An epidemic of gastroenteritis due to an uncommon variant of Escherichia coli 0.128.

abstract：:The nasal carrier status of 3,736 patients was determined throughout their stay in hospital. The carrier rate on admission, which was highest in patients under 20 years of age, did not appear to vary with season.The carriage of strains resistant to penicillin increased with the patients' stay in hospital from 13.% on ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： NOBLE WC,WILLIAMS RE,JEVONS MP,SHOOTER RA

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanocytes in melanocytic naevi and melanomas can display great variation. The presence of nuclear pseudoinclusions (NPI) is said to be useful in the histological and cytological differential diagnosis of malignant melanoma. The prevalence and characteristics of NPI in a series of 493 naevi and 50 melanomas are descr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rose DS

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parafibromin is a novel protein product of HRPT2, a recently identified tumour suppressor gene. Mutations of the HRPT2 gene are common in parathyroid carcinomas, and these exhibit reduced protein expression. Parafibromin expression in breast cancer has not been previously studied. AIMS:To determine the dist...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Selvarajan S,Sii LH,Lee A,Yip G,Bay BH,Tan MH,Teh BT,Tan PH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy is an invasive procedure associated with morbidity and mortality risk. We compared a powered bone marrow aspiration and biopsy device to the traditional method by relatively assessing pain scores, procedure times, biopsy capture rates, quality of material retrieved, and sa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Swords RT,Anguita J,Higgins RA,Yunes AC,Naski M,Padmanabhan S,Kelly KR,Mahalingam D,Philbeck T,Miller L,Puga TA,Giles FJ,Kinney MC,Brenner AJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the expression of catenins (alpha, beta, and gamma) in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) and its relation to clinicopathological factors and prognosis. METHODS:The expression of catenins was analysed immunohistochemically in 261 patients with resected NSCLC, diagnosed between 1978 and 1996 in e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pirinen RT,Hirvikoski P,Johansson RT,Hollmén S,Kosma VM

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis plays a crucial role in melanoma metastasis and progression. In recent years, numerous studies have investigated the prognostic and clinical significance of this phenomenon, and the development of molecular techniques has enabled us to achieve a better understanding of angiogenesis in melanoma. Herein, we...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jour G,Ivan D,Aung PP

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of active hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in chronic HBsAg positive hepatitis with and without hepatitis delta virus (HDV) superinfection was analysed in percutaneous liver biopsy specimens from 50 patients. Each specimen was divided into two--one part for histological evaluation and for the detection of HB...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Villari D,Raimondo G,Smedile V,Rodinó G,Brancatelli S,Longo G,Squadrito G,Batolo D

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred specimens of oesophagus obtained at necropsy from infants and children aged from 0 to 14 years, dying from a variety of causes, were examined prospectively for evidence of gastric heterotopia. Gastric heterotopia was observed in 63 (21%) of the whole series, representing a much higher incidence than repo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Variend S,Howat AJ

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast-conserving surgery currently focuses on improving margin clearance and excision volume, the main pathology report parameters for oncological and cosmetic outcomes. AIM:To quantitatively evaluate discrepancies in surgical and pathological estimates of breast specimen sizes, including the influence of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Krekel NM,van Slooten HJ,Barbé E,de Lange de Klerk ES,Meijer S,van den Tol MP

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Endotoxin detection assays are not validated for use in end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). We investigated the accuracy and precision of the kinetic turbidimetric Limulus amoebocyte lysate (LAL) assay to detect endotoxin in plasma from patients with ESKD. Optimisation of endotoxin recovery from plasma using the dete...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wong J,Jeraj H,Vilar E,Viljoen A,Farrington K

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal haemoglobin is a tetramer molecule, consisting of two α and β haemoglobin chains. Haemoglobinopathies occur when abnormalities in these proteins are present. More than 1000 naturally occurring human haemoglobin variants with single amino acid substitution throughout the molecule have been identified and can be ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ruetsch C,Raffort J,Panaia-Ferrari P,Deconde C,Caruba-Bafghi C,Naimi M,Kavafyan J,Suissa L,Chinetti G

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is the most common serious primary immunodeficiency. This paper describes the immunological consequences of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in a patient with familial CVID subsequently treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). METHODS:Serial me...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jolles S,Tyrer M,Johnson M,Webster D

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum IgM, IgA, and IgG concentrations were measured in 19 patients suffering from blood-dependent homozygous beta-thalassaemia. The study was prospective and the same patients served as presplenectomy controls. IgG levels rose rapidly and continuously after splenectomy IgA levels also rose but not so sharply. IgM fel...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Constantoulakis M,Trichopoulos D,Avgoustaki O,Economidou J

