The determination of urinary 17-ketosteroids by an improved Zimmermann reaction.

abstract：:Foveolar dysplasia is an uncommon form of dysplasia that is encountered in the stomach and oesophagus in the context of Barrett’s oesophagus. Glands displaying foveolar dysplasia also show architectural abnormalities that are similar to those encountered in adenomatous dysplasia. However, from a cytological point of v...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Serra S,Chetty R

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the first 250 heart and 35 heart and lung transplant recipients at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, who survived for more than one month after transplantation, 217 heart and 33 heart and lung patients were investigated serologically for evidence of Toxoplasma gondii infection. Six patients acquired primary T gondii in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wreghitt TG,Hakim M,Gray JJ,Balfour AH,Stovin PG,Stewart S,Scott J,English TA,Wallwork J

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight strains of Pseudomonas putrefaciens have been received from among 466 strains of Pseudomonas submitted to the Computer Trials Laboratory for identification over the last eight years. Two of the strains of P. putrefaciens from patients with otitis media and otitis externa respectively appear to have played a path...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Holmes B,Lapage SP,Malnick H

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 19 year old man presented with unilateral testicular swelling and pain. An initial diagnosis of epididymo-orchitis was modified to a presumed testicular neoplasm following ultrasonography. The final diagnosis of isolated testicular vasculitis was established following histological examination of the orchidectomy spe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Warfield AT,Lee SJ,Phillips SM,Pall AA

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Heart failure (HF) affects millions of older individuals in both developed and low/middle-income countries. Serum galectin-3 levels have been shown to have prognostic value. However, its use as a diagnostic biomarker has not been explored. The aim was to establish a saliva galectin-3 reference range and to demonstr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zhang X,Wan Y,Chata R,Brazzale A,Atherton JJ,Kostner K,Dimeski G,Punyadeera C

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Glypican 3 (GPC3) is a heparan sulphate proteoglycan that shows elevated levels in the serum of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but not in healthy blood donors or patients with benign liver disease. This study explores the value of GPC3 expression for diagnosis of HCC by immunohistochemistry in liver...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wang FH,Yip YC,Zhang M,Vong HT,Chan KI,Wai KC,Wen JM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningitis due to Gemella haemolysans developed in a 73 year old woman after thermolysis of the Gasserian ganglion for trigeminal neuralgia. The taxonomy of this organism is discussed, and previous cases of infection are reviewed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mitchell RG,Teddy PJ

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the reliability of international normalised ratio (INR) measurement in primary care by practice nurses using near patient testing (NPT), in comparison with results obtained within hospital laboratories by varied methods. METHODS:As part of an MRC funded study into primary care oral anticoagulation man...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hobbs FD,Fitzmaurice DA,Murray ET,Holder R,Rose PE,Roper JL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To ascertain the effect of enhanced surveillance following an outbreak of waterborne cryptosporidiosis on the number of faecal specimens submitted to the local microbiology laboratory and the number positive for common enteric pathogens. The outbreak provided an opportunity to estimate the extent of routine under ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Qamruddin AO,Keaney MG,McCann R,Chadwick PR

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Scottish Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory provides a national service for the laboratory confirmation of meningococcal and pneumococcal disease in Scotland. The main tests used for the laboratory confirmation of meningococcal disease are culture, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), antibody tes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Clarke SC,Diggle MA,Reid JA,Thom L,Edwards GF

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioimmunoassay for human growth hormone using activated charcoal is described and its precision, accuracy, and sensitivity are defined. Results are presented for growth hormone measurements in plasma obtained during hypoglycaemia induced with insulin in patients of short stature and during glucose tolerance tests ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thomas FJ,Lloyd HM,Thomas MJ

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The signalling system of phosphoinositides (PIs) is involved in a number of cell and tissue functions including membrane trafficking, ion channel activity, cell cycle, apoptosis, differentiation and cell and tissue polarity. Recently, a role in cell migration was hypothesised for PI and related molecules including...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lo Vasco VR,Pacini L,Di Raimo T,D'arcangelo D,Businaro R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the clinical value of malignancy grading systems compared with nuclear DNA content, protein p53, and angiogenesis for predicting recurrence of stage I (UICC, 1987) tongue carcinomas. METHODS:Histopathological malignancy grading according to Jakobsson and tumour front grading according to Bryne et al were...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Högmo A,Kuylenstierna R,Lindholm J,Munck-Wikland E

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：AIMS:To estimate the expression of substance P in the haematopoietic cells of hypoplastic bone marrow and define its relationship with the course of bone marrow hypoplasia. METHODS:Bone marrow specimens were obtained from 42 children with bone marrow hypoplasia who were hospitalised in the Department of Pediatric Onco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nowicki M,Ostalska-Nowicka D,Konwerska A,Miskowiak B

