abstract：:Fluorigenic substrates prepared from 4-methylumbelliferone provide a simple, convenient method for detecting and assaying group-specific hydrolase activity in small quantities of whole mycobacteria. Physico-chemical properties of the enzymes such as pH dependence and heat stability may also be studied. A technique is ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Grange JM

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histological examination of the lower margin of the internal sphincter has demonstrated an increased amount of fibrous tissue in patients with haemorrhoids compared with controls. This finding may be of relevance to the treatment of haemorrhoids by maximal anal dilatation. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Haqqani MT,Hancock BD

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specimens from 95 patients attending a venereal diseases clinic were examined for gonococci by three methods--a conventional culture technique using modified Thayer-Martin medium, microscopy of a Gram-stained direct smear, and the Microcult system. For 56% of the specimens the results by all three methods agreed. Assu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Williams RJ,Ratnatunga CS,Hamilton-Miller JM,Brumfitt W

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-three breast carcinomas were examined by an indirect immunoperoxidase technique for the presence of the alpha-subunit of human chorionic gonadotrophin. Positive staining occurred in 12 (22.6%). There was no correlation between alpha-subunit production and specific histological features, but production was relate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Walker RA

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients in the neurosurgical ward of Fukushima Medical College Hospital suffering from ventriculitis due to Achromobacter xylosoxidans infection had undergone craniotomy or cranial trepanation before the infection. The strains of A. xylosoxidans isolated from the patients were resistant to streptomycin, ampicilli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shigeta S,Yasunaga Y,Honzumi K,Okamura H,Kumata R,Endo S

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Cyto-Tek staining machine designed for Papanicolau staining of cervical smears has been adapted for auramine staining of smears of sputum and other clinical specimens for acid-fast bacilli. The results compared favourably with those obtained by a manual method of staining. Contamination of negative smears by acid-fa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Heimer GV,Joseph N,Taylor CE

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two out of three cases of idiopathic fibrosis of the mediastinum there was also retroperitoneal fibrosis, and in one of them extensive fibrosis of the lungs. One of these, a fit middle-aged man, died suddenly with severe coronary artery stenosis due to fibrosis. The third case was that of a young man with a solitar...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Light AM

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with multiple injuries developed a severe coagulation defect due to a deficiency of vitamin K. None of the usual predisposing factors was present and the patient's diet was very poor. Dietary deficiency of vitamin K and the importance of antibiotic therapy in its production are discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Colvin BT,Lloyd MJ

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described whereby inclusion-bearing cells identified by light microscopy in stained smears of urinary sediment were reprocessed for examination in the electron microscope. The nuclei of the abnormal cells were found to contain numerous virus particles, 35 nm in diameter, which morphologically resembled ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Coleman DV,Russell WJ,Hodgson J,Pe T,Mowbray JF

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purulent exudate from 28 cases of Bartholin's abscess were examined for aerobic, anaerobic, and microaerophilic bacteria. Three cases gave no bacterial growth, five cases grew facultative bacteria only, and a further three grew a mixture of facultative and anaerobic bacteria. One case gave a pure growth of a microaero...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wren MW

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of bacterial endocarditis was caused by Cardiobacterium hominis in a 41-year-old man with mitral and aortic incompetence due to a previous episode of rheumatic fever. The main distinguishing characteristics of C. hominis are described, and the incidence of endocarditis is reviewed. After six weeks of treatment ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jobanputra RS,Moysey J

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A full surface marker study of the splenic storage cells in a case of Gaucher's disease largely substantiates the monocyte/histiocyte nature of Gaucher's cells. In addition, an apparent T-lymphocyte deficiency is demonstrated in the spleen and peripheral blood, and the possible significance of this finding is discusse...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Burns GF,Cawley JC,Flemans RJ,Higgy KE,Worman CP,Barker CR,Roberts BE,Hayhoe FG

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an outbreak of gastroenteritis in a paediatric ward astroviruses were found in faeces from 17 to 27 symptomatic children and from four of 14 members of the staff with diarrhoea. No viruses were found in 10 asymptomatic children. Fourteen of the 21 astrovirus excretors were free of any recognised pathogens, but ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kurtz JB,Lee TW,Pickering D

