Serological cross reaction between legionella and campylobacter in the rapid microagglutination test.

abstract：:Blood cultures drawn from a patient with clinically diagnosed invasive meningococcal disease, who had been previously administered benzylpenicillin, had beta-lactamases added to increase the probability of recovery of the causative organism. The blood cultures subsequently yielded Neisseria meningitidis but direct sus...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Weightman NC

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A slight modification in tissue processing and staining technique enables a previously described method for staining aluminium to be used to demonstrate aluminium in osteomalacia associated with haemodialysis. The stain appears to be accurate in diagnosing this condition and may assist in establishing the diagnosis be...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Buchanan MR,Ihle BU,Dunn CM

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present investigation, the prevalence of focal lymphocytic adenitis in the submandibular salivary gland was observed in a series of 116 postmortem subjects after suitable exclusions had been made. Focal lymphocytic adenitis could not be demonstrated in the labial salivary glands. The degree of lymphocytic infil...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chisholm DM,Waterhouse JP,Mason DK

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatic and splenic storage iron, including the relative distribution between ferritin and haemosiderin, was estimated in 130 necropsies including normal accident cases and cases with a variety of diseases. The storage iron was also examined histochemically. It was found that in the normal subjects, on the average...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morgan EH,Walters MN

更新日期：1963-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of selenium, zinc, and copper were determined in whole blood, plasma, and leucocytes in 20 patients with relatively mild Crohn's disease, nine of whom were being treated with steroids, and compared with those of a control group. There was a significant decrease in the concentration of selenium in th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hinks LJ,Inwards KD,Lloyd B,Clayton B

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the morphology of the pathognomonic Reed-Sternberg cells of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) was described over a century ago, it was not until recently that their origin from B lymphocytes was recognised. The demonstration that a proportion of cases of HL harbour the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and that its genome is mono...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kapatai G,Murray P

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mitogenic kinin peptides formed by the serine protease, tissue kallikrein (TK1), stimulate the proliferation of tumour cells and, by increasing vascular permeability, enhance metastasis. Oesophageal mucosal epithelial cells are derived from the epithelial cell germ layer, which expresses the kallikrein-k...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dlamini Z,Bhoola KD

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the effect of pregnancy on C4d concentrations and to assess whether C4d remains a useful disease activity marker in the management of connective tissue diseases during pregnancy. METHODS:Plasma C3, C4, and C4d concentrations were measured in 83 women at various stages of normal pregnancy and compared...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hopkinson ND,Powell RJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) is a high grade type of neuroendocrine tumour with an aggressive clinical course. This report describes the first case of LCNEC combined with an adenocarcinoma component in the common bile duct. A 68 year old man presented with jaundice. Severe stenosis of the bile duct was ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sato K,Waseda R,Tatsuzawa Y,Fujinaga H,Wakabayashi T,Ueda Y,Katsuda S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of typing Pseudomonas pyocyanea is described which makes use of the property of bacteriocine production. The method was applied in an epidemiological study of Ps. pyocyanea infection in a general hospital. It was found that the majority of strains believed on epidemiological grounds to be of common origin wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： DARRELL JH,WAHBA AH

更新日期：1964-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether antibiotics are prescribed appropriately for acute tonsillitis in an emergency department (ED). METHODS:Cross-sectional observational study in large district general hospital in London. Patients diagnosed and coded with 'acute tonsillitis' in the ED over a 3-month period in 2015. Medica...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kanji K,Saatci D,Rao GG,Khanna P,Bassett P,Williams B,Khan M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To study the incidence, investigation, and management of severe hyponatraemia (serum sodium < 120 mmol/litre) over a period of six months in a district general hospital. METHODS:The laboratory computer was used to identify all inpatients who had a serum sodium concentration of less than 120 mmol/litre over a six ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Saeed BO,Beaumont D,Handley GH,Weaver JU

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac remodelling after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is characterised by molecular and cellular mechanisms involving both left and right ventricles, and biventricular failure identifies patients with an extremely unfavourable prognosis. AIMS:To assess whether a link exists between increased myocardia...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bussani R,Abbate A,Biondi-Zoccai GG,Dobrina A,Leone AM,Camilot D,Di Marino MP,Baldi F,Silvestri F,Biasucci LM,Baldi A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty two fire victims with smoke inhalation, with or without burns, and 26 control subjects had bronchoalveolar lavage performed. Cell yields and differential cell counts were assessed. All patients and controls were cigarette smokers. Patients with smoke inhalation (SI) injury generally showed higher total bronchoa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Riyami BM,Tree R,Kinsella J,Clark CJ,Reid WH,Campbell D,Gemmell CG

