PATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS IN HOMOCYSTINURIA.

abstract：:Four assays for the detection of alphafetoprotein (AFP) in the diagnosis of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were evaluated. The frequency of AFP detection was compared in 89 HCC patients and in 71 patients with chronic active hepatitis/cirrhosis. Of the four assays, immunodiffusion, counterimmunoelectrophoresis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chan SH,Heng SH,Yo SL,Oon CJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is the preferred surgical technique for staging the axilla in clinically node-negative breast cancer. Accurate intraoperative staging allows for the immediate performance of an axillary clearance in node-positive patients. We assessed the Metasin assay for the intraoperative analys...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smith GJ,Hodges E,Markham H,Zhang S,Cutress RI

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoreactive plasminogen activators were studied in tissue sections using a peroxidase method and monospecific antibodies to tissue plasminogen activator produced by a melanoma. Tissue plasminogen activator reactivity was found in skin melanomas and in endothelial and smooth muscle cells of arteries and veins. Vesse...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Larsson A,Astedt B

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the histopathological features of the synovial lining of the knee following implantation of an artificial cruciate ligament. METHODS:Eighty two patients underwent anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction for chronic, symptomatic instability of the knee. The cruciate ligament was reconstructed with...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barry M,Thomas SM,Rees A,Shafighian B,Mowbray MA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This 14th best practice review is the second of a pair that examines tumour marker requesting primary care situations. This review considers carbohydrate antigen 125, α-fetoprotein and human chorionic gonadotropin. It is presented in question-answer format, referenced for each question. The recommendations represent a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cabrera-Abreu JC,Smellie WS,Bowley R,Shaw N

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:EpCAM is an adhesion molecule of the basolateral membranes in a variety of epithelial cells. Over-expression has been detected in many epithelial tumours and has been associated with high stage, high grade and a worse survival in some tumour types. AIMS:To assess the prognostic value of EpCAM in urothelial ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brunner A,Prelog M,Verdorfer I,Tzankov A,Mikuz G,Ensinger C

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case records and pathology of all children with kidney tumours treated in the West Midlands Health Authority Region (WMHAR) from 1957 to 1986 were reviewed. The histology was reviewed by a panel of three paediatric pathologists. Thirteen (6%) out of 211 cases were considered to have congenital mesoblastic nephroma...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barrantes JC,Toyn C,Muir KR,Parkes SE,Raafat F,Cameron AH,Marsden HB,Mann JR

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the occurrence of diagnostic delay in primary antibody deficiency in the period 1989-2002, since a similar study in 1989, and to assess the impact of UK national guidelines communicated in 1995. METHODS:A retrospective case note review was performed of 89 consecutive patients with antibody deficiency re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Seymour B,Miles J,Haeney M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Michaëlsson's (1961) method for the measurement of plasma bilirubin concentration was found to be complicated by conjugated bilirubin. Delaying the addition of the accelerator, diphylline, corrected this fault. The method was calibrated using serum or plasma, since reconstituted protein solutions introduced large erro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thompson RP

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microscopic examination of scalp hair can provide important diagnostic information in a range of paediatric conditions. It is a non-invasive and cost effective investigation, which is not widely performed. AIMS:To examine retrospectively the value of hair examination by light microscopy, including polarisin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smith VV,Anderson G,Malone M,Sebire NJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:The production of heparinase by a wide range of anaerobic bacteria isolated from clinical specimens was investigated. None of the 29 strains of Bacteroides fragilis produced heparinase. Of 62 other Bacteroides tested, only two of four strains of B ovatus, two of three strains of B thetaiotaomicron, and two of four str...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Riley TV

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mitogenic kinin peptides formed by the serine protease, tissue kallikrein (TK1), stimulate the proliferation of tumour cells and, by increasing vascular permeability, enhance metastasis. Oesophageal mucosal epithelial cells are derived from the epithelial cell germ layer, which expresses the kallikrein-k...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dlamini Z,Bhoola KD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haematological malignancies are a diverse group of cancers that affect the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic systems. Laboratory diagnosis of haematological malignancies is dependent on combining several technologies, including morphology, immunophenotyping, cytogenetics and molecular genetics correlated clinical detai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Snowden JA,O'Connell S,Hawkins J,Dalley C,Jack A,Mannari D,McNamara C,Scott M,Shenton G,Soilleux E,Macbeth F,Guideline Committee.