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of lymphocyte tubular structures were studied by electron microscopy in 80 patients with classic or definite rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Fifteen patients with unequivocal systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and 10 healthy persons were studied as controls. Lymphocyte tubulo-reticular structures were found in 13...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dryll A,Cazalis P,Ryckewaert A

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a radioimmunoassay technique serum alpha-fetoprotein could be detected in healthy adults in concentrations of less than 20 microgram/l. Of patients with acute, viral hepatitis 43% exhibited a transient rise of serum alpha-fetoprotein, the peak occurring eight to nine days after the maximum recorded serum asparta...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eleftheriou N,Heathcote J,Thomas HC,Sherlock S

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serial plasmaphereses were performed on a 23-year-old haemophiliac, with antibodies to factor VIII (FVIII), in order to reduce the antibody level before multiple dental extractions. Eight phereses were carried out in which approximately 1.5 litres plasma was exchanged with isotonic saline. By the ninth exchange, which...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cobcroft R,Tamagnini G,Dormandy KM

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rosetting and non-rosetting lymphocytes collected from normal individuals were stained for the presence of beta-glucuronidase, periodic-acid Schiff activity, gamma glutamyl transpeptidase, acid phosphatase, and alpha-naphthyl butyrate esterase. Lymphocytes which formed rosettes with sheep erythrocytes and non-rosette ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Davey FR,Huntington SJ,Maccallum J,Macmath JM

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with rhabdomyosarcoma is described in whom the presenting clinical and laboratory features were those of disseminated intravascular coagulation. The patient's rapid downhill course was primarily expressed by haemorrhagic tendency. An alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, affecting many organs, including vascular and ca...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eldor A,Naparstek E,Boss JH,Biran S

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cancer-associated proteins, carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and pregnancy-associated alpha2 glycoprotein (PAG), together with 13 normal serum proteins were measured in the serum and effusion fluid of patients with ascites and pleural effusions. The results indicate that CEA measurement in effusion fluid is more eff...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Booth SN,Lakin G,Dykes PW,Burnett D,Bradwell AR

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urinary excretion of the renal proximal tubular enzyme, gamma-glutamyltransferase (gamma-GT), has been studied in 41 patients receiving tobramycin, gentamicin or streptomycin for a variety of infections. All patients receiving tobramycin or gentamicin have shown increased excretion of gamma-GT in the urine. Only 4...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Beck PR,Thomson RB,Chaudhuri AK

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune and non-immune rubella sera were examined in the haemagglutination inhibition (HAI) test to evaluate the removal of lipoprotein non-specific inhibitors (NSI) of haemagglutination after kaolin and manganous chloride/heparin treatments. The sera were titrated fresh or after lipoprotein deterioration brought about...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shortridge KF

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a population of 432 apparently healthy men aged 50 years and over 19-2% had one or more erythrocytes per high-power field in the urine while 8-1% had more than 10. Erythrocyturia seemed to be strongly correlated with tobacco consumption. No significant association with occupation could be demonstrated but the data ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Freni SC,Dalderup LM,Oudegeest JJ,Wensveen N

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system is described for the maintenance of cumulative haematology records for selected patients using a laboratory minicomputer with limited storage capacity. Records are indexed by the patient's name and location since, as in the majority of hospital laboratories, there is no unique numbering scheme which covers al...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alexander MK,Corbett MT,Reed RW

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII procoagulant activity (VIII:C), factor VIII related antigen (VIIIR:AG), and the von Willebrand factor (VIII:WF) were measured in 19 patients with liver disease (8 cases of alcoholic cirrhosis and 11 with acute viral hepatitis). In both groups of patients the levels of VIII:C, VIIIR:AG, and VIIIR:WF were ab...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Maisonneuve P,Sultan Y

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-eclampsia complicated by deep jaundice occurred in a previously healthy primigravida. The main aetiological factor was disseminated intravascular coagulation; this caused both haemolysis and liver cell necrosis. Liver biopsy showed fibrin thrombi in the capillaries with microhaemorrhages and loss of periportal liv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Long RG,Scheuer PJ,Sherlock S

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 12-month period, 40 146 blood donors were tested for the presence of high titre antitetanus antibodies. An attempt has been made to define the most suitable donors, those with antitetanus antibody titres of 4 IU/ml or above, by virtue of titre, sex, location, and length of time since most recent immunisation...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wiseman IC,Gascoigne ME

