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Reproducibility of Pretest Assessment in Suspected Pulmonary Embolism... Propofol Attenuates Human Proximal Renal Tubular Epithelial Cell Injury ... Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitor Tirofiban in Acute Coronary Syndromes... Insidious Onset of Visual Disturbances in a Healthy 56-Year-Old Man... Cytomegalovirus-Antigenemia-Positive and Polymerase-Chain-Reaction-Negative... Head and Neck Pain, Syncopal Episode, Abnormal Cerebrospinal Fluid...


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2008
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Reproducibility of Pretest Assessment in Suspected Pulmonary Embolism... Propofol Attenuates Human Proximal Renal Tubular Epithelial Cell Injury ... Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitor Tirofiban in Acute Coronary Syndromes... Insidious Onset of Visual Disturbances in a Healthy 56-Year-Old Man... Cytomegalovirus-Antigenemia-Positive and Polymerase-Chain-Reaction-Negative...
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Bacterial and Viral Infections in Neurodegenerative and Neurobehavioral ... Autophagy, Beclin 1, and Their Relation To Oncogenesis... Clostridium difficile From 2 Geographically Separate Hospitals in Japan... Life-threatening Cardiogenic Shock in a 38-Year-Old Woman...
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Innovative Tests of Plasmatic Hemostasis... Clinical Application of Pyrosequencing in Detection of YMDD Mutations... Ureaplasma urealyticum in Semen of Men With Varicocele... Fatigue and Easy Bruising in a 32-Year-Old Woman With a History of Heart ...
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Urgent Need for Blood: Administrative Issues... Phenotypic and Genotypic Characteristics of Clinical Isolates of Pseudomona... Why Do I Still Have a Bruise Around My Knee?...
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Two-Graph Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis to Assess PSA... Leukocyte Aggregation In Vitro as a Cause of Pseudoleukopenia... Travel-Related Fever due to an Emerging Infection...
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Easy Bruising, Cataracts, and Hearing Loss in a 27-Year-Old Female... Comparing 2 Methods for Calculation of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate...
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2007
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Comparative Study of Liquid-Based Preparations and Conventional Pap Smears... Chemiluminescent Assay for Analysis of Choline in Plasma and Whole Blood... Different Mixing Procedures for K2 EDTA Primary Samples on Hematologic Test... Possible Transfusion Reaction With a Positive DAT in a 29-Year-Old Male... Emesis Following Ingestion of Race Car Fuel in a 7-Year-Old Male...
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Pleural Fluid Sample Stability for White Blood Cell and Differential Counts... Communicating and Understanding Laboratory Test Results: What Matters?... Leukocyte Reduction, Plasma Apheresis, and CMV DNA Levels in Samples... Evaluation of Multiplex Antinuclear Antibody Assay in Pediatric Patients... Lithium Self-Intoxication Treated With Hemodialysis...
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Total and Specific IgE in the Sera of Patients With Allergic Diseases... Serum Thyroglobulin Stability for Immunoassay... Fatal Dysrhythmia Secondary to Thyrotoxicosis Periodic Paralysis... Thrombocytopenia and Elevated Bilirubin in Adult Woman With Resected Pancre... Neuropathy Following Chronic Use of Denture Adhesive in 40-Year-Old Patient...
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Requisition Errors for Blood Glucose Tests: A Hospital-Based Study... Effect of Tube Filling Order on Specific Coagulation Parameters in Healthy ... Fetal Lung Maturity Testing in Diabetic Mothers... Severe Chronic Neutropenia in a Mother and Her Infant... Chest Pain, Dyspnea, and Fatigue in a 57-Year-Old Man...
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Left Lower Lobe Lung Lesion in a Patient With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus... Persistent Elevation of CA 19-9 in an Apparently-Healthy 56-Year-Old Woman... Hyperuricemia and Arthralgias During Pyrazinamide Therapy in TB Patients... Giant Myelolipoma of the Adrenal Gland With Adenocarcinoma of the Colon...
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A 90-Year-Old Man With Involuntary Right-Sided Movements... A 20-Year-Old Male With Sinusitis and Bilateral Lung Opacities... Relationship Between Waist Circumference and Biomarkers for T2DM and CVD... Causes of Moraxella Catarrhalis Pathogenicity: Review of Literature...
