Recent advances in the diagnosis of soft tissue tumours.

abstract：:A method for the preparation of human renal biopsy specimens for scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is described. This involves glomerular isolation by fine needle dissection and the simultaneous processing of 10 or more specimens in a specially designed tissue cassette. The method is simple and reliable with minimal ...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Ng W,So KF,So PC,Ngai HK

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Micropapillary carcinoma of the colon and rectum is associated with an adverse prognosis. This tumour type displays reverse polarity of the tumour cells and is stated to be characterised by an inside-out epithelial membrane antigen (EMA)/MUC1 staining. Nine cases of primary colorectal carcinoma and one omental metasta...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Cserni G

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appropriate investigation of a patient with suspected von Willebrand's disease (VWD) involves a clinical assessment of the patient followed by laboratory testing. A variety of laboratory assays may be performed, not necessarily restricted to an assessment of von Willebrand factor (VWF). Due to the limitations of each ...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Favaloro EJ,Koutts J

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its first description in the early part of the twentieth century, struma ovarii has elicited considerable interest because of its many unique features; however, at present a number of aspects remain enigmatic. Although the typical presentation is that of a pelvic mass, unusual clinical manifestations such as hyp...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Roth LM,Talerman A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:1) To determine the prevalence of hepatitis B in Sydney autopsies and 2) to determine the relationship between seroprevalence, hepatitis B risk factors and histological changes in the liver. METHODS:One hundred autopsy subjects were studied for evidence of past or present hepatitis B infection, using RIA to detect...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Ashwell MJ,Cossart YE

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:There are many variants of papillary carcinoma, and some of these variants have been reported to show biological behaviours differing from that of conventional papillary carcinoma. In this study, we present our experience regarding the prevalence and prognoses of these variants of papillary carcinoma. METHODS:H&E...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Ito Y,Hirokawa M,Uruno T,Kihara M,Higashiyama T,Takamura Y,Miya A,Kobayashi K,Matsuzuka F,Miyauchi A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine whether routine culturing for Clostridium difficile was warranted or whether culturing a selected group of patients was adequate, we conducted a prospective trial of culturing all stool specimens for C. difficile. A total of 408 specimens from 297 patients was studied. Two hundred and eighteen st...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Bowman RA,Riley TV

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphadenopathy associated with hemorrhage as a presenting feature of primary (AL) amyloidosis has not previously been described. We report two such cases one of whom had an acquired factor X and IX deficiency. The clinical presentations were characterized by sudden spontaneous enlargement of lymph nodes followed by p...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Hanley JP,MacLean FR,Evans JL,Colls BM,Robinson BA,Patton WN,Heaton DC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of azthreonam, a novel monocyclic beta-lactam antibiotic, was investigated for Gram negative urinary pathogens by determining the susceptibilities of 105 consecutive isolates from specimens submitted to the Auckland Hospital microbiology laboratory. All were sensitive or of intermediate sensitivi...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Lang SD,McKenzie D

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal diagnoses of the genetic disorders alpha, beta thalassemia, HbS, Hb Lepore, hemophilia and cystic fibrosis were sought in 88 cases. Six unsuccessful attempts at diagnosis resulted from DNA polymorphisms which were only 50% informative (four cases) and prenatal diagnoses which had been undertaken before it was...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Trent RJ,Volpato F,Wallace RC,Lindeman R,Yakas J

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A screening method is described for urinary 3-methoxy-4-hydroxy mandelic acid using an initial ion exchange procedure, vanillin formation and extraction into toluene. The technique, is simple, rapid and specific, with a reference value up to 35 mumol (7.0 mg)/day established on 92 normal human subjects. Over 200 patie...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Rumble BA,Dick M

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of multiple hepatic abscesses due to Yersinia enterocolitica in a 58 yr old male. This case is typical of the other 39 cases reported in the literature in that the patient had alcoholism, malnutrition, iron overload and a subsequently diagnosed malignancy. Ultrasound showed multiple hypoechoic areas i...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Strungs I,Farrell DJ,Matar LD,Dekker L,Franz RJ

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：:The results of cytological examination of 1280 transrectal fine needle aspiration biopsies of the prostate from 1122 patients over a period of 10 years are given. The technique was used for the diagnosis of prostatic carcinoma. The microscopic appearances including classification according to differentiation are descr...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Lin BP,Davies WE,Harmata PA

