abstract：:Guidance by bacteriologists and changes in theatre and ward disciplines have greatly improved the results of urological surgery in recent years. The most noteworthy successes have been in treatment of chronic retention with renal failure, and in prevention of the bacteraemia which may occur following removal of the po...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： MITCHELL JP,GILLESPIE WA

更新日期：1964-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunochemical procedure for routine laboratory diagnosis of pregnancy utilizing adsorption of human chorionic gonadotrophin onto kaolin and the Ortho pregnancy test reagents is described. The method is suitable for quantitative assay of urinary human chorionic gonadotrophin and can be adapted for use with serum. I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： ORBAN TD

更新日期：1964-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological findings are described in four cases of a new aminoaciduria in which homocystine is excreted in the urine. All the patients were mentally retarded children. Three of them presented diagnostic features of Marfan's syndrome. Necropsy on one case and biopsy findings in the others are described. Fatty change ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： GIBSON JB,CARSON NA,NEILL DW

更新日期：1964-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of typing Pseudomonas pyocyanea is described which makes use of the property of bacteriocine production. The method was applied in an epidemiological study of Ps. pyocyanea infection in a general hospital. It was found that the majority of strains believed on epidemiological grounds to be of common origin wer...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： DARRELL JH,WAHBA AH

更新日期：1964-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aggregating effects of adenosine diphosphate, thrombin, 5-hydroxytryptamine, tryptamine, adrenaline and noradrenaline, and tri-ethyl tin have been carefully compared. The first three compounds in some circumstances produce remarkably similar effects although there are important differences. The kinetics of aggrega...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： O'BRIEN JR

更新日期：1964-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three strains of Past. septica were isolated in Hong Kong. The clinical histories and the detailed bacteriological and serological studies are presented. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： WONG PC,CHAN-TEOH CH

更新日期：1964-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods are described for the estimation of plasma and urine alpha-amino nitrogen by the colorimetric ninhydrin reaction; in the method for urine, both ammonia and urea are separated by a rapid ion-exchange resin procedure. Two methods of estimation are given; one has the advantage of great simplicity, but involves th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： MATTHEWS DM,MUIR GG,BARON DN

更新日期：1964-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nasal carrier status of 3,736 patients was determined throughout their stay in hospital. The carrier rate on admission, which was highest in patients under 20 years of age, did not appear to vary with season.The carriage of strains resistant to penicillin increased with the patients' stay in hospital from 13.% on ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： NOBLE WC,WILLIAMS RE,JEVONS MP,SHOOTER RA

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of an investigation show that there is no statistically significant excess of blood group A in cases of carcinoma of the oesophagus or in cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： BEASLEY WH

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a post-mortem analysis of 1,500 patients, aged 70 years or more, heart disease and malignancy were the two major causes of death. Coronary disease was exceedingly prevalent, almost one in five being subject to this form of heart disease, and 13% dying from its effects. The levelling of the sex ratio in coronary dis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： MCKEOWN F

更新日期：1963-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunological methods of pregnancy diagnosis using both tanned red cell and latex particles are compared in a series of women (up to the fourteenth week of gestation) and also in negative controls. The tanned red cell test showed slightly more accurate and sensitive results throughout the trial. In 31 samples also sub...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： WORT AJ,VARDE KN,FAIRWEATHER DV,GREEN CA

更新日期：1963-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A post-mortem examination, in the case of a 34-year-old man dying suddenly from head injuries sustained in a road accident, showed early cirrhosis of the liver and associated splenomegaly 17 years after an attack of infective hepatitis. The histology of the thymus showed abnormal changes in the medulla, consisting of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： CORRIDAN M

更新日期：1963-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principles which should govern the planning of benching and services for new laboratories are enumerated. These include the necessity for long-term planning, flexibility, and economy. The ;Cardiff benching system' where the benches are composed of units that consist of an independent movable table base, a removabl...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： LAURENCE KM

更新日期：1963-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of measurement of gamma globulin in the cerebrospinal fluid by electrophoresis and by an immunological technique are compared. In some fluids marked discrepancies were found. Such discrepancies, when substantiated and better understood, may have diagnostic significance. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： COLOVER J,FEINBERG JG,TEMPLE A,TOOLEY M

