Fatal Campylobacter jejuni infection in a patient splenectomised for thalassaemia.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is characterised by an ineffective immune response that is predominantly mediated by CD4+ T-cells. AIMS:To analyse the expression of the key regulatory T-cell transcription factors (TFs) in the T-cells of HL involved tissues in order to assess the nature of the T(H) immune response i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Atayar C,van den Berg A,Blokzijl T,Boot M,Gascoyne RD,Visser L,Poppema S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate whether endometrial pathology is more likely to be diagnosed in gynaecologically symptomatic rather than in gynaecologically asymptomatic postmenopausal breast cancer patients with tamoxifen treatment; and to evaluate the possible influence of various clinical factors on the incidence of endometrial pa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cohen I,Perel E,Flex D,Tepper R,Altaras MM,Cordoba M,Beyth Y

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A middle aged man developed very high fever, status epilepticus, and terminal acute renal failure with myoglobinuria after surgery. A post mortem examination showed widespread muscle necrosis with hypercontraction bands. Muscle enzyme studies and electron microscopic examination disclosed central core disease, a condi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Prescott RJ,Roberts SP,Williams G

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During 1971 and 1972, 71 cultures of neisseriae that attacked lactose were received by this laboratory. All strains except one from an eye swab were from the nasopharynx of healthy subjects. Nineteen similar strains from the nasopharynx were isolated in this laboratory. The characteristics of these strains were compar...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pykett AH

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of a group of 325 blood donors between the ages of 18 and 65 years, the total leucocyte and polymorph counts of the females aged 50 to 65 years were found to be significantly lower than those of the corresponding group of male donors. In the whole series of female donors, there were significantly lower tota...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Allan RN,Alexander MK

更新日期：1968-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epstein's syndrome is defined as a subtype of Alport's syndrome, and is distinguished from the other subtypes by accompanying macrothrombocytopenia. Mutations in collagen IV genes are known to be involved in the pathogenesis of typical Alport's syndrome. However, the presence of an underlying genetic defect ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Naito I,Nomura S,Inoue S,Kagawa M,Kawai S,Gunshin Y,Joh K,Tsukidate C,Sado Y,Osawa G

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To describe characteristics of a series of people accidentally and deliberately killed by air powered weapons. METHODS:Five cases of fatal airgun injury were identified by forensic pathologists and histopathologists. The circumstances surrounding the case, radiological examination, and pathological findings are d...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Milroy CM,Clark JC,Carter N,Rutty G,Rooney N

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:EpCAM is an adhesion molecule of the basolateral membranes in a variety of epithelial cells. Over-expression has been detected in many epithelial tumours and has been associated with high stage, high grade and a worse survival in some tumour types. AIMS:To assess the prognostic value of EpCAM in urothelial ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brunner A,Prelog M,Verdorfer I,Tzankov A,Mikuz G,Ensinger C

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of chromoblastomycosis confined to the mucous membrane of one side of the nasal septum is reported. The organism was not cultivated, but its characteristics in histological preparations were typical of those of the organisms in sections of cutaneous lesions known to be caused by Phialophora pedrosoi and related...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SYMMERS WS

更新日期：1960-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young woman presented with bilateral ovarian tumours. Multiple sections of each tumour were shown to many pathologists for consultation; some considered the tumours to be borderline, whereas others thought that one or both of them was malignant. Morphometry showed that the numerical classification probabilities for ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Baak JP,Van der Ley G

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm-agglutinating antibodies were present in three (2-6%) of 117 fertile men and in 19 (33-9%) of 56 men who had been vasectomized. Twenty-four of the 56 vasectomized men had been studied before vasectomy; sperm-agglutinating antibodies were present in one (4-3%) compared with eight (33-3%) after vasectomy. No sperm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hunter J,Logan H,Greer G

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the role of needle core biopsy (NCB) in the preoperative assessment of impalpable breast lesions, mainly derived from the NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) and to assess our own modifications to a suggested system for the classification of breast NCBs. METHODS:The NCB, fine needle aspiration ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ibrahim AE,Bateman AC,Theaker JM,Low JL,Addis B,Tidbury P,Rubin C,Briley M,Royle GT

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the relevance of genetic variants of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and to demonstrate the usefulness of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in cases of HBV diagnostic difficulty. METHODS:Five serum samples from patients that presented diagnostic difficulty in routine laboratories were sent to a research labor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： van Deursen FJ,Hino K,Wyatt D,Molyneaux P,Yates P,Wallace LA,Dow BC,Carman WF

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper urges the benefits of applying more widely a method for pathology laboratory costing originally devised for a clinical chemistry department, and illustrates these with examples drawn from costing studies in three clinical laboratories. Heads of pathology departments, laboratory managers, administrators and ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Broughton PM,Woodford FP

