Diagnosis and grading of dysplasia in Barrett's oesophagus.

abstract：:Distinctly increased levels of antibodies to measles virus envelope antigens haemolysin and haemagglutinin were found in the sera of patients with chronic active hepatitis compared with a normal control group, using immunofluorescence and functional tests. Similarly, a higher incidence of smooth muscle antibody of bot...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shirodaria PV,McMillan SA,Callender ME,Haire M,Fleming E,Merrett JD,Fulton TT

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prognostic factors in predicting outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma (HNSCC) are limited to the clinical-pathological parameters, including lymph node metastasis, location, grade and stage of the disease. AIM:To determine whether the expression of these proteins has a value in pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mhawech-Fauceglia P,Dulguerov P,Beck A,Bonet M,Allal AS

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION/METHODS:After the recognition of contaminating algae on histopathological sections stained by periodic acid Schiff (PAS) and Grocott methods, a detailed audit was undertaken to assess the extent of contamination and its possible source. RESULTS:The contaminating organism was a member of the staurastrum ge...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Agarwal A,Helliwell TR

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgD myeloma is a rare disorder with a very poor prognosis. An unusual case is reported where prolonged remission was obtained. Immunohistochemical staining of the bone marrow trephine biopsy specimen proved invaluable in documenting early relapse. It is suggested that immunohistochemistry should be adopted more widely...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kettle P,Morris TC

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

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：:Neoplastic and non-neoplastic oxyphil cells in thyroid disorders were investigated for enzyme and synthetic activity, ultrastructural features, and immune complex deposition. A reduced but definite content of thyroglobuliin and similar enzyme profiles and ultrastructural features in all types of oxyphill change were f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kendall CH,McCluskey E,Meagles JN

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pancreatic endocrine tumour arising within a serous cystadenoma is reported. A 49 year old woman was admitted with a history of epigastric pain, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss of two months duration. She had been diabetic for 12 years. An epigastric mass was palpated in the physical examination, and computed tomo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ustün MO,Tuğyan N,Tunakan M

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prostate cancer diagnosis is routinely made by the histopathological examination of formalin fixed needle biopsy specimens. Frequently this is the only cancer tissue available from the patient for the analysis of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. There is, therefore, an urgent need for methods that allow...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McCarthy F,Fletcher A,Dennis N,Cummings C,O'Donnell H,Clark J,Flohr P,Vergis R,Jhavar S,Parker C,Cooper CS

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrointestinal cell proliferation plays an important role in the maintenance of the integrity of the gastrointestinal system. The study of gastrointestinal proliferation kinetics allows a better understanding of the complexity of the system, and also has important implications for the study of gastrointestinal carci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wong WM,Wright NA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathological diagnoses and classification schemes for thyroid carcinoma have changed over the past 20 years and continue to do so. New entities have been described and molecular analyses have suggested better characterisation and grouping of certain tumours. Because some of the lesions have been named differently ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Baloch Z,LiVolsi VA,Tondon R

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of an indirect immunofluorescence antibody test (IFAT) and a rapid microagglutination test (RMAT) for the diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 was evaluated using serum specimens from 119 patients with bacteriologically confirmed infections. The sensitivity of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harrison TG,Dournon E,Taylor AG

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A latex enzyme immunoassay (LEIA) for detecting IgG class antibody to rubella virus was compared with the latex agglutination test (LA) and a haemagglutination inhibition assay (HI). Of 243 sera tested, four discrepant results were observed among all three techniques, corresponding to borderline values. Except for one...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Duverlie G,Roussel C,Driencourt M,Orfila J

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine peripheral blood and skeletal muscle from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome for exogenous retrovirus. METHODS:Blood samples from 30 patients and muscle biopsy specimens of 15 patients were examined for retroviral sequences by DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and Southern blotting hy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gow JW,Simpson K,Schliephake A,Behan WM,Morrison LJ,Cavanagh H,Rethwilm A,Behan PO

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum haptoglobin levels have been studied in patients with a number of haemolytic disorders. In general, serum haptoglobins were low in patients with increased haemolysis. Values were reduced irrespective of whether haemolysis occurred intravascularly or extravascularly. The reduction was related to the amount of hae...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Owen JA,de Gruchy GC,Smith H

