An evaluation of the ToxHA test for the detection of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in human serum.

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：: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：:A 45-year-old man is described in whom there is currently ERCP and histological evidence of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). A liver biopsy obtained 29 years ago shows similar histological features confirming that he had PSC at that time. This case indicates that PSC may follow a relatively benign course. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goudie BM,Birnie GG,Watkinson G,MacSween RN

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the effect of 10 day triple treatment on H pylori eradication and associated gastritis. METHODS:Fifty patients with H pylori positive non-ulcer dyspepsia were treated for 10 days with amoxicillin, tinidazole, and bismuth salts. Histological examination of the antral mucosa was performed before (T0), s...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Di Napoli A,Petrino R,Boero M,Bellis D,Chiandussi L

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of peritoneal granulomatous reactions to food starch are described. They followed bowel perforation and clinically mimicked tuberculous and glove-powder starch peritonitis. Their histological differences from corn-starch peritonitis warrant attention in the absence of previous documentation of starch as a co...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Davies JD,Ansell ID

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate whether increasing the daily baseline of gut calcium can cause a gradual downregulation of the active intestinal transport of calcium via reduced parathyroid hormone (PTH) mediated activation of vitamin D, and to discuss why such a mechanism might prevent calcium oxalate rich stones. To demonstrate ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Williams CP,Child DF,Hudson PR,Davies GK,Davies MG,John R,Anandaram PS,De Bolla AR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop a quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (Q-RT-PCR) for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) detection and explore the potential of using glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) mRNA as an internal control to exclude false negative results. METHODS:SAR...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wong SC,Chan JK,Lee KC,Lo ES,Tsang DN

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastroblastoma is a rare gastric epitheliomesenchymal biphasic tumour composed of spindle and epithelial cells, reported by Miettinen et al in a series of three cases in 2009. All those cases arose in stomachs of young adults. Neither the epithelial nor the mesenchymal component displayed sufficient atypia to diagnose...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shin DH,Lee JH,Kang HJ,Choi KU,Kim JY,Park DY,Lee CH,Sol MY,Park JH,Kim HY,Montgomery E

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to classify the underlying disorder in four patients with biopsy-proven amyloidosis without overt monoclonal gammopathy, the cytoplasmic immunoglobulin (Ig) distribution of bone marrow plasma cells was evaluated using direct immunofluorescence microscopy. This procedure revealed the presence of a monoclonal p...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thielemans C,Aelbrecht W,Verbeelen D,Somers G,De Waele M,Van Camp B

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic discs from Oxoid, Mast, AB Biodisk, Difco, and Baltimore Biological Laboratories were compared, where discs of similar antibiotic content were available, in diffusion-sensitivity tests against organisms of known sensitivity. Discs from Oxoid and Mast gave zones 1-5 mm larger than discs from other manufactur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brown DF,Kothari D

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases are described in which clostridial invasion of the liver and spleen was noted at post-mortem examination. In each there was a history of debilitating disease and it is suggested that the infection was consequent upon impaired immunological and cellular defence mechanisms. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： ASHLEY DJ

更新日期：1965-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of bilateral gonadoblastoma/dysgerminoma in a 46 XY phenotypical female is presented. Increased circulating beta human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-HCG) and testosterone together with a decreased concentration of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) reflected the activities of these tumours. The patient is alive ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fisher RA,Salm R,Spencer RW

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starch gel electrophoresis has demonstrated that graded concentrations of sodium sulphate do not precipitate the serum globulins in any reasonable degree of purity. The use of this form of electrophoresis has shown that caeruloplasmin is associated with a globulin in the Fa(2) position.This technique can be employed a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： CUMINGS JN,EARL CJ

更新日期：1960-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Although the autopsy is still the gold standard for quality assessment of clinical diagnoses, autopsy rates have been declining over the last decades to <10%. The aim of this study was to investigate the value of autopsies in the high-tech medicine era by determining the frequency of discrepancies between clinical...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kuijpers CC,Fronczek J,van de Goot FR,Niessen HW,van Diest PJ,Jiwa M

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is an aggressive and potentially fatal disease. Prediction of risk of relapse is based on clinical markers. There is a need for more accurate biomarkers to select patients for more aggressive first-line treatments. Peroxiredoxins (Prxs) are a family of potent antioxidant prote...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kuusisto ME,Haapasaari KM,Turpeenniemi-Hujanen T,Jantunen E,Soini Y,Peroja P,Bloigu R,Karihtala P,Kuittinen O

