Borderline or malignant ovarian tumour? A case report of decision making with morphometry.

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the expression of catenins (alpha, beta, and gamma) in non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) and its relation to clinicopathological factors and prognosis. METHODS:The expression of catenins was analysed immunohistochemically in 261 patients with resected NSCLC, diagnosed between 1978 and 1996 in e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pirinen RT,Hirvikoski P,Johansson RT,Hollmén S,Kosma VM

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroscopic evidence of bruising from human bite marks may be inconclusive and routine histochemical methods of showing extravasated erythrocytes can be unreliable. Leuco patent blue staining, for the presence of peroxidase, Amido black B, a tinctorial staining method for haemoglobin, Perls's reaction for ferric iron ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Allison RT,Whittaker DK

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the prevalence of gastric giardiasis in patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and to define the clinicopathological correlates of gastric Giardia lamblia infection. METHODS:Consecutive gastric biopsy specimens (n = 15,023) from 11,085 patients, taken at Feltre City Hospital (north easter...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Doglioni C,De Boni M,Cielo R,Laurino L,Pelosio P,Braidotti P,Viale G

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To test whether a hypoacidic environment may potentially "stress" Helicobacter pylori DNA, encouraging the emergence of strain variation. METHODS:This hypothesis was tested by inducing prolonged hypoacidity with omeprazole, a potent antisecretory drug. The genomic DNA of H pylori was studied by electrophoretic se...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fraser AG,Bickley J,Owen RJ,Pounder RE

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To use the polymerase chain reaction to detect monoclonality at the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene locus in cells derived from lymph node aspirates. METHODS:A nested two-stage polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the VDJ region of the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene was used to detect monoclonality. The total num...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wan JH,Sykes PJ,Orell SR,Morley AA

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Autoreactive humoral and cellular immune responses may be involved in the pathogenesis of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC). Certain human leucocyte antigens (HLA) could also be linked to the development of IDC. AIM:To determine whether various markers of autoimmunity are present in the final phase of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： de Leeuw N,Melchers WJ,Ruiter DJ,Caforio AL,Balk AH,de Jonge N,Galama JM

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect method of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is described to assess the reactivity of antisera used for the identification of peptide hormone producing cells by immunocytochemistry. Compared with radioimmunoassay and immunodiffusion, the ELISA method has the advantages of simplicity and sensitivi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nierwenhuijzen Kruseman AC

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To establish a three dimensional reconstruction of an invasive breast carcinoma using basic laboratory equipment to evaluate and characterise the spatial arrangement of the parenchymal cells of the breast. METHODS:One hundred and twenty eight sequential 4 microm sections (20 microm apart) of the tumour were stain...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kurien T,Boyce RW,Paish EC,Ronan J,Maddison J,Rakha EA,Green AR,Ellis IO

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the reliability of local international normalised ratios (INR) using a set of three international reference preparation (IRP) certified freeze dried plasmas. METHODS:55 centres in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland participated; 36 centres employed coagulometers and 19 a manual prothrombin ti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Poller L

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas cepacia (Ps. multivorans) can become adapted to a 1 in 30 dilution of Savlon hospital concentrate in distilled water, and can multiply in it. The organism so adapted did not survive in Savlon of the same strength made with hard tap water (pH 7.2). This effect was due to the difference of pH between the two...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bassett DC

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ hybridisation, immunohistochemistry, and morphological analysis for the detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) were compared in routinely processed tissue sections from a patient with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and widespread CMV infection. Both in situ hybridisation and immunohistochemistry with t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Niedobitek G,Finn T,Herbst H,Gerdes J,Grillner L,Landqvist M,Wirgart BZ,Stein H

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing evidence of histopathological changes in autopsied individuals infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); however, data on histopathological changes in autopsied patients with eradicated COVID-19 are limited. We performed an autopsy on a Caucasian female in her 80s, wh...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schwensen HF,Borreschmidt LK,Storgaard M,Redsted S,Christensen S,Madsen LB

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Taking a kidney biopsy is not a trivial procedure. The sample is almost invariably smaller than the pathologist would like. Investigation usually requires division into even smaller samples to permit the application of specialist techniques. In some cases the biopsy is taken not for diagnosis, but to assess the extent...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Furness PN

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serious infection caused by Lancefield group C streptococci is unusual in man. Two unrelated deaths associated with these organisms in a 55 year old woman who died after three days of diarrhoea and vomiting, and in a 65 old man who died after a week of non-specific symptoms, are presented. Post mortem examination show...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bateman AC,Ramsay AD,Pallett AP

