Use of polymerase chain reaction for early identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in positive cultures.

abstract：:Guidance by bacteriologists and changes in theatre and ward disciplines have greatly improved the results of urological surgery in recent years. The most noteworthy successes have been in treatment of chronic retention with renal failure, and in prevention of the bacteraemia which may occur following removal of the po...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： MITCHELL JP,GILLESPIE WA

更新日期：1964-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To analyse the entity specific incidence and disease specific survival (DSS) of non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs) in Tyrol/Austria, 1991-2000. METHODS:Data from 1307 NHLs (excluding primary cutaneous lymphomas and monoclonal gammopathies of undetermined significance) were obtained. Current status was available for all...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mitterlechner T,Fiegl M,Mühlböck H,Oberaigner W,Dirnhofer S,Tzankov A

更新日期：2006-01-01 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：:Human astrovirus infection often causes outbreaks of self limiting diarrhoea, but may also infect patients who are immunodeficient or immunocompromised. Although there are previous publications relating to various aspects of astroviruses, there is a minimal amount of literature on the histopathological features of gas...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sebire NJ,Malone M,Shah N,Anderson G,Gaspar HB,Cubitt WD

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-year-old female patient underwent right hemihepatectomy for metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma. Preoperative imaging demonstrated an area of focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) in segment VIII and metastatic carcinoma in segment VI of the liver. Gross and microscopic examination of the former lesion showed features typ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nisar PJ,Zaitoun AM,Damera A,Hodi Z,Tierney GM,Beckingham IJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 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 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：:Incomplete expression of human haemoglobin beta-chains at birth may lead to difficulty in the early demonstration of an inherited beta-chain variant. In this case, the rare unstable variant, Hb Tacoma beta30 (B12) arg leads to ser, although not present in cord blood in sufficient amounts to be easily detected by routi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Deacon-Smith RA,Lee-Potter JP

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During each of the four-year periods 1971-1975 and 1975-1979, the annual incidence of hepatitis B infection has been assessed in 56 patients with haemophilia A by measuring plasma HBsAg, anti-HBs and anti-HBc levels. Infection rates of 7% and 9.5% per annum respectively were observed for each four-year period despite ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stirling ML,Murray JA,Mackay P,Black SH,Peutherer JF,Ludlam CA

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral botryomycosis is rare, and documented sites are lung, brain, kidney, liver and prostate. This report describes a rare autopsy case of disseminated visceral botryomycosis, with bulky, grape-like botryomycotic vegetations in the heart, and similar abscesses in the lungs and bone marrow. This is the first such r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gupta K,Das A,Radotra BD,Bhalla A

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：AIMS:The WHO classification describes that combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma, subtypes with stem-cell features, intermediate-cell subtype (CHC-INT) is composed of tumour cells with features intermediate between hepatocytes and cholangiocytes. However, we previously reported that CHC-INT showed a high positive ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Akiba J,Nakashima O,Hattori S,Naito Y,Kusano H,Kondo R,Nakayama M,Tanikawa K,Todoroki K,Umeno Y,Nakamura K,Sanada S,Yamaguchi R,Ogasawara S,Yano H

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：:A patient is described in whom a campylobacter enteritis closely resembled ulcerative colitis on clinical, sigmoidoscopic, and histological grounds. Selective stool culture techniques may be necessary to differentiate campylobacter colitis from ulcerative colitis proper. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Willoughby CP,Piris J,Truelove SC

更新日期：1979-10-01 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：AIMS:Use of the polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB PCR) as a basis for making clinical decisions on the initiation of antituberculosis treatment was studied. METHODS:A retrospective study involving a cohort of 155 patients being investigated for tuberculosis in an infectious ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cheng VC,Yam WC,Hung IF,Woo PC,Lau SK,Tang BS,Yuen KY

