abstract：:The overall performances of several enzyme reagent kits for alkaline phosphatase, creatine kinase, lactic dehydrogenase, and aspartate aminotransferase were evaluated using an ABA-100 Bichromatic Analyzer. Interassay precision using this instrument with commercial reagents compared well with published data for similar...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Beckala HR,Agrell J,Forsman RW,Homburger HA

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the 1977 College of American Pathologists (CAP) Comprehensive Chemistry Survey and other programs have been analyzed in an interlaboratory comparison of the measurements of serum uric acid. The majority of clinical laboratories utilize some form of phosphotungstic acid (PTA) oxidation-reduction technic for t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Geisinger KR,Batsakis JG,Bauer RC

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of a comparison of the diagnostic efficacy of percutaneous needle biopsy of the parietal pleura with that of cytologic examination of pleural fluid sediment obtained concurrently from 166 patients with benign or cancerous pleural disorders are reported. Of 44 patients with confirmatory evidence of cancer invol...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Frist B,Kahan AV,Koss LG

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathologic rupture of the spleen is a rare phenomenon in acute lymphocytic leukemia, and its mechanism is unknown. This complication has been seen almost exclusively in men, and at ages much older than those of the majority of patients who have this leukemia; these unusual features are also unexplained. A case of acut...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Johnson CS,Rosen PJ,Sheehan WW

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of subclinical hemolytic disease of the newborn resulting in reticulocytosis and positive direct and indirect antiglobulin tests in an infant both ABO- and Rh(D)-compatible with its mother is reported. The antibody was an IgG, non-complement-binding molecule present in low titer with a low avidity for the antig...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hanzlick RL,Senhauser DA

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a patient with otherwise typical multiple myeloma whose myeloma cells were phagocytic is described. Phagocytosis of erythrocytes, erythrocytic precursors, lymphocytes, and platelets was found. Ingestion of latex particles by myeloma cells was demonstrated in vitro. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fitchen JH,Lee S

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholesterol content of the high-density lipoproteins has become of interest in evaluating the risk of development of coronary heart disease. There is an inverse relationship between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and risk. The authors found a significant bias (11.1 mg/dl; 0.289 mmol/l) in a comparison of a rapid...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gerson B,Dean L,Copeland BE

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with sporadic primary hyperparathyroidism were found to harbor tiny medullary thyroid carcinomas. In addition, parafollicular-cell hyperplasia was recognized in one of these thyroids by the use of immunoperoxidase stain to localize calcitonin. The possible relationships between these lesions are discussed...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Livolsi VA,Feind CR

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer software package written in Dibol for a PDP 8/E computer is described that is designed for the needs of the cytology department of a moderate-sized private medical laboratory. Computerized accessioning of cases, report preparation and printing, historical filing, activity summary reports, and direct patient...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ashworth CT,McConnell TH,Ashworth RD,Nielsen CR,Sanford J

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The platelet aggregation responses induced by adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and collagen were characterized by parameters defining rate and extent of reaction. Values were compared on the basis of platelet concentration, time elapsed between sample collection and test performance, and sex of donors. Rate and extent of a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Roper P,Drewinko B,Hasler D,Johnston D,Hester J,Freireich EJ

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient who had masses in the breasts clinically suggestive of neoplasia had fibrous mastopathy and striking deposition of ochronotic pigment within the soft tissue of the breast. The gross appearance and light microscopic features are illustrated. The histochemical features of ochronotic pigment and the difficulty ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lefer LG,Rosier RP

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal organisms morphologically resembling Candida were found in one third of 72 consecutive surgically resected gastric ulcers. In over half of these cases the organisms were present in the mycelial form. Large numbers of fungi forming clusters were found in 13 cases (18%) and were associated with a surprisingly hig...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Katzenstein AL,Maksem J

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of anti-Rh29 by erythrocytic stroma in feces was devised as a specific test for fecal occult blood. The sensitivity of this test was equivalent to that of a standard Hemoccult test, namely, 10(8) erythrocytes/g feces. Comparison of results of this test with results of Hemoccult tests of random stool specime...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rosenfield RE,Kochwa S,Kaczera Z,Maimon J

