Vibrio vulnificus: an unusual mode of acquisition and novel use of rapid susceptibility testing.

abstract：:The indirect immunofluorescence technique was used to study the expression of the blood group A and H antigens in fresh-frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded sections of the bladder mucosa of 21 patients with non-neoplastic diseases of the bladder. Reliable assessment of these antigens could only be made using c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thorpe SJ,Abel P,Slavin G,Feizi T

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm-agglutinating antibodies were present in three (2-6%) of 117 fertile men and in 19 (33-9%) of 56 men who had been vasectomized. Twenty-four of the 56 vasectomized men had been studied before vasectomy; sperm-agglutinating antibodies were present in one (4-3%) compared with eight (33-3%) after vasectomy. No sperm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hunter J,Logan H,Greer G

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and gamma-glutamyltransferase (gamma-GT) activities were measured in over 2000 north London blood donors. The results were compared with those from the United States. The percentage of the total donor population with ALT activities above 40 IU/l in 1986 was greater than that found ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mijovic V,Contreras M,Barbara J

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 was isolated from a fatal case of haemorrhagic colitis with haemolytic uraemic syndrome and neurological symptoms. This strain induced diarrhoea and neurological symptoms including incoordination, ataxia, and convulsions in piglets after oral inoculation. Similar neurological signs were seen i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tzipori S,Chow CW,Powell HR

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant histiocytosis (histiocytic medullary reticulosis) in a 45-year-old white man is described. Unusual features were presentation as a surgical emergency with signs of obstruction and peritonitis due to an ileal tumour and extensive spindle cell differentiation. Problems in the differential diagnosis of malignan...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Macgillivray JB,Duthie JS

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines recommend that in patients with biopsy-proven invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC), preoperative MRI scan is considered, the accuracy of diagnosis of ILC in core biopsy of the breast has not been previously investigated. Eleven pathology laborato...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Naidoo K,Beardsley B,Carder PJ,Deb R,Fish D,Girling A,Hales S,Howe M,Wastall LM,Lane S,Lee AH,Philippidou M,Quinn C,Stephenson T,Pinder SE

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Three hundred specimens of oesophagus obtained at necropsy from infants and children aged from 0 to 14 years, dying from a variety of causes, were examined prospectively for evidence of gastric heterotopia. Gastric heterotopia was observed in 63 (21%) of the whole series, representing a much higher incidence than repo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Variend S,Howat AJ

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare the sensitivity and specificity of new rabbit monoclonal antibody SP3 with those of mouse monoclonal and rabbit polyclonal antibodies using HER2 amplification defined by chromogenic in situ hybridisation (CISH) as the gold standard. METHODS:Serial sections from tissue microarrays (TMAs) containing 84 b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nunes CB,Rocha RM,Reis-Filho JS,Lambros MB,Rocha GF,Sanches FS,Oliveira FN,Gobbi H

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Acute traumatic coagulopathy is characterised by fibrinolysis and low fibrinogen. It is unclear how much fibrinogenolysis contributes to reduce fibrinogen levels. The study aim was to: investigate in vitro the effects of tissue-plasminogen activator (t-PA) and tranexamic acid (TXA) on coagulation and fibrinolysis....

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Godier A,Parmar K,Manandhar K,Hunt BJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is currently much speculation over the precise nature of lobular carcinoma in-situ of the breast and its significance. Histochemical study shows that it is rich in sialomucin. This has a characteristic intracellular distribution which distinghishes lobular carcinoma in-situ from cancerization of lobules. The sam...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gad A,Azzopardi JG

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purulent exudate from 28 cases of Bartholin's abscess were examined for aerobic, anaerobic, and microaerophilic bacteria. Three cases gave no bacterial growth, five cases grew facultative bacteria only, and a further three grew a mixture of facultative and anaerobic bacteria. One case gave a pure growth of a microaero...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wren MW

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and reproducible technique for in situ hybridisation, using biotin labelled probes for the Y chromosome, human DNA, hepatitis B virus DNA and cytomegalovirus DNA on formalin fixed, paraffin embedded liver tissue, was developed. The degree of proteolytic digestion of tissue specimens is critical to ensure adequ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Naoumov NV,Alexander GJ,Eddleston AL,Williams R

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy is an invasive procedure associated with morbidity and mortality risk. We compared a powered bone marrow aspiration and biopsy device to the traditional method by relatively assessing pain scores, procedure times, biopsy capture rates, quality of material retrieved, and sa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Swords RT,Anguita J,Higgins RA,Yunes AC,Naski M,Padmanabhan S,Kelly KR,Mahalingam D,Philbeck T,Miller L,Puga TA,Giles FJ,Kinney MC,Brenner AJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of cell-free circulating fetal nucleic acids in maternal plasma has opened up new possibilities in non-invasive prenatal diagnosis. The rapid advancement of this field in the past decade is catalysed by the discovery of new classes of fetal nucleic acid markers and technological developments in nucleic a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hung EC,Chiu RW,Lo YM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The simultaneous estimation of steroids in plasma was carried out by the assay of cortisol, corticosterone, and testosterone. The method entails separation by means of thin layer chromatography, followed by conversion to a fluorophore and fluorimetric measurement. Its major advantages are its high specificity, its abi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mattingly D,Martin H,Tyler C

