abstract：:A slight modification in tissue processing and staining technique enables a previously described method for staining aluminium to be used to demonstrate aluminium in osteomalacia associated with haemodialysis. The stain appears to be accurate in diagnosing this condition and may assist in establishing the diagnosis be...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Buchanan MR,Ihle BU,Dunn CM

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells were identified by electronmicroscopy in the alveolar wall of the lung in 20 subjects (10 normal, 10 abnormal). A quantitative and qualitative study was made of the mast cells. In the normal lung there was an average concentration of 350 mast cells/mm2 of alveolar wall and in the abnormal 523/mm2. Mast cell...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fox B,Bull TB,Guz A

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concentration of factor VIII from fresh plasma by cryoprecipitation remains the basis for preparation of products used to treat haemophilia A. This paper describes the preparation of a factor VIII concentrate from small plasma pools in transfusion centres with drying facilities. The dried concentrate from one litre of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Millgan G,Graham R,Hanratty S,Muir W,Mitchell R

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell volumes of mononuclear cells, T lymphocytes, B lymphocytes, and monocytes from the peripheral blood of 20 normal individuals were compared to neoplastic lymphoid cells from 14 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), 20 individuals with acute lymphocytic leukaemia (ALL), and 18 cases of non-Hodgkin'...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chapman EH,Kurec AS,Davey FR

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mallory bodies were isolated from necropsy livers from patients with alcoholic hepatitis with and without cirrhosis with a Ficoll viscosity barrier. The purity of Mallory bodies in the isolate varied between 70 and 90%, estimated by counting Mallory bodies and non-Mallory body structures in haematoxylin-eosin stained ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gluud C,Hardt F,Aldershvile J,Christoffersen P,Lyon H,Nielsen J

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The applicability of a hapten-antihapten sandwich technique incorporating a monoclonal antihapten bridge antibody to localisation of tissue antigen is described. The results show that the method is both versatile and selective and has the potential of being even more sensitive than currently used immunoperoxidase meth...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jasani B,Thomas DW,Williams ED

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoreactive trypsin (IRT) content in blood spots from 17 cystic fibrosis (CF) children born between 1975-80 were assayed with reagents from two commercial radioimmunoassay kits. The manufacturers' procedures were modified to allow assay of blood spot IRT. Half of the CF samples had a significantly raised IRT conten...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ryley HC,Robinson PG,Yamashiro Y,Bradley DM

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tubercle bacilli, which survived heat fixation, were detected with a slide culture technique which allowed the entire smear to be examined. Both conventional flame fixation and the use of a controlled hot-plate failed to render tuberculous sputum smears safe for further handling. Smears which were stained with the ph...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Allen BW

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new sensitive nitrite test, the SRN test, was evaluated for its suitability as a reliable screening technique for the detection of bacteriuria. The SRN test was compared to a currently available nitrite test, the Microstix nitrite test, and the results obtained with both nitrite tests were assessed in comparison wit...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rabi T

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idoxuridine-treated McCoy cells grown as monolayers in 96 well microplates provide a convenient method for the isolation of Chlamydia trachomatis. Staining of infected monolayers with periodic acid-Schiff reagent (PAS) allows easy recognition of C trachomatis inclusions without the need for dark-ground microscopy. By ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mallinson H,Sikotra S,Arya OP

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The costs of a clinical chemistry laboratory in a district general hospital were studied. The system used has certain advantages over the conventional Cooper Lybrand method. The time taken by technicians to perform tests was more variable than expected and the cost of sample collection was higher than process-cost for...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stilwell JA

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and pathological features of a case of malakoplakia of the adrenal gland occurring in a woman with Escherichia coli infection are described. This lesion mimicked a neoplasm, the true diagnosis only being revealed by histological examination. The light and electron microscopic features are described and it...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Benjamin E,Fox H

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-four children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) who had relapsed in bone marrow were studied to assess whether treatment would be more successful if relapse was detected before the disease became clinically evident. Patients whose relapse was detected by routine bone marrow examination before the disease...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Haworth C,Heppleston AD,Morris Jones PH,Campbell RH,Evans DI,Palmer MK

