EpCAM is predominantly expressed in high grade and advanced stage urothelial carcinoma of the bladder.

abstract：AIM:To investigate the natural history of patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis by means of a prospective histological study. METHODS:One thousand five hundred and seventy one patients underwent liver biopsy at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow during the 10 year period 1985 to 1994. All biopsies were reported by...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Evans CD,Oien KA,MacSween RN,Mills PR

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the frequency, pattern and distribution of stromal keratin expression in phyllodes tumours if any, which may impact diagnostic approaches. METHODS:The clinicopathological features of 109 phyllodes tumours comprising 70 (64.2%) benign, 30 (27.5%) borderline and nine (8.3%) malignant grades were evaluat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chia Y,Thike AA,Cheok PY,Yong-Zheng Chong L,Man-Kit Tse G,Tan PH

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the sensitivity and staining pattern of the new immunohistochemical antibody to tyrosinase (T311) with S-100, HMB45, and the recently evaluated antibody to melan-A (A103) in a range of melanocytic lesions. METHOD:Archival, formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded sections from 50 benign and malignant melan...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Clarkson KS,Sturdgess IC,Molyneux AJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum C reactive protein concentrations measured by a laboratory based assay were compared with the semiquantitative results obtained with a visual agglutination method (Well-cotest, CRP kit). Using this agglutination kit, diluting serum 1/10 and 1/20 gave C reactive protein results which could be of more clinical val...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Richards NP,Elliott TS,Powell RJ,O'Callaghan C,Franklin P

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective study of the records of 160 necropsies it was found that, according to the clinical and gross necropsy findings, no clinically important abnormality would have been anticipated in 46% of the tissue samples. The estimated annual cost of processing this material alone was pounds 10,500, including the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reid WA

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is important in the evaluation of patients with calcium metabolism disorders and/or chronic renal disease. AIMS:To assess the differences between serum and plasma PTH measurements using the Advia Centaur. METHODS:Twenty six paired serum and edetate samples from patients with chron...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Twomey PJ,Whitlock T,Pledger DR

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this necropsy review of 37 cases of acute pancreatitis, evidence is presented that there are at least two different initiating mechanisms in acute necrotising pancreatitis in man. Firstly, there is primary duct inflammation, with subsequent inflammation and necrosis of the pancreatic parenchyma surrounding the excr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Foulis AK

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over 90% of Ewing's sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumour (ES/PNET) cases have the t(11;22) chromosomal rearrangement, which is also found in other small round cell tumours, including desmoplastic small round cell tumour (DSRCT) and clear cell sarcoma (CCS). Although this rearrangement can be analysed by ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yamaguchi U,Hasegawa T,Morimoto Y,Tateishi U,Endo M,Nakatani F,Kawai A,Chuman H,Beppu Y,Endo M,Kurotaki H,Furuta K

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy (CRT) is an increasingly used therapeutic strategy for rectal cancer. Clinically, it remains a major challenge to predict therapeutic response and patient outcome after CRT. Rsf-1 (HBXAP), a novel nuclear protein with histone chaperon function, mediates ATPase-dependent chromatin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lin CY,Tian YF,Wu LC,Chen LT,Lin LC,Hsing CH,Lee SW,Sheu MJ,Lee HH,Wang YH,Shiue YL,Wu WR,Huang HY,Hsu HP,Li CF,Chen SH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The applicability of a hapten-antihapten sandwich technique incorporating a monoclonal antihapten bridge antibody to localisation of tissue antigen is described. The results show that the method is both versatile and selective and has the potential of being even more sensitive than currently used immunoperoxidase meth...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jasani B,Thomas DW,Williams ED

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An increased level of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) is a known prognostic factor for acute coronary events and sudden cardiac death, and it is associated with coronary calcification. CRP is expressed in coronary arteries, but its role in the development of coronary plaques is unclear. AIM:To investigate CR...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Norja S,Nuutila L,Karhunen PJ,Goebeler S

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：: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：:Cervical biopsies from 97 women with malignant cells in cervical scrape smears have been studied. Forty-eight patients had invasive squamous carcinoma, and 49 had intraepithelial lesions. Of these, six had dedifferentiated carcinoma in situ, nine had the differentiated lesions generally known as ;severe dysplasia', an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Grubb C,Janota I

