A clinical view of analytical goals in clinical biochemistry.

abstract：:A method for the neutron activation analysis of copper in biological material is described and applied to the diagnosis and management of four cases of Wilson's disease. Results obtained for serum and urine are in agreement with values obtained by established colorimetric techniques. The method described can estimate ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fell GS,Smith H,Howie RA

更新日期：1968-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purulent exudate from 28 cases of Bartholin's abscess were examined for aerobic, anaerobic, and microaerophilic bacteria. Three cases gave no bacterial growth, five cases grew facultative bacteria only, and a further three grew a mixture of facultative and anaerobic bacteria. One case gave a pure growth of a microaero...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wren MW

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antithrombin activities in 30 severely malnourished children and 40 normal children were estimated in clotting tests by thrombin neutralisation as anti-Xa and by a heparin antithrombin assay; and by immunodiffusion as alpha 2-globulin and alpha 1-antitrypsin. The patients' mean alpha 2-globulin was severely depressed,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jiménez RA,Jiménez E,Ingram GI,Mora LA,Atmetlla F,Carrillo JM,Vargas W

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of three commercial products of papain were compared as supplied and after activation, and when used in the enzyme-serum method for rhesus (D) grouping. Certain dangers in activation became apparent, and accurate determination of the proportions of papain to anti-D appeared more important than indiscrim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： WINTER GC,WRATTEN BE

更新日期：1962-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of typing isolates of Proteus mirabilis and Proteus vulgaris is described based on the sensitivity of the organisms to bacteriocine. Twelve standard proteocine producing strains were selected from a large number of isolates tested, and from these liquid proteocine preparations were prepared. The sensitivities...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Al-Jumaili IJ

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy is an invasive procedure associated with morbidity and mortality risk. We compared a powered bone marrow aspiration and biopsy device to the traditional method by relatively assessing pain scores, procedure times, biopsy capture rates, quality of material retrieved, and sa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Swords RT,Anguita J,Higgins RA,Yunes AC,Naski M,Padmanabhan S,Kelly KR,Mahalingam D,Philbeck T,Miller L,Puga TA,Giles FJ,Kinney MC,Brenner AJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate whether cholesterol and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) measurements in fluids are more sensitive and specific markers for differentiating between exudates and transudates, as confirmed clinically, than the measurement of fluid total protein concentrations alone. PATIENTS/METHODS:Serum, pleural fluid, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Paramothayan NS,Barron J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of placenta accreta, defined as the abnormal adherence of the placenta to the uterine wall, has been increasing alarmingly in the developed as well as the developing world. There is considerable maternal morbidity and mortality related to the condition. The pathophysiology focuses on the balance between ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Khong TY

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinctly increased levels of antibodies to measles virus envelope antigens haemolysin and haemagglutinin were found in the sera of patients with chronic active hepatitis compared with a normal control group, using immunofluorescence and functional tests. Similarly, a higher incidence of smooth muscle antibody of bot...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shirodaria PV,McMillan SA,Callender ME,Haire M,Fleming E,Merrett JD,Fulton TT

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 51 year old woman presented with rectal bleeding from a mass lying just above the dentate line. Multiple biopsies were taken before the diagnosis of a benign lymphoid polyp was made. This is a rare condition that more commonly presents in children and poses a diagnostic challenge. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lloyd J,Darzi A,Teare J,Goldin RD

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronary heart disease is associated with increased B-type natriuretic peptides (BNPs), and, although controversial, may cause exaggerated exercise-induced BNP secretion. We investigated BNP in relation to reversible myocardial ischaemia. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Serum N-terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP) was measure...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chatha K,Alsoud M,Griffiths MJ,Elfatih A,Abozguia K,Horton RC,Dunmore SJ,Gama R

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several DNA extraction techniques were quantitatively and qualitatively compared using both fresh and paraffin wax embedded tissue and their suitability investigated for providing DNA and RNA for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A one hour incubation with proteinase K was the most efficient DNA extraction procedur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jackson DP,Lewis FA,Taylor GR,Boylston AW,Quirke P

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional prostate adenocarcinomas consist mainly of tumour cells of luminal immunophenotype with scattered neuroendocrine (NE) cells. NE cells are defined by chromogranin A (CGA) immunoreactivity. Unlike luminal cells, NE cells lack androgen receptor (AR) and prostate specific antigen (PSA) immunoreactivity. This ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Roudier MP,True LD,Vessella RL,Higano CS

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To study the oesophageal histological changes in long term users of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) compared with patients not receiving these drugs. METHODS:Ninety eight patients were studied, 53 of whom had taken NSAIDs for three years; 45 had not. Oesophageal biopsy specimens were taken from hea...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Taha AS,Dahill S,Nakshabendi I,Lee FD,Sturrock RD,Russell RI

