Interpretation of serum total calcium: effects of adjustment for albumin concentration on frequency of abnormal values and on detection of change in the individual.

abstract：:Blood cultures drawn from a patient with clinically diagnosed invasive meningococcal disease, who had been previously administered benzylpenicillin, had beta-lactamases added to increase the probability of recovery of the causative organism. The blood cultures subsequently yielded Neisseria meningitidis but direct sus...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Weightman NC

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a case of myelofibrosis presenting as spinal cord compression on account of extramedullary haemopoietic tissue encroaching upon the spinal cord from a large pelvic mass. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Horwood E,Dowson H,Gupta R,Kaczmarski R,Williamson M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral lymphocytes of 50 cases of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (13 of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), 17 of AIDS related complex (ARC), and 20 healthy carriers) were studied immunoultrastructurally. The prevalence of "tubuloreticular structures" and "tubular confronting cisternae" i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Feremans WW,Huygen K,Menu R,Farber CM,de Caluwe JP,van Vooren JP,Marcelis L,Andre L,Brasseur M,Bondue H

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the occurrence of diagnostic delay in primary antibody deficiency in the period 1989-2002, since a similar study in 1989, and to assess the impact of UK national guidelines communicated in 1995. METHODS:A retrospective case note review was performed of 89 consecutive patients with antibody deficiency re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Seymour B,Miles J,Haeney M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of histological diagnosis requires an index of agreement (to measure repeatability and validity) together with a method of assessing bias. Cohen's kappa statistic appears to be the most suitable tool for measuring levels of agreement, which if unsatisfactory may be caused by bias. Further study of bias is p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Silcocks PB

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The evaluation of allelic losses at the FHIT and the BRCA1 genes and at three other loci at the 17q region in a series of 34 sporadic breast cancer cases from Southern Brazil. METHODS:The samples were evaluated for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at the FHIT and the BRCA1 genes and at three other microsatellite marke...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Santos SC,Cavalli LR,Cavalli IJ,Lima RS,Haddad BR,Ribeiro EM

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique devised by Moore (1960) for determining the sensitivity of staphylococci to mercuric chloride was investigated and the effect of variations in the medium determined. An alternative technique, in which paper discs impregnated with phenyl mercuric nitrate are used, was found to give identical results. Thre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： GREEN SM

更新日期：1962-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the topographical relation between gastric glands, using the minimum spanning tree (MST), to derive both a model of neighbourhood and quantitative representation of the tissue's architecture, to assess the characteristic features of gastric atrophy, and to assess the grades of gastric atrophy. METHODS:Ha...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zaitoun AM,al Mardini H,Record CO

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To describe the prostatic adenectomy specimens of six patients with symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) who failed to respond to long term treatment with a 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor, finasteride. METHODS:Histological sections from six cases of BPH who had been treated with finasteride were investigat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Montironi R,Valli M,Fabris G

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：: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：INTRODUCTION:Modification of the spiral arteries with loss of the muscular vascular wall, invaded by the trophoblasts, represents the goal of the physiological vascular adaptation during human implantation. When physiological vascular changes do not occur, an unfavourable evolution of gestation may develop as suggested...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Avagliano L,Bulfamante GP,Morabito A,Marconi AM

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Friend leukaemia integration-1 (FLI-1) antibody is a useful marker for Ewing's sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumour (EWS/PNET) and vascular tumours. However, it is also expressed in subsets of lymphoblastic lymphoma, Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) and desmoplastic small round cell tumour (DSRCT). AIM:To de...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mhawech-Fauceglia P,Herrmann FR,Bshara W,Odunsi K,Terracciano L,Sauter G,Cheney RT,Groth J,Penetrante R,Mhawech-Fauceglia P

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In-vivo studies of fibrinogen metabolism were carried out using an I-120 labelled preparation of fibrinogen supplied commercially by the Radiochemical Centre, Amerhsham for use in the diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis. These studies show that the material is suitable for obtaining the main metabolic parameters of c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bradley J,Hickman JA

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemical method for the sterilization of pancreatin and trypsin is given. Evidence is presented to show that this treatment does not diminish the specific activity of the enzymes and has some advantages in microbiological techniques. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stokes KJ

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:To evaluate the need for routine histopathological analysis of enucleated/eviscerated eyes and changes in indications for eye removal. METHODS:Retrospective review of all enucleation/evisceration histopathology reports over 20 years. Clinical history was correlated with pathological findings. Two 10 ye...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Saeed MU,Chang BY,Khandwala M,Shivane AG,Chakrabarty A

