A snake in the grass.

abstract：:Immunoreactive trypsin (IRT) content in blood spots from 17 cystic fibrosis (CF) children born between 1975-80 were assayed with reagents from two commercial radioimmunoassay kits. The manufacturers' procedures were modified to allow assay of blood spot IRT. Half of the CF samples had a significantly raised IRT conten...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ryley HC,Robinson PG,Yamashiro Y,Bradley DM

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neoplastic and non-neoplastic oxyphil cells in thyroid disorders were investigated for enzyme and synthetic activity, ultrastructural features, and immune complex deposition. A reduced but definite content of thyroglobuliin and similar enzyme profiles and ultrastructural features in all types of oxyphill change were f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kendall CH,McCluskey E,Meagles JN

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superficial inflammatory dermatoses are very common and comprise a wide, complex variety of clinical conditions. Accurate histological diagnosis, although it can sometimes be difficult to establish, is essential for clinical management. Knowledge of the microanatomy of the skin is important to recognise the variable h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alsaad KO,Ghazarian D

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonality analysis of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene is helpful in identifying malignant B cell infiltrates in the bone marrow and is usually carried out on separate aspirates or on the same formalin-fixed decalcified bone marrow specimen. To determine whether the removal of the decalcification step would i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Parrens M,Carrere N,Bouabdallah K,Fitoussi O,Goussot JF,Dubus P,de Mascarel A,Merlio JP

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An increased level of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) is a known prognostic factor for acute coronary events and sudden cardiac death, and it is associated with coronary calcification. CRP is expressed in coronary arteries, but its role in the development of coronary plaques is unclear. AIM:To investigate CR...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Norja S,Nuutila L,Karhunen PJ,Goebeler S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inflammatory cells contribute to the growth and spread of human malignancies by producing molecules that enhance tumour invasiveness. AIMS:To characterise the inflammatory infiltrate in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and to analyse its contribution to angiogenesis and its prognostic relevance. METHODS:Im...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Esposito I,Menicagli M,Funel N,Bergmann F,Boggi U,Mosca F,Bevilacqua G,Campani D

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:Human sperm heads were detected and tracked using semiautomatic image analysis. Measurements of size and shape on two specimens from each of 26 men showed that the major component of variability both within and between subjects was the number of small elongated sperm heads. Variability of the computed features between...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jagoe JR,Washbrook NP,Hudson EA

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Glypican 3 (GPC3) is a heparan sulphate proteoglycan that shows elevated levels in the serum of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), but not in healthy blood donors or patients with benign liver disease. This study explores the value of GPC3 expression for diagnosis of HCC by immunohistochemistry in liver...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wang FH,Yip YC,Zhang M,Vong HT,Chan KI,Wai KC,Wen JM

更新日期：2010-07-01 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：:Platelet adhesiveness was measured in patients undergoing operation. With the rotating bulb technique adhesiveness increased steadily to the sixth and ninth days following surgery. The glass bead filter technique demonstrated a marked increase in platelet adhesiveness on the day following operation. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bennett PN

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the reliability of local international normalised ratios (INR) using a set of three international reference preparation (IRP) certified freeze dried plasmas. METHODS:55 centres in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland participated; 36 centres employed coagulometers and 19 a manual prothrombin ti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Poller L

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty six women with first or second trimester fetal loss were investigated for the presence of lupus anticoagulant by routine coagulation tests and the dilute Russell's viper venom time with a platelet neutralisation procedure, and for raised anticardiolipin antibodies by an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. Of 35 w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Creagh MD,Malia RG,Cooper SM,Smith AR,Duncan SL,Greaves M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonising Campylobacter pyloridis were identified histologically in gastric biopsy specimens from 89% of 83 patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia and chronic gastritis, but not in 58 dyspeptic patients with normal mucosa. The presence and population density of organisms was associated with the presence of intraepithelial...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wyatt JI,Rathbone BJ,Heatley RV

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starch gel electrophoresis has demonstrated that graded concentrations of sodium sulphate do not precipitate the serum globulins in any reasonable degree of purity. The use of this form of electrophoresis has shown that caeruloplasmin is associated with a globulin in the Fa(2) position.This technique can be employed a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： CUMINGS JN,EARL CJ