更新日期：1963-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments are described with glass fibre filter paper and complete glass filters as fitted to high pre-vacuum autoclaves to determine whether organisms can grow or penetrate through the filters. A filter consisting of four layers of glass fibre paper fitted inside a sterilizer chamber for a year and used for 96 ster...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fallon RJ

更新日期：1963-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of a severe generalized haemorrhagic state in an obstetric case due to a heparin-like anticoagulant is described. This appeared in the post-partum period apparently following a compatible blood transfusion. The pattern of results found in conventional laboratory tests for elucidating acute blood coagula...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： WILLOUGHBY ML

更新日期：1963-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for detecting insulin binding or transporting antibodies are described, involving the use of radioactively labelled insulin (insulin (131)I). These antibodies are detected in a high proportion of patients receiving insulin, particularly those requiring large doses. The protein fractions concerned appear to be ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： HARRIS-JONES JN,MILLER H,OWEN G

更新日期：1963-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hepatic and splenic storage iron, including the relative distribution between ferritin and haemosiderin, was estimated in 130 necropsies including normal accident cases and cases with a variety of diseases. The storage iron was also examined histochemically. It was found that in the normal subjects, on the average...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morgan EH,Walters MN

更新日期：1963-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A quantitative method of estimating heparin co-factor in terms of percentage activity is presented. The activity in sera from 75 normal subjects varied little from 100%. Low results were obtained in sera from 50 cases of varying types of malignancy. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： TEMPERLEY IJ

更新日期：1963-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An elution technique is described which gives eluates at least as potent as previously described methods. Elution can be completed in only 15 minutes. The method, a modification of that of Vos and Kelsall, is simple to carry out and requires the minimum of equipment. Studies have shown that the coating antibody is alm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： RUBIN H

更新日期：1963-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of the dye calcon (1-(2 hydroxy-1-naphthylazo)-2-naphthol-4 sulphonic acid) for the estimation of calcium using E.D.T.A. and a commercial photoelectric titrimeter is described. The interfering effects of magnesium and phosphate have been overcome. The method has been extended to estimations on biological mater...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： BOWDEN CH,PATSTON VJ

更新日期：1963-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of three commercial products of papain were compared as supplied and after activation, and when used in the enzyme-serum method for rhesus (D) grouping. Certain dangers in activation became apparent, and accurate determination of the proportions of papain to anti-D appeared more important than indiscrim...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： WINTER GC,WRATTEN BE

更新日期：1962-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Improvements in the Zimmermann reaction are effected by using methanol as a solvent for the reagents employed in the reaction in place of ethanol or aqueous ethanol. The advantages are as follows. Considerably lower blanks are obtained; extraneous chromogens are negligible at the wavelength of measurement, so that no ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： BEALE RN,BOSTROM JO,CROFT D

更新日期：1962-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The air of three hospital wards was examined frequently for staphylococci for a period of nearly four years using slit samplers. ;Broadcasts' of staphylococci into the air were observed with the air count rising well above the mean of 0.2 staphylococcal particle per cubic foot and these broadcasts often appeared to be...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Noble WC

更新日期：1962-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical classification of the Klebsiella proposed by Cowan, Steel, Shaw, and Duguid (1960) has been applied to 50 strains isolated as the pure or predominant growth from sputum, and Klebsiella species have been correlated with the severity of the chest infection in the patient. A modification in nomenclature i...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： FOSTER WD,BRAGG J

更新日期：1962-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small epidemic of gastroenteritis in a children's hospital is described, and also the biochemical characteristics of the causative organism. Stress is laid on the fact that failure to recognize that epidemic strains of Escherichia coli may be late lactose fermentors can lead to errors or delay in diagnosis. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SHEDDEN WI,POTTER CW,DUBOWITZ V,WOOD M

更新日期：1962-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique devised by Moore (1960) for determining the sensitivity of staphylococci to mercuric chloride was investigated and the effect of variations in the medium determined. An alternative technique, in which paper discs impregnated with phenyl mercuric nitrate are used, was found to give identical results. Thre...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： GREEN SM

