How morphometric analysis of metastatic load predicts the (un)usefulness of PET scanning: the case of lymph node staging in melanoma.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Large granular lymphocyte (LGL) leukaemia is considered a mature T-cell or natural killer (NK) cell neoplasm, characterised by a clonal proliferation of LGL. AIMS:To analyse the characteristics and to establish (if possible) the prognostic parameters of these patients diagnosed in a single centre: Univers...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Uranga A,González C,Furundarena JR,Robado N,Rey M,Aragon L,Urreta I,Aranbarri A,De Juan MD,Araiz M

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of typing Pseudomonas pyocyanea is described which makes use of the property of bacteriocine production. The method was applied in an epidemiological study of Ps. pyocyanea infection in a general hospital. It was found that the majority of strains believed on epidemiological grounds to be of common origin wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： DARRELL JH,WAHBA AH

更新日期：1964-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen formalin fixed and paraffin wax embedded biopsy specimens from 10 women (age range 34-68) presenting with pseudomembranous trigonitis were studied using a combination of anti-oestrogen receptor monoclonal antibodies in an avidin-biotin immunoperoxidase technique. All epithelial areas showing vaginal metaplasi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stephenson TJ,Henry L,Harris SC,Giri DD,Fox M,Underwood JC

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two known strains of the Bacteroides fragilis group of organisms and 67 clinical specimens from a variety of sites were examined by fluorescent antibody test (IFA) using two different antisera fro the rapid detection of B fragilis group of organisms. A previously reported Barts' pooled antisera was compared wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wills A,Taylor E,Pantosti A,Phillips I,Tabaqchali S

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agar gel, cellulose acetate, and starch gel electrophoresis are all capable of diagnosing sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell haemoglobin C disease, and haemoglobin C disease in cord blood samples. Of these three electrophoretic techniques, agar gel is the easiest to interpret.Paper electrophoresis can reliably and rapid...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yaswon GI,Huntsman RG,Metters JS

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory studies on clotrimazole showed that it had marked activity in vitro against all the Candida spp. and Cryptococcus spp. tested, against almost all strains of dermatophytes, and against Aspergillus spp and other fungal genera responsible for systemic mycoses; it had limited activity towards Gram-positive bact...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Holt RJ,Newman RL

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the last decade, whole slide images (WSI) have been used in many areas of pathology such as teaching, research, digital archiving, teleconsultation and quality assurance testing. However, WSI have not regularly been used for routine diagnosis, because of the lack of validation studies. AIM:To test th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Al-Janabi S,Huisman A,Vink A,Leguit RJ,Offerhaus GJ,Ten Kate FJ,van Dijk MR,van Diest PJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system using totally disposable self-supporting bedpans requiring no carrier was examined in use in two hospitals. The bedpans and their contents were disposed of by destruction and flushing to waste carried out in a modified Haigh Sluicemaster disposal unit. This incorporates a positively closing and locking lid wi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gibson GL

更新日期：1973-12-01 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：:Three cases of fungal endocarditis are described, each following a homograft valve replacement for aortic stenosis. The causative organism was C. albicans. The characteristic findings included soft, easily detached vegetations consisting of fungal colonies, aneurysms, embolization of large vessels, and lack of respons...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McConnell EM,Roberts C

更新日期：1967-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical tables including 50 and 95 percentile ranges are presented of the combined kidney weights compared with body weight, crown-rump length, and gestation age of foetuses and newborn children, and also a table of kidney weights related to post-natal age. The importance of relating kidney weight to more than one...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： EMERY JL,MITHAL A

更新日期：1960-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the significance of flat epithelial atypia (FEA) on core biopsy by evaluating the proportion of cases upgraded to in-situ and invasive carcinoma on further sampling with vacuum-assisted biopsy (VAB) or diagnostic surgical biopsy. METHODS:A retrospective analysis was performed of all core biopsies contai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rajan S,Sharma N,Dall BJ,Shaaban AM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a left adrenal tumour in a 16 year old Chinese girl who presented with fever of unknown origin. The histological and ultrastructural features of the adrenal tumour were those of a primitive small round cell tumour with neuroendocrine differentiation. Cytogenetic analysis of cultured tumour cells ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lam KY,Lo CY,Shek TW,Ma ES,Au WY,Chan GC

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, cellular immunophenotyping has become a new discipline in diagnostic haematology and immunology, and is invaluable in the rapid diagnosis of leukaemia and monitoring disease progression in human immunodeficiency virus infected individuals. The introduction of bench top flow cytometers has meant tha...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reilly JT,Barnett D

