Microcomputer system for multistep specimen processing and reporting in a microbiology laboratory.

abstract：AIMS:To assess the relevance of genetic variants of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and to demonstrate the usefulness of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in cases of HBV diagnostic difficulty. METHODS:Five serum samples from patients that presented diagnostic difficulty in routine laboratories were sent to a research labor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： van Deursen FJ,Hino K,Wyatt D,Molyneaux P,Yates P,Wallace LA,Dow BC,Carman WF

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：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：: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：:A manual system of microbiology reporting with a National Cash Register (NCR) form with printed names of bacteria and antiboitics required less time to compose reports than a previous manual system that involved rubber stamps and handwriting on plain report sheets. The NCR report cost 10-28 pence and, compared with a ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goodwin CS

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of liquid media to detect the production of beta-lactamase by beta-lactamase producing organisms has been compared with the conventional method of inoculation on to agar media. Pharyngeal cultures were obtained from 162 children treated with penicillin for acute tonsillitis. beta-lactamase producing organisms ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brook I,Gober AE

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Review of published work and analysis of clinical data and pathology of four biopsy specimens from two patients with laryngeal contact granuloma showed that its peptic origin was derived from a gastro-oesophago-laryngeal reflux. It is proposed that the term "peptic granuloma" should be given to this phenomenon. This t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Miko TL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radial immunodiffusion technique has been used to measure levels of four serum proteins in preeclampsia with or without proteinuria and in normal pregnant and non-pregnant controls. In preeclampsia unaccompanied by proteinuria, albumin and transferrin levels are similar to those found in the normal pregnant controls...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Horne CH,Howie PW,Goudie RB

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These guidelines update the previous UK HER2 testing guidelines and have been formulated to give advice on methodology, interpretation and quality assurance to ensure that HER2 testing results are accurate, reliable and timely with the expansion of testing to all patients with breast cancer at the time of primary diag...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Walker RA,Bartlett JM,Dowsett M,Ellis IO,Hanby AM,Jasani B,Miller K,Pinder SE

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The chemokine receptor CXCR7 is found on glioma cells and glioma-associated vessels and dependent upon its localisation on tumour or endothelial cells the CXCR7 receptor can mediate glioma cell invasion and tumour angiogenesis. Its expression predicts survival in several types of cancers. METHODS:We immunohistoch...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Birner P,Tchorbanov A,Natchev S,Tuettenberg J,Guentchev M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With lymph node enlargement, the possibility of a malignant process such as metastatic carcinoma or lymphoma needs to be excluded. This report describes a 47 year old woman with inguinal lymph node enlargement initially suspicious for lymphoma. Fine needle aspiration findings favoured reactive hyperplasia, but a malig...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Péoc'h M,Duprez D,Grice G,Fabre-Bocquentin B,Gressin R,Pasquier B

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the natural history of patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis by means of a prospective histological study. METHODS:One thousand five hundred and seventy one patients underwent liver biopsy at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow during the 10 year period 1985 to 1994. All biopsies were reported by...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Evans CD,Oien KA,MacSween RN,Mills PR

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A locally developed, computer-based clinical chemistry laboratory system has been in operation since 1970. This utilises a Digital Equipment Co Ltd PDP 12 and an interconnected PDP 8/F computer. Details are presented of the performance and quality control techniques incorporated into the system. Laboratory performance...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Undrill PE,Frazer SC

更新日期：1979-02-01 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：:Mast cells were identified by electronmicroscopy in the alveolar wall of the lung in 20 subjects (10 normal, 10 abnormal). A quantitative and qualitative study was made of the mast cells. In the normal lung there was an average concentration of 350 mast cells/mm2 of alveolar wall and in the abnormal 523/mm2. Mast cell...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fox B,Bull TB,Guz A

