Front-end genomics: using an alternative approach for the recovery of high-quality DNA from core needle biopsies.

abstract：:A new sensitive nitrite test, the SRN test, was evaluated for its suitability as a reliable screening technique for the detection of bacteriuria. The SRN test was compared to a currently available nitrite test, the Microstix nitrite test, and the results obtained with both nitrite tests were assessed in comparison wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rabi T

更新日期：1981-07-01 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：:Antigenic extracts were prepared from Aspergillus fumigatus, A niger, A flavus and A terreus for use in enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and immunodiffusion (ID) tests for Aspergillus antibodies to determine whether the use of antigenic extracts from species other than A fumigatus increased the sensitivity of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Froudist JH,Harnett GB,McAleer R

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the serological cross reaction between legionella and campylobacter using the rapid microagglutination test (RMAT). METHODS:Serum samples from 49 patients with campylobacter infection were tested for legionella antibodies using the indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) and the RMAT. Serum sampl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Boswell TC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mitogenic kinin peptides formed by the serine protease, tissue kallikrein (TK1), stimulate the proliferation of tumour cells and, by increasing vascular permeability, enhance metastasis. Oesophageal mucosal epithelial cells are derived from the epithelial cell germ layer, which expresses the kallikrein-k...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dlamini Z,Bhoola KD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 44 spleens removed from patients with Hodgkin's disease before treatment has been reviewed. The difficulties encountered in detecting foci of Hodgkin's tissue and the histological features and characteristics of early invasion are described. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Farrer-Brown G,Bennett MH,Harrison CV,Millett Y,Jelliffe AM

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In October 1859, 'The Queen of Hearts' was published by Wilkie Collins. This book is a collection of 10 short stories written by the protagonists (three retired brothers), in order to keep their niece (aka the queen of hearts) entertained, until the arrival of her fiancé-to-be. The second story of the book, titled 'Br...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fernandez-Flores A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen unrelated patients with idiopathic haemochromatosis (eight men, five women) were studied. The diagnosis was based on clinical, biological, and histochemical findings. HLA typing was performed in all 13 and in all of their available first degree relatives (n = 31). HLA A3 was present in nine of 13 probands (69...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Czìnk E,Gyódi EK,Német K,Hollán S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To use the polymerase chain reaction to detect monoclonality at the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene locus in cells derived from lymph node aspirates. METHODS:A nested two-stage polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the VDJ region of the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene was used to detect monoclonality. The total num...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wan JH,Sykes PJ,Orell SR,Morley AA

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：AIMS:To identify molecular characteristics to hepatitis C virus (HCV)-associated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) through a comprehensive miRNAs expression profiling. METHODS:In this study, miRNA profiles were obtained from 37 patients with DLBCLs and 60 patients with reactive lymph nodes, equally distributed acc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Augello C,Gianelli U,Savi F,Moro A,Bonoldi E,Gambacorta M,Vaira V,Baldini L,Bosari S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera obtained from 34 men with Chlamydia trachomatis positive non-gonococcal urethritis, 34 men with C trachomatis negative non-gonococcal urethritis, 42 women with acute salpingitis, 38 healthy women, and 34 healthy men were studied for the presence of specific serum C trachomatis IgA and IgG antibodies. Serological ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cevenini R,Sarov I,Rumpianesi F,Donati M,Melega C,Varotti C,La Placa M

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudolipoma of the liver is a rare condition which may be confused with metastatic tumours, primary tumours, or other lesions of the liver. This study presents three hepatic pseudolipomas that occurred in men aged 33, 38, and 42 years. The prevalence of hepatic pseudolipomas was 0.2% in a series of 1300 consecutive n...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Karhunen PJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocardial fibroelastosis, defined as an endocardium in excess of 30 microns thick, was found in 10 out of 34 cases of hydrops fetalis in a review of 1589 perinatal necropsies carried out between 1976 and 1989. The infants comprised 16 cases of rhesus haemolytic disease, of whom three had endocardial fibroelastosis, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Newbould MJ,Armstrong GR,Barson AJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS/BACKGROUND:A major medical role for postmortem examinations is the detection of clinically unexpected disease processes contributing to death. The aim of the present study was to determine whether simple clinical parameters can predict the presence of important unanticipated findings at necropsy. METHODS:Prospect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Robinson IA,Marley NJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 30 children with bleeding disorders exposed to an index tuberculosis case, six developed primary pulmonary tuberculosis and two others became positive skin reactors. There was a significant correlation between the amount of replacement treatment received and the development of evidence of tuberculous infection. Onl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Beddall AC,Hill FG,George RH,Williams MD,Al-Rubei K