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a wider survey of infections and defence mechanisms, concentrations of serum immunoglobulins IgG, IgA, and IgM were measured regularly by single radial immunodiffusion in a group of children receiving treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia while in their first remission. IgM concentrations were often m...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reid MM,Craft AW,Cox JR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A correlative clinical and Hemalog D study of 80 cases of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) was performed and the results compared with those in other lymphoproliferative disorders affecting the blood (eight cases of hairy-cell leukaemia, HCL; three cases of prolymphocytic leukaemia, PLL: two cases of lymphoplasmacy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Patterson KG,Goldstone AH,Richards JD,Cawley JC

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of urinary excretion concomitant with the molecular size distribution of filtered polymer fragments were determined in five normovolaemic men dosed with 30 g/m2 BSA of a species of HES (HES 350/0.60) possessing a M-W of 350 000 combined with an MS of 0.60. Approximately 13% of the total injected dose of HES 350/...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mishler JM,Ricketts CR,Parkhouse EJ

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of antitoxin after Clostridium difficile-induced diarrhoea has not been reported previously. The stool of a patient with prolonged antibiotic-associated diarrhoea contained C. difficile toxin, and the serum neutralised the cytopathic effect of C. difficile toxin in tissue culture. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lishman AH,Al-Jumaili IJ,Record CO

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma diamine oxidase levels were assayed in 66 patients who presented with pregnancy complicated by threatened abortion. Levels within the normal range were associated with continuing pregnancies, whereas levels below the normal range were associated with subsequent abortion. Among those patients in whom gestation w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Legge M,Duff GB

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five hundred and seven strains of bacteria isolated from the urine of patients with significant bacteriuria (more than 10(8) colony-forming units per litre) were tested for sensitivity to co-trimoxazole by the agar diffusion technique. Each organism was tested with a combined disk containing trimethoprim and sulphamet...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Amyes SG,Telfer Brunton WA

更新日期：1981-02-01 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：:Extracts of the seeds of Vicia cretica (NO Leguminosae) strongly agglutinate T- Th- but not Tk- or other polyagglutinable red cells. The V. cretica lectin is therefore a very useful laboratory reagent in the elucidation of erythrocyte polyagglutination due to T-like erythrocyte cryptantigens. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bird GW,Wingham J

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this necropsy review of 37 cases of acute pancreatitis, evidence is presented that there are at least two different initiating mechanisms in acute necrotising pancreatitis in man. Firstly, there is primary duct inflammation, with subsequent inflammation and necrosis of the pancreatic parenchyma surrounding the excr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Foulis AK

更新日期：1980-12-01 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：:The systematic screening of 253 children with transfusion-dependent homozygous beta-thalassaemia revealed a high incidence of hepatitis B virus markers. The highest frequencies of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) were found in the group of patients with the smalle...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： De Virgiliis S,Fiorelli G,Fargion S,Cornacchia G,Sanna G,Cossu P,Murgia V,Cao A

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with multiple myeloma had antigenically related monoclonal Fc-gamma fragments and complete IgG-kappa molecules in the serum. The urine contained only Fc-gamma fragments in the absence of Bence-Jones protein. The two distinct M-components in the serum showed electrophoretic identity but could be separated by ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bartoloni C,Flamini G,Gentiloni N,Russo MA,Barone C,Gambassi G,Terranova T

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of temperature, time of storage, and presence of air bubbles in specimens for blood gas analysis was studied. The results show that air bubbles in a 10% proportion are undesirable because of significant elevation in the PO2, and the storage of anaerobic blood samples at room temperature (25 degrees C) is ac...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Madiedo G,Sciacca R,Hause L

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and evaluation of a new selective medium for Streptococcus pneumoniae is described. It is shown that the new medium (crystal violet-nalidixic acid-gentamicin agar:CVNG) is highly selective for Strep. pneumoniae in sputum specimens containing other organisms and is also sensitive, being only marginally ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nichols T,Freeman R