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antibody was raised against a protein isolated from the cytoplasm of mesothelioma cells. It was subsequently used in an immunoperoxidase procedure on formalin fixed, paraffin embedded tissue sections. A representative sample of benign and malignant tumours from all the systems of the human body was examined. All th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Donna A,Betta PG,Bellingeri D,Marchesini A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The evaluation of allelic losses at the FHIT and the BRCA1 genes and at three other loci at the 17q region in a series of 34 sporadic breast cancer cases from Southern Brazil. METHODS:The samples were evaluated for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at the FHIT and the BRCA1 genes and at three other microsatellite marke...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Santos SC,Cavalli LR,Cavalli IJ,Lima RS,Haddad BR,Ribeiro EM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains isolated in Tawam Hospital, a tertiary care hospital in the United Arab Emirates, were examined in order to understand the reasons for a doubling of its incidence between 2003 and 2008 while maintaining the same infection control measures. METHODS:All cons...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sonnevend Á,Blair I,Alkaabi M,Jumaa P,Al Haj M,Ghazawi A,Akawi N,Jouhar FS,Hamadeh MB,Pál T

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the case of a 76 year old man who suffered from febrile ulceronecrotic Mucha-Habermann disease (FUMHD). Despite this patient's typical clinical and histological findings, the fulminating course led to death. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis of the skin lesions showed that the infiltrating...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Miyamoto T,Takayama N,Kitada S,Hagari Y,Mihara M

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the sources of fetal haemoglobin (HbF) as an indicator in cancer. An immunohistochemical study was carried out on some of the most common kinds of cancer. All of these cancers had serologically high levels of HbF as evaluated previously. METHODS:Immunoaffinity-purified anti-HbF was immunohistochemicall...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wolk M,Martin JE,Reinus C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostate cancer diagnosis is routinely made by the histopathological examination of formalin fixed needle biopsy specimens. Frequently this is the only cancer tissue available from the patient for the analysis of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. There is, therefore, an urgent need for methods that allow...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McCarthy F,Fletcher A,Dennis N,Cummings C,O'Donnell H,Clark J,Flohr P,Vergis R,Jhavar S,Parker C,Cooper CS

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for assessing thyroid status using Sephadex column chromatography of serum samples with added (125)I triiodothyronine. The method is simple and inexpensive. It gave a correct diagnostic result in 97% of 258 euthyroid, 90% of 80 hyperthyroid, 78% of 59 hypothyroid, and 67% of 50 euthyroid, ill pat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gimlette TM

更新日期：1967-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudolipoma of the liver is a rare condition which may be confused with metastatic tumours, primary tumours, or other lesions of the liver. This study presents three hepatic pseudolipomas that occurred in men aged 33, 38, and 42 years. The prevalence of hepatic pseudolipomas was 0.2% in a series of 1300 consecutive n...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Karhunen PJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of laminin, a basement membrane glycoprotein, was studied by an immunohistochemical technique in six samples of benign sclerosing lesions of extrahepatic bile ducts and in 11 sclerosing cholangiocarcinomas. The expression of laminin showed that benign glandular structures were surrounded by a mainly i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Haglund C,Roberts PJ,Nordling S

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small epidemic of gastroenteritis in a children's hospital is described, and also the biochemical characteristics of the causative organism. Stress is laid on the fact that failure to recognize that epidemic strains of Escherichia coli may be late lactose fermentors can lead to errors or delay in diagnosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SHEDDEN WI,POTTER CW,DUBOWITZ V,WOOD M

更新日期：1962-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical study of 401 cases of tumour of salivary tissue has been made and the results reported, together with a review of the literature. The histological variations of such tumours are classified and discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： CAMERON JM

更新日期：1961-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To describe the prostatic adenectomy specimens of six patients with symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) who failed to respond to long term treatment with a 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor, finasteride. METHODS:Histological sections from six cases of BPH who had been treated with finasteride were investigat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Montironi R,Valli M,Fabris G

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to classify the underlying disorder in four patients with biopsy-proven amyloidosis without overt monoclonal gammopathy, the cytoplasmic immunoglobulin (Ig) distribution of bone marrow plasma cells was evaluated using direct immunofluorescence microscopy. This procedure revealed the presence of a monoclonal p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thielemans C,Aelbrecht W,Verbeelen D,Somers G,De Waele M,Van Camp B

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:In the natural history of gastric cancer, non-invasive neoplasia (NiN) precedes invasive carcinoma. A histological classification of gastric NiN has recently been proposed by a World Health Organisation international panel of experts. Genetic instability is known to be among the molecular pathways invol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rugge M,Bersani G,Bertorelle R,Pennelli G,Russo VM,Farinati F,Bartolini D,Cassaro M,Alvisi V

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The systematic screening of 253 children with transfusion-dependent homozygous beta-thalassaemia revealed a high incidence of hepatitis B virus markers. The highest frequencies of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) were found in the group of patients with the smalle...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： De Virgiliis S,Fiorelli G,Fargion S,Cornacchia G,Sanna G,Cossu P,Murgia V,Cao A

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In the time of COVID-19, predictive molecular pathology laboratories must still timely select oncological patients for targeted treatments. However, the need to respect social distancing measures may delay results generated by laboratory-developed tests based on sequential steps a long hands-on time. Laboratory wo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Malapelle U,De Luca C,Iaccarino A,Pepe F,Pisapia P,Russo M,Sgariglia R,Nacchio M,Vigliar E,Bellevicine C,Schmitt FC,Troncone G

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00