Macroscopic identification of early myocardial infarction by dehydrogenase alterations.

abstract：AIMS:To establish a mechanism to examine the components of turnaround time in a representative cross-section of laboratory users; and to identify potential areas for improvement. METHODS:Information was collected manually from result reports received by eight laboratory users: three wards in the main hospital, four GP...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smellie WS,Johnston J,Galloway PJ

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the expression of nuclear beta-catenin and Ki-67 in patients with normal gestation products (NGP), complete hydatidiform moles (CHM), and choriocarcinoma to elucidate their roles in carcinogenesis and their interrelations. METHODS:Expression of nuclear beta-catenin and Ki-67 was studied by immunohis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wong SC,Chan AT,Chan JK,Lo YM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The significance of seroconversion as detected by an ELISA screening test for hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody with a negative supplemental/confirmatory recombinant immunoblot assay (RIBA) result was investigated. Of 118,220 established West Midlands blood donors with at least one negative HCV antibody screen, 43 had ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Atrah HI,Ahmed MM

更新日期：1996-03-01 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

abstract：AIMS:To assess the distribution of gamma delta T-cells in the human bronchial tree; and to compare quantitatively the differences between gamma delta T-cell numbers in different parts of the airway wall in smokers and non-smokers. METHODS:Full thickness bronchial wall sections were taken from 10 whole lung specimens f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Richmond I,Pritchard GE,Ashcroft T,Corris PA,Walters EH

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus isolated between 1967 and 1975 from the nose and skin lesions of patients in dermatology wards and from the burns of patients in a burns unit in Birmingham showed a high incidence of multiple antibiotic-resistant strains in both environments. Over 20% of the strains isolated from patients on admi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ayliffe GA,Green W,Livingston R,Lowbury EJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies to factor VIII antigen (VIII:Ag) and von Willebrand factor (vWf:Ag) were immobilised on Sephacryl S-1000 and tested for their ability to deplete normal human citrated plasma of factor VIII. A combination of two antibodies to VIII:Ag and one antibody to vWf:Ag was required to produce plasma contai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hornsey VS,Waterston YG,Prowse CV

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the IRIS flow microscope for the examination of urine specimens and to compare its performance with that of manual methods; in addition, to assess its usefulness as a screening system for the detection of significant bacteriuria in a routine clinical laboratory. METHODS:The IRIS system was compared wi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hughes C,Roebuck MJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：AIMS:To investigate the problems involved in undertaking immunohistochemistry (IHC) and nuclear morphometry using Bouin's fixed prostate biopsies. METHODS:Archival Bouin's fixed and formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded prostatic biopsies were immunostained for three nuclear biomarkers (minichromosome maintenance prot...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ananthanarayanan V,Pins MR,Meyer RE,Gann PH

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro morphological and functional studies were carried out on platelets which had been cryopreserved in the presence of 5% dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO). Overall loss of platelets was around 50%. Those which survived freezing and reconstitution showed marked morphological deterioration, increase of procoagulant activ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Baythoon H,Tuddenham EG,Hutton RA

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reticulin antibodies have been classified by immunofluorescence into five types reacting with distinct antigens of intra- and extracellular components in mesenchyme. Two types of fibrillar antigens can be distinguished on the basis of the staining patterns, anatomical distribution, and species specificity. A third ant...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rizzetto M,Doniach D

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Veno-occlusive disease of the liver with clinical and pathological features similar to those of the condition occurring in the Caribbean is described in a young woman resident in Britain. The diagnosis was made from liver biopsies and hepatic venography and was confirmed at necropsy. Small amounts of pyrroliziding alk...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McGee J,Patrick RS,Wood CB,Blumgart LH

更新日期：1976-09-01 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：:Phyllodes tumours (PTs) of the breast are true biphasic neoplasms within which interactions between the epithelium and stroma are critical for tumour development and progression. Despite numerous studies reporting the results of ancillary marker investigations in PTs, the current histological grading systems remain un...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Karim RZ,O'Toole SA,Scolyer RA,Cooper CL,Chan B,Selinger C,Yu B,Carmalt H,Mak C,Tse GM,Tan PH,Putti TC,Lee CS

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commercial latex slide test (Oxoid DR 620) for the identification of Escherichia coli O157 was compared with a standard tube agglutination method using E coli O157 antiserum (Difco). Thirty isolates previously confirmed as E coli O157 were positive by both methods: 30 isolates of E coli of serogroups other than O157...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chapman PA

