Introduction of an automated service for the laboratory confirmation of meningococcal disease in Scotland.

abstract：:A thin-layer chromatographic method for the simultaneous assessment of formimino-glutamic (Figlu) and urocanic acid excretion after loading with 15 g. histidine has been applied to 15 control subjects and to 49 selected patients. Upper limits of normal excretion were determined for urocanic acid and Figlu alone (15 mg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mohamed SD,Roberts M

更新日期：1966-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-year-old female patient underwent right hemihepatectomy for metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma. Preoperative imaging demonstrated an area of focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) in segment VIII and metastatic carcinoma in segment VI of the liver. Gross and microscopic examination of the former lesion showed features typ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nisar PJ,Zaitoun AM,Damera A,Hodi Z,Tierney GM,Beckingham IJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prognostic factors in predicting outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma (HNSCC) are limited to the clinical-pathological parameters, including lymph node metastasis, location, grade and stage of the disease. AIM:To determine whether the expression of these proteins has a value in pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mhawech-Fauceglia P,Dulguerov P,Beck A,Bonet M,Allal AS

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited biochemical defects may present with acute life-threatening illness with a high mortality and morbidity. Some are treatable and have a good outcome with early appropriate intervention. However, because of their rarity, diagnosis is often delayed; they are not considered or investigated appropriately. This is...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cook P,Walker V

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Experience in the use of whole slide imaging (WSI) for primary diagnosis in pathology is very limited. We aimed to determine the accuracy of interpretation of WSI compared with conventional light microscopy (CLM) in the diagnosis of routine gynaecological biopsies. METHODS:All gynaecological specimens (n=452) rec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ordi J,Castillo P,Saco A,Del Pino M,Ordi O,Rodríguez-Carunchio L,Ramírez J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Operation specimens from 52 Hong Kong patients considered to have tuberculosis of the spine were sent at -78 degrees C to London where they were cultured on two Löwenstein-Jensen medium slopes, a slope of 7H11 medium made selective with antibiotics and in two bottles of selective liquid Kirchner medium. Cultures of M ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Allen BW,Mitchison DA,Darbyshire J,Chew WW,Gabriel M

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine esterases were detected in the granules of mucosal mast cells from rat, mouse, sheep, and man. Successful demonstration of enzyme activity required brief fixation (6 h) of tissues in 4% paraformaldehyde. Staining with naphthol AS-D chloroacetate produced an intense red reaction product in intraepithelial mucosa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Huntley JF,Newlands GF,Gibson S,Ferguson A,Miller HR

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic balance studies for iron have been carried out on 24 apparently healthy elderly people (11 men and 13 women) aged 69.7 to 85.5 years living in their own homes and eating self selected diets. Several biochemical and haematological indices of iron state were also measured. The mean daily iron intake was 176 mu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bunker VW,Lawson MS,Clayton BE

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow aspirates and biopsy specimens were taken at diagnosis from 51 patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). The diagnosis was based on morphological and cytochemical analyses, and the leukaemias were classified by FAB criteria. A considerable difference was observed between the results of bone marrow aspir...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Islam A,Frisch B,Henderson ES

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter pylori associated gastric cancer arises via a multistage process, with atrophic gastritis being the precursor lesion. Helicobacter pylori is typically acquired in childhood, yet little is known of the prevalence of atrophic gastritis in childhood. AIM:To study atrophic gastritis among children ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ricuarte O,Gutierrez O,Cardona H,Kim JG,Graham DY,El-Zimaity HM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kallestad Corporation recently suggested that their new buffer system for the nephelometric detection of rheumatoid factor conferred advantages over existing systems. Two rate nephelometric procedures, the Kallestad QM-300 and the Beckman ICS-II (RF), were therefore compared. Sera (n = 157) were selected on the ba...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Collins RJ,Neil JC,Wilson RJ

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recently developed procedure, that has been shown to be suitable for detailed immunohistological analysis, has been used to prepare cryostat sections of bone marrow to investigate whether enzyme-histochemical techniques are also feasible on such material. A selected group of enzymes, some of which are inhibited or d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chilosi M,Pizzolo G,Janossy G,Bofill M,Fiore-Donati L

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum C reactive protein concentrations measured by a laboratory based assay were compared with the semiquantitative results obtained with a visual agglutination method (Well-cotest, CRP kit). Using this agglutination kit, diluting serum 1/10 and 1/20 gave C reactive protein results which could be of more clinical val...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Richards NP,Elliott TS,Powell RJ,O'Callaghan C,Franklin P

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and reproducible technique for in situ hybridisation, using biotin labelled probes for the Y chromosome, human DNA, hepatitis B virus DNA and cytomegalovirus DNA on formalin fixed, paraffin embedded liver tissue, was developed. The degree of proteolytic digestion of tissue specimens is critical to ensure adequ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Naoumov NV,Alexander GJ,Eddleston AL,Williams R

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the prevalence of gastric giardiasis in patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and to define the clinicopathological correlates of gastric Giardia lamblia infection. METHODS:Consecutive gastric biopsy specimens (n = 15,023) from 11,085 patients, taken at Feltre City Hospital (north easter...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Doglioni C,De Boni M,Cielo R,Laurino L,Pelosio P,Braidotti P,Viale G

