Hepatic fibrosis in a child possibly due to prolonged methotrexate.

abstract：:One hundred and twenty-one rectal biopsies from 99 patients with carcinoma of the rectum or lower sigmoid colon were investigated using a high iron-diamine-Alcian blue technique for sulphated and non-sulphated acid mucins. It was found that in normal rectal mucosa sulphomucins are the main carbohydrate component of th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Filipe MI

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system is described for the maintenance of cumulative haematology records for selected patients using a laboratory minicomputer with limited storage capacity. Records are indexed by the patient's name and location since, as in the majority of hospital laboratories, there is no unique numbering scheme which covers al...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alexander MK,Corbett MT,Reed RW

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:CD10 (CALLA) has recently been reported to be expressed in spindle cell neoplasia, and has been used to differentiate endometrial stromal sarcoma from leiomyoma and leiomyosarcoma. In the breast, myoepithelial cells express CD10, but there are few studies of the expression of CD10 in mammary fibroepithe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tse GM,Tsang AK,Putti TC,Scolyer RA,Lui PC,Law BK,Karim RZ,Lee CS

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:As part of the UK antimicrobial resistance strategy and action plan, the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) is required to collect antibiotic susceptibility data so that resistance trends and patterns can be monitored. Most laboratories report urine Gram negative isolates, as "coliforms" according to morpholo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fallon D,Andrews N,Frodsham D,Gee B,Howe S,Iliffe A,Nye KJ,Warren RE

更新日期：2002-07-01 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：: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：AIMS:To estimate the expression of substance P in the haematopoietic cells of hypoplastic bone marrow and define its relationship with the course of bone marrow hypoplasia. METHODS:Bone marrow specimens were obtained from 42 children with bone marrow hypoplasia who were hospitalised in the Department of Pediatric Onco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nowicki M,Ostalska-Nowicka D,Konwerska A,Miskowiak B

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of heparinase by a wide range of anaerobic bacteria isolated from clinical specimens was investigated. None of the 29 strains of Bacteroides fragilis produced heparinase. Of 62 other Bacteroides tested, only two of four strains of B ovatus, two of three strains of B thetaiotaomicron, and two of four str...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Riley TV

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visceral botryomycosis is rare, and documented sites are lung, brain, kidney, liver and prostate. This report describes a rare autopsy case of disseminated visceral botryomycosis, with bulky, grape-like botryomycotic vegetations in the heart, and similar abscesses in the lungs and bone marrow. This is the first such r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gupta K,Das A,Radotra BD,Bhalla A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The study sought to determine whether mast cell counts in endobronchial biopsies of large airways are related to mast cell counts in the small airways. METHODS:Lungs, obtained postmortem from 10 subjects who had died of non-respiratory causes, were fixed in inflation. Mast cell densities (cells/mm(3)), de...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Carroll ML,Carroll NG,Gundersen HJ,James AL

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To audit the cellular expression of the innate antibacterial enzyme lysozyme in colonic biopsies from a cohort of patients having microscopic colitis (MC-collagenous colitis (CC) or lymphocytic colitis (LC)). Results were compared with those recorded in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) of the colon (...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rubio CA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the frequency, pattern and distribution of stromal keratin expression in phyllodes tumours if any, which may impact diagnostic approaches. METHODS:The clinicopathological features of 109 phyllodes tumours comprising 70 (64.2%) benign, 30 (27.5%) borderline and nine (8.3%) malignant grades were evaluat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chia Y,Thike AA,Cheok PY,Yong-Zheng Chong L,Man-Kit Tse G,Tan PH

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In experimental glomerulonephritis, inhibition of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) enhances the renocortical expression of pathogenic alpha(v) integrins. AIMS:To study whether this effect is mediated by prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) acting through its EP(3) receptor in cultured rat mesangial cells (MCs). METHODS:MCs...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Waldner C,Schrör K,Heering P

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Use of the polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB PCR) as a basis for making clinical decisions on the initiation of antituberculosis treatment was studied. METHODS:A retrospective study involving a cohort of 155 patients being investigated for tuberculosis in an infectious ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cheng VC,Yam WC,Hung IF,Woo PC,Lau SK,Tang BS,Yuen KY

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryostat sections from 160 rectal suction biopsies were stained for cholinesterases by the method of Karnovsky and Roots (1964) in an attempt to facilitate the diagnosis of Hirschsprung's disease. The method proved at least as reliable as experienced assessment of paraffin haematoxylin-eosin sections, and appeared to ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Trigg PH,Belin R,Haberkorn S,Long WJ,Nixon HH,Plaschkes J,Spitz L,Willital GH

