Mucin-producing atypical bronchial carcinoid.

abstract：AIMS:As part of the UK antimicrobial resistance strategy and action plan, the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) is required to collect antibiotic susceptibility data so that resistance trends and patterns can be monitored. Most laboratories report urine Gram negative isolates, as "coliforms" according to morpholo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fallon D,Andrews N,Frodsham D,Gee B,Howe S,Iliffe A,Nye KJ,Warren RE

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To establish the current sensitivity of two commercial kits for culture confirmation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains circulating in the UK. METHODS:A total of 544 strains were studied (199 gonococci from male patients attending hospitals in the county of Avon, 204 unselected N gonorrhoeae isolates from male pati...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Turner A,Gough KR,Jephcott AE

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare intratumorous microvessel density (MVD) and clinicopathological features in two different groups of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), namely: hepatitis B virus (HBV) related HCC (B-HCC) and HCV related HCC (C-HCC). METHODS:Fifty consecutive cases each of B-HCC and of C-HCC were studied. Microvessel numbe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Messerini L,Novelli L,Comin CE

更新日期：2004-08-01 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：AIMS:To assess the occurrence of diagnostic delay in primary antibody deficiency in the period 1989-2002, since a similar study in 1989, and to assess the impact of UK national guidelines communicated in 1995. METHODS:A retrospective case note review was performed of 89 consecutive patients with antibody deficiency re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Seymour B,Miles J,Haeney M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare prognostic information obtained by image analysis cytometry of paraffin wax embedded soft tissue sarcomas with conventional assessment. METHODS:A CAS 200 image analyser was used to determine DNA content of Feulgen stained cytology preparations and tissue sections and to quantify immunostaining by Ki67 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Michie BA,Black C,Reid RP,Barrett A,Hamblen DL

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity patterns to a number of antibiotic-impregnated discs of 126 strains of Gram-negative anaerobes and 36 strains of Gram-positive non-sporing anaerobes from various sources have been examined. The sensitivity patterns shown by Bacteroids fragilis and Bacteroides melaninogenicus were useful for the rapid i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Peach S

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Care in the preparation and preservation of reagents, together with certain modifications in apparatus and technique, have eliminated the difficulties from plasma ammonia analysis. Ammonia contamination from the laboratory atmosphere has not proved an especial hazard, and no major setback has been encountered in the a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fenton JC,Williams AH

更新日期：1968-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The finding of raised growth hormone concentrations in patients with secondary malignancy in the liver is reported. These concentrations were significantly higher than those found in patients with primary malignancy only or in those with non-hepatic secondaries. A wide range of malignancies was investigated and the hi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Andrews GS

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male patient with a 17 year history of intractable ulcerative colitis of the entire type was treated by total proctocolectomy. Colonoscopy before surgery did not identify dysplasia. Histological examination of the resected colorectum revealed that, in addition to chronic inflammatory infiltrates, there were 21 areas...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Matsumoto T,Jo Y,Mibu R,Hirahashi M,Yao T,Iida M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical smears from 327 women were examined using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeted to a sequence in the Bam H1 W region of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) to determine the prevalence of the virus in the cervix. EBV was detected in 131 (40%) of the 327 women. Of the 235 women with normal cytology, 98 (42%) we...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Taylor Y,Melvin WT,Sewell HF,Flannelly G,Walker F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of anticonvulsant megaloblastic anaemia are described, showing features of unusual interest. Though both cases were apparently deficient in folic acid, the Figlu tests were negative. One patient had an extremely low serum B(12) concentration apparently associated with defective B(12) absorption due to defici...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reynolds EH,Hallpike JF,Phillips BM,Matthews DM

更新日期：1965-09-01 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：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：: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：:Investigations into the immunological functions of three patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis were carried out. Phagocytosis of Candida albicans, nitroblue tetrazolium dye reduction, complement, and immunoglobulin levels were normal. Candidacidal assays using the neutrophils of the patients in autologous se...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Walker SM,Urbaniak SJ

