Evaluation of an enhanced pathological examination protocol for sentinel lymph nodes from patients with breast carcinoma.

abstract：:A "Centrifichem" centrifugal analyser was found using a double fluorescence/bacterial tracer method to be a source of airborne and surface contamination in the laboratory. The airborne contamination was controlled by a modification incorporating a filter. Ubiquitous surface contamination generally accompanied the proc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kennedy DA,Stevens JF,Horn AN

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the association of cagA positivity and non-opsonic neutrophil activation capacity in wild-type Helicobacter pylori strains with peptic ulcer disease or chronic gastritis only. METHODS:Helicobacter pylori were isolated from antral biopsies of 53 consecutive patients with chronic antral gastritis, of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Danielsson D,Farmery SM,Blomberg B,Perry S,Rautelin H,Crabtree JE

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma antithrombin levels were measured by clotting, immunological, and amidolytic methods on two groups of subjects: 20 normal individuals and nine patients studied serially post-operatively (hip replacement). The postoperative patients were observed for the emergence of deep-vein thrombosis using 125I-fibrinogen up...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McLellan DS,Devlin JD,Heyse-Moore GH,Aronstam A

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incomplete expression of human haemoglobin beta-chains at birth may lead to difficulty in the early demonstration of an inherited beta-chain variant. In this case, the rare unstable variant, Hb Tacoma beta30 (B12) arg leads to ser, although not present in cord blood in sufficient amounts to be easily detected by routi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Deacon-Smith RA,Lee-Potter JP

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In primary cutaneous melanoma, the sentinel node (SN) biopsy is an accurate method for the staging of the lymph nodes. Positron emission tomography (PET) has been suggested as a useful alternative. However, the sensitivity of PET may be too low to detect SN metastases, which are often small. AIM:To predict ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mijnhout GS,Hoekstra OS,van Lingen A,van Diest PJ,Adèr HJ,Lammertsma AA,Pijpers R,Meijer S,Teule GJ

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To document the features of the so-called aplastic presentation of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and to determine whether this prodrome can be distinguished from aplasia. METHODS:The peripheral blood and bone marrow appearances of all cases of childhood ALL presenting in one health region of Engla...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reid MM,Summerfield GP

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：:The clinical, haematological, morphological and histological features of a series of 22 patients presenting with splenic lymphoma with circulating villous lymphocytes were assessed and compared with those of patients with other forms of chronic B cell leukaemia in an attempt to differentiate this condition from hairy ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Melo JV,Hegde U,Parreira A,Thompson I,Lampert IA,Catovsky D

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop a readily applicable polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based technique which would permit the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from Bactec phials at an earlier stage than currently available methods. METHODS:Mycobacterial cells cultured in Bactec 12B medium were harvested by ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cormican MG,Barry T,Gannon F,Flynn J

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the relative strengths of association between 23 most commonly ordered laboratory tests and the adverse outcome as indicators of relative criticalness. The lowest and highest results for 23 most commonly ordered laboratory tests, 24 hours prior to death during critical care unit (CCU) stay or discharge f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yang Z,Tan EH,Li Y,Lim B,Metz MP,Loh TP

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To identify calcifying epithelial odontogenic tumour (CEOT) mutations in oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes. METHODS:A panel of 50 genes commonly mutated in cancer was sequenced in CEOT by next-generation sequencing. Sanger sequencing was used to cover the region of the frameshift deletion identified in one sa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： de Sousa SF,Diniz MG,França JA,Fontes Pereira TDS,Moreira RG,Santos JND,Gomez RS,Gomes CC

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although Bulgaria has one of the highest rates of cervical cancer incidence and mortality in the EU, data on HPV type distribution are limited. AIM:To determine the prevalence of HPV types 16 and 18 in archival specimens from cervical cancer cases from Bulgaria. METHODS:A total of 145 formalin-fixed, paraf...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Todorova I,Ganchev G,Shikova E

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:A twofold increased risk for breast cancer has been reported recently for women with late onset diabetes. Most studies showed that there were differences in serum concentrations of insulin-like growth factors and related proteins between women with and without diabetes who have breast cancer. This study...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nardon E,Buda I,Stanta G,Buratti E,Fonda M,Cattin L

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the accuracy of the Mast-ID 15 system compared with API 20 E for the identification of stock and fresh clinical strains of Enterobacteriaceae and Acinetobacter spp; to compare the accuracy of 19 pin and 36 pin multipoint inoculator heads. METHODS:One hundred frozen stock cultures of Enterobacteriaceae a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shakespeare AP,Megson GM,Jones PA,Drucker DB,Keaney MG,Ganguli LA

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients with gonadoblastoma have dysgenetic gonads. This rare tumour has been described in three pregnant women. A fourth case in a 26 year old pregnant woman who presented with gonadoblastoma and dysgerminoma, is reported. She had a normal term pregnancy, 46XX chromosomes, normal genitalia, no history of menstr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Erhan Y,Toprak AS,Ozdemir N,Tiras B