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to evaluate five commercial kit assays used for the detection of antibodies to dsDNA. The kits were compared using a performance index score as recommended by the guidelines of the European Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards. The highest performance score was obtained using the radi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McMillan SA,Fay AC

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A latex agglutination test for the detection of Pseudomonas pseudomallei antigen in urine was evaluated for the rapid diagnosis of melioidosis. With unconcentrated urine, antigen was detected in only 18% of patients with melioidosis overall. However, when urine was concentrated 100-fold, antigen was detected in 47% ov...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smith MD,Wuthiekanun V,Walsh AL,Teerawattanasook N,Desakorn V,Suputtamongkol Y,Pitt TL,White NJ

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical study of 401 cases of tumour of salivary tissue has been made and the results reported, together with a review of the literature. The histological variations of such tumours are classified and discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： CAMERON JM

更新日期：1961-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonality analysis of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene is helpful in identifying malignant B cell infiltrates in the bone marrow and is usually carried out on separate aspirates or on the same formalin-fixed decalcified bone marrow specimen. To determine whether the removal of the decalcification step would i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Parrens M,Carrere N,Bouabdallah K,Fitoussi O,Goussot JF,Dubus P,de Mascarel A,Merlio JP

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the serological cross reaction between legionella and campylobacter using the rapid microagglutination test (RMAT). METHODS:Serum samples from 49 patients with campylobacter infection were tested for legionella antibodies using the indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT) and the RMAT. Serum sampl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Boswell TC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutrophil shape change response to a chemotactic formylpeptide was assessed. Neutrophil bipolar shape formation (BSF) was also simultaneously assessed with a Boyden chamber-based neutrophil migration assay. Both assays were precise and relatively reproducible; the average coefficient of variation for the BSF assa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lord RA,Roath S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS/BACKGROUND:A major medical role for postmortem examinations is the detection of clinically unexpected disease processes contributing to death. The aim of the present study was to determine whether simple clinical parameters can predict the presence of important unanticipated findings at necropsy. METHODS:Prospect...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Robinson IA,Marley NJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine a model for the evaluation of appropriateness of testing in an emergency biochemistry laboratory. METHODS:A model was devised in which incoming emergency test requests were categorised as appropriate or inappropriate. Explicit criteria were used to define eight minor categories, which were chosen to ref...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smellie WS,Murphy MJ,Galloway PJ,Hinnie J,McIlroy J,Dryburgh FJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The programmed cell death receptor 1 (PD-1) checkpoint inhibitor, nivolumab, has been approved for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC). However, the understanding of the expression and distribution of PD ligand 1 (PD-L1) in the tumour immune microenvironment and its prognostic role in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yeong J,Zhao Z,Lim JCT,Li H,Thike AA,Koh VCY,Teh BT,Kanesvaran R,Toh CK,Tan PH,Khor LY

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To test the hypothesis that a correct qualitative assessment of axillary nodal status can be established by examining only a limited number of lymph nodes. METHODS:Slides from 499 pN1 or pN0 axillary dissection specimens relating to symptomatic breast cancer cases operated on at our institution between 1991 and 1...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cserni G

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aneuploidy is frequently noted in malignant tumours. There is much controversy about its cause and effect in relation to malignant tumours. Failure of the spindle checkpoint caused by mutation of the responsible genes may be one of the important factors for the development of aneuploidy. Telomere dysfunction may also ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dey P

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts to detect hepatitis B antigen in faeces and bile should take into account the degradation and disappearance of the surface antigens in an environment containing proteolytic enzymes in the presence of bile salts as in the intestinal lumen. The cores of the Dane particles are much more stable than the surface a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Moodie JW,Stannard LM,Kipps A

更新日期：1974-09-01 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：:The effect of the new beta-lactam antibiotic FL 1060 on urinary tract pathogens, of which 71 were sensitive to and 100 resistant to ampicillin, is presented here. When tested by conventional methods FL 1060 was found to be highly active against ampicillin-sensitive strains of E. coli but phenotypically resistant varia...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Greenwood D,Brooks HL,Gargan R,O'Grady F

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the accuracy of the approximate linear formula of International Normalised Ratio (INR) imprecision by formal mathematical analysis. METHODS:Using probability theory, an exact formula for the coefficient of variation (CV) of the INR was derived. The CV from the approximate formula was compared with the ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bennett ST,Critchfield GC

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To establish the current sensitivity of two commercial kits for culture confirmation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains circulating in the UK. METHODS:A total of 544 strains were studied (199 gonococci from male patients attending hospitals in the county of Avon, 204 unselected N gonorrhoeae isolates from male pati...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Turner A,Gough KR,Jephcott AE

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00