Topic: College Of American Pathologists Provided
To the Editor.-The article by Miller et al in the May issue of the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine contains critical data pertaining to the trueness of calibrators for glucose assays. 1 As shown in their Figure 3, the ...
To the Editor.-Surgical intervention, including orthotopic liver transplantation, is a common modality used in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. Accurate pathologic information is important to clinicians for appropriate staging and prognosticatio
To the Editor.-I read with great interest the excellent article by Drs Toledo and Oliva1 in which the authors enumerated a practical diagnostic approach to smooth muscle neoplasms of the uterus, with an emphasis in the current context on the distinction ...
To the Editor.-Preparing a poster, especially for the first time, can be quiet challenging. I thought my observations could serve as a guideline for the number of columns, figures, tables, and charts/algorithms that could be included in a poster. These ...
Listed below are questions based on articles that appeared in last month's print edition of the ARCHIVES. Registered continuing medical education participants should use the June 2006 answer sheet to answer these questions.1. The ?-amyloid precursor prote
A smiley face stands out from its fellow reactive mesothelial cells in the ascitic fluid of a 60-year-old man with a history of congestive heart failure. The smiley face is 4 to 5 times larger than its neighboring lymphocyte, with 2 round ...
Mass spectrometry-based proteomics is an approach to studying protein expression, posttranslationalmodifications, and interactions that provides a wide range of possibilities for analyzing protein functions on a global level. Whereas mass spectrometry is
To the Editor.-After reading the article by Yousem and Beasley1 regarding bronchioloalveolar carcinoma in the lung, we came to realize that the so-called bronchioloalveolar carcinoma defined by the current strict criteria is really carcinoma in situ. The
Lipoblastomas are benign neoplasms of the soft tissue that occur primarily in boys younger than 3 years.1 Although lipoblastomas have been noted to occur all over the body, most occur in the extremities.1 The term lipoblastomatosis refers to the same ...
The diagnosis of breast cancer is devastating news for women of any age and immediately raises a number of pressing questions for the patient: Will the tumor return in the future? Will she survive, and what additional treatments beyond surgery are necessa