更新日期：1960-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphate in both inorganic and organic form is essential for several functions in the body. Plasma phosphate level is maintained by a complex interaction between intestinal absorption, renal tubular reabsorption, and the transcellular movement of phosphate between intracellular fluid and bone storage pools. This home...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Leung J,Crook M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thyroids of primary thyrotoxicosis patients prepared for partial thyroidectomy with propranolol contained much more lymphoid infiltrate than those prepared with carbimazole. No relation was found between the extent of lymphoid infiltrate in the thyroid and the development of postoperative hypothyroidism either bet...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Young RJ,Sherwood MB,Simpson JG,Nicol AG,Michie W,Beck JS

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological findings are described in four cases of a new aminoaciduria in which homocystine is excreted in the urine. All the patients were mentally retarded children. Three of them presented diagnostic features of Marfan's syndrome. Necropsy on one case and biopsy findings in the others are described. Fatty change ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： GIBSON JB,CARSON NA,NEILL DW

更新日期：1964-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histological diagnosis of pT4 stage is used as the basis for offering adjuvant therapy to patients with colorectal cancer. Histological features diagnostic of pT4 stage in colorectal cancer include: (1) presence of tumour perforation, (2) invasion of an adjacent organ, (3) direct or discontinuous tumour extending to...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Swamy R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review of the histomorphometry of bone outlines methods of biopsy and processing of specimens in the laboratory, the basic principles of morphometry, and the measurements made in order to obtain estimates of the proportional volumes and surfaces occupied by different components of bone. Variability such as that b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Revell PA

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:A twofold increased risk for breast cancer has been reported recently for women with late onset diabetes. Most studies showed that there were differences in serum concentrations of insulin-like growth factors and related proteins between women with and without diabetes who have breast cancer. This study...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nardon E,Buda I,Stanta G,Buratti E,Fonda M,Cattin L

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Mitochondrial diseases form one of the largest groups of inborn errors of metabolism. The birth prevalence is approximately 1/5000 in well-studied populations, but little has been reported from Sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of this study was to describe the genetics underlying mitochondrial disease in South Africa. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Meldau S,Owen EP,Khan K,Riordan GT

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the genetic differences among the strains of adenovirus type 8 (Ad8) circulating in Hiroshima city, Japan, and to study their circulation pattern. METHODS:One hundred and twenty nine strains of adenovirus type 8 (Ad8) were isolated in Hiroshima City over a 15 year period (1983-97) from patients wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Adhikary AK,Numaga J,Kaburaki T,Kawashima H,Araie M,Ikeda Y,Ogino T,Suzuki E,Ushijima H,Mukoyama A,Matsuno S,Inada T,Okabe N

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Evidence suggests that the presence of tumour necrosis is an adverse prognostic factor in renal cell carcinoma (RCC). However, it has also been shown that tumour regression, a microscopic feature associated with necrosis, may be a favourable short term prognostic factor in RCC. METHODS:Pathology reports of 253 RC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Foria V,Surendra T,Poller DN

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The study sought to determine whether mast cell counts in endobronchial biopsies of large airways are related to mast cell counts in the small airways. METHODS:Lungs, obtained postmortem from 10 subjects who had died of non-respiratory causes, were fixed in inflation. Mast cell densities (cells/mm(3)), de...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Carroll ML,Carroll NG,Gundersen HJ,James AL

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate whether cholesterol and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) measurements in fluids are more sensitive and specific markers for differentiating between exudates and transudates, as confirmed clinically, than the measurement of fluid total protein concentrations alone. PATIENTS/METHODS:Serum, pleural fluid, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Paramothayan NS,Barron J

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：UNLABELLED:Encapsulated papillary carcinoma (EPC) of the breast is a distinct histological subtype characterised by malignant epithelial proliferation supported by fibrovascular stalks. Although EPC typically lacks myoepithelial cells, it shows indolent clinical course. The classification of EPC as an in situ, or invas...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rakha EA,Tun M,Junainah E,Ellis IO,Green A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the frequency and cause of incidental (non-metastatic) lymph node pathology discovered before or at radical prostatectomy. METHODS:Eight hundred and fifty four consecutive lymphadenectomies received between 1988 and 2001 were reviewed. All had been processed and stained routinely. Additional techniques,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Winstanley AM,Sandison A,Bott SR,Dogan A,Parkinson MC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene mutation at the kinase domain and EGFR gene amplification are reported to be predictors of the response to EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors in lung cancer cases. In malignant mesothelioma (MM), the role of EGFR is less clear. METHODS:Thirty-eight MM specimens were...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Enomoto Y,Kasai T,Takeda M,Takano M,Morita K,Kadota E,Iizuka N,Maruyama H,Haratake J,Kojima Y,Ikeda N,Inatsugi N,Nonomura A

更新日期：2012-06-01 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