Digital pathology in the diagnostic setting: beyond technology into best practice and service management.

abstract：AIMS:Use of the polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB PCR) as a basis for making clinical decisions on the initiation of antituberculosis treatment was studied. METHODS:A retrospective study involving a cohort of 155 patients being investigated for tuberculosis in an infectious ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cheng VC,Yam WC,Hung IF,Woo PC,Lau SK,Tang BS,Yuen KY

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:A 72 year old woman presented with a suspected myocardial infarction. An echocardiograph showed no acute changes but her plasma creatine kinase (CK) activity was increased at 343 U/l (< 175 normal range). The apparent creatine kinase-MB activity by a CK-M subunit immunoinhibition assay was 350 U/l. In view of the disc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Crook M,Williams A,Sankaralingam A,Tutt P

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine a model for the evaluation of appropriateness of testing in an emergency biochemistry laboratory. METHODS:A model was devised in which incoming emergency test requests were categorised as appropriate or inappropriate. Explicit criteria were used to define eight minor categories, which were chosen to ref...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smellie WS,Murphy MJ,Galloway PJ,Hinnie J,McIlroy J,Dryburgh FJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A labial biopsy technique is described and was used to study 40 patients with connective tissue disease and 60 postmortem subjects. More than one focus of lymphocytes per 4 sq mm of minor salivary tissue was found to be a consistent finding in patients with Sjögren's disease. The labial biopsy is shown to be a further...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chisholm DM,Mason DK

更新日期：1968-09-01 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 performance of coagulometers in the National Quality Assessment Scheme (NEQAS) surveys of the prothrombin time conducted between 1986 and 1987 was reviewed. There were sufficient data for analysis for eight types of coagulometer used with a single type of thromboplastin reagent and one instrument with an alternati...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Poller L,Thomson JM,Taberner DA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient is described in whom a campylobacter enteritis closely resembled ulcerative colitis on clinical, sigmoidoscopic, and histological grounds. Selective stool culture techniques may be necessary to differentiate campylobacter colitis from ulcerative colitis proper. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Willoughby CP,Piris J,Truelove SC

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human oxalated plasma stored at 4 degrees C. until the prothrombin time is increased beyond 60 sec. is a reliable medium for assaying labile factor (factor V) because its response to added labile factor corresponds quantitatively to that of plasma from patients with congenital deficiency of this factor. Such an agreem...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： QUICK AJ

更新日期：1960-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Microring YT is a commercial system for identifying clinical yeast isolates. The system uses a series of discs impregnated with inhibitory agents mounted on a ring. The pattern of growth and inhibition produced provides a six digit code which can be compared with a table provided by the manufacturer. The performan...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ridgway EJ,Allen KD

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this study was to develop a computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) system for identifying breast pathology. METHODS:Two sets of 100 consecutive core needle biopsy (CNB) specimens were collected for test and validation studies. All 200 CNB specimens were stained with antibodies targeting oestrogen receptor (ER...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Maeda I,Kubota M,Ohta J,Shinno K,Tajima S,Ariizumi Y,Doi M,Oana Y,Kanemaki Y,Tsugawa K,Ueno T,Takagi M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate treatment with glycerol/washing as a potential substitute for freeze-thawing in the production of leucocyte depleted red cell concentrates for patients with a history of non-haemolytic reactions following transfusion. METHODS:The standard procedure of treatment with glycerol/-80 degrees C freezing/...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Farrugia A,Shea N,Knowles S,Holdsworth R,Piouronowski H,Portbury D,Romeo A

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of three monoclonal antibodies were used in an immunoalkaline phosphatase staining method on a series of serous effusion samples from cases of mesothelioma, lung carcinoma, and benign disease. The antibodies used were anti-carcinoembryonic (CEA) antigen, Ca, and anti-human milk fat globule membrane antigen. An...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ghosh AK,Butler EB

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The WHO classification describes that combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma, subtypes with stem-cell features, intermediate-cell subtype (CHC-INT) is composed of tumour cells with features intermediate between hepatocytes and cholangiocytes. However, we previously reported that CHC-INT showed a high positive ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Akiba J,Nakashima O,Hattori S,Naito Y,Kusano H,Kondo R,Nakayama M,Tanikawa K,Todoroki K,Umeno Y,Nakamura K,Sanada S,Yamaguchi R,Ogasawara S,Yano H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate two detailed step sectioning protocols for sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs). METHODS:After vital dye or combined dye and radiocolloid guided biopsy, SLNs were fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin wax. In protocol A, SLNs from 123 patients were sectioned in steps of 50-100 micro m, whereas in protocol...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cserni G

