Salivary duct carcinoma: immunohistochemical profile of an aggressive salivary gland tumour

The patients comprised four men and one woman, with ages ranging from 50 to 67 years (median, 58.5). All tumours were located in the parotid gland. Two patients presented regional lymph node metastases at...

Haemoglobinopathies in pregnancy

Chronic granulomatous pleuritis caused by nocardia: PCR based diagnosis by nocardial 16S rDNA in pathological specimens

Nocardiosis is an uncommon infection caused by the aerobic actinomycete nocardia. Identification of the pathogen is essential for the definitive diagnosis and for an effective treatment. This report describes a case of c...

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Consensus primers for detecting monoclonal immunoglobulin heavy chain rearrangement in B cell lymphomas. Uchiyama M, Maesawa T, Yashima A, et al.J Clin Pathol 2003;56:778–9. The second author should have been Mae...

Fetal blood sampling and gas exchange