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant histiocytosis (histiocytic medullary reticulosis) in a 45-year-old white man is described. Unusual features were presentation as a surgical emergency with signs of obstruction and peritonitis due to an ileal tumour and extensive spindle cell differentiation. Problems in the differential diagnosis of malignan...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Macgillivray JB,Duthie JS

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus isolated between 1967 and 1975 from the nose and skin lesions of patients in dermatology wards and from the burns of patients in a burns unit in Birmingham showed a high incidence of multiple antibiotic-resistant strains in both environments. Over 20% of the strains isolated from patients on admi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ayliffe GA,Green W,Livingston R,Lowbury EJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factor VIII-containing materials were administered to four severely affected haemophiliacs twice weekly in doses calculated to raise the factor VIII level to either 15% or 30% of average normal. The pooled results from those patients with statistically similar baseline bleeding frequencies showed a significant reducti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Aronstam A,Kirk PJ,McHardy J,Culver-James JW,McLellan DS,Turk P,Rainsford SG,Slattery M

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sperm-agglutinating antibodies were present in three (2-6%) of 117 fertile men and in 19 (33-9%) of 56 men who had been vasectomized. Twenty-four of the 56 vasectomized men had been studied before vasectomy; sperm-agglutinating antibodies were present in one (4-3%) compared with eight (33-3%) after vasectomy. No sperm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hunter J,Logan H,Greer G

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specimens of muscle were obtained from non-suppurating lesions of nine patients with tropical myositis. When examined in an electron microscope, these revealed patchy myocytolysis with loss of band structure. Perimysial cells were also degenerate. Sections from two out of nine patients revealed intracellular vesicles,...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Taylor JF,Fluck D,Fluck D

更新日期：1976-12-01 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：:A role has recently been assigned to cell-mediated immunity in chronic liver diseases in addition to the well-known alterations of humoral immunity. We now report the results of the rosette inhibition test for the evaluation of T-lymphocyte "sensitization" in patients with different chronic liver disorders. A cell-med...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Salerno F,Fargion SR,Cappellini MD,Fiorelli G,Dioguardi N

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Veno-occlusive disease of the liver with clinical and pathological features similar to those of the condition occurring in the Caribbean is described in a young woman resident in Britain. The diagnosis was made from liver biopsies and hepatic venography and was confirmed at necropsy. Small amounts of pyrroliziding alk...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McGee J,Patrick RS,Wood CB,Blumgart LH

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective series of 40 appendiceal tumours occurring over a 10-year period, 30 were carcinoid tumours of classical histological pattern, five were adenocarcinomas, and two were tumours intermediate in pattern between carcinoid and carcinoma. The remaining three tumours were secondaries from primary colonic tu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jones RA,MacFarlane A

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum lysozyme levels were determined by a turbidometric method using egg white lysozyme as standard in 100 patients with Crohn's disease, 86 with ulcerative colitis, 31 with coeliac disease, and in 38 normal control subjects. Though the levels in Crohn's disease were significantly higher than those in ulcerative coli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mallas E,Terry JM,Asquith P,Cooke WT

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amoebicidal and amoebistatic action in vitro of 24 compounds was tested on two strains of Acanthamoeba, A. polyphaga and A. castellanii, isolated from eye infections in this country. For comparison, the Ryan strain of A. castellanii and Naegleria gruberi L-1 were also examined. Nine compounds showed sufficient act...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Nagington J,Richards JE

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A manual system of microbiology reporting with a National Cash Register (NCR) form with printed names of bacteria and antiboitics required less time to compose reports than a previous manual system that involved rubber stamps and handwriting on plain report sheets. The NCR report cost 10-28 pence and, compared with a ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Goodwin CS

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thyroids of primary thyrotoxicosis patients prepared for partial thyroidectomy with propranolol contained much more lymphoid infiltrate than those prepared with carbimazole. No relation was found between the extent of lymphoid infiltrate in the thyroid and the development of postoperative hypothyroidism either bet...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Young RJ,Sherwood MB,Simpson JG,Nicol AG,Michie W,Beck JS

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-seven percutaneous renal biopsies showing no significant abnormalities on light microscopy were studied electron optically and by immunofluorescence when available. Assessment of the pathological material was followed by analysis of the patients' clinical notes, and a clinicopathological correlation was carried...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lawler W,Tarpey P,Williams G,Acheson EJ,Mallick NP

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00