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of urinary sediment has been recommended as a useful diagnostic aid for renal amyloidosis. This procedure was evaluated in the cases of 57 patients, including 11 with proven renal amyloidosis and 13 considered very likely to have the disease. At least three types of urinary fibrillar material were observed...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Winer RL,Wuerker RB,Erickson JO,Cooper WL

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two separate courses in clinical pathology were presented to two groups of second-year medical students. The first (large) group was taught by the conventional lecture method; the other (small) group, by a self-instructional method for roughly half of the course, followed by the conventional lecture method for the sec...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kao YS,Beeler MF,Strong JP

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 3-week-old infant with Coxsackie B3 meningoencephalitis is discussed. Hypoglycorrhachia and neutrophils in the cerebrospinal fluid characterized the first ten days of her illness. Coxsackie B3 should be added to the list of enteroviruses that can cause hypoglycorrhachia during infections of the central n...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chesney PJ,Quennec P,Clark C

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of patients with lymphoid malignancies have suggested a relationship between survival and the presence of more than 40% hard-mirror cells in the bone marrow. This report represents the first detailed study of a patient with American Burkitt's lymphoma with numerous hand-mirror cells in the bone marrow...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schumacher HR,Rainey T,Davidson L,Simon D,Strong M,Creegan WJ,Holloway ML,Stass SA

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 75-year-old man with Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis in whom acute diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis developed is described. The light- and electron-microscopic changes of the glomeruli in this case were identical to those of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis. Immunofluorescence revealed depositio...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yum M,Wheat LJ,Maxwell D,Edwards JL

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The probabilities of low transferrin saturation, folic acid, or vitamin B12 levels in association with various erythrocyte indices was determined from the prevalences of these abnormalities and the distributions of the indices among 206 hospitalized and 1,000 ambulatory anemic patients. At mean corpuscular hemoglobin ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Griner PF,Oranburg PR

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake and storage of 5-hydroxytryptamine by human platelets from normal donors and patients with the carcinoid syndrome are reported. When platelets were incubated in the presence of 3H-5-hydroxytryptamine (50 microM), an initial phase of rapid uptake was observed until 5-hydroxytryptamine levels of 1--2 microgra...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lewis JC,Moertel CG

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A man was hospitalized with bacteremic Achromobacter xylosoxidans type IIIa pneumonia. The authors are aware of no previously reported similar infections caused by this bacterium. A clinical cure was achieved with a combination of carbenicillin and kanamycin therapy. Microtiter susceptibility testing revealed that car...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dworzack DL,Murray CM,Hodges GR,Barnes WG

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three paired samples were distributed at three--six-month intervals in the Basic Ligand Survey during 1976. The stabilities of mean values obtained by widely used commercial kit procedures and by all methods for eight analytes are reported. Significant improvements in accuracy and long-term precision were identified i...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Haven GT,Hansell JR,Haven MC

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of Torulopsis glabrata endocarditis involving the mitral valve is reported. Endocarditis developed during convalescence from severe abdominal trauma and was associated with fungemia. Morphologically characteristic organisms were present in the mitral valve. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Heffner DK,Franklin WA

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The defined antigen substrate sphere system is a simple method for detecting antigen or antibody in the circulation. The technic is based on the coupling of antigen or antibody with Sepharose 4B beads that have been activated by cyanogen bromide. In this study the activated beads were exposed to dengue antigen in the ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Boonpucknavig S,Bunnag C,Vuttiviroj O,Nimmannitya S

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assessment of the infrequently performed protein-bound iodine determinations (PBI) and thyroxine (T4) determinations by column chromatography is presented after analysis of data contributed by participants in the 1976 College of American Pathologists Chemistry Survey Programs. The two technics yield comparable mean...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thiessen MM,Batsakis JG,Neuhoff J,Thomas BP

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the clinicopathologic findings in four cases of adult women with rhabdomyosarcomas that originated in the endometrium or cervix, or both. All tumors were pure sarcomas and not components of carcinosarcomas or malignant mixed mesodermal tumors. In two patients, the tumors were typical botryoid embryo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hart WR,Craig JR

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28-month-old girl, whose parents are first cousins, was hospitalized following a series of severe infections. Results of functional granulocytic tests permitted the diagnosis of chronic granulomatous disease (lack of nitroblue tetrazolium dye reduction, impaired bactericidal activity for Staphylococcus aureus but no...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Corberand J,De Larrard B,Vergnes H,Carrière JP

