Light chain amyloidosis of the urinary bladder. A site restricted deposition of an externally produced immunoglobulin.

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：AIMS:To establish the number of histological levels necessary for the evaluation of breast needle core biopsy (NCB) specimens taken from areas of mammographic calcification in patients presenting via the UK National Health Service Breast Screening Programme. METHODS:Retrospective review of a series of breast NCB speci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kumaraswamy V,Carder PJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate histopathological assessment of biopsies is important for the diagnosis, subclassification, and management of chronic idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) guidelines for the initial histopathological diagnosis of IBD were published in 1997. Changes since then ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Feakins RM,British Society of Gastroenterology.

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary breast cancer accounts for up to 5-10% of all breast carcinomas. Recent studies have demonstrated that mutations in two high-penetrance genes, namely BRCA1 and BRCA2, are responsible for about 16% of the familial risk of breast cancer. Even though subsequent studies have failed to find another high-penetran...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tan DS,Marchiò C,Reis-Filho JS

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is found that serum antifibrinolytic activity is inhibitory both to the spontaneous fibrinolytic activity and to the activity of streptokinase-activated plasminogen. The titres of serum antiplasmin activity during gestation, labour, and the puerperium are all of the same order and do not differ from those in non-pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： BIEZENSKI JJ

更新日期：1960-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new sensitive nitrite test, the SRN test, was evaluated for its suitability as a reliable screening technique for the detection of bacteriuria. The SRN test was compared to a currently available nitrite test, the Microstix nitrite test, and the results obtained with both nitrite tests were assessed in comparison wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rabi T

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In all cases of primary endocardial fibroelastosis investigated diffuse degenerative changes in the ganglion cells were detected. Thickened endocardium was formed by the proliferation of mesenchymal cells located under the endothelial endocardium and of the mesenchyme surrounding the necrobiotic muscle cells. In some ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zóltowska A

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine whether the recommended methods for the handling of breast excision biopsy specimens from screening patients cause more laboratory work than those used for non-screening patients. METHODS:All breast excision biopsy specimens from 1990 were identified. Ninety one came from patients identified during t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Green B,McDicken IW,Turnbull LS

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urinary excretion of the renal proximal tubular enzyme, gamma-glutamyltransferase (gamma-GT), has been studied in 41 patients receiving tobramycin, gentamicin or streptomycin for a variety of infections. All patients receiving tobramycin or gentamicin have shown increased excretion of gamma-GT in the urine. Only 4...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Beck PR,Thomson RB,Chaudhuri AK

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium, vitamin D, and osteocalcin concentrations were investigated in 17 patients with anorexia nervosa. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25 OHD) concentrations below normal were observed in 15 (88%); only two patients has serum 1,25 dihydroxycholecalciferol (1,25(OH)2D) concentrations below normal. Serum parathyroid ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fonseca VA,D'Souza V,Houlder S,Thomas M,Wakeling A,Dandona P

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of rotavirus infection in elderly patients in a long-stay ward of a geriatric hospital is described. Virus was detected in 7/15 (47%) symptomatic individuals. Four members of staff were among those affected. The findings emphasise the need for electron microscopy to be used in the initial investigation of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cubitt WD,Holzel H

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus isolated between 1967 and 1975 from the nose and skin lesions of patients in dermatology wards and from the burns of patients in a burns unit in Birmingham showed a high incidence of multiple antibiotic-resistant strains in both environments. Over 20% of the strains isolated from patients on admi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ayliffe GA,Green W,Livingston R,Lowbury EJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae were sent to UK participants in the UK National External Microbiological Quality Assessment Scheme, who were asked to examine the strains for toxin production by in vitro methods. Laboratories achieved 162/176 (92%) and 160/175 (91%) correct results with two rapid toxin prod...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Snell JJ,Demello JV,Gardner PS,Kwantes W,Brooks R

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate whether increasing the daily baseline of gut calcium can cause a gradual downregulation of the active intestinal transport of calcium via reduced parathyroid hormone (PTH) mediated activation of vitamin D, and to discuss why such a mechanism might prevent calcium oxalate rich stones. To demonstrate ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Williams CP,Child DF,Hudson PR,Davies GK,Davies MG,John R,Anandaram PS,De Bolla AR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Immunohistochemical stains have greatly improved the diagnostic accuracy of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) for primary and distant tumours. We evaluate a marker that has recently been incorporated in clinical practice, PAX-8, in primary and metastatic RCCs. METHODS:Two distinct tissue microarrays were used, one consi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barr ML,Jilaveanu LB,Camp RL,Adeniran AJ,Kluger HM,Shuch B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:An audit of serrated polyps diagnosed over a 4-year period: 2009 to 2012 was undertaken to ascertain the reporting trends of sessile serrated polyps (SSP). METHODS:All right sided hyperplastic polyps (HP) proximal to the splenic flexure and all polyps designated SSP were retrieved from the study period. Three path...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gill P,Wang LM,Bailey A,East JE,Leedham S,Chetty R