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a case of myelofibrosis presenting as spinal cord compression on account of extramedullary haemopoietic tissue encroaching upon the spinal cord from a large pelvic mass. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Horwood E,Dowson H,Gupta R,Kaczmarski R,Williamson M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine how epithelial and stromal thymidine phosphorylase expression affects angiogenesis, rapid tumour growth, and decreased apoptotic activity in cervical cancer at varying stages of progression. METHODS:Epithelial and stromal thymidine phosphorylase expression, the microvessel count (reflected by factor ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fujiwaki R,Hata K,Iida K,Maede Y,Koike M,Miyazaki K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera can produce nuclear or perinuclear immunofluorescence staining in neutrophils which may be caused by antibodies with differing antigenic specificities. These include perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (P-ANCA), granulocyte specific antinuclear antibody (GS-ANA), and antinuclear antibody (ANA). Ther...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chowdhury SM,Broomhead V,Spickett GP,Wilkinson R

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of women with non-specific genital infection were treated for two weeks with tetracycline 250 mg six-hourly and minocycline 100 mg twice daily respectively. Cultures for yeasts were performed before treatment and at the end of the first and second weeks. Before treatment yeasts, mostly Candida albicans, wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Oriel JD,Waterworth PM

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and twenty-one rectal biopsies from 99 patients with carcinoma of the rectum or lower sigmoid colon were investigated using a high iron-diamine-Alcian blue technique for sulphated and non-sulphated acid mucins. It was found that in normal rectal mucosa sulphomucins are the main carbohydrate component of th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Filipe MI

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of erythrocytes to synthesize porphyrins from delta-aminolaevulic acid was compared in healthy people, patients with true iron-deficiency anaemia, and anaemic patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Porphyrin synthesis was found to be impaired in true iron deficiency but not in rheumatoid arthritis cases showi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gutniak O,Kopéc M,Nieczaj J

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a 20 year old Japanese woman who developed thyroid cancer exhibiting unusual cribriform structures while being followed up for familial adenomatous polyposis/Gardner's syndrome is reported. The patient presented with osteomas, pigmented retinal lesions, and adenomas of the duodenum and the papilla of Vater, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hizawa K,Iida M,Yao T,Aoyagi K,Oohata Y,Mibu R,Yamasaki K,Hirata T,Fujishima M

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the protein expression of connexin 43 (Cx43) in primary urothelial bladder cancer and test its association with the histopathological characteristics and clinical outcome. METHODS:A tissue microarray containing 348 tissue samples from 174 patients with primary urothelial carcinomas of the bladde...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Poyet C,Buser L,Roudnicky F,Detmar M,Hermanns T,Mannhard D,Höhn A,Rüschoff J,Zhong Q,Sulser T,Moch H,Wild PJ

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The localisation of the translocation breakpoint of the Ewing sarcoma family of tumours shows significant variability on relatively large regions of fusion partner genes. As a consequence, many alternative forms of EWSR1-ETS translocation exist which make the RNA-based molecular diagnostics of Ewing sarcoma family...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Patócs B,Németh K,Garami M,Arató G,Kovalszky I,Szendroi M,Fekete G

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with congenital lung cysts are at increased risk of developing carcinoma, but the mechanisms concerned are not clear. The case of a young adult who developed a bronchioloalveolar carcinoma associated with a cystic congenital adenomatoid malformation is reported. The adjacent lung showed an unusual intra-alveo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sheffield EA,Addis BJ,Corrin B,McCabe MM

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Definitive distinction between low-grade astrocytoma and astrogliosis is a long-standing difficulty due to their similar histopathological characteristics. To clarify differences in biological significance, this study focused on various components of the cell cycle machinery and proliferation as key parameters, com...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hara A,Saegusa M,Ichinoe M,Okayasu I

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principles which should govern the planning of benching and services for new laboratories are enumerated. These include the necessity for long-term planning, flexibility, and economy. The ;Cardiff benching system' where the benches are composed of units that consist of an independent movable table base, a removabl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： LAURENCE KM

更新日期：1963-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To establish a mechanism to examine the components of turnaround time in a representative cross-section of laboratory users; and to identify potential areas for improvement. METHODS:Information was collected manually from result reports received by eight laboratory users: three wards in the main hospital, four GP...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smellie WS,Johnston J,Galloway PJ

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sellar region is the site of a large number of pathological entities arising from the pituitary and adjacent anatomical structures, including brain, blood vessels, nerves and meninges. The surgical pathology of this area requires the accurate identification of neoplastic lesions, including pituitary adenoma and ca...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Al-Brahim NY,Asa SL

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Vibrio vulnificus is uncommon in Europe but is associated with necrotising wound infections and life-threatening septicaemia. This case is one of infection most likely to have been acquired from a thermal pool in Turkey without preceding exposure to seawater or shellfish. The report also describes how e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Partridge DG,Townsend R,Larkin S,Parsons HK

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00