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four assays for the detection of alphafetoprotein (AFP) in the diagnosis of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were evaluated. The frequency of AFP detection was compared in 89 HCC patients and in 71 patients with chronic active hepatitis/cirrhosis. Of the four assays, immunodiffusion, counterimmunoelectrophoresis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chan SH,Heng SH,Yo SL,Oon CJ

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred faecal samples, collected at approximately weekly intervals during the first year of life from nine babies, were examined for the presence of viruses. Only nine (2.3%) samples contained a virus detectable by electron microscopy, and on all but one occasion only one type of virus was present and that in sm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Harbour J,Shipp AP,Waller DK,Higgins PG

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The titre of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii was compared in 1985 sera by use of an indirect haemagglutination test (ToxHA test--Wellcome Reagents Ltd) and the dye test. Sera from 42 patients with clinical or serological indications of recent toxoplasmosis were also examined to determine if the ToxHA test would be of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Balfour AH,Bridges JB,Harford JP

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potencies of six commercially manufactured heparins have been measured by the British Pharmacopoeial (BP) assay and activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), protamine sulphate, and anti-Xa assays. The APTT/BP potency ratios were found to vary with the preparation but this was not dependent on the tissue sourc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shah GA,Dhall TZ,Ferguson I,Davis MR,Graham DT,Pomeroy AR,Dhall DP

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma antithrombin levels were measured by clotting, immunological, and amidolytic methods on two groups of subjects: 20 normal individuals and nine patients studied serially post-operatively (hip replacement). The postoperative patients were observed for the emergence of deep-vein thrombosis using 125I-fibrinogen up...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McLellan DS,Devlin JD,Heyse-Moore GH,Aronstam A

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations into the immunological functions of three patients with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis were carried out. Phagocytosis of Candida albicans, nitroblue tetrazolium dye reduction, complement, and immunoglobulin levels were normal. Candidacidal assays using the neutrophils of the patients in autologous se...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Walker SM,Urbaniak SJ

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak of rotavirus infection in elderly patients in a long-stay ward of a geriatric hospital is described. Virus was detected in 7/15 (47%) symptomatic individuals. Four members of staff were among those affected. The findings emphasise the need for electron microscopy to be used in the initial investigation of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cubitt WD,Holzel H

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results have been compared of microbiological and radioisotope dilution (RID) assay of serum vitamin B12 by participants in national interlaboratory trials in Britain. There was wide variation between the individual participants, especially marked in the L. leichmannii microbiological assay and in the RID methods,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mollin DL,Hoffbrand AV,Ward PG,Lewis SM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An imprint culture technique has been employed to study the prevalence and intraoral distribution of Candida albicans in 16 patients with Sjögren's syndrome and in 16 healthy controls matched for age, sex, and dental status. The prevalence and intraoral density of C. albicans was found to be significantly higher at al...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tapper-Jones L,Aldred M,Walker DM

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of pigmented basal cell carcinoma developing in a smallpox revaccination site is presented. Any progressive change within a smallpox vaccination scar should be thoroughly evaluated and treated appropriately after tissue diagnosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rich JD,Shesol BF,Horne DW 3rd

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review deals with difficulties of diagnosis in cutaneous malignant melanoma encountered by histopathologists of variable seniority and is based on referred material at The Royal Marsden Hospital over a 20-year period and on the experience of more than two-and-a-half thousand cases referred to The World Health Org...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Levene A

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human and chicken blood were snap-frozen as droplets in liquid ntirogen. Storage in the vapour phase liquid nitrogen container for nine months followed by rapid thawing resulted in approximately 10% haemolysis of the red cells. The ability of the thawed red cells to haemagglutinate viruses was unimpaired by the manipu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rodgers FG

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two histochemical techniques, the PAT/KOH/PAS and the PBT/KOH/PAS, were used to investigate the side chain O-acyl substitution patterns of the sialic acids of the colonic epithelial mucins in cases of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. In both diseases there was, as compared to normal, a reduction in the proporti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Culling CF,Reid PE,Dunn WL

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00