Editorials:

Cervical cancer

P J van Diest and H Holzel

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 241-242.

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Paul Langerhans

S Jolles

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 243.

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Reviews:

The causal relation between human papillomavirus and cervical cancer

F X Bosch, A Lorincz, N Muñoz, C J L M Meijer, and K V Shah

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 244-265.

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Current management of hereditary angio-oedema (C'1 esterase inhibitor deficiency)

A Fay and M Abinun

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 266-270.

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Original articles:

Increased stool sampling during a waterborne outbreak of cryptosporidiosis does not increase the detection of other faecal pathogens

A O Qamruddin, M G L Keaney, R McCann, and P R Chadwick

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 271-274.

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Death certification: an audit of practice entering the 21st century

B Swift and K West

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 275-279.

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Lipoprotein (a) does not participate in the early acute phase response to training or extreme physical activity and is unlikely to enhance any associated immediate cardiovascular risk

D J Byrne, I A Jagroop, H E Montgomery, M Thomas, D P Mikhailidis, N G Milton, and A F Winder

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 280-285.

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An evaluation of the performance of XLD, DCA, MLCB, and ABC agars as direct plating media for the isolation of Salmonella enterica from faeces

K J Nye, D Fallon, D Frodsham, B Gee, C Graham, S Howe, S Messer, T Turner, and R E Warren

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 286-288.

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Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia in the Irish population: a discrepancy between observed and expected cases

A Davoren, P McParland, C A Barnes, and W G Murphy

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 289-292.

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Tumour histological grade may progress between primary and recurrent invasive mammary carcinoma

G Cserni

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 293-297.

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Expression of antimicrobial neutrophil defensins in epithelial cells of active inflammatory bowel disease mucosa

R N Cunliffe, M Kamal, F R A J Rose, P D James, and Y R Mahida

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 298-304.

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Offline telepathology diagnosis of colorectal polyps: a study of interobserver agreement and comparison with glass slide diagnoses

S S Cross, J L Burton, A K Dubé, K M Feeley, P D Lumb, T J Stephenson, and R D Start

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 305-308.

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ECHO:

Scoring more hits with HSV

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 285.

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Short reports:

Misidentification of a genomovar of Burkholderia cepacia by recA restriction fragment length polymorphism

J E Moore, B C Millar, J Xu, M Crowe, A O B Redmond, and J S Elborn

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 309-311.

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Is clinical practice variability the major reason for differences in pathology requesting patterns in general practice?

W S A Smellie, M J Galloway, D Chinn, and P Gedling

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 312-314.

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Reliability of the tissue microarray based FISH for evaluation of the HER-2 oncogene in breast carcinoma

D Gancberg, A Di Leo, G Rouas, T Järvinen, A Verhest, J Isola, M J Piccart, and D Larsimont

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 315-317.

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Case report:

A primary tumour of the oesophagus with both melanocytic and schwannian differentiation. Melanocytic schwannoma or malignant melanoma?

R M Brown, S J Darnton, L Papadaki, G N Antonakopoulos, and J Newman

J Clin Pathol 2002; 55: 318-320.

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