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum glycocholic acid (SGC) was measured by radioimmunoassay in 277 samples from 122 children with hepatobiliary disorders and from 23 healthy age-matched controls. In patients with hepatobiliary disease the SGC was more frequently abnormal (83%) than values for serum albumin (7%), prothrombin time (17%), bilirubin (...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Matsui A,Psacharopoulos HT,Mowat AP,Portmann B,Murphy GM

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymorphous low-grade adenocarcinoma (PLGA) is a rare tumour that mostly affects oral minor salivary glands. Our review of the literature found that there are only two reported cases of PLGA originating in the nasopharynx. Another nasopharyngeal PLGA in a 14-year-old boy is reported, focusing on the histopathological...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wei YC,Huang CC,Chien CY,Hwang JC,Chen WJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Squamous cell carcinoma arising in ovarian endometriosis is extremely rare, but a case is reported in a 62 year old woman. If such an ovarian tumour is discovered evidence of teratoma, Brenner tumour, or endometriosis should be sought. Extensive sampling is mandatory as the developing tumour often overgrows the foci o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Naresh KN,Ahuja VK,Rao CR,Mukherjee G,Bhargava MK

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of a 20 year old Japanese woman who developed thyroid cancer exhibiting unusual cribriform structures while being followed up for familial adenomatous polyposis/Gardner's syndrome is reported. The patient presented with osteomas, pigmented retinal lesions, and adenomas of the duodenum and the papilla of Vater, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hizawa K,Iida M,Yao T,Aoyagi K,Oohata Y,Mibu R,Yamasaki K,Hirata T,Fujishima M

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The costs of a clinical chemistry laboratory in a district general hospital were studied. The system used has certain advantages over the conventional Cooper Lybrand method. The time taken by technicians to perform tests was more variable than expected and the cost of sample collection was higher than process-cost for...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stilwell JA

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and evaluation of a new selective medium for Streptococcus pneumoniae is described. It is shown that the new medium (crystal violet-nalidixic acid-gentamicin agar:CVNG) is highly selective for Strep. pneumoniae in sputum specimens containing other organisms and is also sensitive, being only marginally ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nichols T,Freeman R

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the optimal method for the detection of campylobacters from stool samples by comparing selective culture with membrane filtration and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). METHODS:Three hundred and forty three stool samples were investigated by each of the three methods mentioned above. Selective cu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kulkarni SP,Lever S,Logan JM,Lawson AJ,Stanley J,Shafi MS

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histological diagnosis of pT4 stage is used as the basis for offering adjuvant therapy to patients with colorectal cancer. Histological features diagnostic of pT4 stage in colorectal cancer include: (1) presence of tumour perforation, (2) invasion of an adjacent organ, (3) direct or discontinuous tumour extending to...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Swamy R

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of bilateral gonadoblastoma/dysgerminoma in a 46 XY phenotypical female is presented. Increased circulating beta human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-HCG) and testosterone together with a decreased concentration of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) reflected the activities of these tumours. The patient is alive ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fisher RA,Salm R,Spencer RW

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience after 18 months' work with the SMA-4 system of multiple analysis for routine haematology is described, as well as the modifications to the machine which have been made for smoother operation. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Green AE,Middleton VL,Prentis KG,Signy AG

更新日期：1969-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To develop an expert system model for the diagnosis of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of the breast. METHODS:Knowledge and uncertainty were represented in the form of a Bayesian belief network which permitted the combination of diagnostic evidence in a cumulative manner and provided a final probability for...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hamilton PW,Anderson N,Bartels PH,Thompson D

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this study was to develop a computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) system for identifying breast pathology. METHODS:Two sets of 100 consecutive core needle biopsy (CNB) specimens were collected for test and validation studies. All 200 CNB specimens were stained with antibodies targeting oestrogen receptor (ER...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Maeda I,Kubota M,Ohta J,Shinno K,Tajima S,Ariizumi Y,Doi M,Oana Y,Kanemaki Y,Tsugawa K,Ueno T,Takagi M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of unexplained, rapidly recurring occlusions of arteries and veins in a previously healthy young woman is described. Post mortem examination showed no macroscopic abnormalities but revealed microscopic metastatic adenocarcinoma with remarkable intravascular localisation of the malignant cells. Whereas h...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Levi M,Bronkhorst C,Noorduyn LA,Vreeken J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the complement system, the main humoral mediator of inflammation, is restrained by the action of enzyme inhibitors including alpha 1-antitrypsin. Deficiency leads to chronic liver disease in about one in five children with this genetic defect. Complement activation was investigated in 34 children with al...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Littleton ET,Bevis L,Hansen LJ,Peakman M,Mowat AP,Mieli-Vergani G,Vergani D

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00