更新日期：1962-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical features and special investigations in a case of multiple myelomatosis are described. The finding of exfoliated ;myeloma cells' in the urine of this case is thought to be unique, these cells closely resembling the myeloma cells seen in the bone marrow. The necropsy findings indicated that the origin of th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： PROWSE CM,BLECHER TE

更新日期：1962-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison is made of tests for thyroglobulin antibody, using gel diffusion, electroprecipitin, bentonite flocculation, tanned red cell agglutination, and latex slide agglutination techniques on sera from cases of Hashimoto's disease and other thyroid disorders. Any increase in gamma globulin was also noted from the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： RAWSTRON JR,FARTHING CP

更新日期：1962-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of human infection with Achromobacter anitratus, one of which was fatal, are described. They all occurred at one hospital within a period of two months. The bacteriology, antibiotic sensitivity, and pathogenicity of the organisms are discussed. One of the strains was found to differ from the other three. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： ASHLEY DJ,KWANTES W

更新日期：1961-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical study of 401 cases of tumour of salivary tissue has been made and the results reported, together with a review of the literature. The histological variations of such tumours are classified and discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： CAMERON JM

更新日期：1961-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The test is an application of the method originally described by Boyden (1951) and adapted by Stavitsky and Arquilla (1958). Sera which contain anti-Panton-Valentine leucocidin agglutinate the prepared red cells, often to a very high dilution, and this has provided a useful serological test for the diagnosis of staphy...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： TOWERS AG

更新日期：1961-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical tables including 50 and 95 percentile ranges are presented of the combined kidney weights compared with body weight, crown-rump length, and gestation age of foetuses and newborn children, and also a table of kidney weights related to post-natal age. The importance of relating kidney weight to more than one...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： EMERY JL,MITHAL A

更新日期：1960-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human oxalated plasma stored at 4 degrees C. until the prothrombin time is increased beyond 60 sec. is a reliable medium for assaying labile factor (factor V) because its response to added labile factor corresponds quantitatively to that of plasma from patients with congenital deficiency of this factor. Such an agreem...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： QUICK AJ

更新日期：1960-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum haptoglobin levels have been studied in patients with a number of haemolytic disorders. In general, serum haptoglobins were low in patients with increased haemolysis. Values were reduced irrespective of whether haemolysis occurred intravascularly or extravascularly. The reduction was related to the amount of hae...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Owen JA,de Gruchy GC,Smith H

更新日期：1960-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of chromoblastomycosis confined to the mucous membrane of one side of the nasal septum is reported. The organism was not cultivated, but its characteristics in histological preparations were typical of those of the organisms in sections of cutaneous lesions known to be caused by Phialophora pedrosoi and related...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SYMMERS WS

更新日期：1960-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the posture was changed from horizontal to vertical, or the reverse, the alteration in plasma volume and in the levels of haematocrit, haemoglobin, and plasma protein was much greater in patients with oedema or low plasma protein or albumin concentrations ("the pathological group") than in patients without these ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： FAWCETT JK,WYNN V

更新日期：1960-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase (G-OT), glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (G-PT), and isocitric dehydrogenase (ICD) have been estimated in six groups of subjects, namely, normal British adults, normal Nigerian adults, undernourished Nigerian adults and children, Nigerian children with florid protein malnutrition (k...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： BARON DN

更新日期：1960-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is found that serum antifibrinolytic activity is inhibitory both to the spontaneous fibrinolytic activity and to the activity of streptokinase-activated plasminogen. The titres of serum antiplasmin activity during gestation, labour, and the puerperium are all of the same order and do not differ from those in non-pr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： BIEZENSKI JJ

更新日期：1960-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and forty-seven strains of micro-organisms were isolated from the urinary tract of 121 patients with neurological complaints leading to paraplegia. The commonest infecting organism was E. coli and the commonest type of Proteus was P. mirabilis. Infections with more than one type of organism were present in...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： SCOTT TG

更新日期：1960-01-01 00:00:00