PD-L1 expression on routine samples of non-small cell lung cancer: results and critical issues from a 1-year experience of a centralised laboratory.

abstract：:The ultrastructure of the osteocytes, osteoblasts, osteoclasts, haemopoietic and other connective tissue cells was examined in 27 biopsies from 22 patients with Paget's disease of bone. Electron microscopy showed characteristic nuclear and cytoplasmic inclusions in the osteoclasts of all of the 25 biopsies exhibiting ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harvey L,Gray T,Beneton MN,Douglas DL,Kanis JA,Russell RG

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Mitochondrial diseases form one of the largest groups of inborn errors of metabolism. The birth prevalence is approximately 1/5000 in well-studied populations, but little has been reported from Sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of this study was to describe the genetics underlying mitochondrial disease in South Africa. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Meldau S,Owen EP,Khan K,Riordan GT

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunochemical procedure for routine laboratory diagnosis of pregnancy utilizing adsorption of human chorionic gonadotrophin onto kaolin and the Ortho pregnancy test reagents is described. The method is suitable for quantitative assay of urinary human chorionic gonadotrophin and can be adapted for use with serum. I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： ORBAN TD

更新日期：1964-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the prevalence of gastric giardiasis in patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and to define the clinicopathological correlates of gastric Giardia lamblia infection. METHODS:Consecutive gastric biopsy specimens (n = 15,023) from 11,085 patients, taken at Feltre City Hospital (north easter...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Doglioni C,De Boni M,Cielo R,Laurino L,Pelosio P,Braidotti P,Viale G

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nasal carrier status of 3,736 patients was determined throughout their stay in hospital. The carrier rate on admission, which was highest in patients under 20 years of age, did not appear to vary with season.The carriage of strains resistant to penicillin increased with the patients' stay in hospital from 13.% on ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： NOBLE WC,WILLIAMS RE,JEVONS MP,SHOOTER RA

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In four persons of one family the existence of an enzymatic defect, presumably consisting of a deficiency of glutaminase in the cells of the renal tubules, is postulated, and is implied by a reduced elimination of ammonia in the urine, by a relatively low urinary pH, and by its increased titratable acidity. The most c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： KRAWCZYNSKI J,SAGAN Z,WALAJTYS E,ILOWIECKA K

更新日期：1965-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 24-hour urinary excretion of cyclic 3',5'-adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) was measured by a protein-binding assay in 55 healthy volunteers (aged 20-35 yr) and in 30 hospitalized elderly subjects (aged 70-93 yr). In the older subjects the mean 24-hour cAMP excretion was significantly lower; the correlation between c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gennari C,Galli M,Montagnani M

更新日期：1976-01-01 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：: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：:The relation between the choline containing surfactant phospholipids lecithin and sphingomyelin in amniotic fluid and fetal lung maturity is well established. An enzymatic method that had been automated and optimised for use on a centrifugal analyser was used to measure the total choline containing phospholipids in am...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Teng SH,Andrews AG,Horacek I

更新日期：1985-11-01 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: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：:The cardiovascular system is a common target of amyloidosis. This review presents the current clinical and diagnostic approach to amyloidosis, with the emphasis on cardiovascular involvement. It summarises recent nomenclature, classification, and pathogenesis of amyloidosis. In addition, non-invasive possibilities are...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kholová I,Niessen HW

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for identifying Helicobacter pylori using a non-isotopic in situ hybridisation technique is described. A probe generated by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with primers directed against parts of the Helicobacter pylori 16SrRNA sequence was used. Paraffin wax embedded gastric biopsy specimens from patients wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bashir MS,Lewis FA,Quirke P,Lee A,Dixon MF

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fetal antigen i has been demonstrated by indirect immunofluorescence on cord erythrocytes and placental trophoblast. A patient with disseminated choriocarcinoma developed high-tire anti-i cold agglutinins, and minor elevation of anti-i titres was seen in four out of six further patients with treated choriocarcinom...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Boughton BJ

