abstract：:A method for the neutron activation analysis of copper in biological material is described and applied to the diagnosis and management of four cases of Wilson's disease. Results obtained for serum and urine are in agreement with values obtained by established colorimetric techniques. The method described can estimate ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fell GS,Smith H,Howie RA

更新日期：1968-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet adhesiveness has been assessed on whole blood from a series of 34 diabetics and 50 control subjects using adenosine diphosphate (A.D.P.) and by adherence to glass microspherules (ballotini). Using both techniques it was possible to demonstrate a significant increase in platelet adhesiveness in the diabetic pa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shaw S,Pegrum GD,Wolff S,Ashton WL

更新日期：1967-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only four cases of tracheopathia osteoplastica have been reported in Britain in the past 110 years. Ten further cases are now reported; in two the diagnosis was made at bronchoscopy. It is suggested that the reputed rarity of the condition in Britain is not the whole picture. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Way SP

更新日期：1967-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet adhesiveness was measured in patients undergoing operation. With the rotating bulb technique adhesiveness increased steadily to the sixth and ninth days following surgery. The glass bead filter technique demonstrated a marked increase in platelet adhesiveness on the day following operation. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bennett PN

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for accurately counting platelets is described using the Coulter counter model B fitted with a standard 100mu aperture tube. This enables the counter to be used for red and white cell as well as platelet counts using the same aperture tube. The method uses standard equipment except for a small inexpensive ele...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Davis RE,Green RE

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of fungal endocarditis are described, each following a homograft valve replacement for aortic stenosis. The causative organism was C. albicans. The characteristic findings included soft, easily detached vegetations consisting of fungal colonies, aneurysms, embolization of large vessels, and lack of respons...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McConnell EM,Roberts C

更新日期：1967-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and seventyone antenatal patients were examined for the presence of ;large colony' mycoplasmas in the vagina, and for complement-fixing antibody to Mycoplasma hominis. In 25 patients the findings before and after delivery were compared. In patients from whom M. hominis was grown, antibody was twice as comm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jones DM

更新日期：1967-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is an unusual case of total granulomatous infarction of testis due to Schistosoma haematobium, the first such case to be reported. This report reinforces the theory of extraportal maturation of worms in spermatic veins and capillaries as postulated earlier (Joshi, 1962). ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Joshi RA

更新日期：1967-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for assessing thyroid status using Sephadex column chromatography of serum samples with added (125)I triiodothyronine. The method is simple and inexpensive. It gave a correct diagnostic result in 97% of 258 euthyroid, 90% of 80 hyperthyroid, 78% of 59 hypothyroid, and 67% of 50 euthyroid, ill pat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gimlette TM

更新日期：1967-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral adrenalectomy produces a reduction in the alkaline phosphatase concentration in rat intestine, which is not prevented by the administration of saline, but is prevented by the administration of cortisone. The administration of A.C.T.H. to normal rats leads to a rise in intestinal alkaline phosphatase levels a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Watson WC,Murray ES,Gardner MD

更新日期：1967-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If native or heparinized blood is passed slowly through a column of glass beads at room temperature, the number of platelets removed from the initial drop emerging from the column is less than that removed from the final drop. At 4 degrees C. this difference disappears. If the blood is passed rapidly through such colu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： O'Brien JR,Heywood JB

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of fimbriate strains amongst Escherichia coli freshly isolated from infected urines did not differ significantly from the proportion amongst commensal Esch. coli isolated from the bowel and from non-infected urines. It is concluded that fimbriae play no major role in the pathogenesis of Esch. coli urina...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Buck AC

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical biopsies from 97 women with malignant cells in cervical scrape smears have been studied. Forty-eight patients had invasive squamous carcinoma, and 49 had intraepithelial lesions. Of these, six had dedifferentiated carcinoma in situ, nine had the differentiated lesions generally known as ;severe dysplasia', an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Grubb C,Janota I

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guinea-pigs, rats, dogs, rabbits, monkeys, sheep, and goats were screened for G-6PD activity in erythrocytes by the methaemoglobin reduction test, the brilliant cresyl blue decolorization test, and the spectrophotometric determination of the NADPH generation rate. Guinea-pigs, rats, dogs, rabbits, and monkeys were fou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cheun LH