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To study the homozygous deletion and methylation status of the 5' CpG island of the p16 and p15 genes (9p21) in a set of primary advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) and to test whether inactivation of these genes by these mechanisms contributes to head and neck SCC development. METHODS:DNA was e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： González MV,Pello MF,López-Larrea C,Suárez C,Menéndez MJ,Coto E

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM/BACKGROUND:Several studies have suggested that Helicobacter pylori which express CagA may be more virulent than those that do not, but limited populations have been studied to date. The aim of this study was to confirm and extend the association of CagA positive H pylori strains in a different geographical area and...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Graham DY,Genta RM,Graham DP,Crabtree JE

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour tissue from 29 patients with primary brain lymphoma was reviewed to determine if there was an aetiological association between Epstein-Barr virus and polyclonal and monoclonal lymphoproliferations. The morphology and immunophenotype in 24 patients for whom paraffin wax embedded tissue was available were studied...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Murphy JK,Young LS,Bevan IS,Lewis FA,Dockey D,Ironside JW,O'Brien CJ,Wells M

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fungal infection is increasingly recognised as an important cause of morbidity and mortality, especially in immunocompromised patients. Little information exists on laboratory services available and the methods used by general microbiology laboratories to diagnose these important infections. AIM:To investig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hassan IA,Critten P,Isalska B,Denning DW

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A manual system of microbiology reporting with a National Cash Register (NCR) form with printed names of bacteria and antiboitics required less time to compose reports than a previous manual system that involved rubber stamps and handwriting on plain report sheets. The NCR report cost 10-28 pence and, compared with a ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goodwin CS

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of liquid media to detect the production of beta-lactamase by beta-lactamase producing organisms has been compared with the conventional method of inoculation on to agar media. Pharyngeal cultures were obtained from 162 children treated with penicillin for acute tonsillitis. beta-lactamase producing organisms ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brook I,Gober AE

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of unexplained, rapidly recurring occlusions of arteries and veins in a previously healthy young woman is described. Post mortem examination showed no macroscopic abnormalities but revealed microscopic metastatic adenocarcinoma with remarkable intravascular localisation of the malignant cells. Whereas h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Levi M,Bronkhorst C,Noorduyn LA,Vreeken J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against the group polysaccharide of group A streptococci were estimated by means of a haemagglutination reaction. In this reaction human erythrocytes of blood group O were sensitized with polysaccharide esterified with myristoylchloride. The optimal conditions of the reactions were determined by varying the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goedvok-de Groot LE,Michel-Bensink N,van Es-Boon MM,van Vonno AH,Michel MF

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of extramedullary myeloblastic transformation of chronic myeloid leukaemia is reported. This was characterised by an unusual clinical and haematological course and showed a unique cytogenetic pattern. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Flanagan NG,Harrison CJ,Harry DS,Ridway JC

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To report the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with ocular adnexal marginal zone B cell lymphoma (MZBL) with IgG4-positive plasma cells. METHODS:114 biopsy samples of ocular adnexal MZBLs were analysed. MZBLs with IgG4-positive plasma cells were included when the IgG4:IgG ratio was >40% (IgG4-relat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kubota T,Moritani S,Yoshino T,Nagai H,Terasaki H

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is found that serum antifibrinolytic activity is inhibitory both to the spontaneous fibrinolytic activity and to the activity of streptokinase-activated plasminogen. The titres of serum antiplasmin activity during gestation, labour, and the puerperium are all of the same order and do not differ from those in non-pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： BIEZENSKI JJ

更新日期：1960-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials have shown that many patients with breast cancer with limited sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastatic disease can safely avoid axillary lymph node dissection. Ultra-staging of initially negative SLNs may not confer additional clinical benefit. Despite this, protocols of 'enhanced pathological examination'...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Murray C,Al Shehhi A,Ó'Riain C,Dunne B,Maguire A

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted next-generation sequencing using the 50-gene Ion AmpliSeq Cancer Hotspot Panel v2 identified two significant point mutations in endometrial stromal sarcomas (ESS). Case 1 is a uterine mass from a quadragenarian woman with a karyotype lacking any known ESS rearrangements but demonstrated to have a CTNNB1-activ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Patel SB,McCormack C,Hodge JC

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isotopic estimation of the cortisol secretion rate in man is now an accepted and reliable method of assaying adrenal cortical function.Seven years' experience with its clinical use is reviewed and some practical aspects of technique are considered. The mean normal resting cortisol secretion rate is 16.2 +/- 5.7 mg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： COPE CL,PEARSON J

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00