Practical laboratory considerations amidst the COVID-19 outbreak: early experience from Singapore.

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：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：:Immunological methods of pregnancy diagnosis using both tanned red cell and latex particles are compared in a series of women (up to the fourteenth week of gestation) and also in negative controls. The tanned red cell test showed slightly more accurate and sensitive results throughout the trial. In 31 samples also sub...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： WORT AJ,VARDE KN,FAIRWEATHER DV,GREEN CA

更新日期：1963-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver function was assessed in 38 Edinburgh haemophiliacs. Results before the introduction of NHS intermediate factor VIII concentrate from 1974 onwards were compared with values in 1979. Measurements of serum bile salts in 16 patients as well as conventional liver function tests gave useful evidence of deranged liver...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stirling ML,Beckett GJ,Percy-Robb IW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the new beta-lactam antibiotic FL 1060 on urinary tract pathogens, of which 71 were sensitive to and 100 resistant to ampicillin, is presented here. When tested by conventional methods FL 1060 was found to be highly active against ampicillin-sensitive strains of E. coli but phenotypically resistant varia...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Greenwood D,Brooks HL,Gargan R,O'Grady F

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reticulin antibodies have been classified by immunofluorescence into five types reacting with distinct antigens of intra- and extracellular components in mesenchyme. Two types of fibrillar antigens can be distinguished on the basis of the staining patterns, anatomical distribution, and species specificity. A third ant...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rizzetto M,Doniach D

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The localisation of the translocation breakpoint of the Ewing sarcoma family of tumours shows significant variability on relatively large regions of fusion partner genes. As a consequence, many alternative forms of EWSR1-ETS translocation exist which make the RNA-based molecular diagnostics of Ewing sarcoma family...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Patócs B,Németh K,Garami M,Arató G,Kovalszky I,Szendroi M,Fekete G

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male patient with a 17 year history of intractable ulcerative colitis of the entire type was treated by total proctocolectomy. Colonoscopy before surgery did not identify dysplasia. Histological examination of the resected colorectum revealed that, in addition to chronic inflammatory infiltrates, there were 21 areas...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Matsumoto T,Jo Y,Mibu R,Hirahashi M,Yao T,Iida M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucin and gland content of 26 rectal biopsy specimens--five normal specimens, 10 from patients with ulcerative colitis, and 11 from patients with Crohn's disease--were measured using a Quantimet image analyser. There was significantly less mucin in the groups with ulcerative colitis compared with either those with...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McCormick DA,Horton LW,Mee AS

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-four children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) who had relapsed in bone marrow were studied to assess whether treatment would be more successful if relapse was detected before the disease became clinically evident. Patients whose relapse was detected by routine bone marrow examination before the disease...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Haworth C,Heppleston AD,Morris Jones PH,Campbell RH,Evans DI,Palmer MK

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Nowadays, extracellular vesicles are of great interest in prostate cancer (PCa) research. Asparagine (N)-linked glycosylation could play a significant role in the pathological mechanism of these vesicles. We investigated if prostatic protein N-glycosylation profiles were related to urinary vesicle-associated prosta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Vermassen T,D'Herde K,Jacobus D,Van Praet C,Poelaert F,Lumen N,Callewaert N,Decaestecker K,Villeirs G,Hoebeke P,Van Belle S,Rottey S,Delanghe J

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphate in both inorganic and organic form is essential for several functions in the body. Plasma phosphate level is maintained by a complex interaction between intestinal absorption, renal tubular reabsorption, and the transcellular movement of phosphate between intracellular fluid and bone storage pools. This home...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Leung J,Crook M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of coexistent acute myeloid leukaemia and sarcoidosis is reported. This was complicated by recurrent pulmonary haemorrhage during reinduction and consolidation chemotherapy. A review of published papers on malignancy and sarcoidosis, in particular acute leukaemia is given. The outcome of most cases of acute leu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Williams B,Francis A,Durrant S

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Accurate assessment of HER2 status is essential for selection of patients for HER2-targeted treatment such as trastuzumab. This study investigated the hypothesis that delayed fixation impairs HER2 assessment. METHODS:9 carcinomas were received fresh, and samples were fixed immediately or put in fixative at time i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lee AH,Key HP,Bell JA,Kumah P,Hodi Z,Ellis IO

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate histopathological assessment of biopsies is important for the diagnosis, subclassification, and management of chronic idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) guidelines for the initial histopathological diagnosis of IBD were published in 1997. Changes since then ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Feakins RM,British Society of Gastroenterology.

