Anaerobic infections of the urinary tract: are they being missed?

abstract：:Twenty-two known strains of the Bacteroides fragilis group of organisms and 67 clinical specimens from a variety of sites were examined by fluorescent antibody test (IFA) using two different antisera fro the rapid detection of B fragilis group of organisms. A previously reported Barts' pooled antisera was compared wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wills A,Taylor E,Pantosti A,Phillips I,Tabaqchali S

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prognostic factors in predicting outcomes in patients with head and neck squamous-cell carcinoma (HNSCC) are limited to the clinical-pathological parameters, including lymph node metastasis, location, grade and stage of the disease. AIM:To determine whether the expression of these proteins has a value in pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mhawech-Fauceglia P,Dulguerov P,Beck A,Bonet M,Allal AS

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To clarify a clinical entity of juvenile polyposis of the stomach compared with generalised juvenile gastrointestinal polyposis. METHODS:The clinicopathological features of juvenile polyposis dominantly involving the stomach at initial presentation were reviewed in 12 patients (three new patients and nine from th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hizawa K,Iida M,Yao T,Aoyagi K,Fujishima M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VII levels have been measured in 100 patients with liver disease following parenteral vitamin K1 therapy. There was good agreement between specific factor VII measurements and the one-stage prothrombin time apart from six patients with compensated cirrhosis in whom the prothrombin time was prolonged despite the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Green G,Poller L,Thomson JM,Dymock IW

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The indirect immunofluorescence technique was used to study the expression of the blood group A and H antigens in fresh-frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded sections of the bladder mucosa of 21 patients with non-neoplastic diseases of the bladder. Reliable assessment of these antigens could only be made using c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thorpe SJ,Abel P,Slavin G,Feizi T

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of the present study was to immunohistochemically investigate the expression and prognostic significance of putative cancer stem cell markers CD117 (c-kit), CD34, CD20 and CD15 in a cohort of patients with primary choroidal and ciliary body melanoma. METHODS:The immunohistochemical expression of these mar...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lukenda A,Dotlic S,Vukojevic N,Saric B,Vranic S,Zarkovic K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hsulf-1 is a newly identified enzyme with arylsulphatase activity that can regulate the sulphation state of cell-surface heparan sulphate proteoglycans (HSPGs). In vitro overexpression of this enzyme in pancreatic cancer cells decreases responsiveness to fibroblastic growth factor-2, as Hsulf-1 is up regulat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Abiatari I,Kleeff J,Li J,Felix K,Büchler MW,Friess H

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the intensity of the delayed hypersensitivity reaction and the dose of antigen used for its elicitation change with time after sensitization. At three weeks the reactions to 100 mug of egg albumen were little different from those to 1 mug but at 14 weeks 100 mug gave much stronger reactions. T...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jokipii AM,Jokipii L

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synovial sarcoma is a distinctive soft tissue neoplasm with monophasic and biphasic forms. It is typically a deep-seated soft tissue tumour of the extremities of young adults and occasional cases have been described in large peripheral nerves. A rare example has a predominance of the glandular component and may mimic ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Weinreb I,Perez-Ordoñez B,Guha A,Kiehl TR

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Several studies have reported conflicting and inconclusive results concerning the clinical relevance of mucin expression in gastric carcinoma. This study investigated the correlations between aberrant expression of mucins in gastric carcinoma and patient clinicopathological features. METHODS:The expression of MUC...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wang RQ,Fang DC

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spectrophotometric assay of proteolytic enzyme activity is described in which the optical density obtained by a given enzyme preparation is related (2 alpha less than 0.01) to the serological activity of that preparation in a two stage technique. The assay appears to be of use for the standardisation of enzyme prepa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Phillips PK,Prior D,Dawes B

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To examine whether variations in pathology test requesting between different general practices can be accounted for by sociodemographic or other descriptive indicators of the practice. METHOD:This was a comparative analysis of requesting patterns across a range of pathology tests representing 95% of those request...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smellie WS,Galloway MJ,Chinn D,Gedling P

更新日期：2002-04-01 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：:An immunochemical procedure for routine laboratory diagnosis of pregnancy utilizing adsorption of human chorionic gonadotrophin onto kaolin and the Ortho pregnancy test reagents is described. The method is suitable for quantitative assay of urinary human chorionic gonadotrophin and can be adapted for use with serum. I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： ORBAN TD