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomycosis was diagnosed in three cases by the use of thin-needle aspiration biopsy technic. Aspiration was utilized for morphologic studies and collection of material for microbiologic isolation. The critical histologic features of sulfur granules remain intact with aspiration technic. Thin-needle aspiration biops...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pollock PG,Meyers DS,Frable WJ,Valicenti JF Jr,Koontz FP,Beavert CS

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenocarcinomas of the sigmoid colon and rectum were studied for the presence of blood group substances of the A, B, H system using the method of specific erythrocytic adherence. Of 17 adenocarcinomas studied, eight were found to have reactivity for blood group substances. All eight tumours showing reactivity for bloo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cooper HS,Haesler WE Jr

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Stat tests are one of the most important features of clinical laboratory performance, the indexed literature is devoid of significant discussion of the subject. The authors, undertook a study by querying hospital laboratories about their current practices and received 38 useable answers dealing with the types...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barnett RN,McIver DD,Gorton WL

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Pseudomonas are widely implicated in human disease. Although most isolates are P. aeruginosa, there have been serious outbreaks of infection with other members of the genus. The susceptibility patterns of 5) Pseudomonas isolates are reported. It was notable that of the four antibiotics tested, uni...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tilton RC,Steingrimsson O,Ryan RW

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the use of counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) as a method of detecting activation of the complement system. With this technic small amounts of C3 split products (C3c/d) can be detected in plasma samples by specific precipitation with antiserum in less than two hours. The CIE technic is a highly s...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arroyave CM,Taylor DG,Gallup P,Nakamura RM

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures from the gallbladder and blood of a 60-year-old man with acute cholecystitis grew Haemophilus aphrophilus. This organism, an unusual isolate in clinical specimens, is most frequently seen in patients with either endocarditis or brain abscesses. Haemophilus aphrophilus may be distinguished from Eikenella corro...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Huck W,Britt MR

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence and characteristics of intracellular immunoglobulin inclusions in non-Hodgkin's lymphomas are described. Lymphoma cells from three patients with immunoblastic sarcoma contained classic cytoplasmic, periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)-positive Russell bodies. Immunoperoxidase staining revealed monoclonal IgG (k) ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： van den Tweel JG,Taylor CR,Parker JW,Lukes RJ

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods for testing stool samples for hemoglobin utilize peroxidase oxidation of chemical indicators such as guaiac or benzidine. These tests have frequent false-positive and false-negative results, complicating random screening for occult gastrointestinal bleeding. The authors have developed an immunochemical...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barrows GH,Burton RM,Jarrett DD,Russell GG,Alford MD,Songster CL

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new hemolytic plate method for the functional assessment of alternative-pathway complement activity is described. The plates are easy to prepare and the method simple to perform. Analysis of 23 normal serum samples showed a mean lysis diameter of 4.1 +/- 0.2 mm (1 standard deviation). ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fong JS,Renaud L

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The API-20 Enteric Strip has been proposed to have the capacity to differentiate the nonfermentative gram-negative bacilli. This multitest strip serves as the basis of an evolving system, which first provided a Register, then a Selector, and more recently a computer Index. Twenty-three strains of Pseudomonas aeruginos...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morris MJ,Young VM,Moody MR

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An on-line computer-assisted pathology encoding and reportying system (CAPER) has been developed by the Department of Pathology and Laboratory of Computer Science of the Massachusetts General Hospital for a department of surgical pathology that processes more than 25,000 specimens yearly. CAPER performs clerical funct...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Aller RD,Robboy SJ,Poitras JW,Altshuler BS,Cameron M,Prior MC,Miao S,Barnett GO

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue specimens from a series of 46 hepatic tumors occurring in young female oral contraceptive users were tested for alpha1-antitrypsin deposition, utilizing immunocytochemical and histochemical methods. In two instances serum alpha1-antitrypsin phenotyping was also performed. Immunoreactive alpha1-antitrypsin depos...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Palmer PE,Christopherson WM,Wolfe HJ

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported is a case of lymphoma which was preceded for nine years by an apparently reactive lymphadenopathy. Original slides of the multiple lymphoid tissue samples are reviewed, with emphasis on the gradually increasing numbers of mitoses, atypical histiocytes, and eosinophils, suggestive of malignant transformation. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hyland CH,Murad TM,Dismukes WE

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00