Comparison of three methods for the estimation of plasma antithrombin.

abstract：:Four strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae were sent to UK participants in the UK National External Microbiological Quality Assessment Scheme, who were asked to examine the strains for toxin production by in vitro methods. Laboratories achieved 162/176 (92%) and 160/175 (91%) correct results with two rapid toxin prod...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Snell JJ,Demello JV,Gardner PS,Kwantes W,Brooks R

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the histological characteristics of Helicobacter pylori positive chronic gastritis in patients with and without associated duodenitis. METHODS:Gastric mucosal biopsy specimens were obtained from patients undergoing endoscopy for dyspepsia. Severity of gastritis and density of H pylori infection were gra...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Phull PS,Price AB,Stephens J,Rathbone BJ,Jacyna MR

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Scottish Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory provides a national service for the laboratory confirmation of meningococcal and pneumococcal disease in Scotland. The main tests used for the laboratory confirmation of meningococcal disease are culture, the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), antibody tes...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Clarke SC,Diggle MA,Reid JA,Thom L,Edwards GF

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amoebicidal and amoebistatic action in vitro of 24 compounds was tested on two strains of Acanthamoeba, A. polyphaga and A. castellanii, isolated from eye infections in this country. For comparison, the Ryan strain of A. castellanii and Naegleria gruberi L-1 were also examined. Nine compounds showed sufficient act...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nagington J,Richards JE

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of granulocyte/macrophage colonies grown in vitro from bone marrow cells obtained from 90 rib segments and 30 ;normal' bone marrow aspirates was found to be highly variable. Considerable variation was also noted in the relationship between colony number and the number of cells cultured in both groups. The a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morris TC,McNeill TA,Bridges JM

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system using totally disposable self-supporting bedpans requiring no carrier was examined in use in two hospitals. The bedpans and their contents were disposed of by destruction and flushing to waste carried out in a modified Haigh Sluicemaster disposal unit. This incorporates a positively closing and locking lid wi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gibson GL

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 60 year old woman with disseminated ductal carcinoma of the breast developed non-islet cell tumour induced hypoglycaemia (NICTH). The concentrations of the two insulin-like growth factors, IGF-I and IGF-II, were < 2 nmol/l and 94.1 nmol/l, respectively. The IGF-II to IGF-I ratio was > 47 (normal < 10). Insulin (< 3 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bessell EM,Selby C,Ellis IO

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare the efficacy of and tolerance to oral fluconazole and intraconazole in preventing fungal infection in neutropenic patients with haematological malignancies. PATIENTS:213 consecutive, afebrile adult patients treated with or without autologous stem cell transplantation for haematological malignancies. M...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Huijgens PC,Simoons-Smit AM,van Loenen AC,Prooy E,van Tinteren H,Ossenkoppele GJ,Jonkhoff AR

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polyclonal antiserum, produced in sheep and reactive against purified human leucocyte elastase, has been applied to paraffin sections from a range of human tissues by means of the indirect immunoperoxidase method. Striking and consistent results have been obtained. Normal or inflammatory granulocytes were intensely ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Crocker J,Jenkins R,Burnett D

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

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：:Specimens of muscle were obtained from non-suppurating lesions of nine patients with tropical myositis. When examined in an electron microscope, these revealed patchy myocytolysis with loss of band structure. Perimysial cells were also degenerate. Sections from two out of nine patients revealed intracellular vesicles,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Taylor JF,Fluck D,Fluck D

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a twenty-year period 19 appendicectomy specimens were diagnosed as primary Crohn's disease. This represents 4.9% of the total number of both resection specimens and mucosal biopsies diagnosed as Crohn's disease during that time. This is a review of the main histopathological features found in these appendices and t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Allen DC,Biggart JD

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biochemical typing method is described for Klebsiella pneumoniae (sensu lato) and Enterobacter aerogenes. The technique depends on differences in metabolism of five carbon substrates--glycerol, inositol, lactose, glucose, and xylose--at two concentrations. Reproducibility is satisfactory and is monitored by the inco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barr JG,Hogg GM

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mallory bodies were isolated from necropsy livers from patients with alcoholic hepatitis with and without cirrhosis with a Ficoll viscosity barrier. The purity of Mallory bodies in the isolate varied between 70 and 90%, estimated by counting Mallory bodies and non-Mallory body structures in haematoxylin-eosin stained ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gluud C,Hardt F,Aldershvile J,Christoffersen P,Lyon H,Nielsen J

