Innovative haematological parameters for early diagnosis of sepsis in adult patients admitted in intensive care unit.

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：AIMS:To assess the incidence of nocardia infection over 15 years in a tertiary care hospital. METHODS:Over a 15 year period, Nocardia spp were isolated from 20 patients hospitalised at the Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland. RESULTS:Sixteen patients had one or more underlying conditions. The median time between...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Matulionyte R,Rohner P,Uçkay I,Lew D,Garbino J

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of ETS gene fusions as common events in prostate cancer represents a paradigmatic shift in the significance attributed to chromosomal translocations as a key mechanistic player in carcinogenesis. However, these chromosomal fusion events are poorly understood, as their functional significance and therapeu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Attard G,Ang JE,Olmos D,de Bono JS

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-eclampsia complicated by deep jaundice occurred in a previously healthy primigravida. The main aetiological factor was disseminated intravascular coagulation; this caused both haemolysis and liver cell necrosis. Liver biopsy showed fibrin thrombi in the capillaries with microhaemorrhages and loss of periportal liv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Long RG,Scheuer PJ,Sherlock S

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum haptoglobin levels have been studied in patients with a number of haemolytic disorders. In general, serum haptoglobins were low in patients with increased haemolysis. Values were reduced irrespective of whether haemolysis occurred intravascularly or extravascularly. The reduction was related to the amount of hae...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Owen JA,de Gruchy GC,Smith H

更新日期：1960-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida spp are the fourth most common group of nosocomial pathogens isolated from patients on medical, surgical, and intensive care wards. Polymicrobial candidaemia has rarely been described. The diagnosis of candidaemia from peripheral blood smears has not been widely reported. This report describes the case of a yo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yera H,Poulain D,Lefebvre A,Camus D,Sendid B

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A blood group change from A2 to Ax is described in a boy who had Fallot's tetralogy, oesophageal atresia, and a tracheo-oesophageal fistula. The change of blood group created a transfusion problem. The unusual serology is discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bird GW,Roberts KD,Wingham J

更新日期：1975-12-01 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：:A case of cirrhosis of the liver, associated with false-positive serological tests for syphilis and an antibody active against stored red cells, is presented. Methods used in the identification of the ;stored red cell' antibody are described. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： EASTON JA,PRIEST CJ,GILES CM

更新日期：1965-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytological diagnosis in a series of 153 skin lesions is presented. The diagnosis in each case has been compared with the clinical assessment and, where available, the biopsy result (85 lesions). Of 131 basal cell carcinomas, a cytological diagnosis was possible in 124 while biopsyl failed to identify two of the 73 le...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brown CL,Klaber MR,Robertson MG

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autoreactive humoral and cellular immune responses may be involved in the pathogenesis of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC). Certain human leucocyte antigens (HLA) could also be linked to the development of IDC. AIM:To determine whether various markers of autoimmunity are present in the final phase of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： de Leeuw N,Melchers WJ,Ruiter DJ,Caforio AL,Balk AH,de Jonge N,Galama JM

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although epithelial mucin has been demonstrated in ordinary mammary duct carcinomas, it is formed profusely in the uncommon mucous carcinomas. A histochemical study of mucous carcinomas of the breast and colon showed that both types produce similar mucins, viz, acid and neutral, although the mammary carcinomas produce...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cooper DJ

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the genetic differences among the strains of adenovirus type 8 (Ad8) circulating in Hiroshima city, Japan, and to study their circulation pattern. METHODS:One hundred and twenty nine strains of adenovirus type 8 (Ad8) were isolated in Hiroshima City over a 15 year period (1983-97) from patients wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Adhikary AK,Numaga J,Kaburaki T,Kawashima H,Araie M,Ikeda Y,Ogino T,Suzuki E,Ushijima H,Mukoyama A,Matsuno S,Inada T,Okabe N

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 68 year old diabetic man developed septicaemia and multiple liver abscesses due to Streptococcus intermedius. Liver biopsy revealed streptococcal botryomycosis which showed the Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon. Diabetes mellitus is an example of the immunosuppressed states that have been associated with botryomycosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schlossberg D,Pandey M,Reddy R

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aggregating effects of adenosine diphosphate, thrombin, 5-hydroxytryptamine, tryptamine, adrenaline and noradrenaline, and tri-ethyl tin have been carefully compared. The first three compounds in some circumstances produce remarkably similar effects although there are important differences. The kinetics of aggrega...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： O'BRIEN JR