更新日期：1966-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of the measurement of vitamin B(12) absorption by counting the radioactivity of 5 ml. serum obtained eight to 10 hours after the ingestion of an oral dose of 0.5 mug. vitamin B(12) labelled with 0.5 muc. (57)Co are compared with those obtained with the urinary excretion (Schilling) test. Inadequate urine c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Forshaw J,Harwood L

更新日期：1966-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two newborn babies with an intact atrial septum are described. In one, the two components of the atrial septum appeared to have become fused after relatively normal initial development; the left side of this heart was hypoplastic. In the other baby the formation of the atrial septum appeared to have been completely an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shortland-Webb WR,Tozer RA,Cameron AH

更新日期：1966-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method utilizing a general dehydrogenase reaction has been used to demonstrate early gross myocardial infarctions. The procedure takes advantage of substrate and enzyme loss from the damaged myocardium. In the viable muscle, where endogenous substrates, coenzymes, and dehydrogenases are present, reduction of Nitro-B...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ramkissoon RA

更新日期：1966-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of a newly recognized group of hospital staphylococci, which are believed to have arisen from 83A staphylococci by lysogenization, differ from them in several cultural characters. Some but not all of these characters appear to be determined by the carriage of phage. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jevons MP,John M,Parker MT

更新日期：1966-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of phosphohexose isomerase and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase have been studied in the vaginal fluid of women from the gynaecological departments. Women from these departments gave a very high false positive rate, though no cases of carcinoma in situ were not detected by estimating phosphohexose isome...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Muir GG

更新日期：1966-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A time and temperature relationship required to destroy certain pathogenic organisms in milk feeds has been ascertained. A method of achieving this destruction by using steam at atmospheric pressure is described, and a routine method for use in milk kitchens is suggested. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hughes KE,Darmady EM,Drewett SE

更新日期：1966-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two families with severe sex-linked muscular dystrophy, high levels of alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase (HBD), lactate dehydrogenase (LD), aspartate transaminase (AspT), aldolase, and creatine phosphokinase (CPK) were found in the sera of three young affected males. In both families the mother had a raised level...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Johnston HA,Wilkinson JH,Withycombe WA,Raymond S

更新日期：1966-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tests of iron and folate nutrition have been carried out in early pregnancy and at delivery in 63 Bantu females. Accepted normal values for serum iron, and percentage saturation of transferrin, but not for unsaturated iron-binding capacity, for non-pregnant subjects were found to apply equally well in pregnancy. Conco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Metz J,Turchetti L,Combrink B,Krawitz S

更新日期：1966-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thin-layer chromatographic method for the simultaneous assessment of formimino-glutamic (Figlu) and urocanic acid excretion after loading with 15 g. histidine has been applied to 15 control subjects and to 49 selected patients. Upper limits of normal excretion were determined for urocanic acid and Figlu alone (15 mg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mohamed SD,Roberts M

更新日期：1966-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is described in which marked hepatic fibrosis probably resulted from the prolonged treatment of acute leukaemia with methotrexate. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Talerman A,Thompson RB

更新日期：1966-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of interstitial pneumonia are described. They were characterized by mononuclear cell infiltration of the alveolar walls and protein-rich exudate into the alveolar cavities, with localized hyaline membrane formation. Coxsackie B5 virus was isolated from the lungs of both patients at necropsy. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Flewett TH

更新日期：1965-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and reproducible electrophoretic method for the separation and quantitation of haemoglobins on cellulose acetate is described. The accuracy of the method and its possible sources of error are discussed. The normal range for haemoglobin A(2) by this method is 1% to 3% of the total haemoglobin concentration. Blo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Marengo-Rowe AJ

更新日期：1965-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of anticonvulsant megaloblastic anaemia are described, showing features of unusual interest. Though both cases were apparently deficient in folic acid, the Figlu tests were negative. One patient had an extremely low serum B(12) concentration apparently associated with defective B(12) absorption due to defici...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reynolds EH,Hallpike JF,Phillips BM,Matthews DM