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mycosis fungoides (MF) is the most common skin lymphoid neoplasm. In initial stages, differential diagnosis of MF from other benign dermal lymphoid infiltrates (BDLI) may be impossible on morphological basis alone. In previous studies, only deletion of CD7 in MF proved to be of diagnostic help, but not the r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lira M,Schenka AA,Magna LA,Cotta AC,Cintra ML,de Souza EM,Brousset P,Vassallo J

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the causes of ovarian granulomatous inflammation and to discuss the differential diagnoses. METHODS:The pathological features of all ovarian granulomas identified by pathology SNOMED coding in Northern Ireland over a 13 year period were reviewed. Case notes of patients were also reviewed. RESULTS:Th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McCluggage WG,Allen DC

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Solid and papillary epithelial neoplasm (SPEN) is an uncommon pancreatic tumour. Very rarely it has also been described outside the pancreas, usually arising from heterotopic pancreatic tissue. This report summarises all the published extrapancreatic SPENs and documents the sixth such case arising from heterotopic ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tornóczky T,Kálmán E,Jáksó P,Méhes G,Pajor L,Kajtár GG,Battyány I,Davidovics S,Sohail M,Krausz T

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine lymphocyte subsets in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS); and to correlate immunohistological variables with prognosis. METHODS:Bone marrow trephine biopsy specimens from 65 patients with MDS were immunophenotyped using a panel of antibodies. A minimum of 1000 cells from representative areas ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hilbe W,Eisterer W,Schmid C,Starz I,Silly H,Duba C,Ludescher C,Thaler J

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Congenital neutropenia (CN) is a rare inherited disease that results in recurrent, life-threatening bacterial infections due to a deficiency of mature neutrophils. They are usually caused by heterozygous ELANE mutations although mutations in other genes like HAX-1, G6PC3 and GFI1 have also been reported. Identifyi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arunachalam AK,Suresh H,Edison ES,Korula A,Aboobacker FN,George B,Shaji RV,Mathews V,Balasubramanian P

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results have been compared of microbiological and radioisotope dilution (RID) assay of serum vitamin B12 by participants in national interlaboratory trials in Britain. There was wide variation between the individual participants, especially marked in the L. leichmannii microbiological assay and in the RID methods,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mollin DL,Hoffbrand AV,Ward PG,Lewis SM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Several studies have reported conflicting and inconclusive results concerning the clinical relevance of mucin expression in gastric carcinoma. This study investigated the correlations between aberrant expression of mucins in gastric carcinoma and patient clinicopathological features. METHODS:The expression of MUC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wang RQ,Fang DC

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The programmed cell death receptor 1 (PD-1) checkpoint inhibitor, nivolumab, has been approved for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). However, the understanding of the expression and distribution of PD ligand 1 (PD-L1) in the tumour immune microenvironment and its prognostic role in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yeong J,Zhao Z,Lim JCT,Li H,Thike AA,Koh VCY,Teh BT,Kanesvaran R,Toh CK,Tan PH,Khor LY

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma (PLGA) is a rare tumour that mostly affects oral minor salivary glands. Our review of the literature found that there are only two reported cases of PLGA originating in the nasopharynx. Another nasopharyngeal PLGA in a 14-year-old boy is reported, focusing on the histopathological...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wei YC,Huang CC,Chien CY,Hwang JC,Chen WJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of selenium, zinc, and copper were determined in whole blood, plasma, and leucocytes in 20 patients with relatively mild Crohn's disease, nine of whom were being treated with steroids, and compared with those of a control group. There was a significant decrease in the concentration of selenium in th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hinks LJ,Inwards KD,Lloyd B,Clayton B

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of the Paris study on risk factors of cardiovascular disease in a large professional group, 7710 active and apparently healthy men aged between 48 and 54 were examined. This study measured the relationship between clinical abnormalities suggesting alcoholic liver disease (ALD) and the following blood par...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eschwege E,Papoz L,Lellouch J,Claude JR,Cubeau J,Pequignot G,Richard JL,Schwartz D

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To study the homozygous deletion and methylation status of the 5' CpG island of the p16 and p15 genes (9p21) in a set of primary advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) and to test whether inactivation of these genes by these mechanisms contributes to head and neck SCC development. METHODS:DNA was e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： González MV,Pello MF,López-Larrea C,Suárez C,Menéndez MJ,Coto E

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A slight modification in tissue processing and staining technique enables a previously described method for staining aluminium to be used to demonstrate aluminium in osteomalacia associated with haemodialysis. The stain appears to be accurate in diagnosing this condition and may assist in establishing the diagnosis be...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Buchanan MR,Ihle BU,Dunn CM

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonococcal isolates resistant to ciprofloxacin collected from 2004 to 2005, in the Pretoria region, were characterised using Neisseria gonorrhoeae multi-antigen sequence typing (NG-MAST). The isolates were obtained from men presenting with urethritis to primary healthcare clinics and general practitioners. All isolate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： De Jongh M,Dangor Y,Ison CA,Hoosen AA

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with bacterial infection may show altered membrane permeability of the primary azurophilic lysosomes of blood neutrophils. A new enzyme cytochemical technique, sensitive to increased membrane permeability caused by contact of neutrophils with acetone, saponin, low pH, Streptolysin O, bacteria, and nylon wool,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wozniak JT,Orchard TL,Mackie PH,Mistry DK,Stuart J

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00