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To better understand the spectrum of primary lymphomas in the upper aerodigestive tract, a common site of extranodal lymphoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Lymphoma cases diagnosed at an institution in southern Taiwan from 1992 to 2007 were retrospectively studied with pathology and history review, immunohistochemistry, ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chen SW,Chang ST,Lu CL,Hwang WS,Tsao CJ,Huang WT,Chang KY,Chuang SS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although epithelial mucin has been demonstrated in ordinary mammary duct carcinomas, it is formed profusely in the uncommon mucous carcinomas. A histochemical study of mucous carcinomas of the breast and colon showed that both types produce similar mucins, viz, acid and neutral, although the mammary carcinomas produce...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cooper DJ

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of lymphocyte tubular structures were studied by electron microscopy in 80 patients with classic or definite rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Fifteen patients with unequivocal systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and 10 healthy persons were studied as controls. Lymphocyte tubulo-reticular structures were found in 13...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dryll A,Cazalis P,Ryckewaert A

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensitivity of an indirect immunofluorescence antibody test (IFAT) and a rapid microagglutination test (RMAT) for the diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease caused by Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 was evaluated using serum specimens from 119 patients with bacteriologically confirmed infections. The sensitivity of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harrison TG,Dournon E,Taylor AG

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the association of cagA positivity and non-opsonic neutrophil activation capacity in wild-type Helicobacter pylori strains with peptic ulcer disease or chronic gastritis only. METHODS:Helicobacter pylori were isolated from antral biopsies of 53 consecutive patients with chronic antral gastritis, of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Danielsson D,Farmery SM,Blomberg B,Perry S,Rautelin H,Crabtree JE

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma clearance of intravenously administered folic acid was abnormally rapid in all of five patients studied with untreated hyperthyroidism; in three, the basal serum L. casei folate level was subnormal. Four of these patients and another patient were studied at various intervals after partial or complete correc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lindenbaum J,Klipstein FA

更新日期：1964-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the attitudes of students towards the necropsy at different stages of their undergraduate career. METHOD:Students in the first, fourth and sixth academic years (n = 283) were asked to respond anonymously to a questionnaire comprised of 26 attitude statements. These statements dealt with the importance o...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Botega NJ,Metze K,Marques E,Cruvinel A,Moraes ZV,Augusto L,Costa LA

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The earlier detection of breast cancer through mammographic screening has resulted in a shift in stage distribution with patients who are node-positive tending to present with a lower number of positive lymph nodes (LN). This study aims to assess the prognostic value of absolute number of positive nodes in the pN1 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rakha EA,Morgan D,Macmillan D

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for the estimation of serum free fatty acids based on the ultramicro method of Novák. The difficulty of obtaining an accurate standard graph has been overcome and the interfering effects of phospholipids have been reduced. The method is simple to perform and gives accurate, precise results in 50 ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Elphick MC

更新日期：1968-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the significance of flat epithelial atypia (FEA) on core biopsy by evaluating the proportion of cases upgraded to in-situ and invasive carcinoma on further sampling with vacuum-assisted biopsy (VAB) or diagnostic surgical biopsy. METHODS:A retrospective analysis was performed of all core biopsies contai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rajan S,Sharma N,Dall BJ,Shaaban AM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultrastructural cytochemical study of lysosomal acid phosphatase was performed on leukemic cells in a case of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia of T cell origin (T-CLL). The cells showed inclusion bodies known as parallel tubular arrays, which often lay within acid phosphatase-positive, membrane-bound spaces. This sugg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Capron F,PErrot JY,Boucheix C,Reynes M,Tricottet V,Bernadou A,Diebold J

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the histopathological features of the synovial lining of the knee following implantation of an artificial cruciate ligament. METHODS:Eighty two patients underwent anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction for chronic, symptomatic instability of the knee. The cruciate ligament was reconstructed with...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barry M,Thomas SM,Rees A,Shafighian B,Mowbray MA

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Accurate assessment of HER2 status is essential for selection of patients for HER2-targeted treatment such as trastuzumab. This study investigated the hypothesis that delayed fixation impairs HER2 assessment. METHODS:9 carcinomas were received fresh, and samples were fixed immediately or put in fixative at time i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lee AH,Key HP,Bell JA,Kumah P,Hodi Z,Ellis IO

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII procoagulant activity (VIII:C), factor VIII related antigen (VIIIR:AG), and the von Willebrand factor (VIII:WF) were measured in 19 patients with liver disease (8 cases of alcoholic cirrhosis and 11 with acute viral hepatitis). In both groups of patients the levels of VIII:C, VIIIR:AG, and VIIIR:WF were ab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Maisonneuve P,Sultan Y

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the clinical performance of three cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) IgG synthesis formulae using data obtained from two quantitation methods. METHODS:Receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analysis and decision index plots were used to compare a rate nephelometric (RN) and a rocket immunoelectrophoretic (RIE...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McMillan SA,Douglas JP,Droogan AG,Hawkins SA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the influence of involvement of the peritoneal surface by carcinoma of the rectum on local recurrence and prognosis. METHODS:Prospective analysis of pathological prognostic factors in 209 resections for rectal carcinoma between 1988 and 1993 with meticulous pathological technique particularly to asses...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shepherd NA,Baxter KJ,Love SB

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00