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serious infection caused by Lancefield group C streptococci is unusual in man. Two unrelated deaths associated with these organisms in a 55 year old woman who died after three days of diarrhoea and vomiting, and in a 65 old man who died after a week of non-specific symptoms, are presented. Post mortem examination show...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bateman AC,Ramsay AD,Pallett AP

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioimmunoassay for human growth hormone using activated charcoal is described and its precision, accuracy, and sensitivity are defined. Results are presented for growth hormone measurements in plasma obtained during hypoglycaemia induced with insulin in patients of short stature and during glucose tolerance tests ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thomas FJ,Lloyd HM,Thomas MJ

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antibody was raised against a protein isolated from the cytoplasm of mesothelioma cells. It was subsequently used in an immunoperoxidase procedure on formalin fixed, paraffin embedded tissue sections. A representative sample of benign and malignant tumours from all the systems of the human body was examined. All th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Donna A,Betta PG,Bellingeri D,Marchesini A

更新日期：1986-09-01 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：: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：AIMS:N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) has been shown to be useful for ruling out heart failure in primary care. In this study, we examined the accuracy of the Cobas h232 point-of-care (POC) instrument in primary care compared with an in-hospital measurement. Furthermore, we investigated the user-fr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hex C,Smeets M,Penders J,Van Hoof V,Verbakel J,Buntinx F,Vaes B

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the cellular distribution of androgen receptors (AR) in normal liver and to examine whether phenotypic changes occur in a variety of non-neoplastic liver diseases, cryostat sections of explanted livers removed from 52 consecutive patients undergoing orthotopic transplantation were immunostained u...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hinchliffe SA,Woods S,Gray S,Burt AD

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For breast and prostate cancer, a gene expression signature of the tumour is associated with the development of distant metastases. Regarding head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), the only known risk factor is the presence of > or =3 tumour-positive lymph nodes. AIM:To evaluate whether a HNSCC gene...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Braakhuis BJ,Senft A,de Bree R,de Vries J,Ylstra B,Cloos J,Kuik DJ,Leemans CR,Brakenhoff RH

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principles which should govern the planning of benching and services for new laboratories are enumerated. These include the necessity for long-term planning, flexibility, and economy. The ;Cardiff benching system' where the benches are composed of units that consist of an independent movable table base, a removabl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： LAURENCE KM

更新日期：1963-09-01 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：:The morphological classification and diagnosis of bladder neoplasms is summarised, with specific focus on histological typing, grading and staging. Four diagnostic categories are described on the basis of the pattern of growth of the urothelial lesions and tumours (flat, exophytic or papillary, endophytic, and invasiv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Montironi R,Mazzucchelli R,Scarpelli M,Lopez-Beltran A,Cheng L

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether antibiotics are prescribed appropriately for acute tonsillitis in an emergency department (ED). METHODS:Cross-sectional observational study in large district general hospital in London. Patients diagnosed and coded with 'acute tonsillitis' in the ED over a 3-month period in 2015. Medica...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kanji K,Saatci D,Rao GG,Khanna P,Bassett P,Williams B,Khan M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhombencephalitis is not a rare presentation of listerial central nervous system infections in healthy adults. This report describes a case with several management difficulties linked to antibiotic related adverse events, pointing to alternative solutions to aminopenicillins. In addition, the role of dexamethasone in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Popescu GA,Saquepée M,Poisson D,Prazuck T

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00