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：AIMS:Cervical cytology biobanking is a feasible concept in cervical pathology and could be an indispensable tool for fundamental and applied molecular biological research. PCR is a powerful molecular technique that can be performed on a variety of cervical sample types including Pap-stained cervical smears. However, si...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Boulet GA,Horvath CA,Berghmans S,Moeneclaey LM,Duys IS,Arbyn M,Depuydt CE,Vereecken AJ,Sahebali S,Bogers JJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of histological diagnosis requires an index of agreement (to measure repeatability and validity) together with a method of assessing bias. Cohen's kappa statistic appears to be the most suitable tool for measuring levels of agreement, which if unsatisfactory may be caused by bias. Further study of bias is p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Silcocks PB

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Evidence suggests that the presence of tumour necrosis is an adverse prognostic factor in renal cell carcinoma (RCC). However, it has also been shown that tumour regression, a microscopic feature associated with necrosis, may be a favourable short term prognostic factor in RCC. METHODS:Pathology reports of 253 RC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Foria V,Surendra T,Poller DN

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine prognostic significance of immunohistochemical markers and investigate possible germinal centre (GC) derivation in primary lymphoma of bone (PLB). METHODS:Immunohistochemical expression of BCL-6, CD10, BCL-2, p53, CD30, CD44 and MUM-1 was studied in 36 patients with PLB. All cases were clinically sta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Heyning FH,Hogendoorn PC,Kramer MH,Holland CT,Dreef E,Jansen PM

更新日期：2009-09-01 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：:A new sensitive nitrite test, the SRN test, was evaluated for its suitability as a reliable screening technique for the detection of bacteriuria. The SRN test was compared to a currently available nitrite test, the Microstix nitrite test, and the results obtained with both nitrite tests were assessed in comparison wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rabi T

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elution technique is described which gives eluates at least as potent as previously described methods. Elution can be completed in only 15 minutes. The method, a modification of that of Vos and Kelsall, is simple to carry out and requires the minimum of equipment. Studies have shown that the coating antibody is alm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： RUBIN H

更新日期：1963-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mean areas of lymphoid follicles have been determined in 20 specimens of malignant follicular (centrocytic-centroblastic) lymphoma, 15 specimens of reactive follicular hyperplasia and 10 palatine tonsils. In all of the benign specimens and whenever possible for those showing malignancy, the areas of both the whole...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Crocker J,Jones EL,Curran RC

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An increased level of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) is a known prognostic factor for acute coronary events and sudden cardiac death, and it is associated with coronary calcification. CRP is expressed in coronary arteries, but its role in the development of coronary plaques is unclear. AIM:To investigate CR...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Norja S,Nuutila L,Karhunen PJ,Goebeler S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Experience in the use of whole slide imaging (WSI) for primary diagnosis in pathology is very limited. We aimed to determine the accuracy of interpretation of WSI compared with conventional light microscopy (CLM) in the diagnosis of routine gynaecological biopsies. METHODS:All gynaecological specimens (n=452) rec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ordi J,Castillo P,Saco A,Del Pino M,Ordi O,Rodríguez-Carunchio L,Ramírez J

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Of the 123 patients with acute mesenteric infarction treated over the past 12 years, 16 (13%) had mesenteric venous thrombosis. Eight of the patients with mesenteric venous thrombosis survived the initial episode; two have since died. The remaining six patients were studied for evidence of haemostatic deficiencies or ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wilson C,Walker ID,Davidson JF,Imrie CW

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the intensity of the delayed hypersensitivity reaction and the dose of antigen used for its elicitation change with time after sensitization. At three weeks the reactions to 100 mug of egg albumen were little different from those to 1 mug but at 14 weeks 100 mug gave much stronger reactions. T...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jokipii AM,Jokipii L

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutropenia is a rare complication of Diamond-Blackfan syndrome (congenital hypoplastic anaemia). Three patients are reported: all had neutropenia as well as anaemia, and to investigate the cause of the neutropenia culture of bone marrow for granulocyte-macrophage colony forming cells (GMCFCs) was performed. Two cases...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Schofield KP,Evans DI

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasingly in the field of medicine, new therapeutic modalities, both surgical and non-surgical, are being introduced. Some of these may significantly alter the pathological appearance of normal and neoplastic tissue and result in problems for the pathologist. In this review, iatrogenic pathology within the female g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Clarke B,McCluggage WG

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00