A serum-dependent defect of neutrophil function in chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis.

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：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter pylori related gastric intestinal metaplasia (IM) is considered to be a precancerous lesion. AIMS:To identify the effects of H pylori eradication on K-ras mutations, cell kinetics in IM and histological changes in patients with and without gastric cancers in a one-year prospective study. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Watari J,Tanaka A,Tanabe H,Sato R,Moriichi K,Zaky A,Okamoto K,Maemoto A,Fujiya M,Ashida T,Das KM,Kohgo Y

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Heightened B-cell receptor (BCR) activity in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is well established, and a subset of patients with relapsed DLBCL can benefit from BCR-targeted therapies. Universal outreach of such emerging therapies mandates forming a global landscape of BCR molecular signalling in DLBCL, inclu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Masir N,Akhter A,Roshan TM,Florence CS,Abdul-Rahman F,Tumian NR,Kean-Chang P,Elyamany G,Shabani-Rad MT,Mansoor A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microcomputer system for use in the sequential processing of specimens has been developed in a hospital microbiology department which receives 90 000 specimens a year. Data handling is performed directly through the computers without the use of cards or worksheets. The system facilitates the multistep processing of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ashley R,Downing B

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating immune complexes have been detected in the sera of 24 Nigerian children with acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis using two methods. There was a significant correlation between levels of soluble complexes, detected in samples taken from patients in the oliguric phase of acute nephritis, and severity ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Onyewotu II,Mee J

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The "classical" antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (C-ANCA) pattern seen on indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) is characterised by granular cytoplasmic staining showing central or interlobular accentuation, and is strongly associated with antiproteinase-3 antibodies (PR3-ANCA) and Wegener's granulomatosis. H...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wong RC,Silvestrini RA,Savige JA,Fulcher DA,Benson EM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the clinical usefulness of three commercially available assays for Her-2/neu oncogene and protein measurements. The Her-2/neu protein is overexpressed, mostly as a result of gene amplification, in 20-30% of human breast cancers, and has been shown to have prognostic and predictive value for treatment wi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wang S,Saboorian MH,Frenkel E,Hynan L,Gokaslan ST,Ashfaq R

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of three commercial products of papain were compared as supplied and after activation, and when used in the enzyme-serum method for rhesus (D) grouping. Certain dangers in activation became apparent, and accurate determination of the proportions of papain to anti-D appeared more important than indiscrim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： WINTER GC,WRATTEN BE

更新日期：1962-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Neisseria species other than N gonorrhoeae and N meningitidis normally comprise part of the commensal bacterial flora of the oropharynx, they may occasionally act as opportunistic pathogens. Infections in which these organisms have been implicated include cases of endocarditis, meningitis, septicaemia, otitis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Johnson AP

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorigenic substrates prepared from 4-methylumbelliferone provide a simple, convenient method for detecting and assaying group-specific hydrolase activity in small quantities of whole mycobacteria. Physico-chemical properties of the enzymes such as pH dependence and heat stability may also be studied. A technique is ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Grange JM

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The TNM classification for renal cell cancer (RCC) should accurately predict and assign prognostic information for patients. In this study the recent 2010 revision to the TNM classification was compared with the previous 2002 classification with regard to survival outcomes. METHODS:All patients having radic...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Veeratterapillay R,Simren R,El-Sherif A,Johnson MI,Soomro N,Heer R

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer lineage/tissue-of-origin assignment in cancers of unknown primary remains a challenge even when aided by massively parallel sequencing. The stakes are high for patients as many contemporary therapeutic strategies are disease-specific, and the biological differences can influence the patients' responses. Herein,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yoon JY,Rosenbaum JN,Vergara N,Cohen RB,Wilson RB

更新日期：2020-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and forty-seven strains of micro-organisms were isolated from the urinary tract of 121 patients with neurological complaints leading to paraplegia. The commonest infecting organism was E. coli and the commonest type of Proteus was P. mirabilis. Infections with more than one type of organism were present in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SCOTT TG

更新日期：1960-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the first 166 heart and 15 heart and lung transplant recipients at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, who survived for more than one month after transplantation, 162 were investigated for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection by serological methods. Altogether, 73 (45%) developed CMV infection after transplantation: 30 (18.5%...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wreghitt TG,Hakim M,Gray JJ,Kucia S,Wallwork J,English TA

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A latex enzyme immunoassay (LEIA) for detecting IgG class antibody to rubella virus was compared with the latex agglutination test (LA) and a haemagglutination inhibition assay (HI). Of 243 sera tested, four discrepant results were observed among all three techniques, corresponding to borderline values. Except for one...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Duverlie G,Roussel C,Driencourt M,Orfila J