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Neisseria Sicca/Subflava: Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis... Abdominal Pain in an 8-Year-Old Male... Fever, Night Sweats, Headache, Cough, and Myalgias in a 60-Year-Old Man... Biclonal M-Spike in a 7-Year-Old Child...
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Hospital and Clinical Laboratory Response to Mumps Exposures... Chronic Fever, Chills, Night Sweats, and Dark Urine in a 66-Year-Old Woman... Urine Pregnancy Testing in Two Women with Cancer... 3'UTR Polymorphism of IL12B in Related to Diabetes...
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Proficiency Testing Performance in Physicians Office, Clinic, and Hospitals... Three Sperm-Counting Methods for the Determination of Sperm Concentration... Rapid, Presumptive Identification of Torulopsis (Candida) Glabrata...... Comparison of Diagnoses for Samples Submitted for Flow Cytometric Analysis... Long-Standing Microcytic Anemia in a 29-Year-Old Woman...
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Quality Sampling: Effect of Centrifugation Time on Stat Chemical Testing... A Survey of State Public Health Laboratories for Pertussis Diagnostics... Monitoring Ultraviolet Lamps in Biological Safety Cabinets... Method for Detection of Hepatoma Specific GGT by Affinity Chromatography... Radiation Necrosis of Undetermined Etiology...
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Idiopathic Eosinophilia Associated CMML-2 With Overexpression of ETV6 Gene... Profound Thrombocytopenia Associated With Administration of Eptifibatide... A Fatal Case of High Fever in a 42-Year-Old Woman...
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Albuminuria: Its Importance in Disease Detection... ?Possible? HIV Resistance: HIV Genotyping Versus the IC50 Virtual Phenotype... Specific IgE Testing: Objective Evidence of Sensitization... Fever and Petechiae in a Middle Aged Male...
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Adventures in CO-Oximetry: Apparent Methemoglobinemia...
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2006
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Hyperkalemia in Two Elderly Men... Automated Microbiology Laboratory Information Management System... Hemolytic Anemia in a 5-Year-Old Child...
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Pathology of the Peripheral Neuroblastic Tumors... Unusual Antibody Reactions in a 55-Year-Old Man... Radar Graphs in Evaluating Instrument Performance Characteristics... Add-On Testing in the Clinical Laboratory: Two Large Academic Med Centers...
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A 32-Year-Old Immunocompetent Man with Submandibular Lymphadenopathy... Acute Presentation of an Uncommon Cause of Renal Failure... Update on Cardiac Biomarkers... Recurrent Nephrolithiasis in a 9-Year-Old Child...
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Clinical Significance of HIV-1 Drug Resistance Mutations... False Positive Cardiac Troponin Results in Patients Without AMI... Homocysteine: Clinical Significance and Laboratory Measurement... Acute Hypotensive Transfusion Reactions...
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Worsening Symptoms of Fever, Chills, Cough, Fatigue, and Muscle Soreness... News Briefs: Laboratory Licensure Required in New York State... ASCP 2005 Wage and Vacancy Survey of Medical Laboratories...
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A Large Skull Mass in a 67-Year-Old Woman... To the Middle and Beyond: Exploring Laboratory Software... Discrepant Blood Typing Results... Jaundice and Cola-Colored Urine in a Young Indian Boy... A Woman Presenting With Rapidly Progressive Flaccid Paralysis...
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An 18-Year-Old Male With Shortness of Breath And Cough... A Painful Cutaneous Nodule in an Immunocompromised Patient...
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Hematology Analyzer: From Workhorse to Thoroughbred... Detection of K-ras Mutations From Body Fluids... Levels of Serum Zinc in Children With Enterocolitis and Chronic ... Eosinophilia in an Indian Farmer...
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Serum Proteins Capillary Zone Electrophoresis: 2 Systems... The Glomerular Filtration Rate: An Important Test... Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinemia: A Molecular Definition...
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Enviro-Pap... Hypokalemia and Reversible Paralysis in a Young Hispanic Male... Gene-Environment Interactions: PON1 and OP Toxicity... Atypical Cells in the CSF of 43-YO Man W/ Perioral Paresthesias... A Neonate With Bleeding and Multiple Factor Deficiencies...
