Measurement of placental alkaline phosphatase activity in benign and malignant pleural effusions.

abstract：:Two cases of chronic coronary periarteritis associated with chronic periaortitis are described. In one, the chronic periaortitis took the form of perianeurysmal fibrosis around a thoracic atherosclerotic aneurysm; in the other it resembled idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis. The findings in the two subjects support t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mitchinson MJ,Wight DG,Arno J,Milstein BB

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PAS and acid phosphatase reactions showed a different pattern of positivity in the cells of lymphoproliferative disorders according to their B or T cell nature. In B-cell leukaemias (chronic lymphocytic and prolymphocytic) a low proportion of lymphocytes gave a positive result with the acid phosphatase reaction, w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Catovsky D,Galetto J,Okos A,Miliani E,Galton DA

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the clinical efficacy of diagnostic procedures for breast cancer at a teaching hospital using internal auditing tools and quality control measures. METHODS:A retrospective assessment of 500 patients who underwent core needle biopsy (wide-bore needle biopsy; WBN) of palpable or non-palpable breast nodes ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Verenhitach BD,Elias S,Patrocínio AC,Nazário AC,Waizberg A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The necropsy findings in an elderly woman, who had been treated with methyldopa and who had died during treatment for accidental hypothermia, showed acute periductal inflammation of obviously similar duration in an entopic pancreas in the wall of the jejunum and in the ectopic pancreas. This supports the hypothesis th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Benbow EW

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytological diagnosis in a series of 153 skin lesions is presented. The diagnosis in each case has been compared with the clinical assessment and, where available, the biopsy result (85 lesions). Of 131 basal cell carcinomas, a cytological diagnosis was possible in 124 while biopsyl failed to identify two of the 73 le...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brown CL,Klaber MR,Robertson MG

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A middle aged man developed very high fever, status epilepticus, and terminal acute renal failure with myoglobinuria after surgery. A post mortem examination showed widespread muscle necrosis with hypercontraction bands. Muscle enzyme studies and electron microscopic examination disclosed central core disease, a condi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Prescott RJ,Roberts SP,Williams G

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is characterised by an ineffective immune response that is predominantly mediated by CD4+ T-cells. AIMS:To analyse the expression of the key regulatory T-cell transcription factors (TFs) in the T-cells of HL involved tissues in order to assess the nature of the T(H) immune response i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Atayar C,van den Berg A,Blokzijl T,Boot M,Gascoyne RD,Visser L,Poppema S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate how clinical microbiology laboratories should report and interpret mixed mould isolates including Aspergillus species from clinical samples and the criteria for susceptibility testing of the isolates. METHODS:Retrospectively collected data from our laboratory information system of moulds isolated b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Purcell J,McKenna J,Critten P,Denning DW,Hassan IA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the association between the quantity of gastric chemokine mRNA expression, severity of gastritis, and cagA positivity in Helicobacter pylori associated gastritis. METHODS:In 83 dyspeptic patients, antral and corpus biopsies were taken for semiquantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain react...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shimoyama T,Everett SM,Dixon MF,Axon AT,Crabtree JE

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the pattern and severity of liver disease in patients who had undergone jejuno-ileal bypass for the treatment of morbid obesity, 23 patients were biopsied, all of whom had had intact bypasses for more than 10 years. These were examined by light and electron microscopy. Previous biopsy specimens from each pat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Boon AP,Thompson H,Baddeley RM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and invasive cervical carcinoma was investigated using in situ DNA-DNA hybridisation on histological sections of formalin fixed, paraffin embedded tissue to assess the technique's sensitivity and to assess retrospectively the association ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Collins JE,Jenkins D,McCance DJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67 year old woman with rheumatoid arthritis was admitted to hospital in acute renal failure. Her clinical features included increasing dyspnoea and oedema, and a computed tomogram of the abdomen showed a large mass in the retroperitoneum. Twenty six days later, she died, and a post mortem examination was carried out...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shimada M,Kojima M,Tani G,Komatsumoto S,Nara M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the presence of carcinoma in situ (CIS) in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) and to see if the number of biopsy sites facilitates detection of CIS. METHODS:Formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded biopsy specimens (n = 285) from 187 patients with NPC in 1987 were studied for the presence of CIS ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chan CW,Nicholls JM,Sham JS,Dickens P,Choy D

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine endometrial cytology was used instead of curettage as the first step in a morphological investigation of the endometrium in patients with postmenopausal bleeding. Premenopausal women with symptoms or signs indicative of premalignant or malignant disease were also studied using this method. Patients with alarmi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Skaarland E

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and simple enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of specific IgG against Toxoplasma gondii was compared with the dye test on 533 serum samples. In general, results were comparable but not with sera that contained high concentrations of toxoplasma specific IgM or that had been heated at 56...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Francis JM,Payne RA,Joynson DH

