acid-Schiff-hematoxylin (IMPAS). This technic p...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tubbs RR,Gephardt G,Valenzuela R,Deodhar S

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors investigated the stability of the tests comprising the SMA-6 and SMA-12 chemistry profiles during overnight refrigerated storage. Several constituents were found to undergo changes that were statistically significant when evaluated by a t test for paired comparisons. A recently published sequential method ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rossing RG,Foster DM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen tubular carcinomas occurred among 211 consecutive mastectomies (7.6%). The relative frequencies of multicentric involvement in the ipsilateral breast (56%), history of bilateral mammary cancer (38%) (P less than .01), and family history of mammary cancer in a first-degree relative (40%) (P less than .05) wer...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lagios MD,Rose MR,Margolin FR

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoperoxidase technics were used to examine the immunoglobulin content of sections of pulmonary tissue from two typical cases of lymphomatoid granulomatosis and two cases of pneumonic processes initially diagnosed as lymphomatoid granulomatosis but representing different processes on review. Both "typical" cases an...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bender BL,Jaffe R

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Demonstration of prostate-specific acid phosphatase by immunologic methods in tissue sections or in plasma necessitates a monospecific antiserum. This is produced by immunizing rabbits with pure prostate-specific acid phosphatase antigen, prepared from seminal fluid. The ejaculate is centrifuged, dialyzed against a ci...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： de Vries GP,Slob AW,Jöbsis AC,Meijer AE,Sanders GT

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transbronchoscopic biopsies of lung (transbronchial) or bronchus (endobronchial) have a high diagnostic of yield when performed by a single expert bronchoscopist or a small group of expert bronchoscopists. This procedure's diagnostic yield was evaluated in a general hospital where biopsies are performed by a diverse g...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jenkins R,Myerowitz RL,Kavic T,Slasky S

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors studied the effect of averaging replicated assays of Factor IX coagulation activity and Factor IX antigen on each plasma specimen in improving the ability to detect carriers of hemophilia B. The improvement resulting from this procedure is particularly marked in tests depending on the linear regression of ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lipworth L,Tiarks CY,Rice CA,Pechet L

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of septicemia caused by Pseudomonas paucimobilis is reported. This represents the first definitive case of disease produced by this yellow-pigmented, nonfermentative bacillus. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Slotnick IJ,Hall J,Sacks H

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is apparently the second report of a case of human meningoencephalitis caused by the nematode Micronema deletrix. The patient had severe granulomatous meningoencephalitis with numerous foci of hemorrhage and encephalomalacia. Numerous adult female and larval M. deletrix were in the brain. The organisms probably i...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shadduck JA,Ubelaker J,Telford VQ

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By application of combined structural and functional analyses, most lymphoid neoplasms may be categorized as of T- or B-cell origin. T lymphocyte neoplasms include types of acute and chronic lymphocytic leukemias, certain cutaneous and node-based lymphomas, and lymphomas of thymocytes (convoluted lymphocytic lymphomas...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Collins RD,Waldron JA,Glick AD

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of kidneys of ten patients with uremia and severe hypertension treated by chronic intermittent hemodialysis revealed a deposition of glycogen within interstitial cells of the renal medulla. This is unlike any described renal distribution of glycogen. Electron microscopic studies performed in one case demon...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hughson MD,McManus JF,Fitts CT,Williams AV

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxomatous degeneration of the mitral valve is a disease of unknown etiology that is associated with many ominous complications. A case in which non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis, superimposed on a myxomatous mitral valve, resulted in systemic embolization to the brain, heart, and kidney is presented. The purpose ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Geyer SJ,Franzini DA

更新日期：1979-09-01 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