更新日期：1965-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A saccharogenic method is described for estimating amylase activity in human urine. Results accord with those reported elsewhere except that in this study the peak in the beta zone is a new finding. Comparison between normal and pathological urines suggests that the amylase activity of the beta peak is not of pancreat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Franzini C

更新日期：1965-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes occurring at the periphery of invasive cervical carcinomas have been studied in detail, with particular reference to the incidence of preinvasive carcinoma. The various criteria used in the cytological diagnosis of malignancy have been evaluated, and the implications of large cytological screening programm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： MEYER PC

更新日期：1965-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of cirrhosis of the liver, associated with false-positive serological tests for syphilis and an antibody active against stored red cells, is presented. Methods used in the identification of the ;stored red cell' antibody are described. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： EASTON JA,PRIEST CJ,GILES CM

更新日期：1965-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of cryptococcal meningo-encephalitis is described. Treatment with the fungicidal agent amphotericin B resulted in temporary improvement, but the patient relapsed and died 17 months after diagnosis. The pathology and treatment of the disease are discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： RIPPEY JJ,ROPER WA,JEANES AL,BRIGHT MV

更新日期：1965-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A histochemical method is described of differentiating between normal and neoplastic cells in plasma using the activity of various enzymes characteristic of plasma cells. It was found that in both types of cell increased or diminished activity of cytoenzymes is a useful means of distinguishing between normal and abnor...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SZMIGIELSKI S,LITWIN J,ZUPANSKA B

更新日期：1965-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases are described in which clostridial invasion of the liver and spleen was noted at post-mortem examination. In each there was a history of debilitating disease and it is suggested that the infection was consequent upon impaired immunological and cellular defence mechanisms. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： ASHLEY DJ

更新日期：1965-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In four persons of one family the existence of an enzymatic defect, presumably consisting of a deficiency of glutaminase in the cells of the renal tubules, is postulated, and is implied by a reduced elimination of ammonia in the urine, by a relatively low urinary pH, and by its increased titratable acidity. The most c...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： KRAWCZYNSKI J,SAGAN Z,WALAJTYS E,ILOWIECKA K

更新日期：1965-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for the quantitative separation of radioactive bile acids and neutral sterols in human faeces on a potassium hydroxide-treated silicic acid column. Results obtained with faecal extracts containing metabolites derived from radioactive cholesterol, cholic acid, and chenodeoxycholic acid show that t...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： LEWIS B,MYANT NB

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been made by clinical methods and by bio-assay of the effectiveness of a régime for prophylaxis against tetanus. The two principal objects of the method were to ensure that active immunization was offered to all patients who had received antitoxin and to measure the effect of the combined administration of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： LAURENCE M,HOLT LB,GRAHAM CE,BONNEY GL

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isotopic estimation of the cortisol secretion rate in man is now an accepted and reliable method of assaying adrenal cortical function.Seven years' experience with its clinical use is reviewed and some practical aspects of technique are considered. The mean normal resting cortisol secretion rate is 16.2 +/- 5.7 mg...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： COPE CL,PEARSON J

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a short series of biochemical tests already in use in many routine laboratories, it is possible to identify strains of the genus Klebsiella and to differentiate K. aerogenes from other types. Marked production of slime is not peculiar to the group and colonial appearance alone is not a satisfactory basis for ide...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： DARRELL JH,HURDLE AD

更新日期：1964-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium-alpha-naphthylamine-4-sulphonate (Naphthionin) appears to shorten the bleeding time in normal subjects and to be of value in the management of the bleeding defect in patients with thrombocytopenia when given by intravenous or intramuscular injection. A good response was achieved in three patients suffering from...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： POLLER L,MORE JR

更新日期：1964-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma clearance of intravenously administered folic acid was abnormally rapid in all of five patients studied with untreated hyperthyroidism; in three, the basal serum L. casei folate level was subnormal. Four of these patients and another patient were studied at various intervals after partial or complete correc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lindenbaum J,Klipstein FA

更新日期：1964-11-01 00:00:00