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of emphysema in human lungs has traditionally been based on observations made on whole lung slices. These methods are inappropriate for the study of early emphysema, because as much as 75% of the alveolar wall surface area may have been lost by the time airspaces are visible to the naked eye. A new, aut...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gillooly M,Lamb D,Farrow AS

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a radioimmunoassay technique serum alpha-fetoprotein could be detected in healthy adults in concentrations of less than 20 microgram/l. Of patients with acute, viral hepatitis 43% exhibited a transient rise of serum alpha-fetoprotein, the peak occurring eight to nine days after the maximum recorded serum asparta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eleftheriou N,Heathcote J,Thomas HC,Sherlock S

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interference of IgM-class rheumatoid factor (RF) in the solid-phase radioimmunoassay (RIA) of rubella virus IgM antibodies was studied. Acute rubella infections did not significantly activate RF. False-positive rubella antibody results were obtained, however, when patients with raised RF levels were tested. If a l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Meurman OH,Ziola BR

更新日期：1978-05-01 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：:This report describes a case of aleukaemic myeloid sarcoma of the small intestine in a 50-year-old woman presenting with small bowel obstruction. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation analysis of interphase nuclei revealed a split CBFbeta signal, consistent with an underlying inversion of chromosome 16, inv(16)(p13q22). ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McKenna M,Arnold C,Catherwood MA,Humphreys MW,Cuthbert RJ,Bueso-Ramos C,McManus DT

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microcomputer system for use in the sequential processing of specimens has been developed in a hospital microbiology department which receives 90 000 specimens a year. Data handling is performed directly through the computers without the use of cards or worksheets. The system facilitates the multistep processing of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ashley R,Downing B

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number and density of argyrophil endocrine cells were morphometrically calculated in gastric fundal mucosal biopsy specimens taken from 64 patients with pernicious anaemia (five with gastric carcinoids, 15 with nodular argyrophil cell hyperplasia, 44 with diffuse argyrophil cell hyperplasia) and from 14 healthy co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sjöblom SM,Sipponen P,Karonen SL,Järvinen HJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of measurement of gamma globulin in the cerebrospinal fluid by electrophoresis and by an immunological technique are compared. In some fluids marked discrepancies were found. Such discrepancies, when substantiated and better understood, may have diagnostic significance. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： COLOVER J,FEINBERG JG,TEMPLE A,TOOLEY M

更新日期：1963-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chromogenic in situ hybridisation (CISH) is an alternative to immunohistochemistry or FISH for the assessment of HER2 oncogene status in breast cancer. Although CISH is being used increasingly in routine diagnostics, there are no established inter-laboratory quality assurance programmes for this test. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Di Palma S,Collins N,Bilous M,Sapino A,Mottolese M,Kapranos N,Schmitt F,Isola J

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urines from patients with symptoms of urinary tract infection yielded mixed growths of different colony types of Escherichia coli. The different colony types were found to be variants of single infecting strains caused by mutation or by phase action. It is suggested that care should be exercised in the interpretation ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nichols GL

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes occurring at the periphery of invasive cervical carcinomas have been studied in detail, with particular reference to the incidence of preinvasive carcinoma. The various criteria used in the cytological diagnosis of malignancy have been evaluated, and the implications of large cytological screening programm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： MEYER PC

更新日期：1965-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate diagnosis of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is essential for optimal treatment, prevention and control. There are two reference assays for CDI diagnosis: the cell cytotoxicity assay (CCTA) and toxigenic culture (TC). Importantly, these tests actually detect different targets: CCTA detects the presence ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Planche T,Wilcox M

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：: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:To analyse the expression of proteins involved in DNA double strand break detection and repair in the luminal and myoepithelial compartments of benign breast lesions and malignant breast tumours with myoepithelial differentiation. METHODS:Expression of the ataxia telangiectasia (ATM) and p53 proteins was immunohi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Angèle S,Jones C,Reis Filho JS,Fulford LG,Treilleux I,Lakhani SR,Hall J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Soft tissue tumours are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms that can arise at almost every anatomical site. As they often show similar clinical and radiological findings, histology is the definitive diagnostic method and it is crucial that the surgical pathology report contains accurate, useful information for mana...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shah C,Wang J,Mubako T,Fisher C,Thway K

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of histological diagnosis requires an index of agreement (to measure repeatability and validity) together with a method of assessing bias. Cohen's kappa statistic appears to be the most suitable tool for measuring levels of agreement, which if unsatisfactory may be caused by bias. Further study of bias is p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Silcocks PB

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00