更新日期：1993-10-01 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 consistency and reproducibility of assessment of c-erbB-2 immunostaining, and to examine some of the problems relating to inter- and intraobserver variability in the documentation of positive staining; to profile the spectrum of cytoplasmic and membranous staining in a wide range of tumour types. ME...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kay EW,Walsh CJ,Cassidy M,Curran B,Leader M

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the prognostic usefulness of the Nottingham histological grade (NHG) and its components in a series of 270 patients with stage pT1N0M0 breast cancer with a median follow up of 12.5 years. METHODS:Microscopic slides were re-examined and the degree of tubule formation, nuclear pleomorphism, and mitotic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Frkovic-Grazio S,Bracko M

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

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 post-mortem examination, in the case of a 34-year-old man dying suddenly from head injuries sustained in a road accident, showed early cirrhosis of the liver and associated splenomegaly 17 years after an attack of infective hepatitis. The histology of the thymus showed abnormal changes in the medulla, consisting of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： CORRIDAN M

更新日期：1963-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine the interrelations between clinico-biochemical parameters and hepatic morphology in markedly obese patients. One hundred and sixty-six women and 52 men comprise this series. There was a statistically significant association of carbohydrate metabolism disturbance with increasing a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Manes JL,Taylor HB,Starkloff GB

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumour tissue from 29 patients with primary brain lymphoma was reviewed to determine if there was an aetiological association between Epstein-Barr virus and polyclonal and monoclonal lymphoproliferations. The morphology and immunophenotype in 24 patients for whom paraffin wax embedded tissue was available were studied...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Murphy JK,Young LS,Bevan IS,Lewis FA,Dockey D,Ironside JW,O'Brien CJ,Wells M

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To elucidate potential mechanisms of drug resistance, levels of topoisomerase II alpha mRNA, a target for cytostatic drugs, were measured in cryopreserved tumour tissue from 36 patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. To evaluate the potential association between topoisomerase II alpha and cell proliferation, Ki-67 i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lohri A,Reuter J,Gudat F,Herrmann R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative histological analysis of the major salivary glands was carried out at necropsy in 28 alcoholics and in a series of age and sex matched controls. The findings were related to the different types of histologically diagnosed liver disease present. Significant quantitative changes of salivary gland structur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Scott J,Burns J,Flower EA

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is the second most common malignancy, most frequently affecting the head and neck. Treatment often requires surgery and can have significant functional morbidity. Research into disease pathogenesis and second line medical management of cSCC is limited. We assess geneti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zilberg C,Lee MW,Kraitsek S,Ashford B,Ranson M,Shannon K,Iyer NG,Ch'ng S,Low TH,Palme C,Clark J,Gupta R,Yu B

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biological method for detecting streptococcal nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide glycohydrolase (NADG) is presented, based on its ability to inhibit the growth of Haemophilus parainfluenzae. Three hundred clinical isolates of beta-haemolytic streptococci were tested. All isolates producing NADG belonged to Lancefield...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Green NE

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male patient with a 17 year history of intractable ulcerative colitis of the entire type was treated by total proctocolectomy. Colonoscopy before surgery did not identify dysplasia. Histological examination of the resected colorectum revealed that, in addition to chronic inflammatory infiltrates, there were 21 areas...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Matsumoto T,Jo Y,Mibu R,Hirahashi M,Yao T,Iida M

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare intratumorous microvessel density (MVD) and clinicopathological features in two different groups of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), namely: hepatitis B virus (HBV) related HCC (B-HCC) and HCV related HCC (C-HCC). METHODS:Fifty consecutive cases each of B-HCC and of C-HCC were studied. Microvessel numbe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Messerini L,Novelli L,Comin CE

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Despite advances in therapy, lung cancer is still the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the world. Further prognostic tools are warranted for risk-adapted therapeutic decisions. We analysed a cohort of primary surgically treated non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLCs) to determine the prognostic role ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Augustin F,Fiegl M,Schmid T,Pomme G,Sterlacci W,Tzankov A

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several diseases of the small intestine, including gluten-sensitivity, present with malabsorption and a "flat" mucosa. Determination of the mitotic index of epithelial lymphocytes provides a simple, objective method of assessing, and thus of predicting, whether a flat mucosa is due to gluten-sensitivity (index greater...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Marsh MN,Haeney MR

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00