更新日期：1964-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Publications describing aspects of the coccidian protozoan parasite Cryptosporidium, increased greatly during 1983 and 1984 as a result of not only increasing veterinary interest but also in the role of the parasite in the newly recognised acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The reports reflected widespread co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Casemore DP,Sands RL,Curry A

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Venous invasion (VI) is a known independent prognostic indicator of recurrence and survival in colorectal cancer. The guidelines of the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath) state that, in a series of resections, extramural VI should be detected in at least 25% of specimens. However, there is widespread variabili...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Messenger DE,Driman DK,McLeod RS,Riddell RH,Kirsch R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In everyday practice, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) testing is centralised in referral laboratories that receive paucicellular cytological specimens. Ideally, EGFR testing should be carried out in the centre where the patient is diagnosed such that the most cellular slide can be selected from in-house co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： De Luca C,Gragnano G,Pisapia P,Vigliar E,Malapelle U,Bellevicine C,Troncone G

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML) is a myelodysplastic syndrome with a diverse clinical spectrum. A case of a 60 year old man with CMML who developed cardiac tamponade is reported. Cytological examination of the pericardial effusion fluid showed extramedullary haemopoiesis. Serous effusions are well recognised i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bradford CR,Smith SR,Wallis JP

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is one of the most important causes of sexually transmitted disease. We do not fully understand the pathogenesis of infection with this organism, although recent improvements in immunological and molecular techniques have brought us closer to an answer. These techniques are now also being used to...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Easmon CS,Ison CA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium-alpha-naphthylamine-4-sulphonate (Naphthionin) appears to shorten the bleeding time in normal subjects and to be of value in the management of the bleeding defect in patients with thrombocytopenia when given by intravenous or intramuscular injection. A good response was achieved in three patients suffering from...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： POLLER L,MORE JR

更新日期：1964-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultrastructural cytochemical study of lysosomal acid phosphatase was performed on leukemic cells in a case of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia of T cell origin (T-CLL). The cells showed inclusion bodies known as parallel tubular arrays, which often lay within acid phosphatase-positive, membrane-bound spaces. This sugg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Capron F,PErrot JY,Boucheix C,Reynes M,Tricottet V,Bernadou A,Diebold J

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and invasive cervical carcinoma was investigated using in situ DNA-DNA hybridisation on histological sections of formalin fixed, paraffin embedded tissue to assess the technique's sensitivity and to assess retrospectively the association ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Collins JE,Jenkins D,McCance DJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical features and special investigations in a case of multiple myelomatosis are described. The finding of exfoliated ;myeloma cells' in the urine of this case is thought to be unique, these cells closely resembling the myeloma cells seen in the bone marrow. The necropsy findings indicated that the origin of th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： PROWSE CM,BLECHER TE

更新日期：1962-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To examine whether variations in pathology test requesting between different general practices can be accounted for by sociodemographic or other descriptive indicators of the practice. METHOD:This was a comparative analysis of requesting patterns across a range of pathology tests representing 95% of those request...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smellie WS,Galloway MJ,Chinn D,Gedling P

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To clarify a clinical entity of juvenile polyposis of the stomach compared with generalised juvenile gastrointestinal polyposis. METHODS:The clinicopathological features of juvenile polyposis dominantly involving the stomach at initial presentation were reviewed in 12 patients (three new patients and nine from th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hizawa K,Iida M,Yao T,Aoyagi K,Fujishima M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A saccharogenic method is described for estimating amylase activity in human urine. Results accord with those reported elsewhere except that in this study the peak in the beta zone is a new finding. Comparison between normal and pathological urines suggests that the amylase activity of the beta peak is not of pancreat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Franzini C

更新日期：1965-09-01 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

abstract：AIM:To determine whether the pattern of involvement of the gastric mucosa in lymphocytic gastritis is predictive of the presence or absence of duodenal pathology. METHODS:50 cases (M:F, 26:24; median age 57 years) diagnosed as lymphocytic gastritis between 1986 and 1998 with concurrent duodenal (D2) biopsies were iden...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hayat M,Arora DS,Wyatt JI,O'Mahony S,Dixon MF

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical classification of the Klebsiella proposed by Cowan, Steel, Shaw, and Duguid (1960) has been applied to 50 strains isolated as the pure or predominant growth from sputum, and Klebsiella species have been correlated with the severity of the chest infection in the patient. A modification in nomenclature i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： FOSTER WD,BRAGG J

更新日期：1962-09-01 00:00:00