Evaluation of formulae for CSF IgG synthesis using data obtained from two methods: importance of receiver operator characteristic curve analysis.

abstract：AIMS:To assess the frequency and cause of incidental (non-metastatic) lymph node pathology discovered before or at radical prostatectomy. METHODS:Eight hundred and fifty four consecutive lymphadenectomies received between 1988 and 2001 were reviewed. All had been processed and stained routinely. Additional techniques,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Winstanley AM,Sandison A,Bott SR,Dogan A,Parkinson MC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the modification of a commercially available rapid slide screening test(1) for anti-streptolysin O to give quantitative results. The modified technique is compared with the long-established haemolytic technique of Rantz and Randall (1945). The quantitative results for both techniques are shown to ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ingram GB,Hughes JE

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 45-year-old female patient underwent right hemihepatectomy for metastatic rectal adenocarcinoma. Preoperative imaging demonstrated an area of focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) in segment VIII and metastatic carcinoma in segment VI of the liver. Gross and microscopic examination of the former lesion showed features typ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nisar PJ,Zaitoun AM,Damera A,Hodi Z,Tierney GM,Beckingham IJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five cases of inflammatory pseudotumour of the liver are reported and compared with seven individual previously published case reports. Clinical presentation was variable but often comprised low grade intermittent fever, vague abdominal symptoms, and a history of weight loss. Leucocytosis, raised erythrocyte sedimenta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Anthony PP,Telesinghe PU

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nasal carrier status of 3,736 patients was determined throughout their stay in hospital. The carrier rate on admission, which was highest in patients under 20 years of age, did not appear to vary with season.The carriage of strains resistant to penicillin increased with the patients' stay in hospital from 13.% on ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： NOBLE WC,WILLIAMS RE,JEVONS MP,SHOOTER RA

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous melanoma causes most of the skin cancer deaths in the USA. Melanoma is the fifth most common cancer among men and the sixth most common cancer among women. The incidence of melanoma has risen sharply over the past three decades. In this review, which is informed by our extensive experience at a large cancer ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Trinidad CM,Torres-Cabala CA,Curry JL,Prieto VG,Aung PP

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Lymphocytic colitis is a clinicopathological entity characterised by protracted watery diarrhoea and an increased number of intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) in the surface epithelium of the colonic mucosa. This report describes two patients with symptoms similar to those of lymphocytic colitis and an ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rubio CA,Lindholm J

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappabeta ligand (RANKL) has an important role in bone remodelling, and tumour necrosis factor related, apoptosis inducing ligand (TRAIL) can induce apoptosis in cancer cells. Their functions are linked by their interactions with osteoprotegerin (OPG). OBJECTIVE:To inves...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cross SS,Harrison RF,Balasubramanian SP,Lippitt JM,Evans CA,Reed MW,Holen I

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To identify the amyloid protein in a patient with amyloidosis localised to the urinary bladder, and to see whether subtyping of the protein by sequence analysis increases the understanding of the selection of the urinary bladder as the site of amyloid deposition. METHODS:A patient with gross haematuria and a cong...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Livneh A,Shtrasburg S,Martin BM,Baniel J,Gal R,Pras M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is important in the evaluation of patients with calcium metabolism disorders and/or chronic renal disease. AIMS:To assess the differences between serum and plasma PTH measurements using the Advia Centaur. METHODS:Twenty six paired serum and edetate samples from patients with chron...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Twomey PJ,Whitlock T,Pledger DR

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mycosis fungoides (MF) is the most common skin lymphoid neoplasm. In initial stages, differential diagnosis of MF from other benign dermal lymphoid infiltrates (BDLI) may be impossible on morphological basis alone. In previous studies, only deletion of CD7 in MF proved to be of diagnostic help, but not the r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lira M,Schenka AA,Magna LA,Cotta AC,Cintra ML,de Souza EM,Brousset P,Vassallo J

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma diamine oxidase levels were assayed in 66 patients who presented with pregnancy complicated by threatened abortion. Levels within the normal range were associated with continuing pregnancies, whereas levels below the normal range were associated with subsequent abortion. Among those patients in whom gestation w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Legge M,Duff GB

更新日期：1981-02-01 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：:A patient is described in whom a campylobacter enteritis closely resembled ulcerative colitis on clinical, sigmoidoscopic, and histological grounds. Selective stool culture techniques may be necessary to differentiate campylobacter colitis from ulcerative colitis proper. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Willoughby CP,Piris J,Truelove SC

