Further evidence of hepatic transdifferentiation in hepatoid adenocarcinomas of the stomach: quantitative analysis of mRNA for albumin and hepatocyte nuclear factor-4alpha.

abstract：:Forty-six necropsy cases of recurrent pyogenic cholangitis (RPC) among Chinese in Hong Kong were reviewed. Intrahepatic biliary pigment stones or bile sludge were present in all cases and liver abscesses were common (80%). Histologically the early lesion was marked by acute inflammation in portal tracts with frequent ...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Chou ST,Chan CW

更新日期：1980-07-01 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：: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：:A fatal case of multiple sulfatase deficiency in a 10-year-old girl is reported. In this rare disease, which is inherited as an autosomal recessive, features of metachromatic leukodystrophy and of mucopolysaccharidoses occur together. The white matter suffers progressive destruction with sulfatides accumulating in mac...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Kepes JJ,Berry A 3rd,Zacharias DL

更新日期：1988-07-01 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：:The BRAF(V600E) mutation confers worse prognosis to metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients. In addition, this mutation has a negative predictive value for response to treatment with monoclonal antibodies against EGFR in patients with KRAS wild-type (wt) mCRC. The utility of immunohistochemistry (IHC) as an alter...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Ilie MI,Long-Mira E,Hofman V,Mouroux J,Vignaud JM,Gauchotte G,Begueret H,Merlio JP,Emile JF,Hébuterne X,Hofman P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To correlate the immunostaining for INI1 protein and mutations in INI1 gene in possible rhabdoid tumours (RT) and atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumours (AT/RT) seen at the Royal Children's Hospital in the last 10 years, and to study the clinicopathological features of those patients with negative nuclear staining. M...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Wu X,Dagar V,Algar E,Muscat A,Bandopadhayay P,Ashley D,Wo Chow C

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinicopathological analysis was made of data from 250 cases of nodular fasciitis. These benign nodules usually occurred in young and middle-aged adults in the 4th and 5th decades, most often in the forearm (27%) followed by the thigh (17%) and the upper arm (12%), and grew rather rapidly to reach a mean diameter of...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Shimizu S,Hashimoto H,Enjoji M

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating fever in the returned traveller can be difficult and costly. Dengue is one of the most frequently reported aetiologies. NS1 is a non-structural dengue virus protein detectable during acute infection. The aim of this report is to describe the utility of the Platelia Dengue NS1 antigen enzyme immunoassay (...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Foley DA,Yeoh DK,Karapanagiotidis T,Nhindri T,Catton M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 5-year-old Chinese boy had dull pain in his right knee for about one year. An intraosseous osteolytic lesion in the metaphysis of the right lower femur was curetted. The diagnosis of desmoplastic fibroma, possibly the first in a Hong Kong Chinese, was based on the clinical, radiological and histological findings. Ab...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Chan KW,Pun WK,Choi CH

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The increasing importance of cardiac disease has generated an interest in improved screening strategies regarding preclinical cardiac abnormalities and employing measurement of circulating biomarkers. This review focuses on the utility of the B-type natriuretic peptides (NP) and the cardiac troponins (cTns) for th...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Eggers KM,Venge P

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis in the myocardium is complex and often difficult to recognise. Myocyte apoptosis is scattered across the myocardial wall and is restricted to individual cells. In the present study, we describe the amount of apoptosis in 50 endomyocardial biopsies taken from 50 patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, in 14 hea...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Kavantzas NG,Lazaris AC,Agapitos EV,Nanas J,Davaris PS

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of lactoferrin, a non-heme iron binding glycoprotein, was determined in more than 1500 EDTA plasma samples by a 2-site solid phase immunoradiometric assay to assess the significance of lactoferrin in plasma and to investigate applications for this assay. The use of commercially available antibody and...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Brown RD,Rickard KA,Kronenberg H

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exfoliative, abrasive and aspiration cytology were increasingly relied upon for tissue diagnosis of tumours. The established histological stains for the differentiation of mucin and non-mucin-secreting tumours are not ideal for alcohol-fixed cytology smears and a more reliable cytological technique for the preservatio...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Nathan NA,van Deth AG

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred and ten thyroid nodules, 127 breast lumps and 43 lymph nodes were sampled and analyzed to compare the classical aspiration (ASP) technique with the non aspiration needle jab (NASP) technique. The adequacy of cellularity, significant blood staining and the discomfort felt by the patient were assessed and s...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Kumarasinghe MP,Sheriffdeen AH

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The values of a number of biochemical variables have been studied before and after a 50-gram load of glucose orally. Reductions which were statistically significant were found for sodium, potassium, urea, total protein, albumin, calcium, phosphorus, urate, bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, but not for bicarbonate, crea...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Masarei JR

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the management of rheumatic diseases, peptic ulceration associated with anti-inflammatory drug therapy is a major problem and seriously limits the usefulness of these agents. In acute experiments with a guinea pig total gastric pouch preparation, gastric damage induced by the prostaglandin synthetase inhibitor indo...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Maclaurin BP,Watts C,Palmer DG

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultimate goal of defining cancer specific precursors is to facilitate early detection and intervention before the development of invasive malignancy. Unlike other malignancies involving the female genital tract such as cervical or endometrial carcinomas, precursor lesions of ovarian carcinomas have not been well c...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Lim D,Oliva E

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma-like organisms (MLO) are non-cultivated intracellular cell wall deficient pathogenic bacteria with a distinctive ultrastructural appearance. Diagnosis of MLO disease rests on finding the organisms in parasitized cells using a transmission electron microscope. MLO are a well studied cause of transmissible ch...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Johnson L,Wirostko E,Wirostko B

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：: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：AIM:Lignocaine, a topical anaesthetic agent, is generally used in variable concentrations usually between 2% and 4% on the vocal cords prior to flexible bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) procedures. The aim of this study was to investigate whether 2% or 1% lignocaine significantly inhibits the growth of org...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Chandan SS,Faoagali J,Wainwright CE

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lupus anticoagulant (LA) phenomenon created world-wide interest recently. Various tests have been devised to identify LA in plasma, but none of these methods have been universally accepted. In this study 16 cases labelled LA positive by a prior kaolin clotting time (KCT) test were reassessed by four other methods,...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Stark RA,Gordon S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present conventional methods for determination of Hemoglobin (Hb) concentration in whole blood depend on the direct colorimetric measurement of chemically modified Hb following its release from red cells by lysis. This paper examines an alternative, indirect method which does not require initial red cell lysis, co...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Kalache GR,Sartor MM,Hughes WG

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are few studies addressing survival of diffuse peritoneal mesotheliomas (DPM).In this study, survival data were obtained retrospectively from 73 patients treated with intended cytoreductive surgery for DPM, with a mean follow-up of 42 months. Mesotheliomas were classified as well differentiated papillary (WDPM, ...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Liu S,Staats P,Lee M,Alexander HR,Burke AP

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decreased neutrophil alkaline phosphatase (NAP) synthesis is a classical feature of Philadelphia (Ph) positive chronic phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Whether this aberration is an integral leukemic property of the cell or results from mediation by other factors is unclear. During alpha-interferon (alpha-IFN) ba...

journal_title：Pathology

authors： Taylor DL,Kerwick AM,Elliott SL,Rodwell RL,Wright SJ,Marlton PV,Veleba AR,Taylor KM

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：: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

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：: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