Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 10, 2021
PURPOSE: Children's Oncology Group (COG) AALL0331 tested whether pegaspargase intensification on a low-intensity chemotherapy backbone would improve the continuous complete remission (CCR) rate in a low-risk subset of children with standard-risk B-acute ly ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · February 20, 2020
PURPOSE: Children's Oncology Group (COG) AALL0331 tested whether intensified postinduction therapy that improves survival in children with high-risk B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) would also improve outcomes for those with standard-risk (SR) ALL ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Clin Pathol · September 2012
This study aimed to determine institution-wide graduate medical education (GME) requirements in pathology (exclusive of pathology residency and fellowships) at an academic center. All documents related to residency review committee (RRC) program requiremen ...
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Journal ArticleBlood · July 14, 2011
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Children's Cancer Group-1991 selected 2 components from the Children's Cancer Group studies shown to be effective in high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia and examined them in children with National Cancer Institute standard-risk acute B-precursor lymphob ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Clin Pathol · April 2011
We report 10 cases of donor cell leukemia (DCL). All cases except the case of chronic lymphocytic leukemia had anemia, neutropenia, and/or thrombocytopenia when DCL was diagnosed. Eight cases with sex-mismatched hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) sho ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Clin Pathol · October 2009
We compared the expression of CD123, the alpha chain of the interleukin-3 receptor, on normal B-cell precursors in bone marrow ("hematogones") from 75 specimens and on leukemic blasts in 45 newly diagnosed B-acute lymphoblastic leukemias (B-ALL) cases. We ...
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Journal ArticleBlood · November 16, 2008
AbstractA substantial number of relapses derive from the NCI standard risk population. CCG-1991 tested two components of the successful COG augmented “BFM” regimen (N Engl J Med1998; 338:1663) in this subset ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Oncol · May 10, 2008
PURPOSE: While gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GTMZ) is commonly used in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in combination with standard chemotherapy agents, the pediatric maximum-tolerated dose (MTD) of GMTZ in combination with chemotherapy has not been ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Clin Pathol · December 2007
In the World Health Organization classification, cases with classical Burkitt morphologic features and a very high proliferation fraction but without the MYC translocation are not clearly designated as a separate entity and are usually categorized as diffu ...
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Journal ArticleArch Pathol Lab Med · October 2006
CONTEXT: Nonmyeloablative stem cell transplantation (NMSCT) is a mode of immunotherapy increasingly employed in treating hematologic, lymphoid, and solid tumors. Patients are monitored principally by molecular analysis of donor engraftment. OBJECTIVE: To d ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Surgical Pathology · 2006
Reported are 7 cases of posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) arising in children who received umbilical cord blood transplantation (UCBT). There were 4 females and 3 males with a median age of 3 years (range, 1-16 years). All 7 patients recei ...
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Journal ArticleArch Pathol Lab Med · December 2004
CONTEXT: Molecular genetic analyses have been predicted to improve the diagnostic accuracy of fine-needle aspiration of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. OBJECTIVE: To determine the value of routine molecular genetic assays, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and ...
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Journal ArticleClin Lymphoma · September 2004
A retrospective review was performed on the toxicity and response to one cycle of dose-intense cyclophosphamide/etoposide, followed by consolidation in patients with refractory or previously untreated, high-risk non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Fifty-five pat ...
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Journal ArticleDiagn Cytopathol · July 2004
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We retrospectively reviewed 74 fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cases of presumptive non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). All the cases had cytology and core-needle biopsy and 53 cases had concurrent flow cytometric analysis. FNA (cytology and flow cytometry) and core- ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Surg Pathol · June 2004
Posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) is a well-recognized complication of conventional bone marrow/stem cell and solid organ transplantation. However, not much is known about PTLD following the more recently introduced nonmyeloablative a ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Genet Cytogenet · August 2003
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We present a 52-year-old female with a clinical history of acute myelocytic leukemia, probable acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). Flow cytometry results were somewhat unusual. Specifically, the promyelocytic population showed partial positivity for antige ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Surg Pathol · June 2003
We report five cases of Burkitt lymphoma arising in organ transplant recipients. There were four men and one woman with a mean age of 35 years. All were solid organ recipients with three renal, one liver, and one double lung transplantation. The time inter ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Clin Pathol · December 2001
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Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) share many morphologic and immunophenotypic features. In addition to histomorphologic examination, it is customary to use the absence of CD23 to differentiate ...
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Journal ArticleTransplantation · September 27, 2000
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BACKGROUND: In our previously described primate renal allograft model, T cell ablation leads to long-term graft survival. The role of endothelial cell alteration in chronic rejection was examined in our model. METHODS: Renal transplants were performed in r ...