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To demonstrate expression of immunoglobulin light chain mRNA in diagnostic fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology specimens using an in situ hybridisation (ISH) technique; and to evaluate ISH in a series of reactive lymphoid proliferations and malignant lymphomas. METHODS:Forty diagnostic FNA specimens showing a l...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stewart CJ,Farquharson MA,Kerr T,McCorriston J

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase (G-OT), glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (G-PT), and isocitric dehydrogenase (ICD) have been estimated in six groups of subjects, namely, normal British adults, normal Nigerian adults, undernourished Nigerian adults and children, Nigerian children with florid protein malnutrition (k...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： BARON DN

更新日期：1960-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathological findings of an intradural and extramedullary cyst in the mid cervical spinal canal are described in a 55 year old woman who presented with a short history of pain and paraesthesia of the right arm. Intradural well defined solitary cystic lesions in the spinal canal are uncommon, their pathogenesis is ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wilkinson N,Reid H,Hughes D

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Congenital neutropenia (CN) is a rare inherited disease that results in recurrent, life-threatening bacterial infections due to a deficiency of mature neutrophils. They are usually caused by heterozygous ELANE mutations although mutations in other genes like HAX-1, G6PC3 and GFI1 have also been reported. Identifyi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Arunachalam AK,Suresh H,Edison ES,Korula A,Aboobacker FN,George B,Shaji RV,Mathews V,Balasubramanian P

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A saccharogenic method is described for estimating amylase activity in human urine. Results accord with those reported elsewhere except that in this study the peak in the beta zone is a new finding. Comparison between normal and pathological urines suggests that the amylase activity of the beta peak is not of pancreat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Franzini C

更新日期：1965-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual differential counts were examined for efficiency, cost effectiveness, and staff acceptability within our laboratory. A comparison with the Hemalog D system was attempted. The advantages and disadvantages of each system are enumerated and discussed in the context of a large general hospital. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hudson MJ,Green AE

更新日期：1980-11-01 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：: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:(1) To investigate the immunohistochemical expression of the multidrug resistance gene (MDR1) product P-glycoprotein in histological samples from 31 hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs); and (2) to correlate the results with cell proliferation, p53 expression, the disease-free interval, and cumulative patient survival...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Soini Y,Virkajärvi N,Raunio H,Pääkkö P

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop a readily applicable polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based technique which would permit the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from Bactec phials at an earlier stage than currently available methods. METHODS:Mycobacterial cells cultured in Bactec 12B medium were harvested by ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cormican MG,Barry T,Gannon F,Flynn J

更新日期：1992-07-01 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：AIMS:To evaluate an antigen capture enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) which detects a carbohydrate epitope on the excretory-secretory (ES) antigens of Toxocara canis in clinical practice. METHODS:Serum specimens from healthy adults, patients with acute visceral larva migrans, ocular and inactive toxocariasis, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gillespie SH,Bidwell D,Voller A,Robertson BD,Maizels RM

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Clot waveform analysis (CWA) has been reported to extend the interpretation of clotting time measurement. The parameters obtained from successive derivatives of the clotting reaction curves reflect the rates of activation of individual coagulation factors, theoretically dissecting the cascade pathway. This study a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wakui M,Fujimori Y,Katagiri H,Nakamura S,Kondo Y,Kuroda Y,Nakagawa T,Shimizu N,Murata M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microscopic examination of scalp hair can provide important diagnostic information in a range of paediatric conditions. It is a non-invasive and cost effective investigation, which is not widely performed. AIMS:To examine retrospectively the value of hair examination by light microscopy, including polarisin...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smith VV,Anderson G,Malone M,Sebire NJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera can produce nuclear or perinuclear immunofluorescence staining in neutrophils which may be caused by antibodies with differing antigenic specificities. These include perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (P-ANCA), granulocyte specific antinuclear antibody (GS-ANA), and antinuclear antibody (ANA). Ther...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chowdhury SM,Broomhead V,Spickett GP,Wilkinson R

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred catalase-positive, coagulase-negative, Gram-positive cocci isolated in significant numbers from the urine of patients with urinary tract infections, provisionally subdivided by their sensitivity to nonoviocin, were classified according to a slightly model version of Baird-Parker's schemes (1965 and 1972). ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Meers PD,Whyte W,Sandys G

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00