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight strains of Moraxella phenylpyruvica have been isolated from clinical material in the United Kingdom, the first to be reported from this country. They were characterized, together with three strains of M. phenylpyruvica of the National Collection of Type Cultures (NCTC), and compared with NCTC strains of eight ot...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Snell JJ,Hill LR,Lapage SP

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultrastructural cytochemical study of lysosomal acid phosphatase was performed on leukemic cells in a case of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia of T cell origin (T-CLL). The cells showed inclusion bodies known as parallel tubular arrays, which often lay within acid phosphatase-positive, membrane-bound spaces. This sugg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Capron F,PErrot JY,Boucheix C,Reynes M,Tricottet V,Bernadou A,Diebold J

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mallory bodies were isolated from necropsy livers from patients with alcoholic hepatitis with and without cirrhosis with a Ficoll viscosity barrier. The purity of Mallory bodies in the isolate varied between 70 and 90%, estimated by counting Mallory bodies and non-Mallory body structures in haematoxylin-eosin stained ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gluud C,Hardt F,Aldershvile J,Christoffersen P,Lyon H,Nielsen J

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the effect of 10 day triple treatment on H pylori eradication and associated gastritis. METHODS:Fifty patients with H pylori positive non-ulcer dyspepsia were treated for 10 days with amoxicillin, tinidazole, and bismuth salts. Histological examination of the antral mucosa was performed before (T0), s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Di Napoli A,Petrino R,Boero M,Bellis D,Chiandussi L

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenocarcinoma of the anal glands is very rare but it is an important lesion to recognise as with early diagnosis, it has an excellent prognosis. Because it involves the submucosa widely and penetrates the mucosa late, it can be mistaken for metastatic gastrointestinal carcinoma, or tumour arising in sinuses and fistu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Behan WM,Burnett RA

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：:During a 12-month period, 40 146 blood donors were tested for the presence of high titre antitetanus antibodies. An attempt has been made to define the most suitable donors, those with antitetanus antibody titres of 4 IU/ml or above, by virtue of titre, sex, location, and length of time since most recent immunisation...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wiseman IC,Gascoigne ME

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The IHC4+C score combines assessment of oestrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PgR), HER2 and Ki67 with clinicopathological parameters to identify the risk of distant disease recurrence in patients with breast cancer, so, aiding treatment decision-making on adjuvant chemotherapy. Despite low cost and wide...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dodson A,Zabaglo L,Yeo B,Miller K,Smith I,Dowsett M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate how the biopsy Gleason score (GS) and the clinical risk classification have been changed by the reporting rules. METHODS:565 prostate biopsy specimens were reassessed. Each Gleason pattern, 1 to 5, was interpreted according to the modified Gleason grading system proposed by the International Societ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kuroiwa K,Uchino H,Yokomizo A,Naito S

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thymidine phosphorylase (TP) is the key enzyme for capecitabine activation in tumour cells. AIMS:To examine whether TP expression in tumour cells and stroma is predictive of the tumour response to capecitabine plus docetaxel chemotherapy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Han JY,Hong EK,Lee SY,Yoon SM,Lee DH,Lee JS

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:This is a retrospective study of the results of 4,642 blood cultures taken from 2,190 patients from 1960 to 1967 in one London hospital. The results suggested that an increased incidence of bacteraemias at this particular hospital was mainly due to the increase in the number of patients having blood cultures. Some of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Crowley N

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubercle bacilli, which survived heat fixation, were detected with a slide culture technique which allowed the entire smear to be examined. Both conventional flame fixation and the use of a controlled hot-plate failed to render tuberculous sputum smears safe for further handling. Smears which were stained with the ph...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Allen BW

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antithrombin activities in 30 severely malnourished children and 40 normal children were estimated in clotting tests by thrombin neutralisation as anti-Xa and by a heparin antithrombin assay; and by immunodiffusion as alpha 2-globulin and alpha 1-antitrypsin. The patients' mean alpha 2-globulin was severely depressed,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jiménez RA,Jiménez E,Ingram GI,Mora LA,Atmetlla F,Carrillo JM,Vargas W

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00