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Journal ArticleHistochem J · July 1999
Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) has recently been identified in myeloperoxidase-negative neutrophil granules. Members of the lipocalin family are thought to bind and transport small lipophilic molecules such as retinoids and roles in cell ...
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Journal ArticleSurgery · August 1998
BACKGROUND: T-lymphocyte depletion 7 days before transplantation with immunotoxin FN 18-CRM9 has resulted in tolerance to subsequent renal allografts. We tested the effect of giving immunotoxin on the day of the transplantation and evaluated its effect on ...
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Journal ArticleTransplantation · July 15, 1998
BACKGROUND: FN18-CRM9 is a CD3-specific immunotoxin that is capable of depleting CD3+ T cells. Pretreatment of rhesus monkeys with this agent before transplantation can induce donor-specific tolerance and "split tolerance" to renal allografts. METHODS: Het ...
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Journal ArticleCytokine · May 1997
Interleukin 15 (IL-15) is a cytokine with many functional characteristics that are similar to IL-2. Most of the functional activities that IL-2 and IL-15 support have been evaluated in short-term assays. It was our intention, then, to determine the long-te ...
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Journal ArticleMed Pediatr Oncol · June 1995
A 5-year-old boy with an abdominal mass was found to have a primary renal tumor of poorly identifiable histology. Prior to resection of the tumor, the patient exhibited several episodes of biochemical hypoglycemia. The hypoglycemia did not recur after oper ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Dermatol · May 1995
We report a case of lymphoproliferative disease of granular lymphocytes that was associated with cutaneous manifestations. Marker studies of skin and blood in this patient revealed that the circulating and infiltrating cells were negative for CD3 and T-cel ...
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Journal ArticleAnn Plast Surg · November 1993
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Teratomas are rare germ cell tumors that comprise approximately 1% of orbital tumors in childhood. Review of the world literature revealed only 51 well-documented patients with true congenital orbital teratomas. We present a newborn girl with a massive orb ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Gastroenterol · July 1993
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Diagnosis of primary gastrointestinal T-cell lymphomas is often problematic because lymphoma may not be suspected clinically or on resection, and tissue may not be frozen for immunophenotyping. Furthermore, ulceration and inflammation and the polymorphous ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Surg Pathol · May 1993
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Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis (IRF) is an uncommon disease of obscure etiology and pathobiology. Using sections of frozen and paraffin-embedded tissue, an immunohistochemical technique, and antibodies to a variety of macrophage- and lymphocyte-associ ...
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Journal ArticleHum Pathol · December 1992
The purpose of this study was to determine whether human tissue macrophages (M phi s) in various inflammatory/reactive conditions express different immunophenotypes. Using a large panel of monoclonal antibodies to monocyte/M phi-related antigens and a froz ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · November 1, 1992
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A 61-year-old man had an ileocolectomy for resection of an obstructing lesion of the terminal ileum, which proved to be a mantle zone variant of intermediate lymphocytic lymphoma. At laparotomy, an intramural nodule in the gastric antrum was observed; on r ...
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Journal ArticleEnviron Res · October 1992
In a previous cross-sectional survey, up to 15% of shipyard painters were found to have mild anemia or granulocytopenia, mostly acquired since employment. Environmental studies had suggested a possible etiologic role for ethylene glycol ethers, solvents to ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Dermatol · May 1992
Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma is a malignancy of T cells that express a clone-specific heterodimer T-cell receptor for antigen. The second recognized case of an epidermotropic malignancy of T-cells expressing gamma/delta T-cell receptor-expressing cells is rep ...
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Journal ArticlePediatr Pathol · 1992
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Familial hemophagocytic syndrome (FHS) and infection-associated hemophagocytic syndrome (IAHS) usually present with fever, pancytopenia, hepatosplenomegaly, signs of hepatic dysfunction, bleeding diathesis, and neurological manifestations. FHS is almost un ...
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Journal ArticleScanning Microsc · March 1991
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Using immunohistochemical techniques and a large number of monoclonal antibodies, the presence and distribution of phenotypic subpopulations of macrophages (MOs) and dendritic cells in human spleen were assessed. The results of this study show that differe ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Surg Pathol · January 1991
A 45-year-old black man presented with fever, night sweats, weight loss, and cervical lymphadenopathy. Biopsy of an enlarged node showed partial effacement of the nodal architecture by numerous cells with typical cytomegalovirus (CMV) inclusions. These wer ...
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Journal ArticleJ Pediatr Surg · December 1990
Lower pole splenectomy with preservation of residual splenic function was successfully performed in a 3-year-old boy with a symptomatic splenic hamartoma. Following resection, several of the patient's constitutional symptoms resolved. This is the first rep ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Surg Pathol · November 1990
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We report a case of primary splenic malignant fibrous histiocytoma that occurred in a 41-year-old man. Adjacent to the tumor there was a large calcified intrasplenic cyst. Despite splenectomy, postoperative radiation, and systemic chemotherapy, the patient ...