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme immunoassay technique based on the direct detection of Chlamydia trachomatis antigen in urethral or cervical swabs was used for the rapid diagnosis of chlamydial genital infection. Urethral and cervical samples from 140 patients were tested in parallel by enzyme immunoassay and cell culture using iodine stai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mumtaz G,Mellars BJ,Ridgway GL,Oriel JD

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the value in diagnosis and the clinical implications of the detection of pneumococcal antigen in patients with lobar pneumonia. Ninety-eight patients with lobar pneumonia were investigated. Pneumococcal antigen was detected by counter-current immunoelectrophoresis in the sputum of 79% of patients ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tugwell P,Greenwood BM

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the prognostic impact of the width of negative surgical margins (NSM) and associated and preinvasive lesions at the NSM in patients with penile squamous cell cancer (PSC). METHODS:Enrolling 87 patients with NSM who underwent surgery for PSC, the archived margin slides and entirely wax-embedded surgica...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gunia S,Koch S,Jain A,May M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Solid and papillary epithelial neoplasm (SPEN) is an uncommon pancreatic tumour. Very rarely it has also been described outside the pancreas, usually arising from heterotopic pancreatic tissue. This report summarises all the published extrapancreatic SPENs and documents the sixth such case arising from heterotopic ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tornóczky T,Kálmán E,Jáksó P,Méhes G,Pajor L,Kajtár GG,Battyány I,Davidovics S,Sohail M,Krausz T

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：AIMS:To investigate the optimal method for the detection of campylobacters from stool samples by comparing selective culture with membrane filtration and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). METHODS:Three hundred and forty three stool samples were investigated by each of the three methods mentioned above. Selective cu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kulkarni SP,Lever S,Logan JM,Lawson AJ,Stanley J,Shafi MS

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review surveys the staging systems used for the classification of colorectal carcinomas, including the TNM system, and focuses on the assessment of the nodal stage of the disease. It reviews the quantitative requirements for a regional metastatic work up, and some qualitative features of lymph nodes that may help...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cserni G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous Cushing's syndrome is a rare endocrine disorder that incurs significant cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, due to glucocorticoid excess. It comprises adrenal (20%) and non-adrenal (80%) aetiologies. While the majority of cases are attributed to pituitary or ectopic corticotropin (ACTH) overproduction, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Duan K,Gomez Hernandez K,Mete O

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parafibromin is a novel protein product of HRPT2, a recently identified tumour suppressor gene. Mutations of the HRPT2 gene are common in parathyroid carcinomas, and these exhibit reduced protein expression. Parafibromin expression in breast cancer has not been previously studied. AIMS:To determine the dist...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Selvarajan S,Sii LH,Lee A,Yip G,Bay BH,Tan MH,Teh BT,Tan PH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical smears from 327 women were examined using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeted to a sequence in the Bam H1 W region of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) to determine the prevalence of the virus in the cervix. EBV was detected in 131 (40%) of the 327 women. Of the 235 women with normal cytology, 98 (42%) we...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Taylor Y,Melvin WT,Sewell HF,Flannelly G,Walker F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal changes in gastric antibody response were investigated in 113 (51 men, 62 women) patients with confirmed pernicious anaemia. Their ages ranged from 31-92 years (mean (SD 13.2) 66). At diagnosis, parietal cell antibody and intrinsic factor antibody were detected in 90.9% and 39.1% of all patients, respectively...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Davidson RJ,Atrah HI,Sewell HF

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) increases after radical prostatectomy are thought to indicate recurrent disease, although some suggest they result from benign prostatic epithelial tissue left at surgical margins. AIMS:To investigate whether presence, location, and extent of benign prostatic tissue at ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kernek KM,Koch MO,Daggy JK,Juliar BE,Cheng L

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for separate swab transport methods for aerobes and anaerobes may result in inadequate transport of specimens for anaerobic bacteriology. Most microbiology laboratories in Australia rely on Stuart's transport medium to protect anaerobic bacteria. This paper presents a new, simple transport medium (Transport D...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alfa M,Lee A

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In colonic biopsies of 33 patients with acute colitis caused by campylobacter, salmonella, or shigella immunoglobulin containing cells were determined quantitatively using an indirect immunoperoxidase technique and morphometry with a graphic tablet. The findings were compared with those of 10 patients without histolog...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： van Spreeuwel JP,Lindeman J,Meijer CJ

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The only method currently available to perform Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial susceptibility testing (Ng-AST) requires a viable organism obtained by culture. Reports of in vitro resistance to extended-spectrum cephalosporins, the treatment of choice for gonorrhoea, coupled with increasing gonorrhoea diagnoses is ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jain A,Cole MJ,Planche T,Ison CA

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00