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To establish whether abnormalities in the course of the vertebral artery occur and whether they are relevant to arterial injury associated with head and neck movements. METHODS:Twenty vertebral arteries were carefully dissected at necropsy and abnormalities in course were noted, along with any other bony or carti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Johnson CP,Scraggs M,How T,Burns J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Partial myoepithelial differentiation is common in simple epithelial hyperplasia (epitheliosis) of the breast but functional myoepithelial differentiation with basement membrane production is exceedingly rare. A peculiar change of hyaline globules within benign epithelial hyperplasia has been recognised before as "col...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wells CA,Wells CW,Yeomans P,Viña M,Jordan S,d'Ardenne AJ

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Dysfunctional prothrombin residue Arg596 associated mutation has been found to precipitate venous thromboembolism (VTE). In the current study we investigated the prevalence of Arg596 associated mutations in Chinese patients with VTE and explored the functional impact of Arg596Gln mutation on coagulation function i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wu X,Li L,Ding Q,Wang X,Wu F,Wu W

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphometric techniques were applied to cytocentrifuge smears from 27 patients with histologically confirmed follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma to determine the usefulness of this method in diagnosis. Analysis of quantitative data confirmed that most subtypes were classified correctly on the basis of the proportion of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stevens MW,Crowley KS,Fazzalari NL,Woods AE

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an investigation of the in vitro phagocytic and microbicidal function of granulocytes collected by filtration leucapheresis (FL) from 18 donors and by discontinuous flow centrifugation leucapheresis (DFC) from six donors, comparison was made with the function of granulocytes obtained from the same donors by venepun...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Martin S,Ghoneim AT,Robinson EA,Child JA

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The development of a technique for simultaneous in situ hybridisation for native mRNA and conventional immunofluorescence for cytoplasmic antigens in routine pathology specimens. METHODS:Cocktails of synthetic deoxyoligonucleotides coding for immunoglobulin J chain and kappa light chain were 3' end labelled enzym...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harper SJ,Pringle JH,Gillies A,Allen AC,Layward L,Feehally J,Lauder I

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous clinical pathology departments are deploying or planning to deploy digital pathology systems for all or part of their diagnostic output. Digital pathology is an evolving technology, and it is important that departments uphold or improve on current standards. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has been scannin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Williams BJ,Treanor D

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elution technique is described which gives eluates at least as potent as previously described methods. Elution can be completed in only 15 minutes. The method, a modification of that of Vos and Kelsall, is simple to carry out and requires the minimum of equipment. Studies have shown that the coating antibody is alm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： RUBIN H

更新日期：1963-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A previous survey has highlighted the fact that most individuals in chemical pathology identifiable from specialist society membership failed to publish material in Medline cited journals during a five year period. It could be considered that published research that is not cited in other work is not useful u...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reynolds TM,Wierzbicki AS

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The laboratory findings in seven cases of endocarditis caused by coagulase-negative staphylococci are presented. The usefulness of biochemical characterization of the strains in diagnosis and the selection of antibiotics for prophylaxis and treatment are discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Speller DC,Mitchell RG

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly two thousand clinical samples were examined by direct gas-liquid chromatography over a three year period. Absence of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) in the samples correlated well with negative culture results for anaerobic bacteria. In general the presence of acetic acid alone correlated well with the presence of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Watt B,Geddes PA,Greenan OA,Napier SK,Mitchell A

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between the choline containing surfactant phospholipids lecithin and sphingomyelin in amniotic fluid and fetal lung maturity is well established. An enzymatic method that had been automated and optimised for use on a centrifugal analyser was used to measure the total choline containing phospholipids in am...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Teng SH,Andrews AG,Horacek I

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Evidence suggests that the presence of tumour necrosis is an adverse prognostic factor in renal cell carcinoma (RCC). However, it has also been shown that tumour regression, a microscopic feature associated with necrosis, may be a favourable short term prognostic factor in RCC. METHODS:Pathology reports of 253 RC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Foria V,Surendra T,Poller DN

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral adrenalectomy produces a reduction in the alkaline phosphatase concentration in rat intestine, which is not prevented by the administration of saline, but is prevented by the administration of cortisone. The administration of A.C.T.H. to normal rats leads to a rise in intestinal alkaline phosphatase levels a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Watson WC,Murray ES,Gardner MD

更新日期：1967-03-01 00:00:00