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly in the field of medicine, new therapeutic modalities, both surgical and non-surgical, are being introduced. Some of these may significantly alter the pathological appearance of normal and neoplastic tissue and result in problems for the pathologist. In this review, iatrogenic pathology within the female g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Clarke B,McCluggage WG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the accuracy of the approximate linear formula of International Normalised Ratio (INR) imprecision by formal mathematical analysis. METHODS:Using probability theory, an exact formula for the coefficient of variation (CV) of the INR was derived. The CV from the approximate formula was compared with the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bennett ST,Critchfield GC

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a case of atypical mucin-producing bronchial carcinoid in a 40-year-old man covert metastases were present at the time of lobectomy and were revealed at necropsy--a feature highlighting the malignant potential of the atypical carcinoid. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sweeney EC,Cooney T

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This study was aimed to investigate the role of erythrocyte, platelet and reticulocyte (RET) parameters, measured by new haematological analyser Sysmex XN and C reactive protein (CRP), for early diagnosis of sepsis during intensive care unit (ICU) stay. METHODS:The study population consisted of 62 ICU patients, 2...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Buoro S,Manenti B,Seghezzi M,Dominoni P,Barbui T,Ghirardi A,Carobbio A,Marchesi G,Riva I,Nasi A,Ottomano C,Lippi G

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the modification of a commercially available rapid slide screening test(1) for anti-streptolysin O to give quantitative results. The modified technique is compared with the long-established haemolytic technique of Rantz and Randall (1945). The quantitative results for both techniques are shown to ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ingram GB,Hughes JE

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the frequency and cause of incidental (non-metastatic) lymph node pathology discovered before or at radical prostatectomy. METHODS:Eight hundred and fifty four consecutive lymphadenectomies received between 1988 and 2001 were reviewed. All had been processed and stained routinely. Additional techniques,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Winstanley AM,Sandison A,Bott SR,Dogan A,Parkinson MC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is found that serum antifibrinolytic activity is inhibitory both to the spontaneous fibrinolytic activity and to the activity of streptokinase-activated plasminogen. The titres of serum antiplasmin activity during gestation, labour, and the puerperium are all of the same order and do not differ from those in non-pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： BIEZENSKI JJ

更新日期：1960-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The applicability of a recently developed non-radioactive DNA labelling and detection method, which uses the digoxigenin (DIG) enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) system, for the detection of viral infections in pathology specimens by in situ hybridisation, was examined. Its efficacy was compared with that of bi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Furuta Y,Shinohara T,Sano K,Meguro M,Nagashima K

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of radiotherapy on normal buccal mucosa was investigated using the quantitative techniques of cytomorphology (measurement of nuclear and cytoplasmic area) and DNA cytophotometry. These techniques were applied to smears obtained before, during, and after irradiation. Nuclear area and cytoplasmic area increas...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ogden GR,Cowpe JG,Green MW

更新日期：1989-09-01 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：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The programmed cell death receptor 1 (PD-1) checkpoint inhibitor, nivolumab, has been approved for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). However, the understanding of the expression and distribution of PD ligand 1 (PD-L1) in the tumour immune microenvironment and its prognostic role in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yeong J,Zhao Z,Lim JCT,Li H,Thike AA,Koh VCY,Teh BT,Kanesvaran R,Toh CK,Tan PH,Khor LY

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellularity of 104 primary breast carcinomata was determined by semiautomated image analysis to allow the relation between cellularity and oestrogen receptor content values to be assessed. The oestrogen receptor content of tumours detected by a steroid binding assay showed no correlation with cellularity, although...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Parham DM,Baker PR,Robertson AJ,Vasishta A,Baker PG,Smith G

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with bacterial infection may show altered membrane permeability of the primary azurophilic lysosomes of blood neutrophils. A new enzyme cytochemical technique, sensitive to increased membrane permeability caused by contact of neutrophils with acetone, saponin, low pH, Streptolysin O, bacteria, and nylon wool,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wozniak JT,Orchard TL,Mackie PH,Mistry DK,Stuart J

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme linked immunoadsorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect IgG, IgM, and IgA antibody in urine to a crude antigenic mixture prepared from six arbitrarily chosen strains of common coliform urinary pathogens. In a group of patients with symptoms of urinary tract infection 24 of 80 (30%) urine samples were positiv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McKenzie H,Young DN

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of human infection with Achromobacter anitratus, one of which was fatal, are described. They all occurred at one hospital within a period of two months. The bacteriology, antibiotic sensitivity, and pathogenicity of the organisms are discussed. One of the strains was found to differ from the other three. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： ASHLEY DJ,KWANTES W

更新日期：1961-11-01 00:00:00