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Splenic pathology was analysed in 73 patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura who underwent splenectomy for bleeding that had been resistant to adrenocorticosteroids. The mean splenic weight was 100 g. The only notable macroscopic feature was the prominence of Malpighian corpuscles in 15 cases. Microscopic examin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hayes MM,Jacobs P,Wood L,Dent DM

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and twenty-one rectal biopsies from 99 patients with carcinoma of the rectum or lower sigmoid colon were investigated using a high iron-diamine-Alcian blue technique for sulphated and non-sulphated acid mucins. It was found that in normal rectal mucosa sulphomucins are the main carbohydrate component of th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Filipe MI

更新日期：1972-02-01 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：:Foveolar dysplasia is an uncommon form of dysplasia that is encountered in the stomach and oesophagus in the context of Barrett’s oesophagus. Glands displaying foveolar dysplasia also show architectural abnormalities that are similar to those encountered in adenomatous dysplasia. However, from a cytological point of v...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Serra S,Chetty R

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several diseases of the small intestine, including gluten-sensitivity, present with malabsorption and a "flat" mucosa. Determination of the mitotic index of epithelial lymphocytes provides a simple, objective method of assessing, and thus of predicting, whether a flat mucosa is due to gluten-sensitivity (index greater...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Marsh MN,Haeney MR

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS/BACKGROUND:Telomerase, an enzyme associated with cellular immortality, is expressed by most malignant tumours, but is inactive in normal somatic cells except for male germ cells and proliferating stem cells. Thus, the measurement of telomerase activity in tissue samples may provide useful diagnostic and prognostic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yashima K,Piatyszek MA,Saboorian HM,Virmani AK,Brown D,Shay JW,Gazdar AF

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the modification of a commercially available rapid slide screening test(1) for anti-streptolysin O to give quantitative results. The modified technique is compared with the long-established haemolytic technique of Rantz and Randall (1945). The quantitative results for both techniques are shown to ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ingram GB,Hughes JE

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine prognostic significance of immunohistochemical markers and investigate possible germinal centre (GC) derivation in primary lymphoma of bone (PLB). METHODS:Immunohistochemical expression of BCL-6, CD10, BCL-2, p53, CD30, CD44 and MUM-1 was studied in 36 patients with PLB. All cases were clinically sta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Heyning FH,Hogendoorn PC,Kramer MH,Holland CT,Dreef E,Jansen PM

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate whether the use of recombinant early antigens for detection of antibodies to human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) gene products CM(2) (UL44, UL57) and p52 (UL44) is specific in the diagnosis and differentiation of active HCMV infection in a subset of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a diagnosis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Beqaj SH,Lerner AM,Fitzgerald JT

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of antitoxin after Clostridium difficile-induced diarrhoea has not been reported previously. The stool of a patient with prolonged antibiotic-associated diarrhoea contained C. difficile toxin, and the serum neutralised the cytopathic effect of C. difficile toxin in tissue culture. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lishman AH,Al-Jumaili IJ,Record CO

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of chronic coronary periarteritis associated with chronic periaortitis are described. In one, the chronic periaortitis took the form of perianeurysmal fibrosis around a thoracic atherosclerotic aneurysm; in the other it resembled idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis. The findings in the two subjects support t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mitchinson MJ,Wight DG,Arno J,Milstein BB

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop a readily applicable polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based technique which would permit the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from Bactec phials at an earlier stage than currently available methods. METHODS:Mycobacterial cells cultured in Bactec 12B medium were harvested by ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cormican MG,Barry T,Gannon F,Flynn J

更新日期：1992-07-01 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：AIMS:In the time of COVID-19, predictive molecular pathology laboratories must still timely select oncological patients for targeted treatments. However, the need to respect social distancing measures may delay results generated by laboratory-developed tests based on sequential steps a long hands-on time. Laboratory wo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Malapelle U,De Luca C,Iaccarino A,Pepe F,Pisapia P,Russo M,Sgariglia R,Nacchio M,Vigliar E,Bellevicine C,Schmitt FC,Troncone G

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma antithrombin levels were measured by clotting, immunological, and amidolytic methods on two groups of subjects: 20 normal individuals and nine patients studied serially post-operatively (hip replacement). The postoperative patients were observed for the emergence of deep-vein thrombosis using 125I-fibrinogen up...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McLellan DS,Devlin JD,Heyse-Moore GH,Aronstam A

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00