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kallestad Corporation recently suggested that their new buffer system for the nephelometric detection of rheumatoid factor conferred advantages over existing systems. Two rate nephelometric procedures, the Kallestad QM-300 and the Beckman ICS-II (RF), were therefore compared. Sera (n = 157) were selected on the ba...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Collins RJ,Neil JC,Wilson RJ

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter pylori related gastric intestinal metaplasia (IM) is considered to be a precancerous lesion. AIMS:To identify the effects of H pylori eradication on K-ras mutations, cell kinetics in IM and histological changes in patients with and without gastric cancers in a one-year prospective study. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Watari J,Tanaka A,Tanabe H,Sato R,Moriichi K,Zaky A,Okamoto K,Maemoto A,Fujiya M,Ashida T,Das KM,Kohgo Y

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of chronic neutrophilic leukaemia (CNL) is reported. The diagnosis was based on leucocytosis with mature neutrophils, a raised leucocyte alkaline phosphatase score, negative Philadelphia chromosome, and extensive infiltration of neutrophils in various differentiation stages into the bone marrow. When viewed by ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Takemori N,Hirai K,Onodera R,Saito N,Namiki M

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serine peptidase inhibitor Kazal type-1 (SPINK1), a trypsin kinase inhibitor, has well established associations with inflammation, cancer cell proliferation and carcinogenesis. However, the role of SPINK1 has not been investigated in stage IV colorectal cancer (CRC) patients receiving cetuximab based targete...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chen YT,Tsao SC,Tsai HP,Wang JY,Chai CY

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The necropsy findings in an elderly woman, who had been treated with methyldopa and who had died during treatment for accidental hypothermia, showed acute periductal inflammation of obviously similar duration in an entopic pancreas in the wall of the jejunum and in the ectopic pancreas. This supports the hypothesis th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Benbow EW

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural chromosomal aberrations, in the form of breaks, were found in a significantly higher proportion of bone marrow cells in patients with infective hepatitis than in controls. These anomalies were observed during the first and third weeks after the onset of jaundice but had subsided by the sixth week. Chromosom...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Matsaniotis N,Kiossoglou K,Maounis F,Anagnostakis D

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haematological malignancies are a diverse group of cancers that affect the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic systems. Laboratory diagnosis of haematological malignancies is dependent on combining several technologies, including morphology, immunophenotyping, cytogenetics and molecular genetics correlated clinical detai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Snowden JA,O'Connell S,Hawkins J,Dalley C,Jack A,Mannari D,McNamara C,Scott M,Shenton G,Soilleux E,Macbeth F,Guideline Committee.

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two histochemical techniques, the PAT/KOH/PAS and the PBT/KOH/PAS, were used to investigate the side chain O-acyl substitution patterns of the sialic acids of the colonic epithelial mucins in cases of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. In both diseases there was, as compared to normal, a reduction in the proporti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Culling CF,Reid PE,Dunn WL

更新日期：1979-12-01 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：:It was postulated that the short chain fatty acids (SCFA) produced by anaerobic bacteria might serve as microbial markers in purulent material. Eighteen pus specimens from various sources were analysed by gas-liquid chromatography (GLC), and the SCFA detected were compared with the microorganisms isolated by conventio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ladas S,Arapakis G,Malamou-Ladas H,Palikaris G,Arseni A

更新日期：1979-11-01 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:In primary aldosteronism (PA) the main source of aldosterone hypersecretion is an aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA) or a bilateral hyperplasia. Histopathology of the adrenal gland from patients with PA has been difficult, as there are no morphological criteria to ascertain which are the cells that produce ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Volpe C,Höög A,Ogishima T,Mukai K,Lu M,Thorén M,Hamberger B

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human sperm heads were detected and tracked using semiautomatic image analysis. Measurements of size and shape on two specimens from each of 26 men showed that the major component of variability both within and between subjects was the number of small elongated sperm heads. Variability of the computed features between...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jagoe JR,Washbrook NP,Hudson EA

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine lymphocyte subsets in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS); and to correlate immunohistological variables with prognosis. METHODS:Bone marrow trephine biopsy specimens from 65 patients with MDS were immunophenotyped using a panel of antibodies. A minimum of 1000 cells from representative areas ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hilbe W,Eisterer W,Schmid C,Starz I,Silly H,Duba C,Ludescher C,Thaler J

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To establish whether infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) contributed to the development of coronary artery lesions in a six year old child with an aneurysm and stenoses of the coronary arteries and suspected Kawasaki disease. METHODS:Postmortem paraffin wax sections of the coronary artery and myocardium were e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Culora GA,Moore IE

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate proliferative activity in leukaemic and lymphomatous bone marrow infiltrates and to assess the feasibility of transport of specimens among institutions. METHODS:Proliferative activity in bone marrow trephine cryosections from 99 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), 23 patients with acute mye...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： White DM,Smith AG,Smith JL

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00