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect immunoperoxidase technique has been used for visualisation of cellular immunoglobulins in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Baker's formol calcium was used as fixative. Monoclonal light and heavy chain patterns were demonstrated in 24 out of 27 cases. Only one case did not have any demonstrable immunoglobulin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Markey GM,McConnell RE,Alexander HD,Morris TC,Robertson JH

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate and compare the long term prognostic value of the WHO classification and the computerised multivariate morphometrical D score in endometrial hyperplasia. To test the reproducibility of the D score in two different centres. METHODS:Histopathological WHO classification and computerised morphometrical an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Orbo A,Baak JP,Kleivan I,Lysne S,Prytz PS,Broeckaert MA,Slappendel A,Tichelaar HJ

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression profiling has been extensively applied to the study of breast cancer and undoubtedly is changing the way breast cancer is perceived. Over the past few years, several groups have described prognostic "signatures" (gene lists) that are purported to be more accurate prognostic factors than well established cli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reis-Filho JS,Westbury C,Pierga JY

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The cell block technique for assessing endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) specimens from pancreatic mucinous cystic lesions (MCLs) was systematically evaluated for the first time, including comparisons with three traditional methods of assessing such specimens. METHODS:The prospective a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wong NACS,Gwiti P,Murigu T,Melegh Z,Beavers S,Gordon F,Alexandridis E,Norton S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberous sclerosis is a rare disease with classic primary or secondary changes affecting mainly the cerebrum, skin, kidneys, and heart. Such lesions are generally hamartomatous and thus display malignant features only in rare cases. This paper describes four cases of tuberous sclerosis which were unique in their assoc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ilgren EB,Westmoreland D

更新日期：1984-03-01 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：AIMS:To investigate the optimal method for the detection of campylobacters from stool samples by comparing selective culture with membrane filtration and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). METHODS:Three hundred and forty three stool samples were investigated by each of the three methods mentioned above. Selective cu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kulkarni SP,Lever S,Logan JM,Lawson AJ,Stanley J,Shafi MS

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：:Splenic pathology was analysed in 73 patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura who underwent splenectomy for bleeding that had been resistant to adrenocorticosteroids. The mean splenic weight was 100 g. The only notable macroscopic feature was the prominence of Malpighian corpuscles in 15 cases. Microscopic examin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hayes MM,Jacobs P,Wood L,Dent DM

更新日期：1985-09-01 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:To clarify a clinical entity of juvenile polyposis of the stomach compared with generalised juvenile gastrointestinal polyposis. METHODS:The clinicopathological features of juvenile polyposis dominantly involving the stomach at initial presentation were reviewed in 12 patients (three new patients and nine from th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hizawa K,Iida M,Yao T,Aoyagi K,Fujishima M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been made by clinical methods and by bio-assay of the effectiveness of a régime for prophylaxis against tetanus. The two principal objects of the method were to ensure that active immunization was offered to all patients who had received antitoxin and to measure the effect of the combined administration of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： LAURENCE M,HOLT LB,GRAHAM CE,BONNEY GL

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A competitive enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method was used to measure the concentration of lactoferrin in fluids from 36 odontogenic keratocysts, 15 dentigerous cysts, and 30 radicular/residual cysts. Keratocyst fluids contained significantly higher concentrations of lactoferrin than fluids from the other...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Douglas CW,Craig GT

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of B-CLL which was complicated by chronic renal failure due to leukaemic infiltration of the kidney is reported. Treatment with chlorambucil, prednisolone, and renal bed irradiation resulted in a substantial improvement in renal function which persisted until the the patient's death from marrow failure some eig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Phillips JK,Bass PS,Majumdar G,Davies DR,Jones NF,Pearson TC

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a two-year period of observation Bacteroides species were isolated from specimens of pus and vaginal swabs from 115 patients in this hospital. Thirty-five representative strains proved on examination to be Bacteroides fragilis. Minimal inhibitory and minimal bactericidal concentrations of six antibiotics for th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ingham HR,Selkon JB,Codd AA,Hale JH

更新日期：1968-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As patients with multiple myeloma (MM) have a variable clinical course, predictive markers would help determine the appropriate treatment strategy. Clinical staging is commonly used to predict outcome, but tumour marker expression and the underlying genetic changes are increasingly used to assess the biological aggres...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yeung J,Chang H

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00