Age related variations of serum concentrations of normally occurring IgG antibodies to Clostridium perfringens.

abstract：:A patient with hyperparathyroidism due to a parathyroid adenoma was found to have metastatic medullary carcinoma in lymph nodes close to the thyroid gland. The finding of normal calcitonin and parathormone concentrations after removal of the adenoma suggested that the parathyroid lesion was not the result of the hypoc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： MacGillivray JB,Anderson CJ

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunofluorescent examination of nasopharyngeal secretions has been compared with conventional cell culture for the diagnosis of respiratory syncytial (RS) virus infection in children under the age of 2 years in Newcastle upon Tyne and Manchester. Two hundred and sixty-eight identifications of RS virus were made b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cradock-Watson JE,McQuillin J,Gardner PS

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was postulated that the short chain fatty acids (SCFA) produced by anaerobic bacteria might serve as microbial markers in purulent material. Eighteen pus specimens from various sources were analysed by gas-liquid chromatography (GLC), and the SCFA detected were compared with the microorganisms isolated by conventio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ladas S,Arapakis G,Malamou-Ladas H,Palikaris G,Arseni A

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate morphological changes in the tumour vessel adventitia, particularly the distribution of vascular adventitial fibroblastic cells (VAFCs)--namely, CD34 positive fibroblastic cells just outside the vascular media--in diffuse-type gastric carcinomas. METHOD:In total, 18 surgically resected advanced typi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nakayama H,Enzan H,Miyazaki E,Kuroda N,Toi M,Hiroi M,Yasui W

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Routine endometrial cytology was used instead of curettage as the first step in a morphological investigation of the endometrium in patients with postmenopausal bleeding. Premenopausal women with symptoms or signs indicative of premalignant or malignant disease were also studied using this method. Patients with alarmi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Skaarland E

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A locally developed, computer-based clinical chemistry laboratory system has been in operation since 1970. This utilises a Digital Equipment Co Ltd PDP 12 and an interconnected PDP 8/F computer. Details are presented of the performance and quality control techniques incorporated into the system. Laboratory performance...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Undrill PE,Frazer SC

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and evaluation of a new selective medium for Streptococcus pneumoniae is described. It is shown that the new medium (crystal violet-nalidixic acid-gentamicin agar:CVNG) is highly selective for Strep. pneumoniae in sputum specimens containing other organisms and is also sensitive, being only marginally ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nichols T,Freeman R

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenocarcinoma of the anal glands is very rare but it is an important lesion to recognise as with early diagnosis, it has an excellent prognosis. Because it involves the submucosa widely and penetrates the mucosa late, it can be mistaken for metastatic gastrointestinal carcinoma, or tumour arising in sinuses and fistu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Behan WM,Burnett RA

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An influenza virus vaccine containing the purified surface haemagglutinin and neuraminidase antigens of A/Victoria/75 and B/Hong Kong/73 viruses adsorbed to an aluminium hydroxide gel was assessed for reactogenicity and immunogenicity in children aged 4 to 11 years, since there is no influenza virus vaccine available ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eastwood LM,Jennings R,Milner RD,Potter CW

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two groups of women with non-specific genital infection were treated for two weeks with tetracycline 250 mg six-hourly and minocycline 100 mg twice daily respectively. Cultures for yeasts were performed before treatment and at the end of the first and second weeks. Before treatment yeasts, mostly Candida albicans, wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Oriel JD,Waterworth PM

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is characterised by antimitochondrial antibody against the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) and chronic non-suppurative destructive cholangitis (CNSDC). Pyruvate oxidation to acetyl-CoA by PDC is a key step in the glycolytic system. Oestrogen-related receptor-α (ERRα) is function...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harada K,Kakuda Y,Sato Y,Ikeda H,Shimoda S,Yamamoto Y,Inoue H,Ohta H,Kasashima S,Kawashima A,Nakanuma Y

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The API 20 STREP system was used to identify 146 known strains from seven species of the genus Listeria, including both pathogenic and environmental strains. The gallery was easy to use and tests, with the exception of leucine arylamidase (LAP) and starch fermentation (AMD), were simple to interpret. Identification to...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： MacGowan AP,Marshall RJ,Reeves DS

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To detect cells bearing BRAF mutations in colorectal tumour samples and peritoneal washings, using a mismatch ligation assay (MLA). METHODS:DNA from 46 colorectal tumours was studied. Part of exon 15 of the BRAF gene was amplified using the polymerase chain reaction, and T-->A mutations at codon 600 were detected...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Busby K,Morris A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Michaëlsson's (1961) method for the measurement of plasma bilirubin concentration was found to be complicated by conjugated bilirubin. Delaying the addition of the accelerator, diphylline, corrected this fault. The method was calibrated using serum or plasma, since reconstituted protein solutions introduced large erro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thompson RP

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：CLINICAL QUESTION:A 45-year-old woman presented with painless vaginal bleeding for 2 months. A biopsy was taken from the uterine cervix, and poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma was suspected. After three cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy treatment, the patient underwent radical hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ling C,Shen Y

