Best Practice No 174: Best practice guidelines for the examination of specimens for the diagnosis of parasitic infections in routine diagnostic laboratories

Although most routine microbiology diagnostic laboratories process specimens for the diagnosis of parasitic infections, there are no best practice guidelines either for processing or for referral to specialist centres. M...

Coagulation disorders

The histology of eclamptic lesions

Hepatitis C virus genotype testing in paraffin wax embedded liver biopsies for specimen identification

Despite advances in medical technology, careful specimen identification is still a fundamental principle of laboratory testing. If pathological samples are mixed up, especially in the case of extremely small biopsy sampl...

Carcinoma metastasis to unexpected synchronous lymphoproliferative disorder: report of three cases and review of literature

Metastasis of one cancer to another cancer is rare. This report describes three cases in which low grade non-Hodgkin lymphomas were incidentally detected during the examination of lymph nodes removed as part of treatment...