更新日期：1964-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a twenty-year period 19 appendicectomy specimens were diagnosed as primary Crohn's disease. This represents 4.9% of the total number of both resection specimens and mucosal biopsies diagnosed as Crohn's disease during that time. This is a review of the main histopathological features found in these appendices and t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Allen DC,Biggart JD

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 5171 inpatients have been tested for HBAg and HBAb during the 18-month period ending in December 1972. The incidence of HBAg (0.116%) was similar to that in blood donors (0.119%) in the same area, being tested for the first time by the same technique. By contrast the incidence of HBAb in patients (0.271%) wa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Payne RW,Barr A,Wallace J

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The laboratory findings in seven cases of endocarditis caused by coagulase-negative staphylococci are presented. The usefulness of biochemical characterization of the strains in diagnosis and the selection of antibiotics for prophylaxis and treatment are discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Speller DC,Mitchell RG

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apocrine morphology is a common phenomenon encountered in everyday breast pathology practice, and is defined as cuboidal or columnar cells exhibiting abundant eosinophilic granular cytoplasm, prominent apical granules, a low nuclear-cytoplasmic ratio, and round nuclei with pale chromatin and prominent nucleoli. Apocri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： D'Arcy C,Quinn C

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the breast is a rare tumour with less than 30 cases reported in the literature. The clinicopathological findings of three cases of primary neuroendocrine carcinoma of the breast and a review of the pertinent literature are presented. The morphological and immunohistochemical patt...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Adegbola T,Connolly CE,Mortimer G

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The material from a case of Tietze's disease has been examined histologically. A review of the literature on the pathology of this lesion correlated with the findings from this case indicates that there is a pathological lesion in the costal cartilage in this disease. This consists of an increased vascularity and dege...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cameron HU,Fornasier VL

更新日期：1974-12-01 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:To assess the accuracy of the Mast-ID 15 system compared with API 20 E for the identification of stock and fresh clinical strains of Enterobacteriaceae and Acinetobacter spp; to compare the accuracy of 19 pin and 36 pin multipoint inoculator heads. METHODS:One hundred frozen stock cultures of Enterobacteriaceae a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shakespeare AP,Megson GM,Jones PA,Drucker DB,Keaney MG,Ganguli LA

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver function was assessed in 38 Edinburgh haemophiliacs. Results before the introduction of NHS intermediate factor VIII concentrate from 1974 onwards were compared with values in 1979. Measurements of serum bile salts in 16 patients as well as conventional liver function tests gave useful evidence of deranged liver...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stirling ML,Beckett GJ,Percy-Robb IW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 51 year old woman presented with rectal bleeding from a mass lying just above the dentate line. Multiple biopsies were taken before the diagnosis of a benign lymphoid polyp was made. This is a rare condition that more commonly presents in children and poses a diagnostic challenge. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lloyd J,Darzi A,Teare J,Goldin RD

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the value of squamous mucosal histology in the assessment of patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux symptoms. METHODS:Sixty six patients with reflux symptoms underwent endoscopy with oesophageal biopsy, manometry, and 24 hour oesophageal pH testing. The following histological features were assessed ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bowrey DJ,Williams GT,Clark GW

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathological diagnoses and classification schemes for thyroid carcinoma have changed over the past 20 years and continue to do so. New entities have been described and molecular analyses have suggested better characterisation and grouping of certain tumours. Because some of the lesions have been named differently ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Baloch Z,LiVolsi VA,Tondon R

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:Platelet concentrates were prepared for in vitro storage in either Fenwal PL-732 or Cutter CLX platelet packs. The units were stored at 22 degrees C for seven days with either horizontal or tumbler agitation. Measurement of pH, hypotonic shock response and serotonin uptake indicated in vitro viability was well maintai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Taylor MA,Tandy NP,Fraser ID

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron microscopy od duodenal mucosa from children with acute non-bacterial enteritis has shown virus particles in epithelial cells. Indirect immunofluorescent techniques applied to the same tissue showed virus antigen localized in the cytoplasm of epithelial cells of the villi. Specific IgM antibody was present in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Davidson GP,Goller I,Bishop RF,Townley RR,Holmes IH,Ruck BJ

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of interstitial pneumonia are described. They were characterized by mononuclear cell infiltration of the alveolar walls and protein-rich exudate into the alveolar cavities, with localized hyaline membrane formation. Coxsackie B5 virus was isolated from the lungs of both patients at necropsy. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Flewett TH

更新日期：1965-11-01 00:00:00