Rate nephelometric determination of rheumatoid factor: comparison between Kallestad QM-300 and Beckman ICS-II (RF) methods.

abstract：AIM:Solid and papillary epithelial neoplasm (SPEN) is an uncommon pancreatic tumour. Very rarely it has also been described outside the pancreas, usually arising from heterotopic pancreatic tissue. This report summarises all the published extrapancreatic SPENs and documents the sixth such case arising from heterotopic ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tornóczky T,Kálmán E,Jáksó P,Méhes G,Pajor L,Kajtár GG,Battyány I,Davidovics S,Sohail M,Krausz T

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple, standardised procedure was used for processing data from External Quality Assessment Schemes and for producing performance charts. A graphic presentation of cumulative performance is generated for each test, using an integrated software package to display results in a standardised format. This permits interp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ardern JC,Hyde K,Hickman L,Urmston A,Burgess R,Burn AM,Geary CG

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method utilizing a general dehydrogenase reaction has been used to demonstrate early gross myocardial infarctions. The procedure takes advantage of substrate and enzyme loss from the damaged myocardium. In the viable muscle, where endogenous substrates, coenzymes, and dehydrogenases are present, reduction of Nitro-B...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ramkissoon RA

更新日期：1966-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Guaiac faecal occult blood tests are being replaced by faecal immunochemical tests (FIT). We investigated whether faecal haemoglobin concentration (f-Hb) was related to stage in progression of colorectal neoplasia, studying cancer and adenoma characteristics in an evaluation of quantitative FIT as a first-line scr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Digby J,Fraser CG,Carey FA,McDonald PJ,Strachan JA,Diament RH,Balsitis M,Steele RJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Glasgow Prognostic Score (GPS), an inflammation-based prognostic score formed from standard thresholds of C reactive protein (CRP) and albumin, has prognostic value in patients with advanced cancer. Little is known about the general biochemical disturbance associated with the systemic inflammatory respon...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brown DJ,Milroy R,Preston T,McMillan DC

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique, using indirect immunoperoxidase antibody (IPA), was developed for the detection of IgG antibody to Chlamydia trachomatis. The IPA technique employs glass slides with air-dried and acetone-fixed C trachomatis infected cells, which can be stored at -70 degrees C and used for several months. Antibody titres ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cevenini R,Rumpianesi F,Donati M,Sarov I

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with congenital lung cysts are at increased risk of developing carcinoma, but the mechanisms concerned are not clear. The case of a young adult who developed a bronchioloalveolar carcinoma associated with a cystic congenital adenomatoid malformation is reported. The adjacent lung showed an unusual intra-alveo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sheffield EA,Addis BJ,Corrin B,McCabe MM

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analytical goals inferred desirable by a group of clinicians for the imprecisions of a wide range of analytes have been studied by survey. The goals required have not in general become more stringent in the past decade and are not as demanding as those promulgated by laboratory professionals. Clinical biochemistry...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barrett AE,Cameron SJ,Fraser CG,Penberthy LA,Shand KL

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma concentrations of biotin were measured for up to 49 days after injury in nine children with burns and scalds which involved from 12% to 50% of the surface area of the body. Biotin levels below the minimum of the control range were observed in eight of the nine injured children at some stage during the episo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barlow GB,Dickerson JA,Wilkinson AW

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine whether the pattern of involvement of the gastric mucosa in lymphocytic gastritis is predictive of the presence or absence of duodenal pathology. METHODS:50 cases (M:F, 26:24; median age 57 years) diagnosed as lymphocytic gastritis between 1986 and 1998 with concurrent duodenal (D2) biopsies were iden...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hayat M,Arora DS,Wyatt JI,O'Mahony S,Dixon MF

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a case of myelofibrosis presenting as spinal cord compression on account of extramedullary haemopoietic tissue encroaching upon the spinal cord from a large pelvic mass. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Horwood E,Dowson H,Gupta R,Kaczmarski R,Williamson M

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：AIM:To establish the diagnostic value of in situ hybridisation and the nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in detecting clinically relevant cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in upper gastrointestinal biopsies from heart transplant patients. METHODS:Test sensitivity and specificity for detection of CMV early gene RNA ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Muir SW,Murray J,Farquharson MA,Wheatley DJ,McPhaden AR

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of ERBB2 (HER2) status in breast carcinomas has become critical in determining response to the humanised monoclonal antibody trastuzumab. The current joint College of American Pathologists and the American Society of Clinical Oncology guidelines for the evaluation of HER2 status in breast carcinoma involve ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gruver AM,Peerwani Z,Tubbs RR