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Incidence of a Type AB Infant Born to a Type O Mother... Effects of Room Temperature on Hematologic Parameters... New-Onset Thrombocytopenia and Anemia...
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2005
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Bacterial Contamination of Platelets for Transfusion... A 34-Year-Old-Male with Progressive Neurologic Decline... Unusual Organisms in the Bone Marrow in Systemic Sarcoidosis...
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Clinical Utility of Sensitive TSH Measurements... Reagent Carryover Studies... The "Perfect Storm"... Fever, Weight Loss, Cough, and Chest Pain in a HIV-Positive Man...
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Extended Storage of Liquid-Preserved Stem Cells... Glomerular & Non-Glomerular Haematuria: Preservation of Sediment... Vulvar and Oral Lesions In A 34-Year Old Woman... A 24-Year-Old Woman With Abdominal Pain...
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Prothrombin Time Testing Practices in the Pacific Northwest... Acquired Partial Lipodystrophy Associated W/ Hypocomplementemia... Sudden Death & Enlarged Adrenal Glands - Healthy Adult Woman... Nausea, Vomiting, & Decreased Consciousness - Chronic Back Pai...
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"CRAB" Findings in a Patient With Fatigue and Poor Appetite... Sysmex pocH-100i Analyzer Applicability for Satellite Labs... Gel Testing for Antibody Screening and Identification... Undetectable Plasma Creatinine in a Paralyzed Patient With HIV...
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Phlebotomy Puncture Juncture: Preventing Phlebotomy Errors... Issues in Measurement of Biochemical Bone Markers... Neck Pain and Rash in an 18-Year-Old Student...
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Serum Amyloid A Concentrations in Full-Term Infant Umbilical... A Patient With a Low IgA Level Requiring Transfusion During CABG... Profound Normocytic Anemia in a 36-Year-Old Woman... Aortic Valve Insufficiency in a 45-Year-Old Male...
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Continuous Throughput Rapid Tissue Processing Revolutionizes... Using a Single Calibration Curve With the Anti-Xa Chromogenic... A Neonate With Hyperammonemia... Worsening Shortness of Breath in a 62-Year-Old Man...
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Identification of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in a Proficiency Test... Evolution of C-Reactive Protein as a Cardiac Risk Factor... Markedly Decreased Serum Sodium Concentration in a Patient... A Young Woman With Indurated Skin and Subcutaneous Lesions...
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Mantle Cell Leukemia, Blastoid Variant... Diagnosis Of Glutaric Acidemia Type I: A Cautionary Note... Joint Swelling and Progressive Upper and Lower Extremity... A 14-Year-Old Male With Abdominal Pain...
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Fever, Headache, and Abdominal Pain in an African Male... Comparison of Indications for Red Blood Cell Transfusion... Regulatory and Quality Initiatives-Trends in Transfusion... Evaluation of Potassium Values in a Cancer Patient Population...
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Importance of Weak ABO Subgroups... Engineering for Safety: Use of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis... Normoglycemia May Encompass Two Subpopulations... Evaluation of an Automated System for ABO/D Typing...
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2004
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Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and ADAMTS-13... Recognizing and Managing Clinical Uncertainty... How Many Slides? Documented Cytotechnologist Workload...
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Acquired von Willebrand?s Disease Associated... Abdominal Pain and Leukocytosis in an Immunosuppressed Patient... Lethargy, Failure to Thrive, and Psychomotor...
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Fever, Weight Loss, and Lung Nodules in a 54-Year-Old Woman... Fatigue, Bronze-Colored Skin, and Skin Ulcerations... Severe Abdominal Pain and Diarrhea in an Elderly Woman... Distinguishing Between Pathogenic and Non-Pathogenic Species...
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Leukocytosis, Thrombocytopenia, and Hepatospleno-megaly... Refeeding Syndrome in a Severely Malnourished Child... Abherrant Blood Grouping Results in a Patient With Splenomegaly... Abnormal Red Blood Cell Morphology in an Elderly Male...
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A 36-Pound Weight Loss and Debilitating Painful Rash... National Laboratory Training Network Public Health Series Course... Technology to Reduce Specimen Collection Errors... Recurrent Confusion and Seizures in an Adult Male... Misleading Gram Stain Findings on a Smear from a Cerebrospinal...
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