Cost effectiveness of routine postmortem histology.

abstract：:Normal haemoglobin is a tetramer molecule, consisting of two α and β haemoglobin chains. Haemoglobinopathies occur when abnormalities in these proteins are present. More than 1000 naturally occurring human haemoglobin variants with single amino acid substitution throughout the molecule have been identified and can be ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ruetsch C,Raffort J,Panaia-Ferrari P,Deconde C,Caruba-Bafghi C,Naimi M,Kavafyan J,Suissa L,Chinetti G

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified nitroblue tetrazolium test (NBT) is described which is suitable for routine application in the haematology or bacteriology laboratory and which provides a rapid aid to the diagnosis of bacterial infection. Hitherto published methods have recommended the use of heparinized whole blood samples for the perform...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gordon AM,Rowan RM,Brown T,Carson HG

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KRAS mutation status predicts response to anti-EGFR therapy in colorectal cancer patients. Here we report an interesting case of discordant KRAS mutation status in a patient with two separate tumour foci. Tumour A in sigmoid colon invaded through muscularis propria into the subserosal fat with metastatic disease in re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Li X,Pezeshkpour G,Phan RT

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prognostic factors in predicting outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma (HNSCC) are limited to the clinical-pathological parameters, including lymph node metastasis, location, grade and stage of the disease. AIM:To determine whether the expression of these proteins has a value in pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mhawech-Fauceglia P,Dulguerov P,Beck A,Bonet M,Allal AS

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the expression of nuclear beta-catenin and Ki-67 in patients with normal gestation products (NGP), complete hydatidiform moles (CHM), and choriocarcinoma to elucidate their roles in carcinogenesis and their interrelations. METHODS:Expression of nuclear beta-catenin and Ki-67 was studied by immunohis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wong SC,Chan AT,Chan JK,Lo YM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To better understand the spectrum of primary lymphomas in the upper aerodigestive tract, a common site of extranodal lymphoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Lymphoma cases diagnosed at an institution in southern Taiwan from 1992 to 2007 were retrospectively studied with pathology and history review, immunohistochemistry, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chen SW,Chang ST,Lu CL,Hwang WS,Tsao CJ,Huang WT,Chang KY,Chuang SS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of active hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in chronic HBsAg positive hepatitis with and without hepatitis delta virus (HDV) superinfection was analysed in percutaneous liver biopsy specimens from 50 patients. Each specimen was divided into two--one part for histological evaluation and for the detection of HB...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Villari D,Raimondo G,Smedile V,Rodinó G,Brancatelli S,Longo G,Squadrito G,Batolo D

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：AIMS:To determine the causes of ovarian granulomatous inflammation and to discuss the differential diagnoses. METHODS:The pathological features of all ovarian granulomas identified by pathology SNOMED coding in Northern Ireland over a 13 year period were reviewed. Case notes of patients were also reviewed. RESULTS:Th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McCluggage WG,Allen DC

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognosis of adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC), a malignant salivary gland tumour, depends on clinicopathological parameters. To decipher the biological behaviour of ACC, and to identify patients at risk of developing metastases, additional markers are needed. METHODS:Expression of the cell cycle proteins ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Vékony H,Raaphorst FM,Otte AP,van Lohuizen M,Leemans CR,van der Waal I,Bloemena E

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathology review of gynaecological cancer specimens is often carried out as part of the working of gynaecological oncology multidisciplinary team meetings. This review describes the author's experience regarding the most common issues identified during this process. Ten subjects are covered; these range from histopath...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McCluggage WG

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alternative method for detecting the production of slime by coagulase negative staphylococci was compared with the routinely used Christensen method on 124 isolates of coagulase negative staphylococci from carriage sites, blood cultures, and infected peritoneal dialysis fluids. The alternative method requires the u...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Freeman DJ,Falkiner FR,Keane CT

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three adults with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency are described. In two of the cases the deficiency was genetically determined (cases 1 and 2), and each demonstrated unusual features of the disease. The liver in case 1 (homozygous) showed cholangiolar hyperplasia which has been recorded only once before. Case 2 (hetero...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sweeney EC