更新日期：1979-06-01 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 number and density of argyrophil endocrine cells were morphometrically calculated in gastric fundal mucosal biopsy specimens taken from 64 patients with pernicious anaemia (five with gastric carcinoids, 15 with nodular argyrophil cell hyperplasia, 44 with diffuse argyrophil cell hyperplasia) and from 14 healthy co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sjöblom SM,Sipponen P,Karonen SL,Järvinen HJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 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：:In order to classify the underlying disorder in four patients with biopsy-proven amyloidosis without overt monoclonal gammopathy, the cytoplasmic immunoglobulin (Ig) distribution of bone marrow plasma cells was evaluated using direct immunofluorescence microscopy. This procedure revealed the presence of a monoclonal p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thielemans C,Aelbrecht W,Verbeelen D,Somers G,De Waele M,Van Camp B

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Culture of peroral biopsy specimens from duodenal mucosa in vitro for 22 hours using a basic culture medium resulted in the formation of crypt cell nodules. The addition of collagen and serotonin to the culture medium increased the occurrence of the nodules and, invariably, their size. The nodules were situated on the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Challacombe DN,Wheeler EE

更新日期：1985-12-01 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：:Cyclospora cayetanensis is a cause of prolonged diarrhoea, mainly in travellers. Laboratory diagnosis may be achieved by a number of methods such as the staining of faecal smears by the modified Ziehl-Neelsen (ZN) technique. Safer methods using this technique have been described for the staining of acid fast bacilli a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Clarke SC,McIntyre M

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Optimal management of patients with lung cancer requires accurate cell typing of tumours and staging at the time of diagnosis. Endobronchial ultrasound-guided lymph node aspiration as a method of diagnosing and staging lung cancer is a relatively new technique. AIM:To report the use of liquid-based-thin-lay...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wallace WA,Monaghan HM,Salter DM,Gibbons MA,Skwarski KM

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop a rapid, sensitive, and specific non-isotopic in situ hybridisation (NISH) procedure for the detection of Epstein-Barr virus in formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded tissues. METHODS:Two low molecular weight RNAs, designated EBER-1 and EBER-2 (Epstein-Barr encoded RNA), were used: cells latently infect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Khan G,Coates PJ,Kangro HO,Slavin G

更新日期：1992-07-01 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：AIMS:The aims of this study were (1) to determine the measurement accuracy of a widely used guaiac faecal occult blood test (gFOBT) compared with an immunochemical faecal occult blood test (iFOBT) during in vitro studies, including their analytical stability over time at ambient temperature and at 4°C; and (2) to compa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lee CS,O'Gorman P,Walsh P,Qasim A,McNamara D,O'Morain CA,Boran GP

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prognostic value of detection of human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 DNA in histologically cancer free lymph nodes was assessed in left obturator lymph nodes from cervical cancer patients with HPV-16 positive primary tumours. HPV-16 DNA was detected by polymerase chain reaction in 12 of 35 patients with histologica...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Baay MF,Koudstaal J,Hollema H,Duk JM,Burger MP,Quint WG,Stolz E,Herbrink P

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine lymphocyte subsets in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS); and to correlate immunohistological variables with prognosis. METHODS:Bone marrow trephine biopsy specimens from 65 patients with MDS were immunophenotyped using a panel of antibodies. A minimum of 1000 cells from representative areas ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hilbe W,Eisterer W,Schmid C,Starz I,Silly H,Duba C,Ludescher C,Thaler J

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The test is an application of the method originally described by Boyden (1951) and adapted by Stavitsky and Arquilla (1958). Sera which contain anti-Panton-Valentine leucocidin agglutinate the prepared red cells, often to a very high dilution, and this has provided a useful serological test for the diagnosis of staphy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： TOWERS AG

更新日期：1961-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is an aggressive and potentially fatal disease. Prediction of risk of relapse is based on clinical markers. There is a need for more accurate biomarkers to select patients for more aggressive first-line treatments. Peroxiredoxins (Prxs) are a family of potent antioxidant prote...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kuusisto ME,Haapasaari KM,Turpeenniemi-Hujanen T,Jantunen E,Soini Y,Peroja P,Bloigu R,Karihtala P,Kuittinen O

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00