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) represents a common genetic cause of mechanical and/or electrical dysfunction leading to heart failure (HF) onset for which truncating variants in titin (TTN) gene result in the most frequent mutations. Moreover, myocyte and endothelial cell apoptosis is a key endophenotype underlying card...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mansueto G,Benincasa G,Della Mura N,Nicoletti GF,Napoli C

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinctly increased levels of antibodies to measles virus envelope antigens haemolysin and haemagglutinin were found in the sera of patients with chronic active hepatitis compared with a normal control group, using immunofluorescence and functional tests. Similarly, a higher incidence of smooth muscle antibody of bot...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shirodaria PV,McMillan SA,Callender ME,Haire M,Fleming E,Merrett JD,Fulton TT

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Dysfunctional prothrombin residue Arg596 associated mutation has been found to precipitate venous thromboembolism (VTE). In the current study we investigated the prevalence of Arg596 associated mutations in Chinese patients with VTE and explored the functional impact of Arg596Gln mutation on coagulation function i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wu X,Li L,Ding Q,Wang X,Wu F,Wu W

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary breast cancer accounts for up to 5-10% of all breast carcinomas. Recent studies have demonstrated that mutations in two high-penetrance genes, namely BRCA1 and BRCA2, are responsible for about 16% of the familial risk of breast cancer. Even though subsequent studies have failed to find another high-penetran...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tan DS,Marchiò C,Reis-Filho JS

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptex was compared to routine laboratory identification methods available. The results from Streptex sometimes required several attempts before final identification could be achieved. In the main, group D streptococci other than Strep. faecalis failed to group with the Streptex antisera, and this method cannot ther...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Waitkins SA,Ratcliffe JG,Anderson RD,Roberts C

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improvements in the Zimmermann reaction are effected by using methanol as a solvent for the reagents employed in the reaction in place of ethanol or aqueous ethanol. The advantages are as follows. Considerably lower blanks are obtained; extraneous chromogens are negligible at the wavelength of measurement, so that no ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： BEALE RN,BOSTROM JO,CROFT D

更新日期：1962-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-year-old female patient underwent right hemihepatectomy for metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma. Preoperative imaging demonstrated an area of focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) in segment VIII and metastatic carcinoma in segment VI of the liver. Gross and microscopic examination of the former lesion showed features typ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nisar PJ,Zaitoun AM,Damera A,Hodi Z,Tierney GM,Beckingham IJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology of the labial salivary glands in subjects with and without cystic fibrosis has been studied by light and electron microscopy. The terms ;light' cell, ;dark' cell, ;clear' cell, and ;myoepithelial' cell are used to describe the four cell types distinguished at the level of the electron microscope. The da...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Doggett RG,Bentinck B,Harrison GM

更新日期：1971-04-01 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：:Two hundred and forty-seven strains of micro-organisms were isolated from the urinary tract of 121 patients with neurological complaints leading to paraplegia. The commonest infecting organism was E. coli and the commonest type of Proteus was P. mirabilis. Infections with more than one type of organism were present in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SCOTT TG

更新日期：1960-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum and tissue hepatitis B virus (HBV) markers were compared in 35 alcoholic and 23 non-alcoholic subjects affected by chronic liver disease. Seventeen point one per cent of alcoholic and 21.7% of non-alcoholic subjects had HBV tissue markers, but not serum markers, for this virus. It is therefore concluded that sho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cuccurullo L,Rambaldi M,Iaquinto G,Ferraraccio F,Ambrosone L,Giardullo N,De Vita A

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five cases of inflammatory pseudotumour of the liver are reported and compared with seven individual previously published case reports. Clinical presentation was variable but often comprised low grade intermittent fever, vague abdominal symptoms, and a history of weight loss. Leucocytosis, raised erythrocyte sedimenta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Anthony PP,Telesinghe PU

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this study is to explore DNA hypermethylation analysis in sputum and exhaled breath analysis for their complementary, non-invasive diagnostic capacity in lung cancer. METHODS:Sputum samples and exhaled breath were prospectively collected from 20 lung cancer patients and 31 COPD controls (Set 1). An add...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hubers AJ,Brinkman P,Boksem RJ,Rhodius RJ,Witte BI,Zwinderman AH,Heideman DA,Duin S,Koning R,Steenbergen RD,Snijders PJ,Smit EF,Sterk PJ,Thunnissen E

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of an ovarian serous epithelial neoplasm of borderline type admixed with sarcomatous elements is reported. This combination seems to be extremely rare with only four cases previously reported. It may represent a type of collision tumour or the development of a sarcoma in a growth with borderline differentiation...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Allen C,Stephens M,Williams J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of chronic neutrophilic leukaemia (CNL) is reported. The diagnosis was based on leucocytosis with mature neutrophils, a raised leucocyte alkaline phosphatase score, negative Philadelphia chromosome, and extensive infiltration of neutrophils in various differentiation stages into the bone marrow. When viewed by ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Takemori N,Hirai K,Onodera R,Saito N,Namiki M

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00