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of chromoblastomycosis confined to the mucous membrane of one side of the nasal septum is reported. The organism was not cultivated, but its characteristics in histological preparations were typical of those of the organisms in sections of cutaneous lesions known to be caused by Phialophora pedrosoi and related...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SYMMERS WS

更新日期：1960-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the physical status of human papillomavirus 16 (HPV-16) in low grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (LSILs) as a means of determining the percentage of viral integration. METHODS:Ninety two LSIL/HPV positive Thin Prep(TM) samples were initially tested for the E6 gene by the polymerase chain react...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gallo G,Bibbo M,Bagella L,Zamparelli A,Sanseverino F,Giovagnoli MR,Vecchione A,Giordano A

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with Vibrio vulnificus is uncommon in Europe but is associated with necrotising wound infections and life-threatening septicaemia. This case is one of infection most likely to have been acquired from a thermal pool in Turkey without preceding exposure to seawater or shellfish. The report also describes how e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Partridge DG,Townsend R,Larkin S,Parsons HK

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two unusual ovarian tumours thought to be of Wolffian identity, one of them malignant, are described. They showed packed combinations of adenopapillary, tubular, trabecular and diffuse patterns, a sharp and generalised periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)-positive basement membrane and areas of elastic network. A review of publ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hughesdon PE

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To study whether differences in eradication rates of antibiotics may be explained by differences in secretion of antibiotics in gastric juice. METHODS:A single intravenous dose of either ampicillin 500 mg, erythromycin 500 mg, or metronidazole 500 mg was administered to four healthy Helicobacter pylori negative v...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： van Zanten SJ,Goldie J,Hollingsworth J,Silletti C,Richardson H,Hunt RH

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:An audit of serrated polyps diagnosed over a 4-year period: 2009 to 2012 was undertaken to ascertain the reporting trends of sessile serrated polyps (SSP). METHODS:All right sided hyperplastic polyps (HP) proximal to the splenic flexure and all polyps designated SSP were retrieved from the study period. Three path...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gill P,Wang LM,Bailey A,East JE,Leedham S,Chetty R

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The material from a case of Tietze's disease has been examined histologically. A review of the literature on the pathology of this lesion correlated with the findings from this case indicates that there is a pathological lesion in the costal cartilage in this disease. This consists of an increased vascularity and dege...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cameron HU,Fornasier VL

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison is made of tests for thyroglobulin antibody, using gel diffusion, electroprecipitin, bentonite flocculation, tanned red cell agglutination, and latex slide agglutination techniques on sera from cases of Hashimoto's disease and other thyroid disorders. Any increase in gamma globulin was also noted from the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： RAWSTRON JR,FARTHING CP

更新日期：1962-03-01 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：:In order to determine the cellular distribution of androgen receptors (AR) in normal liver and to examine whether phenotypic changes occur in a variety of non-neoplastic liver diseases, cryostat sections of explanted livers removed from 52 consecutive patients undergoing orthotopic transplantation were immunostained u...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hinchliffe SA,Woods S,Gray S,Burt AD

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To establish the current sensitivity of two commercial kits for culture confirmation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains circulating in the UK. METHODS:A total of 544 strains were studied (199 gonococci from male patients attending hospitals in the county of Avon, 204 unselected N gonorrhoeae isolates from male pati...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Turner A,Gough KR,Jephcott AE

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family with hypobetalipoproteinaemia was studied to examine the Lp(a) lipoprotein, lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglyceride composition of the serum lipids. Lp(a) lipoprotein was measured by immunoassay. Serum lipoproteins were separated by ultracentrifugation. Cholesterol and triglycerides were measured using stan...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Crook M,Swaminathan R

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：: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：: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：:This review of the histomorphometry of bone outlines methods of biopsy and processing of specimens in the laboratory, the basic principles of morphometry, and the measurements made in order to obtain estimates of the proportional volumes and surfaces occupied by different components of bone. Variability such as that b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Revell PA

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of Campylobacter jejuni, C coli, C fetus and C laridis were tested for agglutination reactions with a panel of five lectins: Arachis hypogaea, Bauhinia purpurea, Solanum tuberosum, Triticum vulgaris and Wisteria floribunda. Twenty three patterns of agglutination (lectin types) were recorded among 376 isolates...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： O'Sullivan N,Benjamin J,Skirrow MB

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00