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate how clinical microbiology laboratories should report and interpret mixed mould isolates including Aspergillus species from clinical samples and the criteria for susceptibility testing of the isolates. METHODS:Retrospectively collected data from our laboratory information system of moulds isolated b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Purcell J,McKenna J,Critten P,Denning DW,Hassan IA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To establish the number of histological levels necessary for the evaluation of breast needle core biopsy (NCB) specimens taken from areas of mammographic calcification in patients presenting via the UK National Health Service Breast Screening Programme. METHODS:Retrospective review of a series of breast NCB speci...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kumaraswamy V,Carder PJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serine esterases were detected in the granules of mucosal mast cells from rat, mouse, sheep, and man. Successful demonstration of enzyme activity required brief fixation (6 h) of tissues in 4% paraformaldehyde. Staining with naphthol AS-D chloroacetate produced an intense red reaction product in intraepithelial mucosa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Huntley JF,Newlands GF,Gibson S,Ferguson A,Miller HR

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The costs of a clinical chemistry laboratory in a district general hospital were studied. The system used has certain advantages over the conventional Cooper Lybrand method. The time taken by technicians to perform tests was more variable than expected and the cost of sample collection was higher than process-cost for...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stilwell JA

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Ki-67 is a prognostic marker in breast cancer; however, the use of the Ki-67 labelling index (LI) in clinical practice requires a consistent and easily accessible scoring method. The present study evaluated the use of the free internet-based image analysis program ImmunoRatio to score Ki-67 LI in breast cancer in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yeo MK,Kim HE,Kim SH,Chae BJ,Song BJ,Lee A

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We aimed to assess the one step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA) assay as an intraoperative method in comparison with frozen sections (FS) for detection of metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) of breast cancer. METHOD:100 SLNs from patients with breast carcinoma were enrolled within a 3-month period. Alterna...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jara-Lazaro AR,Hussain IH,Thike AA,Wong CY,Ho GH,Yong WS,Ong KW,Madhukumar P,Tan BK,Oey CL,Hwang JS,Tan PH

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients are reported in whom initial misdiagnoses of medullary cancer or trabecular hyaline adenoma for papillary carcinoma were made. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Andrew AC,Williamson JM

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructure of the osteocytes, osteoblasts, osteoclasts, haemopoietic and other connective tissue cells was examined in 27 biopsies from 22 patients with Paget's disease of bone. Electron microscopy showed characteristic nuclear and cytoplasmic inclusions in the osteoclasts of all of the 25 biopsies exhibiting ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harvey L,Gray T,Beneton MN,Douglas DL,Kanis JA,Russell RG

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cytochemical study of the lysosomal enzyme beta-glucuronidase in 60 cases of acute leukaemia has shown a qualitative difference in the cytoplasmic distribution of the enzyme between blast cells of the lymphoid and myeloid cell series. This difference provides a useful additional method for cytochemical classificatio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mann JR,Simpson JS,Munkley RM,Stuart J

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) is a high grade type of neuroendocrine tumour with an aggressive clinical course. This report describes the first case of LCNEC combined with an adenocarcinoma component in the common bile duct. A 68 year old man presented with jaundice. Severe stenosis of the bile duct was ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sato K,Waseda R,Tatsuzawa Y,Fujinaga H,Wakabayashi T,Ueda Y,Katsuda S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serine peptidase inhibitor Kazal type-1 (SPINK1), a trypsin kinase inhibitor, has well established associations with inflammation, cancer cell proliferation and carcinogenesis. However, the role of SPINK1 has not been investigated in stage IV colorectal cancer (CRC) patients receiving cetuximab based targete...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chen YT,Tsao SC,Tsai HP,Wang JY,Chai CY

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To ascertain the effect of enhanced surveillance following an outbreak of waterborne cryptosporidiosis on the number of faecal specimens submitted to the local microbiology laboratory and the number positive for common enteric pathogens. The outbreak provided an opportunity to estimate the extent of routine under ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Qamruddin AO,Keaney MG,McCann R,Chadwick PR

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter pylori related gastric intestinal metaplasia (IM) is considered to be a precancerous lesion. AIMS:To identify the effects of H pylori eradication on K-ras mutations, cell kinetics in IM and histological changes in patients with and without gastric cancers in a one-year prospective study. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Watari J,Tanaka A,Tanabe H,Sato R,Moriichi K,Zaky A,Okamoto K,Maemoto A,Fujiya M,Ashida T,Das KM,Kohgo Y

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microwave tissue coagulator (MTC) is used in hepatectomy because it provides excellent haemostasis during the procedure. A 59 year old man underwent partial hepatic lobectomy with MTC, for metastasis from colon cancer. A tumorous necrotic nodule was discovered in the liver. The nodule measured 2.5 cm at its larges...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mikami Y,Shimizu M,Manabe T

更新日期：1997-08-01 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