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：AIMS:To estimate the expression of substance P in the haematopoietic cells of hypoplastic bone marrow and define its relationship with the course of bone marrow hypoplasia. METHODS:Bone marrow specimens were obtained from 42 children with bone marrow hypoplasia who were hospitalised in the Department of Pediatric Onco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nowicki M,Ostalska-Nowicka D,Konwerska A,Miskowiak B

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma diamine oxidase levels were assayed in 66 patients who presented with pregnancy complicated by threatened abortion. Levels within the normal range were associated with continuing pregnancies, whereas levels below the normal range were associated with subsequent abortion. Among those patients in whom gestation w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Legge M,Duff GB

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The cell block technique for assessing endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) specimens from pancreatic mucinous cystic lesions (MCLs) was systematically evaluated for the first time, including comparisons with three traditional methods of assessing such specimens. METHODS:The prospective a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wong NACS,Gwiti P,Murigu T,Melegh Z,Beavers S,Gordon F,Alexandridis E,Norton S

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and two bone marrow samples were analysed by histological and immunohistochemical methods for neurone specific enolase (NSE). The biopsies were performed to determine the extent of bone marrow disease in 84 neuroblastomas, nine embryonal rhabdomyosarcomas, five Ewing's sarcomas, two cases of Hodgkin's dise...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Caillaud JM,Martinez-Madrigal F,Hartmann O,Carlu C

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degree of inflammation in the trachea, bronchi, and lungs of 139 cot deaths has been analysed and each case allocated to one of four groups. In group I the changes were considered to be serious enough to have caused death, while group II cases showed similar abnormalities but of a less severe nature, and in this g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tapp E,Jones DM,Tobin JO

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody, NP57, was produced and used against the neutrophil granule protein elastase, which selectively stain neutrophils in cryostat and paraffin wax sections. The antibody stains neutrophils and a subpopulation of monocytes in blood smears and neutrophil precursors in bone marrow smears, and gives posi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pulford KA,Erber WN,Crick JA,Olsson I,Micklem KJ,Gatter KC,Mason DY

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cellular blue naevi (CBN) measure 1-2 cm in diameter and affect the dermis, occasionally extending into the subcutaneous fat. The case of a 14-year-old boy with a giant CBN (GCBN) involving the right half of the face, the jugal mucosa and the lower eyelid with a tumour that had infiltrated the bone and the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bittencourt AL,Monteiro DA,De Pretto OJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five cases of malignant histiocytosis of the intestine and one case of true histiocytic lymphoma were studied using immunohistological techniques. In paraffin sections tumour cells in all cases were shown to contain alpha-1-antitrypsin and to express the leucocyte common antigen. Four of the five cases of malignant hi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Salter DM,Krajewski AS,Dewar AE

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Human astrovirus infection often causes outbreaks of self limiting diarrhoea, but may also infect patients who are immunodeficient or immunocompromised. Although there are previous publications relating to various aspects of astroviruses, there is a minimal amount of literature on the histopathological features of gas...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sebire NJ,Malone M,Shah N,Anderson G,Gaspar HB,Cubitt WD

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytological features of testicular germ cell tumours were established in smears from 15 freshly resected tumours. These features were applied to the fine needle aspiration cytology diagnosis of metastases in 27 patients referred for chemotherapy. There were 16 positive reports in 32 aspirates of which 13 were take...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Highman WJ,Oliver RT

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the pathological findings in a case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in a patient with no known risk factor. Postmortem examination showed klebsiella lung abscess, generalised cytomegalovirus infection, cerebral toxoplasmosis, and a primary cerebral lymphoma. An additional feature was the presen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Burt AD,Scott G,Shiach CR,Isles CG

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:We aimed to study epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) expression in surgically resected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas (PDACs) by immunohistochemistry and their relationship to clinicopathological features, cell proliferation and cell adhesion protein expression. METHODS:A total of 99 PDACs were analysed o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Handra-Luca A,Hammel P,Sauvanet A,Lesty C,Ruszniewski P,Couvelard A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioimmunoassay for human growth hormone using activated charcoal is described and its precision, accuracy, and sensitivity are defined. Results are presented for growth hormone measurements in plasma obtained during hypoglycaemia induced with insulin in patients of short stature and during glucose tolerance tests ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thomas FJ,Lloyd HM,Thomas MJ

更新日期：1972-09-01 00:00:00