更新日期：1989-10-01 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

abstract：:Painful lymphadenopathy developed in eight female patients after massive infusions of iron dextran for sideropaenic anaemia. Fever, arthralgias, and malaise were also features of the clinical picture. The histology of one lymph node is described and changes in it are discussed in relation to the pathogenesis of the sy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Theodoropoulos G,Makkous A,Constantoulakis M

更新日期：1968-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Venous invasion (VI) is an important prognosis predictor after colorectal carcinoma (CRC) resection, enabling more accurate staging and influencing postoperative management. AIMS:To assess/compare various tissue block types (perpendicular, tangential, across mesentery (AM), from major vessels or lymph nodes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sternberg A,Mizrahi A,Amar M,Groisman G

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small epidemic of gastroenteritis in a children's hospital is described, and also the biochemical characteristics of the causative organism. Stress is laid on the fact that failure to recognize that epidemic strains of Escherichia coli may be late lactose fermentors can lead to errors or delay in diagnosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SHEDDEN WI,POTTER CW,DUBOWITZ V,WOOD M

更新日期：1962-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with multiple myeloma had antigenically related monoclonal Fc-gamma fragments and complete IgG-kappa molecules in the serum. The urine contained only Fc-gamma fragments in the absence of Bence-Jones protein. The two distinct M-components in the serum showed electrophoretic identity but could be separated by ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bartoloni C,Flamini G,Gentiloni N,Russo MA,Barone C,Gambassi G,Terranova T

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An automated technique is described which is capable of detecting sickle-cell haemoglobin and differentiating the sickle-cell trait from sickle-cell anaemia. The method is based upon the Itano solubility test and utilizes Technicon equipment. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Canning DM,Crane RS,Huntsman RG,Yawson GI

更新日期：1972-04-01 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：:Operation specimens from 52 Hong Kong patients considered to have tuberculosis of the spine were sent at -78 degrees C to London where they were cultured on two Löwenstein-Jensen medium slopes, a slope of 7H11 medium made selective with antibiotics and in two bottles of selective liquid Kirchner medium. Cultures of M ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Allen BW,Mitchison DA,Darbyshire J,Chew WW,Gabriel M

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thyrotropin-secreting adenomas (TSH-As) are rare and, according to the World Health Organization criteria (WHO 2004), a significant proportion of them present features of atypical adenomas at the time of diagnosis. AIMS:To determine the frequency of "atypical adenomas" and the significance of this definitio...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Marucci G,Faustini-Fustini M,Righi A,Pasquini E,Frank G,Agati R,Foschini MP

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the sensitivity and staining pattern of the new immunohistochemical antibody to tyrosinase (T311) with S-100, HMB45, and the recently evaluated antibody to melan-A (A103) in a range of melanocytic lesions. METHOD:Archival, formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded sections from 50 benign and malignant melan...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Clarkson KS,Sturdgess IC,Molyneux AJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two examples of intraplacental choriocarcinoma are described. Both were small and had arisen in otherwise normal third trimester placentas. The covering mantle of many of the villi adjacent to the choriocarcinomas was formed, either focally or wholly, of neoplastic trophoblastic tissue: it is only at this stage of the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fox H,Laurini RN

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of chromoblastomycosis confined to the mucous membrane of one side of the nasal septum is reported. The organism was not cultivated, but its characteristics in histological preparations were typical of those of the organisms in sections of cutaneous lesions known to be caused by Phialophora pedrosoi and related...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SYMMERS WS

更新日期：1960-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histochemical method is described of differentiating between normal and neoplastic cells in plasma using the activity of various enzymes characteristic of plasma cells. It was found that in both types of cell increased or diminished activity of cytoenzymes is a useful means of distinguishing between normal and abnor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SZMIGIELSKI S,LITWIN J,ZUPANSKA B

更新日期：1965-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop a rapid, sensitive, and specific non-isotopic in situ hybridisation (NISH) procedure for the detection of Epstein-Barr virus in formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded tissues. METHODS:Two low molecular weight RNAs, designated EBER-1 and EBER-2 (Epstein-Barr encoded RNA), were used: cells latently infect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Khan G,Coates PJ,Kangro HO,Slavin G

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00