更新日期：1960-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a twenty-year period 19 appendicectomy specimens were diagnosed as primary Crohn's disease. This represents 4.9% of the total number of both resection specimens and mucosal biopsies diagnosed as Crohn's disease during that time. This is a review of the main histopathological features found in these appendices and t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Allen DC,Biggart JD

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system using totally disposable self-supporting bedpans requiring no carrier was examined in use in two hospitals. The bedpans and their contents were disposed of by destruction and flushing to waste carried out in a modified Haigh Sluicemaster disposal unit. This incorporates a positively closing and locking lid wi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gibson GL

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastric mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma is a low grade B cell lymphoma histologically characterised by neoplastic B cells surrounding follicles in a marginal zone pattern and selectively infiltrating epithelium to form characteristic lymphoepithelial lesions. AIMS:To identify solitary epit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sutak J,Stoddard C,Smith ME

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aztreonam blood agar, a new selective medium for Gram positive aerobic bacteria, was evaluated in comparison with conventional media for skin swabs. Aztreonam agar increased the number of isolates of Staphylococcus aureus by 17%. By producing purer growths on primary isolation, it significantly speeded up the identifi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wood W,Harvey G,Olson ES,Reid TM

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a left adrenal tumour in a 16 year old Chinese girl who presented with fever of unknown origin. The histological and ultrastructural features of the adrenal tumour were those of a primitive small round cell tumour with neuroendocrine differentiation. Cytogenetic analysis of cultured tumour cells ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lam KY,Lo CY,Shek TW,Ma ES,Au WY,Chan GC

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of combined squamous and intestinal metaplasia of the renal pelvis, associated with hydronephrosis, chronic pyelonephritis, and lithiasis, is reported. The changes are considered to be due primarily to mechanical irritation of the pelvic epithelium. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Salm R

更新日期：1969-03-01 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：:A case of abnormal chromatin clumping (ACC) which arose during the course of a myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative syndrome is described in a 61 year old woman who died of haemorrhage 43 months after diagnosis. Mature granulocytes exhibited the same nuclear abnormality described in other patients reported. Unusually, s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gardais J

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The assessment of lymphatic vessel density (LVD) has been suggested as a tool to determine the metastatic risk of neoplasias. On this premise, the authors aimed to verify whether progression risk of stage I colorectal cancer may be related to LVD. The authors also evaluated and correlated vascular endothelial grow...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barresi V,Reggiani-Bonetti L,Di Gregorio C,De Leon MP,Barresi G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two families with severe sex-linked muscular dystrophy, high levels of alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (HBD), lactate dehydrogenase (LD), aspartate transaminase (AspT), aldolase, and creatine phosphokinase (CPK) were found in the sera of three young affected males. In both families the mother had a raised level...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Johnston HA,Wilkinson JH,Withycombe WA,Raymond S

更新日期：1966-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with a 10 year history of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance and Bence Jones proteinuria, and a 44 year history of ankylosing spondylitis, developed a nephrotic syndrome secondary to renal amyloidosis. Clinically the amyloidosis was ascribed to Bence Jones proteinuria rather than to the burnt...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Quinton R,Siersema PD,Michiels JJ,ten Kate FJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isolates of Proteus mirabilis and four of Esch. coli which would not grow on commonly used commercial sensitivity test media are reported. These organisms appear to be resistant to co-trimoxazole, are exacting towards thymidine, and five of six were isolated from patients who had been treated with co-trimoxazole. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barker J,Healing D,Hutchison JG

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoid tissue of the endometrium was analysed by histological, immunohistological, and electron microscopical methods in 10 healthy uteri. A panel of monoclonal antibodies recognising macrophages (OKMI), HLA-DR antigen, B lymphocytes, T lymphocytes and their subsets, and dendritic reticulum cells was used in a two s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morris H,Edwards J,Tiltman A,Emms M

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have recently documented the presence of persistently abnormal liver function tests in asymptomatic haemophiliacs. While the aetiology is unknown it is possible that repeated exposure to agents transmitted in blood products may be important. This study has attempted to determine the prevalence of viral...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McVerry BA,Ross MG,Knowles WA,Voke J

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) increases after radical prostatectomy are thought to indicate recurrent disease, although some suggest they result from benign prostatic epithelial tissue left at surgical margins. AIMS:To investigate whether presence, location, and extent of benign prostatic tissue at ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kernek KM,Koch MO,Daggy JK,Juliar BE,Cheng L

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00