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Granulomatous (lobular) mastitis is a rare inflammatory breast disease affecting parous reproductive-aged women. Once considered idiopathic, there is growing evidence of an association with corynebacteria infection, especially in the setting of a distinct histological pattern termed cystic neutrophilic granulomatous m...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Johnstone KJ,Robson J,Cherian SG,Wan Sai Cheong J,Kerr K,Bligh JF

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Sirtuin1 (SIRT1) is a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide-dependent deacetylase. Recently, some studies have suggested that SIRT1 could be over-expressed in breast, prostate and colon cancers and up-regulated SIRT1 inactivates p53 by deacetylation. Therefore, we investigated the prevalence and the prognostic impact ...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Jang KY,Kim KS,Hwang SH,Kwon KS,Kim KR,Park HS,Park BH,Chung MJ,Kang MJ,Lee DG,Moon WS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Immunohistochemical detection of the 185-kDa transmembrane glycoprotein product of the proto-oncogene c-erbB-2 (also known as HER-2/neu), located on chromosome 17q21, is a well established method of evaluation in invasive breast cancer. This investigation is currently performed on standard sections cut from the tu...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Selvarajan S,Tan SY,Sii LH,Tan PH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To examine the impact of microwave (MW) tissue processing on turnaround times (TATs) in a routine diagnostic laboratory. METHODS:A retrospective review of TATs for tissue processing (specimen receipt to completion of H&E-stained section) and pathologists' report generation (receipt of stained section to validatio...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Leong AS,Price D

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the evolutionary origins of Australian healthcare-associated (HCA) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains from a panel of historical isolates typed using current genotyping techniques. METHODS:Nineteen MRSA isolates from 1965 to 1981 were examined and antibiotic susceptibility p...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Lancashire JF,Jones A,Bergh H,Huygens F,Nimmo GR

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid technique suitable for routine laboratory use for determining the percentage of large platelets in the peripheral blood is described. In 50 haematologically normal subjects, megathrombocytes (platelets with a volume of 16-33 fl) constituted 3.0-16.6% (mean +/- 2 SD) of the platelet count. Of the 10 patients ex...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Hunt FA

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gram negative anaerobic organisms are important pathogens in a range of clinical infections, and susceptibility testing is not commonly performed in the microbiology laboratory. We performed anaerobic susceptibility testing on 70 clinically relevant Gram negative anaerobes isolated from routine cultures in a busy diag...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Hughes C,Ashhurst-Smith C,Ferguson JK

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

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：AIM:To demonstrate that Flinders Island spotted fever (FISF), a spotted fever group rickettsial infection caused by Rickettsia honei, is found not only on Flinders Island (Bass Strait), Tasmania, but elsewhere in south-east Australia. METHODS:Cases of FISF were identified by rickettsial serology, culture and the detec...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Unsworth NB,Stenos J,McGregor AR,Dyer JR,Graves SR

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While localised prostate cancer can be cured by local treatment, 'high-risk' prostate cancer often progresses to castration resistant disease and remains incurable with a dismal prognosis. In recent years, technical advances and development of novel methodologies have largely contributed to a better understanding of u...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Vlajnic T,Bubendorf L

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sequential study has been made of the ultrastructure of local renal graft-versus-host reactions produced in cyclophosphamide-pretreated rats by injection of either allogeneic or xenogeneic (mouse) spleen cells beneath the renal capsule. Early in the reaction, immunoblasts were seen between the outer cortical tubules...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Davies DJ,Conway MS

更新日期：1975-10-01 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：:The current public health emergency surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, that is the illness caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has resulted in thousands of cases in Australia since 25 January 2020 when the first case was diagnosed. This emerging virus presents particular hazards to ...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Kaufer AM,Theis T,Lau KA,Gray JL,Rawlinson WD

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 44-year-old female with a known history of a solitary osteochondroma of the scapula followed on X-ray for five years. She then presented with a rapidly growing lump. Imaging studies confirmed the presence of an aggressive looking lesion. Excision was performed and pathology showed a dedifferentiated chon...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Radhi JM,Loewy J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As autopsy rates in general hospitals decline, interest in the perinatal autopsy continues to rise, reflecting the emergence of a vigorous specialty growing in parallel with fetal medicine, prenatal diagnosis and clinical genetics. Perinatal autopsies are best carried out in tertiary centres which provide these servic...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Chambers HM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human glomerular basement membrane (GBM) emulsified in Freund's complete adjuvant was injected into 16 Holtzman rats. Eleven (69%) of them subsequently developed glomerulonephritis. This disease was characterized by glomerular changes which included focal lobular hypercellularity due to localized hyperplasia of intrac...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： McCausland IP,Herdson PB,Gavin JB

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00