An improved screening method for 3-methoxy-4-hydroxy mandelic acid excretion in urine.

abstract：:The clinical course and biopsy findings of twenty-one patients with IgA nephropathy, followed up for a mean period of 37.4 mth (range 24-54 mth) after diagnosis, were reviewed retrospectively to determine whether the clinical presentations, the laboratory findings or histopathologic changes have prognostic implication...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Ng WL,Loke SL,Yeung CK,Kwan S,Chan KW,Chan MK

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary fibrous tumour (SFT) is well-described in the urinary tract, but malignant examples are rare. We studied our experience with high grade malignant SFT of the prostate to address the degree of histological and immunophenotypical overlap with sarcomatoid carcinoma and prostatic stromal sarcoma. Four cases were i...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Bakhshwin A,Berry RS,Cox RM,Li R,Reynolds JP,Rubin BP,McKenney JK

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol in blood was assayed by 2 currently available procedures: a commercial kit enzymatic assay and a gas chromatographic procedure. Both methods were performed with commercially available materials and equipment. Results by the 2 procedures agreed well. For the 192 specimens studied, the correlation coefficient wa...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Taylor GF,Turrill GH,Carter NG

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About 10% of gastric carcinomas are associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which are defined as EBV-associated gastric carcinomas (EBVaGCs). EBVaGCs are usually accompanied by massive lymphocytes infiltration, among which CD8+ T cells are predominant. To date, the apoptosis of the infiltrating CD8+ T cells in EBVaG...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Tang F,Chen JN,Zhang NN,Gong LP,Jiang Y,Feng ZY,Xiao L,Li HG,Du H,Wu B,Shao CK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of complement-fixing (CF) antibody against the AG-4 early antigen of herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 2 (HSV-2) was determined in patients with culture confirmed HSV-2 genital herpes and control groups using a commercial HSV-2 early antigen (Simplex-2; Gene Link Australia Ltd). Eighty seven per cent of 3...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Field PR,Ho DW,Cunningham AL

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) is a highly-specialised procedure that is associated with some controversy as to its diagnostic role due to its inconsistency in diagnosing a wide variety of cardiac diseases. Given the advances and sophistication in echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the vast ma...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Khan T,Selvakumar D,Trivedi S,Rao K,Harapoz M,Thiagalingam A,Denniss AR,Varikatt W

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty four ventilated premature infants from three Neonatal Intensive Care Units around Melbourne were evaluated prospectively for evidence of Ureaplasma urealyticum and Chlamydia trachomatis infection in the respiratory tract. No C. trachomatis was found and this probably reflects the low prevalence of genital carria...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Garland SM,Bowman ED

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostatic stromal proliferations account for the majority of benign tumour-like lesions in the prostate. The most common is nodular hyperplasia, seen in a majority of elderly men. Diagnostic difficulty is encountered with some variants, including stromal hyperplasia with atypia, characterised by degenerative changes o...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Bostwick DG,Egevad L

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect haemaglutination method was developed for the immunochemical detection of myoglobin in human urine. Myoglobin was found in the urine of 84% of 44 patients with acute myocardial infarction. In contrast, it was detected in the urine of 2.7% of 147 control subjects and in none of a control group of 15 patient...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Cloonan JM,Donald TG,Neale C,Wilcken DE

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma (LPL) represents a distinct type of mature B-cell lymphoma with a substantial subset of cases being associated with Waldenström macroglobulinaemia (WM), defined as primarily bone marrow involvement and the presence of an IgM monoclonal paraprotein. MYD88 L265P mutation, although not specific...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Wang W,Lin P

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryostat sections of livers from rats treated with carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) for 12 weeks were examined by indirect immunofluorescence for reactivity with human serum containing smooth muscle antibody (SMA). Increased binding of SMA serum to hepatocytes was observed as early as the first week of CCl4 treatment and r...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Toh BH,Cauchi MN,Muller HK

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:BRAF mutation has been shown in a large meta-analysis to be an independent prognostic marker for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) with poorer survival and higher recurrence rates. METHODS:We studied prevalence of BRAF mutation in 77 patients with PTC from an Australian cohort using competitive polymerase chain r...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： McKelvie PA,Chan F,Yu Y,Waring P,Gresshoff I,Farrell S,Williams RA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the relative diagnostic efficacy of several different tests used to establish a diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma, in patients with a proven diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma, and in hospital patients with significant disease of other types. METHODS:We prospectively compared biochemical markers of catecholami...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Hickman PE,Leong M,Chang J,Wilson SR,McWhinney B

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plexiform leiomyomas of the uterus are incidental findings in hysterectomy specimens. Histogenetically, these rare tumors are classified as a variant of epithelioid leiomyomas. Most of the plexiform leiomyomas reported range in size from microscopically small lesions to less than 1 cm in largest diameter, and they mac...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Nagel H,Brinck U,Lüthje D,Füzesi L

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey conducted by the Australian Association of Clinical Biochemists Porphyrin Working Party on urinary porphobilinogen screening showed good sensitivity (75-97.5%). This is contrary to reports in the literature and to our own observations. We therefore assessed a widely used screening method (Watson-Schwartz) and...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Buttery JE,Carrera AM,Pannall PR