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KRAS mutation status predicts response to anti-EGFR therapy in colorectal cancer patients. Here we report an interesting case of discordant KRAS mutation status in a patient with two separate tumour foci. Tumour A in sigmoid colon invaded through muscularis propria into the subserosal fat with metastatic disease in re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Li X,Pezeshkpour G,Phan RT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In decalcified (5% nitric acid) and undecalcified (glycol-methacrylate or resin embedded) routinely processed bone specimens osteoclasts against resorbing surfaces were identified with monoclonal antibodies directed against leucocyte common antigen (LCA) (PD7/26, 2B11), CD68 (KP1), and gpIIIa (Y2/51) but not against H...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Athanasou NA,Puddle B,Quinn J,Woods CG

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "dysplastic" melanocytic naevus has recently been used to describe pigmented naevi with unusual histological and clinical features. There is currently no clear clinical or pathological definition of the term, and this has led to a lack of comparability of material described in reports on these lesions. As a r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Seywright MM,Doherty VR,MacKie RM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammatory cells contribute to the growth and spread of human malignancies by producing molecules that enhance tumour invasiveness. AIMS:To characterise the inflammatory infiltrate in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and to analyse its contribution to angiogenesis and its prognostic relevance. METHODS:Im...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Esposito I,Menicagli M,Funel N,Bergmann F,Boggi U,Mosca F,Bevilacqua G,Campani D

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common type of aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that represents a heterogeneous group of disease that is differentially characterised by clinical, molecular and cytogenetic features. MYC, BCL2 and BCL6 gene rearrangements have been identified as prognostic factors...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tourneret A,Alame M,Rigau V,Bauchet L,Fabbro M,De Oliveira L,Cacheux V,Costes V,Lacheretz-Szablewski V

更新日期：2020-09-10 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：:A chemical method for the sterilization of pancreatin and trypsin is given. Evidence is presented to show that this treatment does not diminish the specific activity of the enzymes and has some advantages in microbiological techniques. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stokes KJ

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of pigmented basal cell carcinoma developing in a smallpox revaccination site is presented. Any progressive change within a smallpox vaccination scar should be thoroughly evaluated and treated appropriately after tissue diagnosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rich JD,Shesol BF,Horne DW 3rd

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum glycocholic acid (SGC) was measured by radioimmunoassay in 277 samples from 122 children with hepatobiliary disorders and from 23 healthy age-matched controls. In patients with hepatobiliary disease the SGC was more frequently abnormal (83%) than values for serum albumin (7%), prothrombin time (17%), bilirubin (...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Matsui A,Psacharopoulos HT,Mowat AP,Portmann B,Murphy GM

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the suitability of primary gel separation tubes for the storage of frozen sera intended for serological testing. METHODS:Blood samples from 102 patients were collected into gel separation tubes. The sera from these samples were split between the primary gel separation tubes and conventional plastic s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ellis V,Charlett A,Bendall R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the efficacy of biochemical parameters in different fluids in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction of different causes, analysed after death. METHODS:The myoglobin concentration and total creatine kinase (CK) and creatine kinase MB isoenzyme (CK-MB) activities were measured in serum, pericardial flu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Perez-Cárceles MD,Osuna E,Vieira DN,Martínez A,Luna A

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate two detailed step sectioning protocols for sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs). METHODS:After vital dye or combined dye and radiocolloid guided biopsy, SLNs were fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin wax. In protocol A, SLNs from 123 patients were sectioned in steps of 50-100 micro m, whereas in protocol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cserni G

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients in the neurosurgical ward of Fukushima Medical College Hospital suffering from ventriculitis due to Achromobacter xylosoxidans infection had undergone craniotomy or cranial trepanation before the infection. The strains of A. xylosoxidans isolated from the patients were resistant to streptomycin, ampicilli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shigeta S,Yasunaga Y,Honzumi K,Okamura H,Kumata R,Endo S

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the attitudes of students towards the necropsy at different stages of their undergraduate career. METHOD:Students in the first, fourth and sixth academic years (n = 283) were asked to respond anonymously to a questionnaire comprised of 26 attitude statements. These statements dealt with the importance o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Botega NJ,Metze K,Marques E,Cruvinel A,Moraes ZV,Augusto L,Costa LA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and forty-seven strains of micro-organisms were isolated from the urinary tract of 121 patients with neurological complaints leading to paraplegia. The commonest infecting organism was E. coli and the commonest type of Proteus was P. mirabilis. Infections with more than one type of organism were present in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SCOTT TG

更新日期：1960-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Vibrio vulnificus is uncommon in Europe but is associated with necrotising wound infections and life-threatening septicaemia. This case is one of infection most likely to have been acquired from a thermal pool in Turkey without preceding exposure to seawater or shellfish. The report also describes how e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Partridge DG,Townsend R,Larkin S,Parsons HK

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00