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Thalassaemia is a good candidate disease for control by preventive genetic programmes in developing countries. Accurate population frequency data are needed for planning the control of thalassaemia in the high risk Guangdong Province of southern China. METHODS:In total, 13397 consecutive samples from five geograph...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Xu XM,Zhou YQ,Luo GX,Liao C,Zhou M,Chen PY,Lu JP,Jia SQ,Xiao GF,Shen X,Li J,Chen HP,Xia YY,Wen YX,Mo QH,Li WD,Li YY,Zhuo LW,Wang ZQ,Chen YJ,Qin CH,Zhong M

更新日期：2004-05-01 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

abstract：:Splenic pathology was analysed in 73 patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura who underwent splenectomy for bleeding that had been resistant to adrenocorticosteroids. The mean splenic weight was 100 g. The only notable macroscopic feature was the prominence of Malpighian corpuscles in 15 cases. Microscopic examin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hayes MM,Jacobs P,Wood L,Dent DM

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent publications have suggested that fixing neutrophils in formalin is a useful adjunct to the differentiation of antinuclear antibodies from perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies. In this small comparative study of 30 sera the use of an additional slide of formalin fixed neutrophils did not add any use...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Spickett GP,Broomhead V

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide synthase (NOS), particularly endothelial and inducible forms (e/i-NOS), are expressed in various cancers, including breast cancer. In mammary fibroepithelial lesions, NOS expression in stromal cells has been reported to be lower in fibroadenomas than in phyllodes tumours. AIMS:To investigate NO...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

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

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoreactive plasminogen activators were studied in tissue sections using a peroxidase method and monospecific antibodies to tissue plasminogen activator produced by a melanoma. Tissue plasminogen activator reactivity was found in skin melanomas and in endothelial and smooth muscle cells of arteries and veins. Vesse...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Larsson A,Astedt B

更新日期：1985-02-01 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：:Rates of urinary excretion concomitant with the molecular size distribution of filtered polymer fragments were determined in five normovolaemic men dosed with 30 g/m2 BSA of a species of HES (HES 350/0.60) possessing a M-W of 350 000 combined with an MS of 0.60. Approximately 13% of the total injected dose of HES 350/...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mishler JM,Ricketts CR,Parkhouse EJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described for obtaining samples of bladder epithelium using soluble swabs. Changes indicating neoplasia were seen in a large proportion of patients with bladder carcinoma. These changes were absent in the non-neoplastic control cases. The method provided tissue similar to that obtained by biopsy and sur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Trott PA,Williams G,Attridge PW

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As patients with multiple myeloma (MM) have a variable clinical course, predictive markers would help determine the appropriate treatment strategy. Clinical staging is commonly used to predict outcome, but tumour marker expression and the underlying genetic changes are increasingly used to assess the biological aggres...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yeung J,Chang H

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown that, on average, the titres of the sera obtained by both the anti-complement immunofluorescence (ACIF) and indirect immunofluorescence for viral late antigens (IFA-LA) procedures were approximately eight times higher than those obtained by complement fixation. There was no significant difference between ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Griffiths PD,Buie KJ,Heath RB

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the posture was changed from horizontal to vertical, or the reverse, the alteration in plasma volume and in the levels of haematocrit, haemoglobin, and plasma protein was much greater in patients with oedema or low plasma protein or albumin concentrations ("the pathological group") than in patients without these ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： FAWCETT JK,WYNN V

更新日期：1960-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of Haemophilus influenzae type b (HIb) antigenuria by latex agglutination has been shown to be sensitive, specific, and rapid. In children, antigenuria persisted for a mean duration of 10 days and a maximum of 18 days. Antigenuria was demonstrated in 25 of 30 patients with HIb infection but not in 62 with ot...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kaldor J,Asznowicz R,Dwyer B

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient complained of severe diarrhoea for about four years. About 2.5 m of the jejunum was resected and duodenal polyps were also removed at laparotomy. Histologically, they were tubular or tubulovillus adenomas, which closely resembled colonic adenomas. No malignant change was detected in these adenomas. Severe in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nakamura T,Kimura H,Nakano G

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of Campylobacter jejuni, C coli, C fetus and C laridis were tested for agglutination reactions with a panel of five lectins: Arachis hypogaea, Bauhinia purpurea, Solanum tuberosum, Triticum vulgaris and Wisteria floribunda. Twenty three patterns of agglutination (lectin types) were recorded among 376 isolates...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： O'Sullivan N,Benjamin J,Skirrow MB

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00