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) have various functions that play roles in carcinoma development. In this study, we investigated the expression of two representative MMPs, MMP-7 and MMP-11, in papillary thyroid carcinomas. METHODS:We immunohistochemically investigated the expression of these MMPs in 196 cases of ...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Ito Y,Yoshida H,Kakudo K,Nakamura Y,Kuma K,Miyauchi A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A male iniencephalic foetus of about 25 weeks gestation is described. The baby was born to a 22-year-old mother, who presented with abdominal pain of 1 day duration. An ultrasound scan at that time showed multiple foetal anomalies and the pregnancy was terminated. A stillborn baby was delivered. At autopsy, characteri...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Loo CK,Freeman B,Stanford D

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The estrogen receptor (ER) content of breast carcinoma is generally accepted as valuable in predicting clinical outcome and tumour response to hormonal manipulation. We applied a new immunocytochemical assay for estrogen receptors (Abbott ERICA Monoclonal) to 20 breast tumours, and examined the efficacy of 16 fixation...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Raymond WA,Leong AS

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of cellular products for therapeutic purposes has predominantly been unregulated in Australia until recently. Transplant of haemopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) for bone marrow regeneration is now a routine treatment for many disorders with an established mechanism of facility accreditation. However, other cellular...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Trickett AE,Wall DM

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinction between melanocytic naevi and melanoma occasionally poses a diagnostic challenge in ambiguous cases showing overlapping histological features. Melanomas are characterised by the presence of multiple genomic copy number variants (CNVs), while this is not a feature of naevi. We assessed the feasibility and u...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Mesbah Ardakani N,Thomas C,Robinson C,Mina K,Harvey NT,Amanuel B,Wood BA

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of extraskeletal osteosarcoma of the scalp in a 56-year-old woman is described. At presentation she was found to have an 8-cm diameter, tender, firm, exophytic scalp tumor. MRI scan confirmed absence of underlying skeletal origin and showed extension along the subcutaneous plane. The tumor was excised and ...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Pillay P,Simango S,Govender D

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromosome identification techniques have shown the non-random nature of cytogenetic changes in leukemia. In addition, they have identified structural chromosome abnormalities occurring in specific types of acute leukemia as classified by the FAB criteria. Such cytogenetic sub groups are associated with differing prog...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Garson OM

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypercalcemia is a common biochemical abnormality. It is usually possible to make a presumptive diagnosis of its cause by relatively simple means. In a large majority of cases this involves differentiating between primary hyperparathyroidism and malignancy-associated hypercalcemia. Clinical evaluation and parathyroid ...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Mason RS

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgG4 related disease (IgG4RD) is a recently recognised condition characterised by mass forming lesions associated with storiform fibrosis, obliterative phlebitis, lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate rich in IgG4 positive plasma cells and elevated serum IgG4 levels. Although rare, mammary involvement has been reported as IgG4...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Chougule A,Bal A,Das A,Singh G

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various tumour markers have been evaluated in malignant pleural effusions, but not CD66c. This study evaluated the diagnostic ability of CD66c in lung adenocarcinoma-associated malignant pleural effusions (LA-MPEs) and compared it with other known tumour markers. Forty-seven cases of LA-MPE and 52 cases of benign pleu...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Son SM,Han HS,An JY,Choe KH,Lee KM,Lee KH,Kim SS,Lee YM,Lee HC,Song HG,Lee OJ

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the 20 years that cardiac troponin testing has been available in clinical laboratories, the biomarker has revolutionised testing of patients with acute coronary syndromes. Cardiac troponin I and T testing has become the cornerstone for diagnosis of myocardial infarction and is useful for risk assessment and managem...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Christenson RH,Phillips D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:We assessed the expression of ALDH1 and EZH2, cancer stem cell (CSC) related markers, in triple negative and basal-like breast cancers, investigating their association with clinicopathological features and outcome. METHODS:Clinicopathological data were obtained from 140 cases of triple negative breast cancer. A t...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： De Brot M,Rocha RM,Soares FA,Gobbi H

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main controversy about nerve sheath tumors (NSTs) has been their histogenesis. A Schwann cell origin has been proposed by many investigators for both schwannomas and neurofibromas. However Erlandson and Woodruff observed that while schwannomas appeared to be composed predominantly of Schwann cells, neurofibromas c...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Kharbanda K,Dinda AK,Sarkar C,Karak AK,Mathur M,Roy S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of solitary cervical intramedullary schwannoma with an extramedullary extension is reported. This case demonstrates the difficulty of radiologic diagnosis of these tumours and the necessity for pre-treatment biopsy. ...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Garen PD,Collett MG,Harper CG

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, both the World Health Organization/International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO/IARC) and the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) have classified oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) on the basis of HPV status. For this purpose, the WHO/IARC recommended direct molecular HPV testing. In pra...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Veyer D,Wack M,Grard O,Bonfils P,Hans S,Bélec L,Badoual C,Péré H

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00