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine a model for the evaluation of appropriateness of testing in an emergency biochemistry laboratory. METHODS:A model was devised in which incoming emergency test requests were categorised as appropriate or inappropriate. Explicit criteria were used to define eight minor categories, which were chosen to ref...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smellie WS,Murphy MJ,Galloway PJ,Hinnie J,McIlroy J,Dryburgh FJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and forty-seven strains of micro-organisms were isolated from the urinary tract of 121 patients with neurological complaints leading to paraplegia. The commonest infecting organism was E. coli and the commonest type of Proteus was P. mirabilis. Infections with more than one type of organism were present in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SCOTT TG

更新日期：1960-01-01 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：:Chromosome studies were attempted on 97% of necropsies carried out in the Department of Histopathology of the Adelaide Children's Hospital over the four-year period ending May 1981. Results were obtained from 89% of necropsies of which 7.5% had major chromosome abnormalities. The chromosome results are analysed accord...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sutherland GR,Carter RF

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of coagulometers in the National Quality Assessment Scheme (NEQAS) surveys of the prothrombin time conducted between 1986 and 1987 was reviewed. There were sufficient data for analysis for eight types of coagulometer used with a single type of thromboplastin reagent and one instrument with an alternati...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Poller L,Thomson JM,Taberner DA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral adrenalectomy produces a reduction in the alkaline phosphatase concentration in rat intestine, which is not prevented by the administration of saline, but is prevented by the administration of cortisone. The administration of A.C.T.H. to normal rats leads to a rise in intestinal alkaline phosphatase levels a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Watson WC,Murray ES,Gardner MD

更新日期：1967-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Chromogenic in situ hybridisation (CISH) is an alternative to immunohistochemistry or FISH for the assessment of HER2 oncogene status in breast cancer. Although CISH is being used increasingly in routine diagnostics, there are no established inter-laboratory quality assurance programmes for this test. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Di Palma S,Collins N,Bilous M,Sapino A,Mottolese M,Kapranos N,Schmitt F,Isola J

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and chicken blood were snap-frozen as droplets in liquid ntirogen. Storage in the vapour phase liquid nitrogen container for nine months followed by rapid thawing resulted in approximately 10% haemolysis of the red cells. The ability of the thawed red cells to haemagglutinate viruses was unimpaired by the manipu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rodgers FG

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A full surface marker study of the splenic storage cells in a case of Gaucher's disease largely substantiates the monocyte/histiocyte nature of Gaucher's cells. In addition, an apparent T-lymphocyte deficiency is demonstrated in the spleen and peripheral blood, and the possible significance of this finding is discusse...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Burns GF,Cawley JC,Flemans RJ,Higgy KE,Worman CP,Barker CR,Roberts BE,Hayhoe FG

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fatty liver disease (FLD), of either alcoholic (AFLD) or non-alcoholic (NAFLD) aetiologies, is characterised histologically by features that are lobulocentric that typically affect zone 3, in contrast with portal-based inflammation characteristics of other forms of chronic liver disease. AIM:The authors aim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rakha EA,Adamson L,Bell E,Neal K,Ryder SD,Kaye PV,Aithal GP

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：AIMS:The purpose of this study was to compare the DNA-methylation signature in classic chronic Philadelphia negative myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), polycythaemia vera (PV) and essential thrombocythaemia (ET), in order to obtain a global insight into DNA-methylation changes associated with these malignancies. METH...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barrio S,Gallardo M,Albizua E,Jimenez A,Rapado I,Ayala R,Gilsanz F,Martin-Subero JI,Martinez-Lopez J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine peripheral blood and skeletal muscle from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome for exogenous retrovirus. METHODS:Blood samples from 30 patients and muscle biopsy specimens of 15 patients were examined for retroviral sequences by DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and Southern blotting hy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gow JW,Simpson K,Schliephake A,Behan WM,Morrison LJ,Cavanagh H,Rethwilm A,Behan PO

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue microarray (TMA) is an established and valuable tool, particularly in translational research and clinical trials, allowing resource-efficient use, and high-throughput profiling, of large numbers of tumours. Despite this, there is little evidence, or guidance, on the optimum manufacture, use and assessment of TM...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pinder SE,Brown JP,Gillett C,Purdie CA,Speirs V,Thompson AM,Shaaban AM,Translational Subgroup of the NCRI Breast Clinical Studies Group.

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00