Incidence of toxoplasmosis in women at a London hospital.

abstract：:Although the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines recommend that in patients with biopsy-proven invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC), preoperative MRI scan is considered, the accuracy of diagnosis of ILC in core biopsy of the breast has not been previously investigated. Eleven pathology laborato...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Naidoo K,Beardsley B,Carder PJ,Deb R,Fish D,Girling A,Hales S,Howe M,Wastall LM,Lane S,Lee AH,Philippidou M,Quinn C,Stephenson T,Pinder SE

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this article is to provide knowledge of the origin of catecholamines and metabolites so that there can be an informed approach to the methods for biochemical screening for a possible phaeochromocytoma; The article includes a review of catecholamine and metadrenaline metabolism, with methods used in biochemi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barron J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Transcription factors of the forkhead box P (FOXP1-4) family have been implicated in various human cancer types before. The relevance and role of neuronal transcription factor FOXP2 in prostate cancer is unknown. METHODS:A tissue microarray containing samples from more than 11 000 prostate cancers ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stumm L,Burkhardt L,Steurer S,Simon R,Adam M,Becker A,Sauter G,Minner S,Schlomm T,Sirma H,Michl U

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgD myeloma is a rare disorder with a very poor prognosis. An unusual case is reported where prolonged remission was obtained. Immunohistochemical staining of the bone marrow trephine biopsy specimen proved invaluable in documenting early relapse. It is suggested that immunohistochemistry should be adopted more widely...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kettle P,Morris TC

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Care in the preparation and preservation of reagents, together with certain modifications in apparatus and technique, have eliminated the difficulties from plasma ammonia analysis. Ammonia contamination from the laboratory atmosphere has not proved an especial hazard, and no major setback has been encountered in the a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fenton JC,Williams AH

更新日期：1968-01-01 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：:Sixty six women with first or second trimester fetal loss were investigated for the presence of lupus anticoagulant by routine coagulation tests and the dilute Russell's viper venom time with a platelet neutralisation procedure, and for raised anticardiolipin antibodies by an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. Of 35 w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Creagh MD,Malia RG,Cooper SM,Smith AR,Duncan SL,Greaves M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Automation in clinical chemistry is a powerful tool. Like most innovations it is posing many questions as well as resolving some. Its use in population screening has led to questioning the validity of the old system of ;normal values' and to the search for better methods of indicating the significance of laboratory te...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wilson JM

更新日期：1973-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present investigation, the prevalence of focal lymphocytic adenitis in the submandibular salivary gland was observed in a series of 116 postmortem subjects after suitable exclusions had been made. Focal lymphocytic adenitis could not be demonstrated in the labial salivary glands. The degree of lymphocytic infil...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chisholm DM,Waterhouse JP,Mason DK

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isolates of Proteus mirabilis and four of Esch. coli which would not grow on commonly used commercial sensitivity test media are reported. These organisms appear to be resistant to co-trimoxazole, are exacting towards thymidine, and five of six were isolated from patients who had been treated with co-trimoxazole. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barker J,Healing D,Hutchison JG

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

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：AIMS:To study the homozygous deletion and methylation status of the 5' CpG island of the p16 and p15 genes (9p21) in a set of primary advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) and to test whether inactivation of these genes by these mechanisms contributes to head and neck SCC development. METHODS:DNA was e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： González MV,Pello MF,López-Larrea C,Suárez C,Menéndez MJ,Coto E

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To clarify a clinical entity of juvenile polyposis of the stomach compared with generalised juvenile gastrointestinal polyposis. METHODS:The clinicopathological features of juvenile polyposis dominantly involving the stomach at initial presentation were reviewed in 12 patients (three new patients and nine from th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hizawa K,Iida M,Yao T,Aoyagi K,Fujishima M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 67 year old woman with rheumatoid arthritis was admitted to hospital in acute renal failure. Her clinical features included increasing dyspnoea and oedema, and a computed tomogram of the abdomen showed a large mass in the retroperitoneum. Twenty six days later, she died, and a post mortem examination was carried out...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shimada M,Kojima M,Tani G,Komatsumoto S,Nara M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is reported of a patient with plasmacytoma which assumed different clinicopathological features over seven years. The tumour first presented as a subcutaneous mass which was misdiagnosed as anaplastic carcinoma. Complete response to radiotherapy ensued but recurrence took the form of an intracerebral tumour. Fu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kwong YL,Ng WK