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies to factor VIII antigen (VIII:Ag) and von Willebrand factor (vWf:Ag) were immobilised on Sephacryl S-1000 and tested for their ability to deplete normal human citrated plasma of factor VIII. A combination of two antibodies to VIII:Ag and one antibody to vWf:Ag was required to produce plasma contai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hornsey VS,Waterston YG,Prowse CV

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The disorders associated with metabolic syndrome (MS) can lead to renal disease. IgA nephropathy is the most common form of glomerulonephritis, and many patients with this disorder progress to renal failure. AIMS:To identify the effect of MS on IgA nephropathy by retrospectively comparing patients who had I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wang L,Zhang Y,Chen S,Chen J,Zhuang Y,Chen J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the association between Helicobacter pylori-associated gastritis and HLA-DR antigen (class II antigen) expression. METHODS:Fifty endoscopic gastric biopsy specimens were studied for the presence of H pylori, degree and type of inflammation, and for HLA-DR antigen expression in the epithelium. The cases ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wee A,Teh M,Kang JY

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serine peptidase inhibitor Kazal type-1 (SPINK1), a trypsin kinase inhibitor, has well established associations with inflammation, cancer cell proliferation and carcinogenesis. However, the role of SPINK1 has not been investigated in stage IV colorectal cancer (CRC) patients receiving cetuximab based targete...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chen YT,Tsao SC,Tsai HP,Wang JY,Chai CY

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the histological characteristics of Helicobacter pylori positive chronic gastritis in patients with and without associated duodenitis. METHODS:Gastric mucosal biopsy specimens were obtained from patients undergoing endoscopy for dyspepsia. Severity of gastritis and density of H pylori infection were gra...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Phull PS,Price AB,Stephens J,Rathbone BJ,Jacyna MR

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the distribution of gamma delta T-cells in the human bronchial tree; and to compare quantitatively the differences between gamma delta T-cell numbers in different parts of the airway wall in smokers and non-smokers. METHODS:Full thickness bronchial wall sections were taken from 10 whole lung specimens f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Richmond I,Pritchard GE,Ashcroft T,Corris PA,Walters EH

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of digestion of fibrin was measured in vitro by an isotopic technique in 140 blood samples of differing fibrinogen concentration; the assessment of fibrinolytic activity thus obtained was compared with a standard method of measurement, the dilute whole blood lysis time. The lysis time was related exponentiall...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hickman JA,Gordon-Smith IC,Whitfield PF,Godfrey SJ

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Children in a United Kingdom national trial for relapsed non-B lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) had their diagnostic and relapse marrow cytomorphology compared to see what changes occur during the evolution of the disease. METHODS:Each relapse slide was assessed blindly for French American British (FAB) type and oth...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lilleyman JS,Stevens RF,Hann IM,Gibson BE,Britton JA,Darbyshire PJ,Oakhill A

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Laboratories traditionally culture toxoplasma tachyzoites in animals for testing and experimental use. This article considers why available cell culture methods are not used more often. AIM:To compare HeLa cell culture and animal culture for production of toxoplasma tachyzoites. METHODS:In 2000 HeLa cultur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chatterton JM,McDonagh S,Ho-Yen DO

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：: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：:Late-stage ovarian carcinoma is almost universally fatal. BRCA mutations are associated with an improved outcome and enhanced sensitivity to platinum chemotherapy, yet recurrence and platinum resistance remain a major problem and highly effective regimens following platinum failure do not yet exist. Here we report a r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Osher DJ,Kushner YB,Arseneau J,Foulkes WD

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We aimed to assess the one step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA) assay as an intraoperative method in comparison with frozen sections (FS) for detection of metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) of breast cancer. METHOD:100 SLNs from patients with breast carcinoma were enrolled within a 3-month period. Alterna...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jara-Lazaro AR,Hussain IH,Thike AA,Wong CY,Ho GH,Yong WS,Ong KW,Madhukumar P,Tan BK,Oey CL,Hwang JS,Tan PH

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal involvement as the first manifestation of sarcoidosis is rare and has never been reported in India. This report describes a 35 year old man who was admitted to the emergency department with a clinical diagnosis of acute on chronic renal failure, secondary to obstructive uropathy. Postmortem examination unexpecte...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Awasthi A,Nada R,Malhotra P,Goel R,Joshi K

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although epithelial mucin has been demonstrated in ordinary mammary duct carcinomas, it is formed profusely in the uncommon mucous carcinomas. A histochemical study of mucous carcinomas of the breast and colon showed that both types produce similar mucins, viz, acid and neutral, although the mammary carcinomas produce...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cooper DJ

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00