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Caucasian patients with disorders of sex development (DSD) are at a high risk of developing germ cell cancer (GCC). GCC is prominent in young adults in Western countries, while the incidence is significantly lower in Asia. So far, the risk of GCC in Asian DSD patients is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:A detailed st...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Juniarto AZ,Setyawati BA,Miranti IP,Santosa A,Hersmus R,Stoop H,Cools M,Oosterhuis JW,Drop SL,Faradz SM,Looijenga LH

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VARIOUS LABORATORIES HAVE REPORTED DIFFERING SUCCESS RATES IN THEIR ABILITY TO DETECT INTRATHECAL SYNTHESIS OF ANTIBODY WHEN COMPARING THE INDEX OF [FORMULA: see text] with electrophoretic analysis. We selected 44 patients in the borderline area of minimal and/or equivocal abnormality by IgG index. Electrophoretic ana...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thompson EJ,Riches PG,Kohn J

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two examples of intraplacental choriocarcinoma are described. Both were small and had arisen in otherwise normal third trimester placentas. The covering mantle of many of the villi adjacent to the choriocarcinomas was formed, either focally or wholly, of neoplastic trophoblastic tissue: it is only at this stage of the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fox H,Laurini RN

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:An increase in the proliferative state of the gastric epithelium has been attributed to infection with Helicobacter pylori. In order to obtain a more precise estimate of the magnitude of this change, the proliferative state of 17 cases of florid H pylori associated follicular gastritis was examined using the antib...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Havard TJ,Sarsfield P,Wotherspoon AC,Steer HW

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Heart failure (HF) affects millions of older individuals in both developed and low/middle-income countries. Serum galectin-3 levels have been shown to have prognostic value. However, its use as a diagnostic biomarker has not been explored. The aim was to establish a saliva galectin-3 reference range and to demonstr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zhang X,Wan Y,Chata R,Brazzale A,Atherton JJ,Kostner K,Dimeski G,Punyadeera C

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An influenza virus vaccine containing the purified surface haemagglutinin and neuraminidase antigens of A/Victoria/75 and B/Hong Kong/73 viruses adsorbed to an aluminium hydroxide gel was assessed for reactogenicity and immunogenicity in children aged 4 to 11 years, since there is no influenza virus vaccine available ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eastwood LM,Jennings R,Milner RD,Potter CW

更新日期：1979-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Squamous differentiation/squamous metaplasia is often associated with endometrial adenocarcinoma and benign lesions, such as endometrial hyperplasia and chronic endometritis. Morules have distinct histological characteristics, and are referred to as squamous metaplasia or squamoid metaplasia. AIM:To focus o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chinen K,Kamiyama K,Kinjo T,Arasaki A,Ihama Y,Hamada T,Iwamasa T

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a zoonotic viral infection originating from Wuhan, China in December 2019. The World Health Organization has classified this pandemic as a global health emergency due to its virulent nature of transmission, which may lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome. Singapore's he...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tan SS,Yan B,Saw S,Lee CK,Chong AT,Jureen R,Sethi S

更新日期：2020-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop a quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (Q-RT-PCR) for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) detection and explore the potential of using glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) mRNA as an internal control to exclude false negative results. METHODS:SAR...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wong SC,Chan JK,Lee KC,Lo ES,Tsang DN

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:A large body of evidence supports the idea that certain adult stem cells, particularly those of bone marrow origin, can engraft at alternative locations, particularly when the recipient organ is damaged. Under strong and positive selection pressure these cells will clonally expand/differentiate, making an important co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alison MR,Poulsom R,Otto WR,Vig P,Brittan M,Direkze NC,Lovell M,Fang TC,Preston SL,Wright NA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To characterise further the proliferative compartment of the normal cervix and to document its alteration, if any, in the various grades of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), particularly changes to the basal epithelial layer; to hypothesise as to the diagnostic and biological significance of any observed d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Payne S,Kernohan NM,Walker F

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improvements in the Zimmermann reaction are effected by using methanol as a solvent for the reagents employed in the reaction in place of ethanol or aqueous ethanol. The advantages are as follows. Considerably lower blanks are obtained; extraneous chromogens are negligible at the wavelength of measurement, so that no ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： BEALE RN,BOSTROM JO,CROFT D

更新日期：1962-11-01 00:00:00