Antibiotics for tonsillitis: should the emergency department emulate general practice?

abstract：:A thin-layer chromatographic method for the simultaneous assessment of formimino-glutamic (Figlu) and urocanic acid excretion after loading with 15 g. histidine has been applied to 15 control subjects and to 49 selected patients. Upper limits of normal excretion were determined for urocanic acid and Figlu alone (15 mg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mohamed SD,Roberts M

更新日期：1966-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Royal College of Pathologists introduced the National Minimum Dataset (NMDS) for the histopathological reporting of cutaneous melanoma in February 2002. AIM:To determine if histological reporting of invasive primary cutaneous melanoma in the West Midlands region of the UK was compliant with the NMDS. M...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kaur MR,Colloby PS,Martin-Clavijo A,Marsden JR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have shown that minichromosome maintenance (MCM) proteins (Mcm2-7) may be useful proliferation markers in dysplasia and cancer in various tissues. AIMS:To investigate the use of Mcm7 as a proliferation marker in 79 lymph node negative prostate cancers and compare it with Ki-67, a commonly use...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Padmanabhan V,Callas P,Philips G,Trainer TD,Beatty BG

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of signet-ring cell lymphoma affecting bone marrow is reported. The tumour presented as multiple lytic lesions in the lumbosacral spine. A bone biopsy specimen showed the typical appearances of signet-ring cell lymphoma, and the cells stained positively with antiserum to CD20, though neither immunoglobulin ligh...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Talbot DC,Davies JH,Maclennan KA,Smith IE

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a patient with a gastric biopsy specimen showing histomorphological and immunohistochemical appearances indistinguishable from those usually present in lymphocytic gastritis, a rare condition of unknown aetiology with a distinctive phenotype. The patient had a history of a biopsy confirmed T cell...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nga ME,Tan SH,Teh M,Koay ES,Chong SM,Putti TC,Salto-Tellez M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunohistochemical study of the tissue CEA content of 82 epithelial neoplasms of the ovary has shown that mucinous tumours contain more of this substance than do their serous counterparts; otherwise a knowledge of tissue CEA content appears to be of little value in the differential histological diagnosis of this g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Heald J,Buckley CH,Fox H

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To demonstrate expression of immunoglobulin light chain mRNA in diagnostic fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology specimens using an in situ hybridisation (ISH) technique; and to evaluate ISH in a series of reactive lymphoid proliferations and malignant lymphomas. METHODS:Forty diagnostic FNA specimens showing a l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stewart CJ,Farquharson MA,Kerr T,McCorriston J

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of inflammation in the trachea, bronchi, and lungs of 139 cot deaths has been analysed and each case allocated to one of four groups. In group I the changes were considered to be serious enough to have caused death, while group II cases showed similar abnormalities but of a less severe nature, and in this g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tapp E,Jones DM,Tobin JO

更新日期：1975-11-01 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：:An automated method for the microbiological assay of vitamin B(12) is described. A chloramphenicol-resistant strain of Lactobacillus leichmannii is used as the test organism and this eliminates the need for sterilization or aseptic addition. Precipitation of the serum protein is avoided by dilution of the serum with a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Davis RE,Moulton J,Kelly A

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Congenital neutropenia (CN) is a rare inherited disease that results in recurrent, life-threatening bacterial infections due to a deficiency of mature neutrophils. They are usually caused by heterozygous ELANE mutations although mutations in other genes like HAX-1, G6PC3 and GFI1 have also been reported. Identifyi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arunachalam AK,Suresh H,Edison ES,Korula A,Aboobacker FN,George B,Shaji RV,Mathews V,Balasubramanian P

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:Isolates of Bacillus cereus from 118 cases, and two maternity unit outbreaks, of non-gastrointestinal infection were grouped on the basis of their estimated probable involvement in the infections from which they were isolated: (i) high probability--48 strains; (ii) intermediate--16 strains; (iii) low--7 strains; (iv) ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Turnbull PC,Kramer JM

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies to factor VIII antigen (VIII:Ag) and von Willebrand factor (vWf:Ag) were immobilised on Sephacryl S-1000 and tested for their ability to deplete normal human citrated plasma of factor VIII. A combination of two antibodies to VIII:Ag and one antibody to vWf:Ag was required to produce plasma contai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hornsey VS,Waterston YG,Prowse CV

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison is made of tests for thyroglobulin antibody, using gel diffusion, electroprecipitin, bentonite flocculation, tanned red cell agglutination, and latex slide agglutination techniques on sera from cases of Hashimoto's disease and other thyroid disorders. Any increase in gamma globulin was also noted from the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： RAWSTRON JR,FARTHING CP

更新日期：1962-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is an unusual case of total granulomatous infarction of testis due to Schistosoma haematobium, the first such case to be reported. This report reinforces the theory of extraportal maturation of worms in spermatic veins and capillaries as postulated earlier (Joshi, 1962). ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Joshi RA