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Journal ArticleSemin Diagn Pathol · February 1990
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Histochemical and immunohistochemical studies have been reported in only a few cases of sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy (SHML) to date. These indicate that SHML cells belong to the macrophage/histiocyte family, but their exact origin is st ...
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Journal ArticleBlood · June 1989
The serum of children with untreated hemophagocytic syndromes contains elevated levels (23,600 to 75,200 U/mL) of soluble interleukin-2 receptor (SIL2R) that returns toward normal with clinical improvement. These levels are in excess of levels previously r ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Pathol · December 1988
The antigenic phenotype of human villous stromal macrophages (M phi s) from first and third trimester placentas was analyzed using a large number of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to monocyte (Mo)/M phi-associated cell membrane determinants. The purpose of t ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Gastroenterol · October 1987
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We studied an unusual type of lymphoma of the ileocecal region using an established protocol that combines morphologic, flow cytometric, and immunohistochemical analyses. This lymphoma grew as multiple submucosal nodules, some of which had coalesced into a ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Pathol · September 1987
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Macrophages (M phi s) are an important component of the immune response and mediate numerous other functions. Phenotypic and functional subsets of circulating monocytes have been described, but few similar studies have analyzed M phi s in human tissues. By ...
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Journal ArticleCancer · December 1, 1985
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Thymomas are exceedingly rare in the first 20 years of life, and only a few well-documented cases are present in the literature. Thymomas in adults are commonly associated with other diseases, the most frequent being myasthenia gravis (MG). However, this a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunol · April 1985
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The antigenic and functional properties of splenic sinusoidal lining cells (SLC) have not been studied extensively. Some investigators have suggested that SLC are actively phagocytic, and thus part of the mononuclear phagocyte system. Others dispute this a ...
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Journal ArticleComput Radiol · 1985
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We report diagnostic imaging and histopathologic findings in four children with different cystic renal neoplasms. The features discerned with computed tomography (CT), as well as ultrasound, correlated well with gross histologic findings, although a defini ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Clin Pathol · August 1984
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Most of the monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) to T-lymphocyte subsets are, with few exceptions thought to recognize antigens (Ags) unique to T-cells. The authors examined the distribution of cells reacting with MoAbs to the helper/inducer (OKT4, anti-Leu-3a,b) ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunol Methods · February 24, 1984
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The effect of paraformaldehyde (PF), glutaraldehyde (GT), methanol (ME), ethanol (ET) and acetone (AC) fixation on the detectability of Ia antigens on murine and rat peritoneal exudate (PE) and resident peritoneal (RP) macrophages (M phi), and on detectabi ...
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Journal ArticleJ Immunol Methods · February 10, 1984
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Certain tissues, such as the spleen, are rich sources of mononuclear phagocytes (MP); however, separating the phagocytes from tissues and removing the contaminating cells have been difficult. We report here a method for the extraction and purification of h ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Endocrinol Metab · October 1981
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We report an 18-yr-old youth with a metastatic foregut carcinoid tumor, Cushing's syndrome, and hypersomatotropic gigantism. Administration of cyproheptadine caused a dramatic fall in urinary cortisol excretion and plasma ACTH levels associated with clinic ...
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Journal ArticlePediatrics · January 1980
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A 4-year-old girl who had received a fetal thymus gland by intraperitoneal transplantation 41 months previously sustained acute, fatal bronchiolitis due to culture-proven cytomegalovirus despite the fact that a specific antibody response to this organism w ...
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Journal ArticleJ Virol · July 1973
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Partially replicated T4 DNA molecules (PRM) whose parental or progeny DNA was labeled with bromodeoxyuridine BUdR was analyzed by gradual shearing followed by CsCl banding of the sheared product. Analysis of PRM containing 18-mum replicated DNA showed that ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · November 1972
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An RNA-DNA copolymer was isolated from Escherichia coli infected with bacteriophage T4. The RNA and DNA are covalently linked, and in the same polynucleotide strand. The DNA of the copolymer hybridizes specifically to the left strand of phage T4 DNA. The c ...
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Journal ArticleJ Virol · April 1970
Shortly after infection of Escherichia coli B with T4 phage, the phage deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) can be isolated as a fast-sedimenting, proteinaceous complex. Formation of the complex is inhibited by the addition of chloramphenicol between 3 and 4 min af ...
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Journal ArticleJ Bacteriol · December 1965
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Duerre, John A. (University of North Dakota, Grand Forks), and Patrick J. Buckley. Pigment production from tryptophan by an Achromobacter species. J. Bacteriol. 90:1686-1691. 1965.-A microorganism was isolated from the soil near the University of North Dak ...
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