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess A103 (melan-A) immunoreactivity in a range of ovarian sex cord stromal tumours and to evaluate it for the differential diagnosis of other neoplasms. METHODS:Paraffin embedded tissue sections from 45 sex cord stromal tumours and 44 potential histological mimics were examined immunohistochemically using t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stewart CJ,Nandini CL,Richmond JA

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the association between Helicobacter pylori-associated gastritis and HLA-DR antigen (class II antigen) expression. METHODS:Fifty endoscopic gastric biopsy specimens were studied for the presence of H pylori, degree and type of inflammation, and for HLA-DR antigen expression in the epithelium. The cases ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wee A,Teh M,Kang JY

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphometric techniques were applied to cytocentrifuge smears from 27 patients with histologically confirmed follicular non-Hodgkin's lymphoma to determine the usefulness of this method in diagnosis. Analysis of quantitative data confirmed that most subtypes were classified correctly on the basis of the proportion of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stevens MW,Crowley KS,Fazzalari NL,Woods AE

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To test the hypothesis that a correct qualitative assessment of axillary nodal status can be established by examining only a limited number of lymph nodes. METHODS:Slides from 499 pN1 or pN0 axillary dissection specimens relating to symptomatic breast cancer cases operated on at our institution between 1991 and 1...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cserni G

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of acute myelomonocytic leukaemia (AMMOL) is reported in which skin infiltration with xanthomatous nodules was the presenting feature. The histological, including ultrastructural, appearances are described. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： O'Donnell JR,Tansey P,Chung P,Burnett AK,Thomson J,McDonald GA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusually severe hypersensitivity reaction to carbamazepine is described, in which the patient presented with lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, bone marrow suppression, immunosuppression and other features strongly suggestive of a lymphoma. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yates P,Stockdill G,McIntyre M

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for the quantitative separation of radioactive bile acids and neutral sterols in human faeces on a potassium hydroxide-treated silicic acid column. Results obtained with faecal extracts containing metabolites derived from radioactive cholesterol, cholic acid, and chenodeoxycholic acid show that t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： LEWIS B,MYANT NB

更新日期：1965-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Fibrinogen plays a crucial role in the pathophysiology of tumour cell growth, invasion and metastasis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic significance of pretreatment plasma fibrinogen levels in patients with diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) METHODS: Data from 372 patients with DLBCL, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Troppan KT,Melchardt T,Wenzl K,Schlick K,Deutsch A,Bullock MD,Reitz D,Beham-Schmid C,Weiss L,Neureiter D,Tränkenschuh W,Greil R,Neumeister P,Egle A,Pichler M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of digestion of fibrin was measured in vitro by an isotopic technique in 140 blood samples of differing fibrinogen concentration; the assessment of fibrinolytic activity thus obtained was compared with a standard method of measurement, the dilute whole blood lysis time. The lysis time was related exponentiall...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hickman JA,Gordon-Smith IC,Whitfield PF,Godfrey SJ

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A latex agglutination test for the detection of Pseudomonas pseudomallei antigen in urine was evaluated for the rapid diagnosis of melioidosis. With unconcentrated urine, antigen was detected in only 18% of patients with melioidosis overall. However, when urine was concentrated 100-fold, antigen was detected in 47% ov...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smith MD,Wuthiekanun V,Walsh AL,Teerawattanasook N,Desakorn V,Suputtamongkol Y,Pitt TL,White NJ

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-mRNA splicing is an essential process in eukaryotic cells where the transcribed intronic sequences are removed, prior to translation into protein. PRPF31 is a ubiquitously expressed splicing factor, which aids in the assembly of the macromolecular spliceosome. Mutations in PRPF31 cause autosomal dominant retinitis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rose AM,Luo R,Radia UK,Bhattacharya SS

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：AIMS:To investigate the relation between sarcoidosis and lymphoma. METHODS:The hospital notes of five patients with sarcoidosis and a lymphoproliferative disorder were reviewed. Histological material on which the diagnoses of sarcoidosis and lymphoma were made was re-analysed. RESULTS:Four of the five patients had we...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Karakantza M,Matutes E,MacLennan K,O'Connor NT,Srivastava PC,Catovsky D

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Primary cilia play an important role in the regulation of cell signalling pathways and are thought to have a role in cancer but have seldom been studied in human cancer samples. METHODS:Primary cilia were visualised by dual immunofluorescence for anti-CROCC (ciliary rootlet coiled-coil) and anti-tubulin in a rang...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yasar B,Linton K,Slater C,Byers R

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00