更新日期：1967-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PAS and acid phosphatase reactions showed a different pattern of positivity in the cells of lymphoproliferative disorders according to their B or T cell nature. In B-cell leukaemias (chronic lymphocytic and prolymphocytic) a low proportion of lymphocytes gave a positive result with the acid phosphatase reaction, w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Catovsky D,Galetto J,Okos A,Miliani E,Galton DA

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With lymph node enlargement, the possibility of a malignant process such as metastatic carcinoma or lymphoma needs to be excluded. This report describes a 47 year old woman with inguinal lymph node enlargement initially suspicious for lymphoma. Fine needle aspiration findings favoured reactive hyperplasia, but a malig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Péoc'h M,Duprez D,Grice G,Fabre-Bocquentin B,Gressin R,Pasquier B

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cellular blue naevi (CBN) measure 1-2 cm in diameter and affect the dermis, occasionally extending into the subcutaneous fat. The case of a 14-year-old boy with a giant CBN (GCBN) involving the right half of the face, the jugal mucosa and the lower eyelid with a tumour that had infiltrated the bone and the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bittencourt AL,Monteiro DA,De Pretto OJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sink drains in a medical-surgical intensive care unit (ICU) were cultured during six consecutive weeks as part of a seven month prospective study of acquisition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by ICU patients. Isolates were typed serologically and by aminoglycoside and chlorhexidine susceptibility patterns. All 11 sinks con...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Levin MH,Olson B,Nathan C,Kabins SA,Weinstein RA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutrophil shape change response to a chemotactic formylpeptide was assessed. Neutrophil bipolar shape formation (BSF) was also simultaneously assessed with a Boyden chamber-based neutrophil migration assay. Both assays were precise and relatively reproducible; the average coefficient of variation for the BSF assa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lord RA,Roath S

更新日期：1990-04-01 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：:Guidance by bacteriologists and changes in theatre and ward disciplines have greatly improved the results of urological surgery in recent years. The most noteworthy successes have been in treatment of chronic retention with renal failure, and in prevention of the bacteraemia which may occur following removal of the po...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： MITCHELL JP,GILLESPIE WA

更新日期：1964-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parafibromin is a novel protein product of HRPT2, a recently identified tumour suppressor gene. Mutations of the HRPT2 gene are common in parathyroid carcinomas, and these exhibit reduced protein expression. Parafibromin expression in breast cancer has not been previously studied. AIMS:To determine the dist...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Selvarajan S,Sii LH,Lee A,Yip G,Bay BH,Tan MH,Teh BT,Tan PH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytokeratin immunohistochemistry (IHC) reveals a higher rate of occult lymph node metastases among lobular carcinomas than among ductal breast cancers. IHC is widely used but is seldom recommended for the evaluation of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. OBJECTIVE:To assess the value of cytokera...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cserni G,Bianchi S,Vezzosi V,Peterse H,Sapino A,Arisio R,Reiner-Concin A,Regitnig P,Bellocq JP,Marin C,Bori R,Penuela JM,Iturriagagoitia AC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histochemical method is described of differentiating between normal and neoplastic cells in plasma using the activity of various enzymes characteristic of plasma cells. It was found that in both types of cell increased or diminished activity of cytoenzymes is a useful means of distinguishing between normal and abnor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SZMIGIELSKI S,LITWIN J,ZUPANSKA B

更新日期：1965-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A competitive enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method was used to measure the concentration of lactoferrin in fluids from 36 odontogenic keratocysts, 15 dentigerous cysts, and 30 radicular/residual cysts. Keratocyst fluids contained significantly higher concentrations of lactoferrin than fluids from the other...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Douglas CW,Craig GT

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5 month old girl had typical clinical features of acute myocarditis just after the febrile period of exanthem subitum and died immediately. She had been healthy, with normal development, and there was no family history of particular note. Myocardial postmortem findings were compatible with acute myocarditis. Althoug...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yoshikawa T,Ihira M,Suzuki K,Suga S,Kito H,Iwasaki T,Kurata T,Tanaka T,Saito Y,Asano Y

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS/BACKGROUND:Telomerase is an enzyme that is expressed in most human neoplasms and is associated with tumour immortality. Determination of the point in neoplastic transformation at which telomerase is expressed may aid the understanding of tumour pathogenesis and progression. Despite numerous reports on telomerase, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK,Hashizumi TL,Sze CI,Lillehei KO,Shroyer AL,Shroyer KR

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To establish whether abnormalities in the course of the vertebral artery occur and whether they are relevant to arterial injury associated with head and neck movements. METHODS:Twenty vertebral arteries were carefully dissected at necropsy and abnormalities in course were noted, along with any other bony or carti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Johnson CP,Scraggs M,How T,Burns J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00