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred specimens of oesophagus obtained at necropsy from infants and children aged from 0 to 14 years, dying from a variety of causes, were examined prospectively for evidence of gastric heterotopia. Gastric heterotopia was observed in 63 (21%) of the whole series, representing a much higher incidence than repo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Variend S,Howat AJ

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pseudolymphomatous reaction involving subcutaneous tissue and underlying skeletal muscle is described in a woman who was receiving phenytoin sodium and phenobarbitone. The histological appearance was of nodular, densely cellular tissue composed of histiocytes, plasma cells, lymphocytes, fibroblasts, and occasional p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wilden JN,Scott CA

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ewing's sarcoma and peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumour (pPNET) are now regarded as two morphological ends of a spectrum of neoplasms, characterised by a t(11;22) or other related chromosomal translocation involving the EWS gene on chromosome 22 and referred to as Ewing family of tumours (EFTs). EFTs...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McCluggage WG,Sumathi VP,Nucci MR,Hirsch M,Dal Cin P,Wells M,Flanagan AM,Fisher C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracts of the seeds of Vicia cretica (NO Leguminosae) strongly agglutinate T- Th- but not Tk- or other polyagglutinable red cells. The V. cretica lectin is therefore a very useful laboratory reagent in the elucidation of erythrocyte polyagglutination due to T-like erythrocyte cryptantigens. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bird GW,Wingham J

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate serum placental-type alkaline phosphatase (PLAP-type) activities in women with squamous and glandular malignancies of the reproductive tract using an immunoradiometric assay. METHODS:PLAP-type immunoreactivity was measured in 180 women with non-ovarian malignancies of the reproductive tract and the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ind TE,Iles RK,Carter PG,Lowe DG,Shepherd JH,Hudson CN,Chard T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoinfective strongyloidiasis is often fatal in immunosuppressed patients or in immunocomprised hosts. An interesting case of Strongyloides stercolaris hyperinfection was seen in an immunocompetent patient. This report describes a case of fatal strogyloidiasis in a 79 year old man, who had suffered gastrointestinal d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mayayo E,Gomez-Aracil V,Azua-Blanco J,Azua-Romeo J,Capilla J,Mayayo R

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of cell-free circulating fetal nucleic acids in maternal plasma has opened up new possibilities in non-invasive prenatal diagnosis. The rapid advancement of this field in the past decade is catalysed by the discovery of new classes of fetal nucleic acid markers and technological developments in nucleic a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hung EC,Chiu RW,Lo YM

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:A new staining method was developed for the detection of inclusions of Chlamydia psittaci and Chlamydia trachomatis inclusions in cell cultures. Using a combination of methyl green and neutral red stains and washing at pH 5.0, inclusions were stained red while cell cytoplasm was pale pink and cell nuclei were pale gre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Woodland RM,Malam J,Darougar S

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Langerhans' cells were studied in the epidermis of two patients with active Behçet's disease and compared with those in two normal controls. Ultrastructural morphology and the percentage of Langerhans' cells found were similar in patients' (1.88%) and the control epidermis (1.79%). The density of Langerhans' cells in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kohn S,Haim S,Gilhar A,Friedman-Birnbaum R,Nir I

更新日期：1984-06-01 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：:Performance of CHROMagar Acinetobacter was assessed for the selective isolation and identification of Acinetobacter baumannii. The medium was effective in suppressing the growth of other Gram-positive and Gram-negative species while the addition of KPC supplement ensured growth of only carbapenem resistant A baumannii...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wareham DW,Gordon NC

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of 12 commonly used anti-HIV-1/HIV-2 enzyme immunoassays was evaluated. The assays, each of which utilises at least one synthetic HIV antigen, were tested against a panel of 1092 specimens previously designated anti-HIV positive. In a total of 13 104 tests there were eight false negative results attrib...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McAlpine L,Parry JV,Shanson D,Mortimer PP

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An imprint culture technique has been employed to study the prevalence and intraoral distribution of Candida albicans in 16 patients with Sjögren's syndrome and in 16 healthy controls matched for age, sex, and dental status. The prevalence and intraoral density of C. albicans was found to be significantly higher at al...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tapper-Jones L,Aldred M,Walker DM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the simultaneous labelling of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) and membrane antigens is described. TdT is visualised in the cell nucleus with the peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP) method, and the immunogold method is used in combination with monoclonal antibodies against membrane antigens. The mo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tavares de Castro J,San Miguel JF,Soler J,Catovsky D

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00